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Mathematical formula for capturing amount of 1 inch rainfall on a tin roof messuring 4 ft x 8 ft?
First you compute the roof area, then you multiply by the amount of rain to have the volume of rain, and finally you convert to gallons:
in in 3 gallon
(4ft·...
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Mathematical formula for capturing amount of 1 inch rainfall on a tin roof messuring 4 ft x 8 ft?
The calculation for volume of a cube (and your roof+rainfall is a very squashed cube) is length x width x height. After converting length and width to inches you get 48 x 96 x 1 = 4608 cubic inches. ...
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Mathematical formula for capturing amount of 1 inch rainfall on a tin roof messuring 4 ft x 8 ft?
Thats 4 X 8 X 1/12 cubic feet or 2.67 cubic feet.
1 cubic feet is 7.4805194805 gallons
So the answer is almost 19.95 or 20 gallons
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