SOLUTION: Filling a pool. The flow of water from a pipe is filling a pool at the rate of 23 gallons per minute. How much less water was in the pool 5 hours ago?

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Question 712426: Filling a pool. The flow of water from a pipe is filling a pool at the rate of 23 gallons per minute. How much less water was in the pool 5 hours ago?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) About Me  (Show Source):
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Concentrate on the time interval. You do not know how much water the pool holds; you do not know how much water is in the pool now; you do not know how much water was in the pool 5 hours ago. You only know the flow rate of filling the pool and an interval of time toward the past.

Five hours ago, -23%2A5%2A60 gallons filled than now.
The reason for the factor 60 is because we want to convert the 5 hours into the equivalent minutes.
The units are as so, (gallons/min)*(hours)*(minutes/hour)=gallons