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Pipes and Cisterns Type 1

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(B) 20 7 hrs.
1. A pipe can fill a tank in 10 hours and another pipe can
empty it is 12 hours. If both the pipes are opened, find
the time in which tank is filled.

(A) 60 hrs 1
(C) 5 7 hrs.
(B) 50 hrs 1
(D) 13 7 hrs.
(C) 40 hrs
6. Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 1 hours and 75
(D) 19 hrs minutes respectively. There is also an outlet pipe C. If
2. A fill pipe can fill 1/4 of cistern in 16 minutes. In how all the three pipes are opened together, the tank is
many minutes, it can fill 3/4 of the cistern. full in 50 minutes. How much time will be tank by C to
empty the full tank?
(A) 64
(A) 100 min
(B) 40
(B) 10 min.
(C) 48
(C) 110 min.
(D) 32
(D) 150 min.
3. A pipe can empty a tank in 10 hrs and another pipe
can empty it in 5 hours. If both the pipes are opened 7. In what time would a cistern be filled by three pipes
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simultaneously, find the time in which a full whose diameters are 1 cm, 1 3 cm, 2 cm, running
tank is emptied. together, when the largest alone fill it in 61 minutes,
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the amount of water flowing in by each pipe being
(A) 5 3 hrs. proportional to the square of its diameter?
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(B) 73 hrs. (A) 26 min.

1 (B) 56 min.
(C) 33 hrs.
(C) 36 min.
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(D) 10 3 hrs.
(D) 16 min.
4. A pipe can fill a tank in 15 hours. Due to a leakage in
8. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 24 minutes and 32
the bottom, it is filled in 20 hours. If the tank is full,
minutes respectively. If both the pipes are opened
how much time will the leakage take to empty it?
simultaneously, after how much time should B be
(A) 50 hrs. closed so that the tank is full in 18 minutes?

(B) 40 hrs (A) 8 min.

(C) 90 hrs. (B) 10 min.

(D) 60 hrs. (C) 12 min.

5. Pipe A can fill a tank in 20 hours while pipe B alone (D) 15 min.
can fill it in 30 hours and pipe C can empty the full
9. Three pipes A, B and C can fill a cistern in 6 hours.
tank in 40 hours. If all the pipes are opened together,
After working together for 2 hours, C is closed and A
how much time will be needed to make the tank full?
and B fill the cistern in 8 hours. Then find the time in
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(A) 17 7 hrs. which the cistern can be filled by pipe C.

(A) 5 hrs.

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(B) 10 hrs. 1
(C) 8 7 min.
(C) 15 hrs. 1
(D) 12 min.
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(D) 12 hrs.
13. A pipe A can fill a tank in 12 hours. Due to
10. A pipe can fill a tank in 12 minutes and another pipe development of a whole in the bottom of the tank
in 15 minutes, but a third pipe can empty it in 6 1/3rd of the water filled by the pipe A leaks out. Find
minutes. The first two pipes are kept open for 5 the time when the tank will be full.
minutes in the beginning and then the third pipe is
also opened. In what time is the cistern emptied after (A) 10 hrs.
starting all three pipes? (B) 18 hrs
(A) 45 min. (C) 15 hrs
(B) 50 min. (D) 20 hrs
(C) 15 min. 14. A boy can fill 4 litres water in 3 minutes and a girls
(D) 90 min. can fill 3 litres water in 4 minutes. In what time will
they fill 100 litres water?
11. A cistern is normally filled in 8 hours but takes two
hours longer to fill because of a leak in its bottom. If (A) 40 min.
the cistern is full, the leak will empty it in (B) 36 min.
__________hours.
(C) 48 min.
(A) 45 hrs.
(D) 60 min.
(B) 30 hrs.
15. Pipe A can fill an empty tank in 6 hours and pipe B in
(C) 40 hrs. 8 hours. If both the pipes are opened and after 2
(D) 20 hrs. hours pipe A is closed, how much time B will take to
fill the remaining tank?
12. Two fill pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 12 and 16
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minutes respectively. Both fill pipes are opened (A) 7 2 hrs.
together, but 4 minutes before the cistern is full, one 2
pipe A is closed. How much time will the (B) 2 hrs.
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cistern take to fill. 2
(C) 2 hrs.
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(A) 9 7 min.
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(D) 3 3 hrs.
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(B) 15 min.
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A C C D A A C A D A C A B C D

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