SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problems 1) A pump can fill a milk tank in 2hours. Because of leakage problem,it took 20minutes more to fill the tank . The plant superviser wants to fin

Question 923542: Please help me solve this problems
1) A pump can fill a milk tank in 2hours. Because of leakage problem,it took 20minutes more to fill the tank . The plant superviser wants to find that how much time would the leak take to empty a full tank
2)
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Same question done less than a week ago.

The pump, tanks per hour
The leak, tanks per hour
Combined pump and leak, tanks per hour.

Obviously the rates are additive; and the leak is negative.
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