My faucet is dripping. Every 45 minutes, the drips fill a 3-fl. oz. paper cup. If I don’t fix my faucet, how many gallons of water will drip in a year? Round your result to the nearest whole number. Use the reference sheet to find relevant conversion factors. Use dimensional analysis. Fill in the fractions and then complete your calculations in the box below. (2.5) x x x x

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My faucet is dripping. Every 45 minutes, the drips fill a 3-fl. oz. paper cup. If I don’t fix my faucet, how many gallons of water will drip in a year? Round your result to the nearest whole number. Use the reference sheet to find relevant conversion factors. Use dimensional analysis. Fill in the fractions and then complete your calculations in the box below. (2.5)

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We are given that in every 45 minutes, the drips fill a 3-fl. oz. paper cup. We need to find how many gallons of water will drip in a year when given that every 45 minutes, the drips fill a 3-fl. oz. paper cup.

Since, every 45 minutes, the drips fill a 3-fl. oz. paper cup this can be represented as $\frac{3 ft - oz}{45 \min} .$

We know that 1 gallon= 128 fl. oz. (fluid ounces), 60 minutes=1 hour, 24 hours=1 day, and 365 days= 1 year.

Now the gallons of water that drip in a year is calculated as $\frac{3 ft - oz}{45 \min} \times \frac{1 g a l l o n}{128 ft - oz} \times \frac{60 \min}{1 hour} \times \frac{24 hours}{1 day} \times \frac{365 days}{1 year} .$

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