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Article #49Pupil needs advice
From: Marie M. Moltubakk
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
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I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, but I will try anyways. I attend an upper secondary school, and my teacher has just given us this: Someone has a bath tub, and it is to be filled with water. If you tap cold water, it takes 9 minutes to fill it. If you tap warm water, it takes 12 minutes. How much time will it take if you use both warm and cold water? In my opinion there are more than one solution to this, because it depends on the bath tub. (Are there one or two taps, does the water run in the same speed or twice as fast when both warm and cold water is on?) I have found one solution yet (two taps, double speed): I set the size of the bath tub to 300 liters. Cold water: 33,33 liters/minute Warm water: 25 liters/minute 33,33x+25x=300 x=5,14 So, it would take 5 minutes and 8 seconds to fill the bath tub. Is this right, and what are the other ways to do it? This is probably easy for you skilled people, but not for me... Thanks in advance! -- ~Mmm *http://privat.riksnett.no/~arve.moltubakk/mmm/*
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f458d,1f042cb85b7b9b91,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf458d,public X-Google-Thread: 10d67e,1f042cb85b7b9b91,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d67e,public X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,1f042cb85b7b9b91,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: 1077c2,1f042cb85b7b9b91,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1077c2,public From: "Marie M. Moltubakk" <mamoltub@online.no> Subject: Pupil needs advice Date: 1998/09/13 Message-ID: <6tgc6c$rqg$1@readme.online.no> X-Deja-AN: 390666674 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@online.no X-Trace: readme.online.no 905688076 28496 130.67.147.70 (13 Sep 1998 12:01:16 GMT) Organization: Telenor Online Public Access NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Sep 1998 12:01:16 GMT Newsgroups: alt.uu.math.misc,aus.mathematics,sci.math,uk.education.maths