An oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in. 1/4 of an hour at this rate how may square kilometers will it covering 2 hous
To find out how many square kilometers the oil spill will cover in 2 hours, we need to find the rate at which it covers the area per hour.
In 1/4 of an hour, the oil spill covers 4 square kilometers. To find the rate per hour, we can multiply this rate by 4 (since there are 4 quarters in an hour).
So, the oil spill covers 4 * 4 = <<4*4=16>>16 square kilometers per hour.
In 2 hours, the oil spill will cover 16 * 2 = <<16*2=32>>32 square kilometers.
Answer: \boxed{32}.
To determine the number of square kilometers the oil spill will cover in 2 hours, we need to find the rate at which it spreads.
Given that the oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour, we can calculate its rate by dividing the area covered by the time taken:
Rate = Area / Time
Rate = 4 km² / (1/4) hour
To simplify, we can convert 1/4 hour to 15 minutes:
Rate = 4 km² / 15 minutes
Now, we need to find the area covered in 2 hours. We'll start by converting 2 hours to minutes:
2 hours * 60 minutes/hour = 120 minutes
Finally, we can calculate the area covered in 2 hours by multiplying the rate by the time:
Area covered in 2 hours = Rate * Time
Area covered in 2 hours = (4 km² / 15 minutes) * 120 minutes
Now, let's do the calculations:
Area covered in 2 hours = (4/15) km² * 120 minutes
Area covered in 2 hours = (4/15) * 120 km²
Area covered in 2 hours = 8 km²
Therefore, the oil spill will cover 8 square kilometers in 2 hours.
To find out how many square kilometers the oil spill will cover in 2 hours, we need to calculate the rate of coverage per hour and then multiply it by the total number of hours.
Given that the oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 1/4 of an hour, we need to find the rate of coverage per hour. To do this, we can calculate the reciprocal of 1/4 of an hour:
1 hour / (1/4 hour) = 1 hour * (4/1) = 4 hours
So, the oil spill covers 4 square kilometers in 4 hours.
Now, we can determine the rate of coverage per hour:
4 square kilometers / 4 hours = 1 square kilometer per hour
Therefore, the oil spill covers 1 square kilometer in 1 hour.
To calculate the coverage in 2 hours, we can now multiply the rate per hour by the number of hours:
1 square kilometer per hour * 2 hours = 2 square kilometers.
Therefore, the oil spill will cover 2 square kilometers in 2 hours.