The table shows the number of gallons of water, 9.
that a water pump transfers in s seconds. How many
gallons of water are pumped per second? What is an
equation for the gallons of water, g, that the station
can pump in s seconds?
First find the unit rate: How many gallons of water can be pumped in 1 second. This means you just have to divide by however many seconds it is being pumped. I'm using 12 and 9. 9/12 = 0.75. This means that in 1 second 0.75 or 3/4 of a gallon will be pumped. Therefore:
