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Question 210 pts (01.03 MC) Wastewater is filling barrels at the rate of 8 quarts per hour. The recycling facility picks up 25 full barrels on each trip, and each barrel holds 64 quarts of wastewater. How many days are between each pickup? Show your work to receive full credit. (10 points) ANSWER ASAP

Answer 1

First, let's find out how many quarts of wastewater are picked up in each trip:

Number of quarts per barrel = 64 quarts

Number of barrels per trip = 25 barrels

Total quarts per trip = \(64 \, \text{quarts/barrel} \times 25 \, \text{barrels}\) = 1600 quarts

Now, we can determine how many hours it takes to fill up these 25 barrels:

Rate of filling = 8 quarts/hour

Time to fill 1600 quarts = \(\frac{1600 \, \text{quarts}}{8 \, \text{quarts/hour}}\) = 200 hours

Since each pickup trip takes 200 hours, let's find out how many days this is:

Number of hours in a day = 24 hours

Time in days = \(\frac{200 \, \text{hours}}{24 \, \text{hours/day}}\) ≈ 8.33 days

So, there are approximately 8.33 days between each pickup trip.

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