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It is a Saturday morning and Jeremy has discovered he has a leak from the water heater in his attic. Since plumbers charge extra to come out on weekends, Jeremy is planning to use buckets to catch the dripping water. He places a bucket under the drip and steps outside to walk the dog. In half an hour, the bucket is an 1/5 of the way full. What is the rate at which the water is leaking.

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1/2=1/5 full

because it says for a half of hour the bucket was one-fith full
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