What is the size of a quarter section in terms of acres?

A quarter section refers to a division of a section in the Public Land Survey System, which is used in the United States to delineate land. Each section is typically one square mile, which is equivalent to 640 acres. Since a quarter section is one-fourth of a section, you can calculate the size in acres by dividing the total acres in a section by four.

Therefore, 640 acres divided by 4 equals 160 acres. This is why the answer indicating that a quarter section is 160 acres is accurate. The other choices reflect different acre amounts that do not correspond to the standard sizes of sections or their subdivisions within the land surveying system.