Question

An bucket starts with 872 gallons of water and is emptying at a rate of 19 gallons per hour. If I know that the bucket has 8 gallons of water, how long has it been emptying?

Answer 1

45.47368421 (round as much as you need)

Explanation:

We can model the equation using G(h) = -19h + 872, where -19 is the rate at which the bucket is emptying and 872 is the amount of gallons the bucket starts with.

Since gallons is the output, we would have 8 = -19h + 872 and we simply need to solve for h

`(8 = -19h+872)-872\\((-864=-19h))/(-19) \\h=45.47368421`