An oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour. At this rate how many square kilometers will it cover in 2 hours
To find the rate at which the oil spill covers the area, we need to divide the total area covered by the time taken.
4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour can be expressed as:
(4 km^2) / (1/4 hour) = (4 km^2) * (4/1 hour) = 16 km^2/hour.
Therefore, the oil spill covers 16 square kilometers in one hour.
To find out how many square kilometers it will cover in 2 hours, we can simply multiply the rate by the time:
16 km^2/hour * 2 hours = 32 km^2.
Therefore, the oil spill will cover 32 square kilometers in 2 hours.
To find out how many square kilometers the oil spill will cover in 2 hours, we can first determine the rate of coverage per hour and then multiply it by 2.
Given:
Oil spill covered 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour.
Step 1: Calculate the coverage rate per hour.
Since the oil spill covered 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour, we need to convert 1/4 of an hour to 1 hour.
To do that, we will multiply the coverage rate (4 square kilometers) by the reciprocal of the fraction representing the time conversion.
1/4 * 4/1 = 1
So, the oil spill covers 1 square kilometer per hour.
Step 2: Multiply the coverage rate by 2 hours.
Now that we know the oil spill covers 1 square kilometer per hour, we can find out how many square kilometers it will cover in 2 hours.
To do that, we multiply the coverage rate (1 square kilometer per hour) by 2.
1 * 2 = 2
Therefore, the oil spill will cover 2 square kilometers in 2 hours.
To find out how many square kilometers the oil spill will cover in 2 hours, we need to determine the rate at which it spreads per hour.
Given that the oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour, we can calculate the spread rate per hour by multiplying the area covered by 4 and the time duration by 4.
Area covered in 1 hour = 4 square kilometers * (1/4) * 4 hours
= 4 * 1 * 4 / 4
= 4 square kilometers
Therefore, the oil spill will cover 4 square kilometers in 2 hours.