SOLUTION: Filling a pool. The flow of water from a pipe is filling a pool at the rate of 23 gallons per minute. How much less water was in the pool 5 hours ago?

Question 712426: Filling a pool. The flow of water from a pipe is filling a pool at the rate of 23 gallons per minute. How much less water was in the pool 5 hours ago?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Concentrate on the time interval. You do not know how much water the pool holds; you do not know how much water is in the pool now; you do not know how much water was in the pool 5 hours ago. You only know the flow rate of filling the pool and an interval of time toward the past.

Five hours ago, gallons filled than now.
The reason for the factor 60 is because we want to convert the 5 hours into the equivalent minutes.
The units are as so, (gallons/min)*(hours)*(minutes/hour)=gallons
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