Question

In Denver, Colorado, they experience a lot of snow in the winter. During the last

snow storm, it snowed for 3 straight days and the snow consistently accumulated at

a rate of inch per hour. How much snow did Denver get over three days?

Your answer

Answer 1

Denver got 72 inches of snow over three days.

Explanation:

Since it has snowed consistently for 3 days, accumulating an inch of snow per hour, over that number of days at least 72 inches of snow would have accumulated.

This is so because, since each day has 24 hours, in the event of a 3-day snowfall, it would have lasted 72 hours. Thus, while every hour a new inch of snow would accumulate, at the end of the storm the city of Denver would have accumulated 72 inches of snow (1 x 24 x 3 = 72).