An aircraft spraying at 130 miles per hour with an output volume of 8 gallons per minute sprays how many gallons per mile?

To determine how many gallons are sprayed per mile, it's essential to understand the relationship between speed, output volume, and the distance covered. The aircraft is moving at 130 miles per hour and is outputting 8 gallons of spray per minute.

First, we need to convert the output rate into a per-mile basis. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, if the aircraft is traveling at 130 miles per hour, in one minute, it covers:

130 miles/hour ÷ 60 minutes/hour = approximately 2.17 miles/minute.

Now, we need to calculate how many gallons are sprayed in that 2.17 miles per minute. If the aircraft is dispensing 8 gallons per minute, we need to find out how many gallons would be sprayed over the distance of 1 mile.

To find gallons per mile, we set up the relationship as follows:

Gallons per mile = (Gallons per minute) / (Miles per minute)

So, substituting in the values:

Gallons per mile = 8 gallons/minute ÷ 2.17 miles/minute ≈ 3.69 gallons/mile

Rounding this number gives us approximately 3.7 gallons per mile, which corresponds to the