Jane put a 12 in. tall bucket of under a leak in her sink. The bucket fills at a constant rate of 1/2 in. every 1/6 of an hour. How many hours will it take to fill the bucket?

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12 inch bucket fills half an inch every 10 mins

20 mins is 1 inch
 40 mins is 2 inch
60 mins is 3 inch
80 mins is 4 inch
100 mins is 5 inch
120 mins is 60 inch and 6 inch is half of 12 so 
double 120 to get 240 which is 4 hours

It will take 4 hours to fill the bucket if Jane put a 12 in. tall bucket under a leak in her sink. The bucket fills at a constant rate of 1/2 in. every 1/6 of an hour.

What is a fraction?

Fraction number consists of two parts, one is the top of the fraction number which is called the numerator and the second is the bottom of the fraction number which is called the denominator.

We have:

Jane put a 12 in. tall bucket under a leak in her sink. The bucket fills at a constant rate of 1/2 in. every 1/6 of an hour.

Let's suppose the x hours will take to fill the bucket

x = 12(1/6)/(1/2)

x = 24(1/6)

x = 4 hours

Thus, it will take 4 hours to fill the bucket if Jane put a 12 in. tall bucket under a leak in her sink. The bucket fills at a constant rate of 1/2 in. every 1/6 of an hour.

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