A small pool is leaking water from a hole. After 2 ½ minutes, 3 ½ liters of water have leaked out. How many liters of water will leak in one minute?
At this rate, how many liters will have leaked out after 10 minutes?
If the pool has 42 liters of water in it, after how many minutes will be empty?

Question A: 14

Question B: 30min

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step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following