SOLUTION: Nine large hoses can fill a swimming pool in four hours and six small hoses can
fill the same swimming pool in eight hours.
How long will it take four large hoses a
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Question 499335: Nine large hoses can fill a swimming pool in four hours and six small hoses can
fill the same swimming pool in eight hours.
How long will it take four large hoses and eight small hoses working together to
fill the swimming pool? Answer by oberobic(2304) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 9 large hoses fill the pool in 4 hrs.
Each hose does 1/9 of the job and takes 4 hours to do it.
So, each large hose can do 1/36 of the job per hr.
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6 small hoses fill the pool in 8 hrs.
Each hoses does 1/6 of the job and takes 8 hours to do it.
So, each small hose can do 1/48 of the job per hr.
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How long will it take 4 large and 8 small hoses to do the job?
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(4*(1/36) + 8*(1/48)) * t = 1 (the whole job)
(1/9 + 1/6)t = 1
15/54 t = 1
t = 54/15
t = 3 9/15 hr
9/15 hr = 36 min
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t = 3 hr 36 min
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