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Xelga [282]
3 years ago
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Working together, two identical water pumps can fill a pull in 10 hours. Determine whether quantities (number of pumps and hours

) vary directly or inversely and find the constant of variation.
Mathematics
1 answer:
vovikov84 [41]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

The number of pumps and hours) vary inversely.

The constant of variation is 20.

Step-by-step explanation:  

Let x be number of pumps and y be number of hours.

We have been given that working together, two identical water pumps can fill a pull in 10 hours. This means while working alone the pumps will take 2 times as much time to fill the tank.

As we increase number of pumps (x), number of hours (y) is decreasing and as we decrease x our y is increasing, therefore, number of pumps (x) and hours (y) vary inversely.

Since we know that an inversely proportion equation is in form: y=\frac{k}{x}, where, k is constant of variation.

Upon substituting our given values in above equation we will get,

10=\frac{k}{2}

Upon multiplying both sides of our equation by 2 we will get,

2*10=2*\frac{k}{2}

20=k

Therefore, the constant of variation is 20.

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