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An oil spill spreads 25 square meters every 1/6 hour. How much area does the oil spill cover after 2 hours?
 Feb 29, 2020
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I cannot tell you how much area it COVERS, but I can tell you how much it has SPREAD:

 

25 m2 /  1/6 hr   =  150 m2  / hr

 

150 m/ hr      *    2 hr   =   300 m2

 Feb 29, 2020
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So we know that it spreads 25 square meters every 1/6 of an hour. That's 10 minutes.

 

So 25 meters PER 10 minutes.

 

2 hours = 120 minutes.

 

120 / 10 = 12.

 

25 * 12 = 300 meters.

 Feb 29, 2020

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