QuestionHow many minutes to fill a 1-gallon bucket if water drips at 41 drops/min and there are 15,000 drops in a gallon?
Studdy Solution
STEP 1
Assumptions1. The rate of water dripping is41 drops per minute. There are15,000 drops in a gallon3. We need to find out how many minutes it would take to fill a1-gallon bucket
STEP 2
First, we need to find out how many minutes it would take for the faucet to drip15,000 drops (since there are15,000 drops in a gallon). We can do this by dividing the total number of drops in a gallon by the rate of dripping.
STEP 3
Now, plug in the given values for the total drops and dripping rate to calculate the minutes.
STEP 4
Calculate the number of minutes.
STEP 5
Since we can't have a fraction of a minute, we need to round the number of minutes to the nearest whole number.
STEP 6
Calculate the rounded number of minutes.
It would take366 minutes to fill the bucket.
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