Your water hose is leaking at a rate of 0.25 cups per hour. how many gallons did you hose leak in a full 24 hour day

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asked Oct 20, 2019 39.8k views

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Rafael Sousa · Answer 1 · 2019-10-27T02:50:18+0000

Solution:

we are given that

water hose is leaking at a rate of 0.25 cups per hour.

We have been asked to find that

how many gallons did you hose leak in a full 24 hour day.

Since water hose is leaking at a rate of 0.25 cups per hour.

It mean the tank will leak by
$0.25*4=1 \ Cup$ in 4 Hours.

So in 24 Hours the tank will leak by
$(24)/(4)*1=6*1=6 \ Cups$ .

As we know that 1 Gallon=16 Cups.

It mean in 24 Hours the tank leaked by
$(1)/(16)*6= 0.375 \ Gallon$