SOLUTION: A water tank can be filled with a large inlet pipe and a small inlet pipe in three hours. The large inlet pipe alone can fll the tank in 2 hours less than the small inlet pipe alon

Question 1121173: A water tank can be filled with a large inlet pipe and a small inlet pipe in three hours. The large inlet pipe alone can fll the tank in 2 hours less than the small inlet pipe alone. Find the time the tank can be filled by each pipe alone.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

( adding the rates to get a rate working together )
Multiply both sides by

Complete the square

And

Large pipe fills tank in 5.1623 hrs
Small pipe fills tank in 7.1623 hrs

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