Problema Solution
if your faucet drips at arate of 1 every 5 seconds, and 575 drops fill a 100 milliliter bottle, then approximately how much water have you wasted within one year
Answer provided by our tutors
We assume that one year is 365 days.
We assume that every 5 seconds there is a drip and that rate never changes.
So 60/5 drops occur for 60 minutes for 24 hours for 365 days and we convert the number of drops into millimiters by the factor 100/575:
365*24*60*(60/5)*(100/575)
1096904.35
So approximately 1,096,904 milliliters would be wasted. Depending on what units are desired, then convert the milliliters into appropriate units (gallons? liters? etc.).