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11 years ago
I would appreciate if I could help in solving the question below. I'm not sure about the steps that I have to do, so a step by step explanation would be very helpful! Here's the question:

Chicago uses 1.2(10^9) gallons of water per day. How many gallons per second must be pumped from the lake every second to supply the city?
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11 years ago
1 day=24hours
1 hour=60 minutes
1 minute=60 seconds

Divide by all this numbers
1.2(10^9)/24/60/60=. And that should be your total...
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11 years ago
OK.  1.2x10^9 gal/day  is a lot of water.  So you need to calculate how many seconds there are in a day....well 60s/m*60m/hr*24hr/day.  = 86400 sec/day.  Now divide that number into the given to get
1.3889 x10^4 gal/sec approximately.
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