Hurricane Katrina dropped about 14 inches of rain over a 48 hour period. How much rain is that in inches per hour?

1 Answer
Feb 17, 2016

0.291667

Explanation:

To obtain the number of inches per hour simply divide the number of inches by the time it took to drop those inches in hours:

#14/48 ~~ # inch per hour

Be careful about units in these types of questions, you may occasionally have convert minutes to hours, meters to inches and so on.