SOLUTION: You have a rectangular pool that is 20 ft by 10 ft and a depth of 8ft. How do I solve and find out how much water you need to fill the pool? Also i would like to know how I can use

Question 575909: You have a rectangular pool that is 20 ft by 10 ft and a depth of 8ft. How do I solve and find out how much water you need to fill the pool? Also i would like to know how I can use pythagoreans theorem to solve it.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You have a rectangular pool that is 20 ft by 10 ft and a depth of 8ft.
How do I solve and find out how much water you need to fill the pool?
:
you don't need Pythag for this, just know that 1 cu/ft of water = 7.481 gallons
:
20 * 10 * 8 * 7.481 = 11,969.6 gallons
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