SOLUTION: Hi A baby pool with 4350 litres needs to be filled. Water from hose A has a rate of 150 litres per minute while hose B 250 litres per minute. If A is turned on 3 minutes after B

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Question 1207301: Hi
A baby pool with 4350 litres needs to be filled. Water from hose A has a rate of
150 litres per minute while hose B 250 litres per minute. If A is turned on 3
minutes after B is turned on how long will it take to fill up the pool?
Thanks

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hi
A baby pool with 4350 litres needs to be filled. Water from hose A has a rate
of 150 litres per minute while hose B 250 litres per minute. If A is turned on
3 minutes after B is turned on how long will it take to fill up the pool?
Thanks.
Hose B pours water in the pool for 3 minutes alone, at the rate of 250 liters
per minutes.  Therefore, hose B pours in (3)(250)=750 liters before A is turned
on.

Then there are 4350-750=3600 more liters to fill in.

Now hose A and hose B's combined filling rate is the sum of their individual
filling rates, or 150+250=400 liters per minute.

So  

to finish filling the pool.

So the total time is 3+9=12 minutes.

Edwin

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