One pipe fills a storage pool in 8 hours. A second pipe fills the same pool in 4 hours. When a third pipe is added and all three
are used to fill the pool, it takes only 2 hours. Find how long it takes the third pipe to do the job
1 answer:
The first pipe fills 1/8 of a pool in one hr.
The second pipe fills 1/4 of a pool in one hr.
(1/8+1/4)2= 3/4 done by the first two pipes in 2 hours.
Therefore the last pipe must do 1 1/4 of the filling in 2 hours, which is 5/8 per hour.
5/8x=1
x=8/5
It takes the third pipe 1 hour and 36 minutes to fill it by itself.
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