Annual cost for water
What do we know?
100 ft³ of water costs $8.64
The average shower in this city uses 19.1 gallons
A person showers once a day for a year.
7.48 gallons = 1 ft³
Cost per year = ?
Procedure
We first want to know how many gallons are equivalent to 100 ft³
Since 1 ft³ = 7.48 gallons if we multiply by 100 both sides, then
100 ft³ = 748 gallons
Then, 748 gallons of water costs $8.64
Secondly, we are finding how much a single shower costs.
Since the average shower uses 19.1 gallons, we find the cost of 19.1 gallon
We have the equivalences, then we divide both sides:
then, clearing the unknown quatity
Then, the cost of one shower is $0.221