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.
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
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