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Two pipes can fill a cistern in and respectively. If both pipes are opened simultaneously, after how many minutes must the first pipe be turned off so that the cistern gets completely filled in exactly more?

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D

Solution & Step-by-step Explanation

Let the total capacity of the cistern be the LCM of and , which is .
* Efficiency of Pipe 1 () =
* Efficiency of Pipe 2 () =

Let Pipe 1 be turned off after minutes.
For the first minutes, both pipes work together. After minutes, Pipe 1 is closed, and Pipe 2 runs alone for another to finish filling the cistern.

We can set up the work equation:











Thus, the first pipe must be turned off after .

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Two pipes can fill a cistern in and respectively. If both pipes are opened simultaneously, after how many minutes must the first pipe be turned off so that the cistern gets completely filled in exactly more?
A
B
C
D

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