A kitchen sink faucet streams 0.5 gallons of water in 10 seconds. A bathroom sink faucet streams 0.75 gallons of water in 18 seconds. Which faucet will fill a 3-gallon container faster?

The kitchen because 0.5:10 seconds is faster that 0.75:18 seconds

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step-by-step explanation:

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: