The Hamptons family has a fish tank holding 10,450 ml of water.The water is leaking at a rate of 270 ml per minute.

Question

Part B: Write a function to model this situation.

Answer 1

Let the function h(t) represent the amount of water in the fish tank at time t in minutes.

Given that the water is leaking at a rate of 270 ml per minute, the rate at which the water decreases is -270 ml/minute.

The initial amount of water in the fish tank is 10,450 ml.

Using these data, we can write the following function:

h(t) = 10,450 - 270t