Question

A pipe is leaking at 1.5 cups per day. About how many gallons per week is the pipe leaking?

Answer 1

If it is leaking 1.5 cups per day, then it will leak 10.5 cups per week (7 days in a week)

16 cups go into one gallon. Since we have 10.5 cups in a week, we divide it by 16 to get how many gallons.

In this case, we get .65625 gallons per week.

Answer 2

10.5 cups; 0.656 gallons