A water tank holds 236 gallons but is leaking at a rate of 3 gallons per week. A second water tank h

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A water tank holds 236 gallons but is leaking at a rate of 3 gallons per week. A second water tank holds 354 gallons but is leaking at a rate if 5 gallons per week. After how many weeks will the amount of water in the two tanks be the same

Let w be the number of weeks of leaking. We're given two Leak equations L(w):

1. L(w) = 236 - 3w
2. L(w) = 354 - 5w

When the water in both tanks is the same, we can set both L(w) equations equal to each other:
236 - 3w = 354 - 5w

To solve this equation for w, we type it in our search engine and we get:
w = 59