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According to a plan, a drilling team had to drill to a depth of 270 metres below the ground level. For the first three days, the team drilled as per the plan. However, subsequently finding that their resources were getting underutilised according to the plan, it started to drill 8 metres more than the plan every day. Therefore, a day before the planned date they had drilled to a depth of 280 metres. How many metres of drilling was the plan for each day?
 

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A pipe can fill a tank in x hours and another can empty it in y hours. If the tank is 1/3rd full then the number of hours in which they will together fill it in is?
 
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Dev and Tukku can do a piece of work in 45 and 40 days respectively. They began the work together, but Dey leaves after some days and Tukku finished the remaining work in 23 days. After how many days did Dev leave?
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A finishes 6/7th of the work in 2 hours, B works twice as fast and finishes the remaining work. For how long did B work?
 
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Ajit can do as much work in 2 days as Baljit can do in 3 days and Baljit can do as much in 4 days as Diljit in 5days. A piece of work takes 20days if all work together. How long would Baljit take to do all the work by himself?
 
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Two pipes can fill a cistern in 14and 16hours respectively. The pipes are opened simultaneously and it is found that due to leakage in the bottom of the cistern, it takes 32minutes extra for the cistern to be filled up. When the cistern is full, at what time will the leak empty it? 

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A tank holds 100gallons of water. Its inlet is 7 inches in diameter and fills the tank at 5 gallons/min. The outlet of the tank is twice the diameter of the inlet. How many minutes will it take to empty the tank if the inlet is shut off when the tank is full and the outlet is opened? (Hint: Rate of filling or emptying is directly proportional to the diameter) 

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A tank of capacity 25litres has an inlet and an outlet tap. If both are opened simultaneously, the tank is filled in 5minutes. But if the outlet flow rate is doubled and taps opened the tank never gets filled up. Which of the following can be outlet flow rate in litres/min? 

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X takes 4 days to complete one-third of a job, Y takes 3 days to complete one-sixth of the same work and Z takes5 days to complete half the job. If all of them work together for 3 days and X and Z quit, how long will it take for Y to complete the remaining work done?