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A swimming pool is being drained with a pump. The pump drains the pool at a constant rate, The pool's water level drops 3 inches in 6 hours was the rate per hour of the water level change?

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One-half inch per hour. 6 hours x .5 inches per hour = 3 inches.
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It is .5 inches. Because it is 3 in 6 hours and 3 is half of six it means that .5 per hour bc when you multiply.5 by 6 it equals 3.
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