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Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 24 minutes and 36 minutes respectively.  In another pipe C can empty the filled tank in 18 minutes. All three pipes A, B, and C are alternately open for 1 minute each in the empty tank, such that pipe A is open first then pipe B, and then pipe C. At what time (in minutes), the tank will be filled?

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Important Questions on Ratio and Proportion

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A, B and C are three pipes joined to a tank. A and B together can fill an empty tank in 6 hours, B and C together can fill it in 10 hours and C and A together can fill it in 712 hours. What time will pipe A alone take to fill the tank?

 

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 Pipe A and Pipe B can fill a tank in 4 and 16 hours respectively. How long will they take to fill in the tank working together? 
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Pipe A in comparison to pipe B fills a tank in one fourth time. Pipe C in comparison to pipe A takes 3 times more time to fill the tank. If the three pipes are opened together, the tank is filled in 24 hours. If Pipe C is not opened, how much time will it take to fill the tank?

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Of the three pipes, the first two can fill an empty tank in 10.8 and 21.6 hours respectively, while the third pipe can empty the tank in 18 hours. If the tank is empty and all the three pipes are opened together then in how many hours will tank fill?

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Two pipes separately take 5 hours and 8 hours respectively to fill a tank. The third pipe takes 3.2 hours to drain out the water from the tank. How much time will all the three pipes take to fill the completely empty tank?

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Quantity 1: A pipe alone can fill a cistern in 60 minutes. But due to leakage pipe filled only 80% of the cistern in 60 minutes. "X" is the capacity of the cistern in litres and due to leakage 60 litres were leaked out in 1 hour.

Quantity 2: 250 litres.

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Two pipes X and Y can fill a tank in 24 and 32 hours respectively. If both the pipes are opened at the same time, then after how many hours should the first pipe be closed so that it takes only 16 hours to fill in the tank.
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A pipe can fill a tank in 30 minutes. Due to two leakages A and B, the filled tank would be drained off in 112hour and 114hour
respectively. How long will it take to fill the tank if the pipe, A and B are left open?
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Inlet Pipe A can fill a cistern in 32 hours, Whereas outlet Pipe B can drain the filled cistern in 40 hours. The two pipes are opened together when the cistern is empty, but the outlet pipe is closed when the cistern is three-quarters full. How many hours will it take to fill the complete cistern?  
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Three taps R, S and T can fill a tank in 90, 100 and 180 minutes respectively. If all the taps are opened together, then in how many minutes will the tank be filled?
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Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 1212 hours and 25 hours, respectively. The pipes are opened simultaneously, and it is found that due to a leakage in the bottom, it took 1 hours 40 minutes more to fill the cistern. When the cistern is full, in how much time will the leak empty the cistern?
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A tank(of capacity 160 L) has one inlet A and one outlet B. Inlet A alone can fill the tank in 6 h and outlet B alone can empty the full tank in 24 h. In how many hours will inlet A fill the tank with 16 L water in the tank, if outlet B is also opened simultaneously?
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A pump can fill a tank with water in 1 hour. Because of a leak, it took 113 hours to fill the tank. In how many hours can the leak alone drain all the water of the tank when it is full?
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Pipe A can fill a tank in 15 hours and pipe B can fill the same tank in 18 hours. Pipe C can empty the same full tank in 9 hours. If all the pipes are opened together, then what portion of the tank will be filled after 6 hours?
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Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 45 minutes. If pipe A can fill an empty tank in 1 hour, how long will it take pipe B to fill the empty tank?
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The dimensions of a swimming pool are 66 m × 35 m × 3 m. How many hours will it take to fill the pool by a pipe of diameter 35 cm with water flowing at speed 8 m/s?
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Two pipes can fill a cistern in 72 and 90 minutes respectively, If both the pipes are left open how long will it take for the cistern to be half full?
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Two valves X and Y Can Separately fill a tank in 20 hours and 30 hours, respectively. Both the valves are opened to fill the tank but when the tank is one third full the valve is closed. A leak develops in the tank through which one third of the water supplied by both the valves leaks out. The leak is immediately closed and the two valves are again opened. What is the total time taken to fill the tank? 
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Three taps A, B, and C together can fill an empty cistern in 10 min. The tap A alone can fill it in 30 min and then tap B alone in 40 min. How long will the tap C alone will take to fill it?
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Pipe A and B can fill a tank in 10 hours and 8 hours respectively. After opening A for certain time, pipe A was closed. It took a total of 6 hours for B to fill the tank completely. For how many hours did pipe A work?