Question

An aquarium is leaking water at the rate of three quarts in 4 days.How many quarts are leaked in 1 week?How many days does it take for 9 quarts to leak out of the aquarium?

Answer 1

`(21)/(4)` quarts

12 days

Explanation:

Given that:

Amount of water leaked in 4 days = 3 quarts

To find:

Number of quarts leaked in 1 week?

Number of days taken for the leakage of 9 quarts of water?

Solution:

We can simply use unitary method or the ratio to find the answers of the questions asked in the statement.

As per question statement:

Amount of water leaked in 4 days = 3 quarts

Dividing by 4 on both sides:

Amount of water leaked in 1 day =
`(3)/(4)` quarts

Multiplying by 7 on both sides:

Amount of water leaked in 7 days =
`(3)/(4)* 7 = (21)/(4)` quarts

Number of days taken for the leakage of 3 quarts = 4 days

Multiplying by 3 on both sides:

Number of days taken for the leakage of 3
`*` 3 = 9 quarts = 4
`*` 3 = 12 days