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Wastewater is filling barrels at the rate of 11 quarts per hour. The recycling facility picks up 120 full barrels on each trip, and each barrel holds 12 quarts of wastewater. How many days are between each pickup? Show your work to receive full credit. (10 points)

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Wastewater is filling the barrel at 11 quarts per hour, meaning that after 1 hour, 11/12 of a barrel will be full.

How many hours will pass before 120 barrels are full?
(Try to come up with an equation for this, if you don't know, ask me in the comments and I'll help you out further~)
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