SOLUTION: one pipe can fill a tank in 20 minutes , while another takes 30 minutes to fill the same tank.how long would it take two pipes together to fill the tank?

Question 1023173: one pipe can fill a tank in 20 minutes , while another takes 30 minutes to fill the same tank.how long would it take two pipes together to fill the tank?
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one pipe can fill a tank in 20 minutes , while another takes 30 minutes to fill the same tank.how long would it take two pipes together to fill the tank?
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One pipe fills of the tank volume per minute.

The second pipe fills of the tank volume per minute.

Working together, both pipes fill

= = =

of the tank volume per minute.

Hence it will take 12 minutes to fill the tank if both pipes work simultaneously.

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