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The amount leaked out of the barrel in a minute would be 5 1/2 gallons divided by 15 to get per minute.
this comes out as 0.367th of a gallon per minute 
drojas
1/4 of an hour is 15 minutes. So all you have to do is divide 5.5 gallons by 15 minutes to get your per minute answer. That comes out to about 3.67.