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Water drips from a faucet at a rate of 41 drops/minute. Assuming there are 15,000 drops in a gallon, how many minutes would it take for the dripping faucet to fill a 1.00‑gallon bucket? Express your answer to the correct number of significant figures.

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Answer : It will take 366 minutes to fill 1.00 gallon bucket.

Explanation :

We have been given the drip rate which is 41 drops/min

Let us use this as a conversion factor to ind out the minutes taken to fill 1 gal bucket. We will arrange this conversion factor in such way that , "drops" would get cancelled.

They have also given us that 1 gallon bucket contains 15000 drops.

The equation can be set up as follows.

[tex]15000drops \times\frac{minute}{41 drops} = 365.8 = 366 minutes[/tex]

It will take 366 minutes to fill 1.00 gal bucket.

It will take 366 minutes but to the correct number of significant figures THE ANSWER IS 370

This answer is correct for Plato

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