It is recommended that hikers drink 24 ounces of water an hour. If a canteen has 24 ounces of water, how much should the amount of water in the canteen change every 10 minutes?(1 point)
Responses
-4 ounces
-4 ounces
0.4 ounces
0.4 ounces
-0.4 ounces
-0.4 ounces
4 ounces
The correct answer is 0.4 ounces.
To find out how much the amount of water in the canteen should change every 10 minutes, we need to determine the rate of water consumption. According to the given information, hikers are recommended to drink 24 ounces of water per hour.
To convert this hourly rate to a rate per minute, we divide 24 ounces by 60 minutes (since there are 60 minutes in an hour).
24 ounces / 60 minutes = 0.4 ounces/minute
Therefore, hikers should be consuming water at a rate of 0.4 ounces per minute.
Now, we can determine how much the amount of water in the canteen should change every 10 minutes.
0.4 ounces/minute * 10 minutes = 4 ounces
Hence, the amount of water in the canteen should decrease by 4 ounces every 10 minutes.
Therefore, the correct answer is:
-4 ounces
To determine how much the amount of water in the canteen should change every 10 minutes, we need to calculate the amount of water hikers should drink in that time frame.
Since hikers are recommended to drink 24 ounces of water per hour, we can divide this amount by 6 (since there are 6 sets of 10 minutes in an hour).
24 ounces / 6 = 4 ounces per 10 minutes
Therefore, the amount of water in the canteen should change by 4 ounces every 10 minutes.