Question

A cold water tap can fill a tub in 6 minutes, and a hot water tap can fill the tub in 8 minutes. A drain can empty a full tub in 10 minutes. If both taps are on and the drai is open, how long will it take to fill the tub? It will take

how many minutes?

Answer 1

12 minutes

Explanation:

The Hot tap fills 1/30th of the bath in 1 minute. The cold tap fills 1/20th of the bath in one minute. In one minute both taps together will fill (1/30 + 1/20) of the bath, which is 5/60ths or 1/12th of the bath. Since it takes one minute to fill 1/12th of the bath, it’ll take 12 minutes to fill the bath