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A swimming pool is to be drained. The pool is shaped like a rectangular prism with length 30 ft, width 18 ft, and depth 4 ft. Suppose water is pumped out of the

pool at a rate of 216 ft per hour. If the pool starts completely full, how many hours does it take to empty the pool?
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User Lissie
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Answer:

10 hours (I am not positive)

Explanation:

We first want to find the volume of pool which is 30 x 18 x 4 = 2160.

Then you are going to divide by 216 to find how many hours it takes to drain the whole pool. (I'm not that big of an expert)

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