SOLUTION: Two water pipes are filling a shark tank. One pipe fills the tank three times as fast as the other. With both pipes working together, the tank fills in 84 minutes. How long would i

Question 1171217: Two water pipes are filling a shark tank. One pipe fills the tank three times as fast as the other. With both pipes working together, the tank fills in 84 minutes. How long would it take for each pipe to fill the tank working alone?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Other pipe, rate
One pipe, rate

and the rest is simple to do...
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