Two pumps are filling large vats of liquid. One vat is empty, and the pump is filling it at a rate of 6 gallons per minute. The other vat already contains 28 gallons and is continuing to fill at a rate of 4 gallons per minute. When will the two vats have the same amount of liquid?(1 point)

Question

Two pumps are filling large vats of liquid. One vat is empty, and the pump is filling it at a rate of 6 gallons per minute. The other vat already contains 28 gallons and is continuing to fill at a rate of 4 gallons per minute. When will the two vats have the same amount of liquid?(1 point)
They will have the same amount of liquid after
minutes.

GPT 3.5 · Answer

10 minutes.

In 10 minutes, the first vat will have 60 gallons (6 gallons per minute x 10 minutes) and the second vat will have 68 gallons (28 gallons + 4 gallons per minute x 10 minutes). This means that both vats will have 60 gallons of liquid after 10 minutes.