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In Brazil, about 20 acres of rainforest are destroyed each minute. At this rate, how much rainforest is destroyed per day?

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each day 28800 acres are being destroyed per day
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There are 1,440 minutes in a day
20 × 1,440 = 28,800
apparently 28,800 acres of rainforest are destroyed each day
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