Since these are similar triangles you can use any two corresponding sides to figure out the scale factor.
Use the bottom side. Going from the first triangle to the second the scale factor is:
15/9 = 5/3
We can easily work out the meter reading in October. It comes out to be 32347 + 972. So the reading in October must be around 33319.
SO the answer to second question is really easy to figure out too. As we know that one unit costs 14 p we can simply multiply the cost with the number of units consumed.
So for 972 units if we multiply by 14 we get the cost to be around somewhere 13608 p.
Answer:
1) 
2) After 8 minutes delivering fuel the tanks will have 121 gallons of fuel
Step-by-step explanation:
1) For generating the equation we have to take into account that in the tanks there is a initial volume of fuel that corresponds to 75 gallons, as it is stated that tank one is half full. As the capacity for tank 1 is of 150 gallons, half of the tank equals to:

Now we have to convert the rate of delivery that is expressed as a mixed number to an improper fraction so:

Then the pumping rate is of 23/4 gallons per minute, to get how many gallons are in the tank we just need to multiply this rate by the time in minutes, and as there is an initial volume we have to add it, so we have the following equation:

2) To know how much fuel is in the tank after 8 minutes we have to replace this time in the previous equation so we have

After 8 minutes delivering fuel the tanks will have 121 gallons of fuel