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People use water to cook, clean, and drink every day. An estimate of 17.2% of the water used each day is for drinking. If a family uses 68.8 gallons of water a day for drinking, how many gallons do they use every day?

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The estimate amount of water used for drinking per day is: 172.%

The amount of water used by a given family for drinking is:68.8 gallons.

Let 'x' be the total gallons of water used by the family.

[tex]\begin{gathered} x\times\frac{17.2}{100}=68.8 \\ x=68.8\times\frac{100}{17.2} \\ x=4\times100 \\ x=400\text{ gallons} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Thus, the family use 400 gallons of water per day.

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