SOLUTION: Three pipes can fill a pool in eight hours. A drain can empty the full pool in twelve hours. How many hours will it take to fill a quarter of the pool if the three pipes and the dr

Question 696749: Three pipes can fill a pool in eight hours. A drain can empty the full pool in twelve hours. How many hours will it take to fill a quarter of the pool if the three pipes and the drain are open?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It doesn't matter that there are 3 pipes. It only matters
that all 3 are open, and, by themselves, they fill
the pool in 8 hrs.
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Add the rate of filling and subtract the rate of draining
to get the rate of filling
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( 1 pool filled ) / ( 8 hrs ) - ( 1 pool drained ) / ( 12 hrs ) = ( 1/4 pool filled ) ( t hrs )

Bring the down to the denominator

Multiply both sides by

1/4 of the pool will be filled in 6 hrs

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