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A small pipe takes twice as long to fill a vat as a larger pipe. If it takes 6 hours to fill the vat using both pipes, how many

hours would it take to fill the vat using just the small pipe?

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gogolik [260]3 years ago

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3 hours to fill 5 hours to empty

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