Question

The flow of water from a faucet can fill a 3 gallon container in 15 seconds. Give the ratio of gallons to seconds as a rate in gallons per second. The faucet fills the container at a rate of ________________ gallons per second

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Since it can fill 3 gallon in 15 seconds, and you want to find how many galloons it can fill in 1 second, You can model that as:
\[ \frac{ 3 }{ 15 } = \frac{ x }{ 1 }\]

Are you able to solve this?