SOLUTION: A swimming pool can be filled in 18 hours if water enters through a pipe alone, or in 25 hours if water enters through a hose alone. If water is entering through both pipe and hose

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Question 1033039: A swimming pool can be filled in 18 hours if water enters through a pipe alone, or in 25 hours if water enters through a hose alone. If water is entering through both pipe and hose, how long will it take to fill the pool 5/6 full?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



Why? Uniform task rates, sum of the rates gives the rate for the two hoses together.

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