SOLUTION: A showerhead leaking 10 drops per minute wastes over 500 gallons per year. Please check my calculations: 10 drops per minute = 600 drops per hour. 600 * 24 = 14400 drops p

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Question 1182705: A showerhead leaking 10 drops per minute wastes over 500 gallons per year.
Please check my calculations:
10 drops per minute = 600 drops per hour.
600 * 24 = 14400 drops per day.
14400 * 365 = 5256000 drops per year.
1 drop is approx. 0.050 ml.
0.050 = 0.0016907 oz.
5256000 * 0.0016907 = 8886.3192 = 8886 oz.
8886 / 128 = 69.421 = 69 gal.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) About Me  (Show Source):
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To avoid the use of ounces or fluid ounces,



You should look at the units carefully and finish computing.

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Read again what your question is asking. Given was how many drops per minute. WANTED was how many GALLONS PER YEAR. To begin solving, start with "ten drops per minute", write this value with the units, and then begin placing the necessary conversion factors with their units, until the desired units are accounted. NOTICE that as arranged, most of the units will cancel and what stays is the gallons per year. What is still then to do, is the computation of the numbers.

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The work would be something this way or like it:









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and you can finish the computation.