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.It would take ..... minutes to fill the bucket.

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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.It would take ____ minutes to fill the bucket.

A	370
B	375
C	380
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The nearest whole number is going to round up to 7266 minutes.

Detailed explanation-2: -A leaky faucet that drips at the rate of one drip per second can waste more than 3, 000 gallons per year. That’s the amount of water needed to take more than 180 showers!

Detailed explanation-3: -Doing some more math with the 1/4 of a milliliter in volume as an average adds up to around 15, 140 per gallon of water. A faucet dripping once per second would fill a gallon bucket in four and a half hours.

Detailed explanation-4: -60 drips a minute times 3 faucets = 180 drips a minute. 180 drips times 1, 440 minutes in a day = 259, 200 drips per day. 259, 200 drips per day divided by 3, 000 drips in a liter = 86.4 liters. 86.4 liters divided by 3.7854 liters = 22.8 gallons a day.

Detailed explanation-5: -One drop every 2 seconds is equivalent to 30 drops per minute, or about 1 1/2 teaspoons per minute. This corresponds to 90 teaspoons per hour (about 15 oz. or a bit less than 2 cups).

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