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Lake Michigan holds 1.3 x 1015 gallons of water. If just Chicago removed water from the

lake and it never rained again, how many days would the water last? Chicago uses 1.2 x 109
gallons of water /day
1,300,000,000,000,000 gallons
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User Florgeng
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Answer:

1.3x 10 15 gallons of water / 1.2x 10 9 gallons/day=

1.1x 10 6 gallons/day

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User Dmitry Polomoshnov
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1.3 x 10¹⁵ : 1.2 x 10⁹ = 1.083 x 10⁶

User Alex  Glinsky
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