SOLUTION: Your heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood through its chambers every 60 seconds. A swimming pool will hold about 65,000 gallons of water. This represents the amount of blood pumped

Question 389342: Your heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood through its chambers every 60 seconds. A swimming pool will hold about 65,000 gallons of water. This represents the amount of blood pumped by your heart in approximately how many weeks?
Found 2 solutions by rfer, josmiceli:
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1.25/60=65000/x
1.25x=3900000
x=3120000 seconds
3120000/604800=5.16 weeks
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
there are hours in a day, hours in a week, so
there are hrs/wk
There are sec/hr
There are sec/wk
quarts/sec = qt/sec
A swimming pool has qts of water
qt/sec x sec/wk = qts/wk
qts/pool divided by qts/wk = 5.159 wks/pool
About 5 weeks and 1 day
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