Question 318673: A gallon drum is filled in 3 mins. what's the rate in gallons per minute. Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Edwin McCravy:Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! a gallon drun is filled in 3 mins. whats the rate in gallons per min
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1 gallon/3 minutes = (1/3)gallon/minute
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Cheers,
Stan H.
If you will remember that the word "per" means "divided by" or "over",
then you need only look and observe that you are being asked for, that is,
"gallons per minute". So translate that as "Gallons divided by minutes" or "Gallons over minutes".
So we have a 1-gallon drum filled in 3 minutes, so we put 1 gallon over 3 minutes:
Then separate the numbers from the words for the units:
That's "one-third of a gallon per minute".
Edwin
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