You and your roommates have already decided to spend a week volunteering in the relief effort over the winter break, but in orde
r to convince your roommates to write to Congress to demand action on climate change, you want to give them a sense of how much water fell. To do this, you calculate how many gallons of water would be in your dorm room if 52 inches of rain landed in this space. Assume that your dorm room is 228 ft^2 and know that 1 gallon = 231 in^3 and that 1 foot = 12 inches.