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A hose fills a hot tub at a rate of 2.65 gallons per minute. How many hours will it take to fill a 283 ​-gallon hot​ tub?

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Answer:

you need to substitute values on the next form of resolving this problem as follows...

A hose fills up a hot tub at a rate of 3.2 gallons per minute. How many hours will it take to fill a 300 gallon hot tub?

please explain the method of unit conversions as thoroughly as possible.

Solution:

The rate of fill up is, Rate = 3.2 Gallons / minute = 3.2 g/min

The hut tub volume is 300 Gallons

You can set up this problem as follows:

Every 3.2 gallons require 1 minute, How many minutes 300 gallons require?

3.2 g 1min

300 g ? min = (300 gallons x 1min/ 3.2 gallons)=(300/32)min

= 93.75 min

or simply the number minutes is the time required (T) the rate is (R) and the volume is (V)

such that T=V/R= (300g/3.2 g/min)= 93.75 min

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