Question

An Olympic sized swimming pool holds 6.6043×10^5 gallons of water. A standard garden hose can deliver 9 gallons of water per minute. If the garden hose was filling the pool 24 hours per day, how many days would it take to fill the olympic sized pool? Explain your reasoning

Answer 1

6.6043×10^5 = 660,430 gallons.

660,430 / 9 = 73381.11... minutes.

73381.11... / 60 = 1223.01851852  hours.

1223.01851852 / 24 = 50.9591049383  days.

It would take about 51 days for the garden hose to fill the pool.