Discussion
If a pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours, find the part of tank it fills in one hour.
Answer: A
If the whole tank takes 6 hours, then in one hour the pipe fills
\[ \frac{1}{6} \text{ of the tank} \]
This reciprocal is the basic move in every pipes-and-cisterns problem: times cannot be added, but rates can.
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