Question

Harris has two pipes to fill his aquarium. Pipe A can fill the aquarium at the rate of 4 gallons per minute. Pipe B can fill the aquarium at the rate of 840 liters per hour.

[1 gallon = 3.79 liters]


If the total volume of the aquarium was 500 gallons and you checked on how full it was every 0.25 hours, describe appropriate scales on the x-axis and y-axis to graph the rate at which the faster pipe fills the aquarium.

Answer 1

@Jagking Please Help?

Answer 2

srry.....not good at word problems....@PinkSapphire

Answer 3

@PinkSapphire help

Answer 4

She is offline, thank you though! @Jagking

Answer 5

srry. i'll get someone over here.

Answer 6

Thank you so much @Jagking

Answer 7

np

Answer 8

@campbell_st

Answer 9

well I'd leave 4 gal / min as it is

change 840 l/hr to gallons per minute...

which is approx 221.6 gallons/ hour

divide by 60 to find gall per minute

which becomes 3.69 gallons/per minute

ok... so how long to fill 500 gallons...

use 500/3.69 = 136 minutes

so the x axis should be scale of 15 minute intervals, starting at 0 up to 150 minutes

that way the graphs of both lines fit x - axis

the y - axis should be lots of 25 gallons starting at 0 and going to 500 gallons...

then draw the lines

4 gallons per minute start at the origin and then go to (125, 500)

the litres line which is 3.69 gall/ minute, start at the origin and go to (135, 500



hope it helps

the y-axis goes

Answer 10

oops 15 mins = 0.25 hr

Answer 11

Thank You so much @campbell_st You helped a lot!! :D