SOLUTION: An empty swimming pool is in the shape of a rectangle 10 meters long, 5 meters wide and 2 meters deep. A child starts to fill the pool using a saucepan with a circular base having

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Question 1139279: An empty swimming pool is in the shape of a rectangle 10 meters long, 5 meters wide and 2 meters deep. A child starts to fill the pool using a saucepan with a circular base having a diameter of 20cm and a depth of 10cm. The child can fill the saucepan and empty it into the pool twice per minute. How many days would it take the child (working 24 hours per day) to fill the pool? Don't round to the nearest day
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Filling Rate, 2%2A0.10%2Api%2A%280.1%29%5E2 cubicmeters per minute
or 0.002pi cubicmeters per minute
or 0.12pi cubicmeters per hour
or 2.88pi cubicmeters per day.

Volume to fill, 100%2Acubicmeters


How many days to fill ?
x days,
%282.88pi%29x=100
x=100%2F%282.88pi%29
highlight%28x=11.05%29