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Two hoses have a rate of 12s per 5L and 25s per 5L how long will it take to fill up a 150m^3 pool?

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Originally posted by Knight Square
Two hoses have a rate of 12s per 5L and 25s per 5L how long will it take to fill up a 150m^3 pool?
First hose has a rate of 5/12 litres per second and the other hose has a rate of 5/25 litres per second.

So the combined rate is 5/12+5/25 litres per second.

There 150*1000 litres to fill, so the total time needed is

150*1000/(5/12+5/25) = 9000000/37 seconds.

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Originally posted by Knight Square
Two hoses have a rate of 12s per 5L and 25s per 5L how long will it take to fill up a 150m^3 pool?
If like me you read horses instead of hoses it makes the idea of them filling a pool far more entertaining.

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Originally posted by deriver69
If like me you read horses instead of hoses it makes the idea of them filling a pool far more entertaining.
You have to keep them still so they keep Peeing in the pool. Also you have to keep them from pooping in the pool which would throw off the liquid calculation🙂

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Originally posted by SPMars
First hose has a rate of 5/12 litres per second and the other hose has a rate of 5/25 litres per second.

So the combined rate is 5/12+5/25 litres per second.

There 150*1000 litres to fill, so the total time needed is

150*1000/(5/12+5/25) = 9000000/37 seconds.
If you divide out each contibutor, you get 5/12 of a liter per second or 0.41666 L/sec. The other one comes out at 5/25 or 0.2 L/sec. That makes 0.61666 L/sec filling the pool. Inverting that gives 1.6216 seconds per liter, times 1000 gives 1621.6 seconds to fill one cubic meter. Times 150 gives 243,245 seconds to fill the 150 M^3 pool.
The same as SP, but made the final division.
That problem can be restated as the current flowing in parallel in two resistors where they are charging a battery to X amount of joules of energy. It could be stated as 5/12 amp in one and 5/25 amp in the other. Same kind of problem.

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I need it in Days ,Hours and Minutes. I got less than 3 days or something.

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If
tap A fills a pool in a minutes
tap B fills a pool in b minutes
tap C fills a pool in c minutes
how long will they need to fill the pool when used together?

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Originally posted by ThudanBlunder
If
tap A fills a pool in a minutes
tap B fills a pool in b minutes
tap C fills a pool in c minutes
how long will they need to fill the pool when used together?
in abc minutes tap A fills bc baths, B ac baths and C ab baths.

so a total of ab + bc + ac baths are filled in abc minutes.

so one bath is filled in abc/(ab + bc + ac)

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Originally posted by sonhouse

That problem can be restated as the current flowing in parallel in two resistors where they are charging a battery to X amount of joules of energy. It could be stated as 5/12 amp in one and 5/25 amp in the other. Same kind of problem.
Why would you do that? The words surrounding the numbers in these types of problems don't make a lick of difference.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Why would you do that? The words surrounding the numbers in these types of problems don't make a lick of difference.
Why? Because I CAN🙂

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Originally posted by Knight Square
I need it in Days ,Hours and Minutes. I got less than 3 days or something.
Well, I'm sure you can manage that bit by yourself!

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Originally posted by deriver69
If like me you read horses instead of hoses it makes the idea of them filling a pool far more entertaining.
I thought it said the same thing!

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Originally posted by deriver69
If like me you read horses instead of hoses it makes the idea of them filling a pool far more entertaining.
Definitely. I did the same.