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harkovskaia [24]

3 years ago

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A large container holds 8 gallons of water. It begins leaking at a constant rate. After 48 minutes, the container has 5 gallons

of water left. At what rate is the water leaking? Express your answer as a positive value. The water is leaking at the rate of ____ gal/min

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kirill115 [55]3 years ago

5 0

Answer:

16 gallons per minute

Step-by-step explanation:

3 gallons are gone after 48 minutes.

Divide to find the unit rate:

48 / 3 = 16

The unit rate is 16 gallons per minute

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To solve this we are going to use the formula for speed: $S= \frac{d}{t}$
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$d$ is the distance
$t$ is the time

Let $S_{l}$ be the speed of the boat in the lake, $S_{a}$ the speed of the boat in the river, $t_{l}$ the time of the boat in the lake, and $t_{a}$ the time of the boat in the river.

We know for our problem that <span>the current of the river is 2 km/hour, so the speed of the boat in the river will be the speed of the boat in the lake minus 2km/hour:
</span> $S_{a}=S_{l}-2$
We also know that in the lake the boat<span> sailed for 1 hour longer than it sailed in the river, so:
</span> $t_{l}=t_{a}+1$
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</span> $S_{a}= \frac{6}{t_{a} }$
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