document.write( "Question 988245: A faucet can fill a tank in 6 hours when the tank is filled half the similar three taps are opened and how long it will take to fill the tank \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Since it takes 1 faucet 6 hours to fill the tank, it will fill \r\n" );
document.write( "half the tank in 3 hours.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then when three more faucets are opened, there will be 4 faucets \r\n" );
document.write( "filling it, so the second half of the tank will be filled 4 times\r\n" );
document.write( "as fast as the first half was filled. So that will take only 1/4th\r\n" );
document.write( "of the time it took to fill the first half, and 1/4th of 3 hours\r\n" );
document.write( "is 3/4th of an hour or 45 minutes.  So it will take a total of\r\n" );
document.write( "3 hours and 45 minutes.\r\n" );
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