Question

PLEASE HELP A barrel in Jim's yard contains 60 gallons of water. Water leaks out of the barrel at a rate of 1 gallon every 10 minutes.

Create and graph the solution set of the equation for the gallons of water, y, remaining in the barrel in terms of the number of minutes elapsed, x.

Answer 1

`y=-0.10x+60`

Explanation:

Let

y -----> gallons of water remaining in the barrel

x-----> number of minutes elapsed

we know that

Water leaks out of the barrel at a rate of 1 gallon every 10 minutes

so

`1/10=0.10(gal)/(min)`

The linear equation that represent this situation is

`y=-0.10x+60`

The graph in the attached figure