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Salma is filling her water jugs with spring water at the supermarket. The above equation gives the empty space in her jugs, VVV, in US gallons, after ttt minutes at a constant fill rate. How many minutes will it take to fill the jugs?

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Answer:6.4 minutes ( or 6 minutes and 24 seconds)

Step-by-step explanation:Filling up the jug means the empty space is 0, hence V = 0.

We plug in 0 into V and solve for t to get the time required to fill it up:

Hence it will take 6.4 minutes to fill up the jugs.

Note: 0.4 minutes in seconds is seconds

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