You come home one day during a spring rain shower to discover your roof is leaking in different places.
someone has already placed 50 gallon buckets under each of the leaks, and the buckets have already collected some water. the hole in the kitchen ceiling is leaking an average rate of 2 gallons per minute and the bucket already contains 19 gallons of water. the hole in the living room must be bigger because it is leaking at an average rate of 3 gallons per minute and the bucket already contains 7 gallons. (it must have been emptied once.)
how much longer before the buckets contain the same amount of water? how much eater will that be?
-choose the most appropriate algebraic method to solve this problem
-variables should be chosen and labeled.