Question

Art's swimming pool contains 20,000 gallons of water. He drains the pool at a rate of 5 gallons per minute. Which of these equations represents the number of gallons of water (g) remaining in the pool after (m) minutes?
A: g = 20,000 - 5m
B: g = 20,000 + 5m
C: g = 20,000/5m
D: g= 5m/20,000

Answer 1

A. b is wrong because your not adding. and c and d is divding which is going to take like 10 mins to drain that pool so it would be unrealistic. so A

Answer 2

Okay. Thank you(:

Answer 3

yep :)