SOLUTION: Please help me with this word problem. you need to pump water out of a flooded basement, using two 50-gallon-per-minute pumps. The basement has the dimension show(40 feet by 50 fe

Question 965642: Please help me with this word problem.
you need to pump water out of a flooded basement, using two 50-gallon-per-minute pumps. The basement has the dimension show(40 feet by 50 feet)and (24 feet by 22 feet)and is flooded to a depth of 16 in. How long will it take to pump the water out of the basement?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Those TWO pumps together work at a rate 100 gallons per minute.

You have basement dimensions, but to get volume as gallons, you need to know:
This is wrong: ~~231 cubic feet = 1 gallon~~
Know these: 231 cubic inches = 1 gallon, 12 inches = 1 foot

, cubic feet, the volume of water in the basement - which seems to be given in two sections.

You would use a uniform rates formula like RT=V for rate, time, volume.
You would use it as T=V/R.
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