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A water tank that holds 30 gallons of water when full is leaking 3/4 gallon of water every hour. If no one notices and stops the leak, how loamy hours will it have taken for the full water tank to become
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A water tank that holds 30 gallons of water when full is leaking 3/4 gallon of water every hour. If no one notices and stops the leak, how loamy hours will it have taken for the full water tank to become empty

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It will take 40 hours for the water tank to become empty.

Step-by-step explanation:
Divide 30 by 0.75 (equivalent to 3/4).
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