document.write( "Question 965642: Please help me with this word problem.
\n" ); document.write( "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?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #590216 by josgarithmetic(39616)\"\" \"About 
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Those TWO pumps together work at a rate 100 gallons per minute.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You have basement dimensions, but to get volume as gallons, you need to know:
\n" ); document.write( "This is wrong: 231 cubic feet = 1 gallon
\n" ); document.write( "Know these: 231 cubic inches = 1 gallon, 12 inches = 1 foot\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28%2840%2A50%2A1%261%2F3%29%2B%2824%2A22%29%281%261%2F3%29%29\", cubic feet, the volume of water in the basement - which seems to be given in two sections.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You would use a uniform rates formula like RT=V for rate, time, volume.
\n" ); document.write( "You would use it as T=V/R.
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