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Tap A fills 10/11 of a bottle in a minute. Tap B fills 3 4/5 times as many bottles as Tap A in a minute. Find the number of bottles Tap B fills in a minute.

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Answer:

3 5/11

Explanation:

Tap A's rate is (10/11) bottle/min.

Tap B's rate is 3 4/5 = 19/5 times that of tap A. Then tap B's rate is ...

(19/5)(10/11) bottles/min = 38/11 bottles/minute

Tap B fills 3 5/11 bottles in a minute.

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