SOLUTION: Two rainstorms occured in one week in a certain area. The first storm lasted 25 hours, and the second storm lasted 40 hours, for a total 1775 mL of rain. What was the rate of rainf
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Question 323081: Two rainstorms occured in one week in a certain area. The first storm lasted 25 hours, and the second storm lasted 40 hours, for a total 1775 mL of rain. What was the rate of rainfall for each of the two storms if the sum of the two rates was 50mL per hour?
First Storm :_ mL/hr
Second Strorm:_mL/hr
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First storm x ml/hr
second storm 50-x ml/hr
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first storm 25 hours
second storm 40 hours
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total was 1775 ml
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25x+(50-x)*40=1775
25x+2000-40x=1775
-15x=-225
x=15 ml/hr first storm
y=35ml/hr second storm
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15 ml/hr first storm
35ml/hr second storm
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