An Olympic swimming pool is 164 ft long and 82 ft wide. Assume that it is filled to a depth of 3.0 m, which is the Olympic recommendation.

a. What volume of water in gal is needed to fill the pool?

b. What volume of water in L is needed to fill the pool?

c. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that in 2015 U.S. domestic use of water was 82 gal/day per person. Using this value for daily usage, for what length of time could the water used to fill an Olympic swimming pool provide the domestic water usage for a community of 25,000 residents?

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Hi everyone here we have a question telling us a long course swimming pool for the olympic games is exactly 2500 m cubed in volume, assuming the swimming pool is filled to the brim, calculate the volume of water in the swimming pool in cubic feet. So our volume is 2500 m cubed, one m equals 3.281 ft. And we want to convert the volume 2ft cubed. So our volume is going to equal meters cubed Times 3. ft over one m cubed Equals 88, beat cubed. And that is our final answer. Thank you for watching. Bye.