SOLUTION: One hose can fill a small swimming pool in 50 minutes. A larger hose can fill the pool in 30 minutes. How long will it take the two hoses to fill the pool working together?
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Question 592817: One hose can fill a small swimming pool in 50 minutes. A larger hose can fill the pool in 30 minutes. How long will it take the two hoses to fill the pool working together?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The 1st hose fills this much of the pool per minute:
1 pool/50 mins = 1/50 pool/min
And the 2nd hose fills 1/30 of the pool every min.
Working together, the fill rate is 1/30 + 1/50 = 10/300 + 6/300 = 16/300 pool/min
Therefore it takes 300/16 = 18.75 mins to fill the pool.
