Polluted water is passed through a series of filters.  Each filter removes 75% of the remaining impurities from the water.  If you have 9 million particles of pollution per gallon originally, how much pollution will you have after 5 passes through the filters? _____________________________ million particles

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Polluted water is passed through a series of filters.  Each filter removes 75% of the remaining impurities from the water.  If you have 9 million particles of pollution per gallon originally, how much pollution will you have after 5 passes through the filters?

_____________________________ million particles

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