Question

A leaky faucet in our kitchen wastes a cup of water every 10 minutes. how fast is the water leaking in gallons per day

step by step please​

Answer 1

9 gal/day

Explanation:

We are given 1 cup per 10 minutes. You can always change the way an expression looks without changing its value if you multiply it by 1. But here we need to change the units. So the 1 we're multiplying is:

1gal/16cups or

60min/1hr or

24hr/1day

See image. We can set it up to cancel the units we don't want and get the units we do want.

see image.