Question

Buried beneath the pumps of a gas station lays a holding tank in the shape of a rectangular prism with a height of four feet and a square base. A tanker truck fills up the holding tank at a rate of 26.75 cubic feet per minute. You notice that it takes the tanker 86 minutes to fill the holding tank. Find the approximate volume of the tank (assume the tank was empty)

Answer 1

Therefore the volume of the holding tank is = 2300.5 cubic feet.

Explanation:

Given , a tanker truck fills up the holding tank at a rate of 26.75 cubic feet per minute and it takes 86 minutes to fill the holding tank.

Therefore the volume of the holding tank is (26.75 × 86) cubic feet

= 2300.5 cubic feet