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A hose fills a hot tub at a rate of 2.95 gallons per minute. How many hours will it take to fill a 256-gallon hot tub?

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A hose fills up a hot tub at a rate of 3.2 gallons per minute. How many hours will it take to fill a 300 gallon hot tub?
please explain the method of unit conversions as thoroughly as possible.

Solution:

The rate of fill up is, Rate = 3.2 Gallons / minute = 3.2 g/min
The hut tub volume is 300 Gallons

You can set up this problem as follows:

Every 3.2 gallons require 1 minute, How many minutes 300 gallons require?

3.2 g 1min
300 g ? min = (300 gallons x 1min/ 3.2 gallons)=(300/32)min

= 93.75 min
User EvgenyKolyakov
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Answer:

1.44632768 hours

Explanation:

Time = 256/2.95 = 86.779661 minutes or 1.44632768 hours

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