SOLUTION: A water tankin a farm can be filled using both a large inlet pipe and a small inlet pipein 3 hours. The large inlet pipe alone can fill the tank in 2 hours less time than the small

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Question 1119628: A water tankin a farm can be filled using both a large inlet pipe and a small inlet pipein 3 hours. The large inlet pipe alone can fill the tank in 2 hours less time than the smallinlet pipe by itself. Find the individual time for each pipe to fill the tank without theother. You might want to use this table.
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A water tankin a farm can be filled using both a large inlet pipe and a small inlet pipein 3 hours. The large inlet pipe alone can fill the tank in 2 hours less time than the smallinlet pipe by itself. Find the individual time for each pipe to fill the tank without theother.
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PIPE                     TIME FOR FILL 1 TANK (hours)

LARGE PIPE                  x-2

SMALL PIPE                   x

BOTH PIPES COMBINED          3

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