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The water level in a plastic pool changed by -8 gallons each hour due to a small hole in the bottom. After 6 hours, the pool contained 132 gallons. How muc was in the pool originally?
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The water level in a plastic pool changed by -8 gallons each hour due to a small hole in the bottom. After 6 hours, the pool contained 132 gallons. How muc was in the pool originally?

User Mizanur Rahman Khan
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The answer is very easy to find. If the water drains 8 gallons every hour and after 6 hours it is 132 gallons full, the origional amount of water is 180 gallons of water
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do 8 x 6. The answer is 48. do 48+132 is 180. So there were originally 180 gallons of water in the pool.
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