{"id":4514,"date":"2025-08-16T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:02:27","slug":"evaporating-pool-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/16\/evaporating-pool-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaporating Pool Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4539\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Evaporating-Pool-Fig2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Evaporating-Pool-Fig2a.jpg 412w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Evaporating-Pool-Fig2a-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>This is a fairly straight-forward <a href=\"https:\/\/aplusclick.org\/t.htm?level=12;q=4564\">problem<\/a> from A+ Click.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water from an open swimming pool evaporates at a rate of 5 gallons per hour in the shade and 15 gallons per hour in the sun.\u00a0 If the pool loses 8,400 gallons in June and there were no clouds, what is the average duration of night during that month?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Answer Choices:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6 hours\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8 hours\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10 hours\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12 hours<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Evaporating-Pool-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Evaporating-Pool-Problem-250124rev.pdf\">Evaporating Pool Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fairly straight-forward problem from A+ Click. \u201cThe water from an open swimming pool evaporates at a rate of 5 gallons per hour in the shade and 15 gallons per hour in the sun.\u00a0 If the pool loses 8,400 gallons in June and there were no clouds, what is the average duration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133,284],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra","tag-aplusclick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}