SOLUTION: Suppose that during a storm rain is falling at
a rate of 1 inch per hour. The water coming from a circular
roof with a radius of 20 feet is running down a downspout that can acco
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Question 322506: Suppose that during a storm rain is falling at
a rate of 1 inch per hour. The water coming from a circular
roof with a radius of 20 feet is running down a downspout that can accommodate 400 gallons of water
per hour.
(a) Determine the number of cubic inches of water
falling on the roof in 1 hour.
(b) One gallon equals about 231 cubic inches. Write a
formula for a function g that computes the gallons of
water landing on the roof in x hours.
(c) How many gallons of water land on the roof during
a 2.5-hour rain storm?
(d) Will one downspout be sufficient to handle this
type of rainfall? How many downspouts should there
be?
your help is well needed!
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Answer by galactus(183) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The roof radius is given in feet. Convert that to inches
20*12=240 inch radius. The area of the roof in square inches is then
pi*(240)^2=57600pi=180955.74 in^2/hour.
Since the rain falls at an inch an hour, we also have 57600Pi cubic inches of rain in one hour.
A gallon is 231 of these. So, in one hour gallons per hour.
Now, you should be able to finish the last few parts of the problem.
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