3) The recent tropical storm (TS) Bertha coincided with the drought that affecte

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3) The recent tropical storm (TS) Bertha coincided with the drought that affected (and that is still affecting to some extent) Puerto Rico. TS Bertha partially alleviated the drought. One of the local TV stations, in regard to this issue, displayed the diagram shown at right. Please, verify the accuracy of the numbers displayed therein. If in error, estimate the percent error. Could you guess where the error comes from? Hint: Cuerda is sometimes call Spanish acre and it is slightly smaller than an acre.

Explanation / Answer

1 pulgada de lluvia means 1 inch of rain

1 inch of rain is equal to 27,154 gallons per acre

1 Cuerda = 0.971 acre

So for 1 Cuerda = 27154*0.971 = 26,366 gallons

So percent error = (27154-26366)/27154 * 100 = 2.9% error

The error comes in because 1 Cuerda is equal to 0.971 acre not 1 acre

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