SOLUTION: Left on together, the cold and hot water faucets of a certain bathtub take 7 minutes to fill the tub. If it takes the cold water faucet 17 minutes to fill the tub by itself, how lo

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Question 1163327: Left on together, the cold and hot water faucets of a certain bathtub take 7 minutes to fill the tub. If it takes the cold water faucet 17 minutes to fill the tub by itself, how long will it take the hot water faucet to fill the tub on its own?
Do not do any rounding.

Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source):
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Working together, the two facets fill of the bathtub volume per minute. The cold water facet fills of the bathtub volume per minute. It means that the hot water facet fills = = of the bathtub per minute. Hence, it will take = 11 minutes = 11 minutes and 54 seconds for the hot facet water to fill the tank.

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