Question

A pipe is leaking at $1.5$ cups per day. How many gallons per week is the pipe leaking?

Answer 1

Hint: In this question we have been given that a pipe is leaking $1.5$ cups per day. From the basic concepts we know that one cup is equal to $0.0625$ gallons and 1 week has seven days. We need to find the number of gallons per week the pipe is leaking.

Complete step by step solution:
Now considering from the question we have given that a pipe is leaking $1.5$ cups per day.
From the basic concepts of unit conversions we know that one cup is equal to $0.0625$ gallons and 1 week has seven days. We need to find the number of gallons per week the pipe is leaking.
So now we will find the number of cups of water leaking in a week. This will be given as $7\times 1.5=10.5$ cups per week.
Now we will convert this to gallons, that is we will multiply this number with $0.0625$ . Then we will have $ 10.5\times 0.0625=0.65625$ gallons per week.
Therefore we can conclude that the pipe is leaking $0.65625$ gallons of water per week.

Note: Here we should be aware of the conversion of gallons and cups. Some conversions or books also define that a gallon is equal to 16 cups. Therefore 1 cup will be equal to $\dfrac{1}{16}$ a gallon that is 0.0625 gallons. Hence we will get the same answer in this case also. So don’t get confused with this.