Question

A hose fills a hot tub at a rate of 2.65 gallons per minute. How many hours will it take to fill a 283 ​-gallon hot​ tub?

Answer 1

Answer:

you need to substitute values on the next form of resolving this problem as  follows...

A hose fills up a hot tub at a rate of 3.2 gallons per minute. How many hours will it take to fill a 300 gallon hot tub?

please explain the method of unit conversions as thoroughly as possible.

 

Solution:

 

The rate of fill up is, Rate = 3.2 Gallons / minute = 3.2 g/min

The hut tub volume is 300 Gallons

 

You can set up this problem as follows:

 

Every 3.2 gallons require 1 minute, How many minutes 300 gallons require?

 

3.2  g    1min

300 g     ? min    = (300 gallons x 1min/ 3.2 gallons)=(300/32)min

 

= 93.75 min

 

or simply the number minutes is the time required (T) the rate is (R) and the volume is (V)

such that T=V/R= (300g/3.2 g/min)= 93.75 min