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. Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source):
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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