Hydraulicists Often Express Rainfall in Acre-Feet

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Short Answer

Hydraulicists often express rainfall in acre-feet. This is the amount of water required to cover an area of one acre to a depth of one foot. There are 640.0 acres in a square mile, and 5280 feet in one mile. How many cubic feet are there in one acre-foot?

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Definitions:

Positive Relationship

A correlation where an increase in one variable is associated with an increase in another variable.

Y-axis

The vertical axis in a coordinate plane, often used to represent values of a dependent variable in a graph.

X-axis

The horizontal axis in a graph or chart, on which values of one variable are plotted against the values of another (typically independent variable).

Slope

Slope is a measure of the steepness or incline of a line, indicating the rate at which y-values change with respect to x-values in a graph.