Question

Water drips from a faucet at a rate of 41 drops/minute. Assuming there are 15,000 drops in a gallon, how many minutes would it take for the dripping faucet to fill a 1.00‑gallon bucket? Express your answer to the correct number of significant figures.

Answer 1

It will take 366 minutes but to the correct number of significant figures THE ANSWER IS 370

This answer is correct for Plato

Answer 2

Answer : It will take 366 minutes to fill 1.00 gallon bucket.

Explanation :

We have been given the drip rate which is 41 drops/min

Let us use this as a conversion factor to ind out the minutes taken to fill 1 gal bucket. We will arrange this conversion factor in such way that , "drops" would get cancelled.

They have also given us that 1 gallon bucket contains 15000 drops.

The equation can be set up as follows.

`15000drops *(minute)/(41 drops) = 365.8 = 366 minutes`

It will take 366 minutes to fill 1.00 gal bucket.