SOLUTION: 50 gallon bathtub contains 20 gallons of water and is filling up at a rate of 2.4 gal/min, you check the time every minute, on the minute. if the drain is closed when will you dis

Question 785108: 50 gallon bathtub contains 20 gallons of water and is filling up at a rate of 2.4 gal/min, you check the time every minute, on the minute. if the drain is closed when will you discover that the water is flowing over the top?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Space in the bathtub is gallons.
Let m = minutes of time that tub is filling, gallons required. We are looking for a whole number for m. If the theoretically computed m is nonwhole, we would want the nearest integer greater than m. First, solve for m.
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