SOLUTION: A 5.2 horsepower pump can move 345 lbs of water against a discharge head of 300 feet. What is the horsepower of a pump that moves 434 lbs of water against a discharge head off 400

Question 1204965: A 5.2 horsepower pump can move 345 lbs of water against a discharge head of 300 feet. What is the horsepower of a pump that moves 434 lbs of water against a discharge head off 400 feet
Answer by ikleyn(52787) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A 5.2 horsepower pump can move 345 lbs of water against a discharge head of 300 feet. What is the horsepower
of a pump that moves 434 lbs of water against a discharge head off 400 feet
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As the problem is worded, printed and presented, it is posed INCORRECTLY.

To be correct, the problem must say in the second scenario "in the same time".

It is a KEY PART of the problem's condition, and without it, the problem CAN NOT be solved.

Alas, it is quite obvious that the author/(composer of this problem)
does not know Physics and does not know the relevant basic conceptions.

Therefore, I should perform his duties here and make his job instead of him.

I would advise to the problem's composer to take very beginning class in Physics,
which they usually teach in middle school in 6-th/7-th grade in Science.

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It assumes, that the visitors bring problems that are posed correctly.

The goal of this forum is not to teach mathematically illiterate
persons how to compose/create Math problems correctly.

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