SOLUTION: Water is flowing into a 5100 gallon pool at the rate of 40 gallons every 15 minutes. write an equation to describe the amount of water in the pool after t minutes.
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Question 728124: Water is flowing into a 5100 gallon pool at the rate of 40 gallons every 15 minutes. write an equation to describe the amount of water in the pool after t minutes.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The rate of filling is gal / min
( rate ) x ( time ) = gallons of water in the pool
gallons in the pool after min
The size of the pool doesn't matter, except that
at some time it will overflow.
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