
A water hose had filled up 1⁄3 of a pool after 1⁄2 of an hour. At this rate, how many hours would it take to fill the pool?

It takes 1.5 hours or 1 hour and 30 min. to fill the pool.
Step-by-step explanation:
If you use a distributive or multiply is all kind a same
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In the attachement, there is what I came up with so far. I think that finding 'a' is non-trivial, if possible at all.
- the area of a circle
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