Question

I need helpA bathroom shower steams 5 gallons of water in 2 minutes how long can someone shower to use only 10 gallons of water??

Answer 1

We have the following:

We can do the problem in the following way:

First calculating the rate and then we calculate through this rate the amount of time

`(5)/(2)=2.5`

The rate is 2.5 gallons per minutes

now,

`t=\frac{10\text{gallons}}{2.5\text{gallons per minute}}=4\min`

Which means it takes about 4 minutes