Question

Hunter is filling a 3.5-gallon

bucket to water plants at a faucet that flows at a rate
of 1.75 gallons a minute. If he were to add a hose
that flows at a rate of 1.45 gallons per minute, how
many minutes would it take him to fill the bucket?
Round to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

You would add the faucet rate to the hose rate (1.75+1.45=3.2) and then divide it by 3.5 (3.5/3.2) which is equalivent to around 1.1.