Heating oil is to be poured at the constant rate of 4.5 gallons per minute into a 400-gallon tank that already contains 115 gallons of heating oil. What fraction of the tank’s total capacity will be full in 30 minutes?

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Heating oil is to be poured at the constant rate of 4.5 gallons per minute into a 400-gallon tank that already contains 115 gallons of heating oil. What fraction of the tank’s total capacity will be full in 30 minutes? 

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Answer:- Given , Heating oil is to be poured at the constant rate of 4.5 gallons per minute into a 400-gallon tank that already contains 115 gallons of heating oil. 

Therefore, volume after 30 minutes the capacity of heating oil 

= 4.5*30+115 = 250 gallon. 

 

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