Discussion
Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 24 minutes respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3 gallons per minute. All the three pipes working together can fill the tank in 15 minutes. The capacity of the tank is:
Answer: C
| Work done by the waste pipe in 1 minute = | 1 | - |  |
1 | + | 1 |  |
| 15 | 20 | 24 |
| = | |
1 | - | 11 | |
| 15 | 120 |
| = - | 1 | . [-ve sign means emptying] |
| 40 |
 Volume of |
1 | part = 3 gallons. |
| 40 |
Volume of whole = (3 x 40) gallons = 120 gallons.
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