Pipes and Cisterns Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Four pipes P, Q, R and S can fill a cistern in 25, 20, 50 and 40 hours respectively. The pipe Q was opened at 7 pm, P at 9 pm, S at 10 pm and R at 11 pm. When will the cistern be full?
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Answer : 3. "4 : 09 AM"
Q: Three pipes A , B and C takes 15, 24 and 36 minutes respectively to fill a tank. Pipe D can empty it in 1 hour. If all the four pipes are kept open then find the time taken to fill the tank.
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Answer : 1. " "
Q: Three pipes A, B and C can fill a cistern in 6 hours. After working at it together for 2 hours, C is closed and A and B can fill the remaining part in 7 hours. The time taken by C alone to fill the cistern is_
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5f59f50bdc518b408a3d1724- 110 hoursfalse
- 212 hoursfalse
- 314 hourstrue
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Answer : 3. "14 hours"
Q: Tank is normally filled in 8 hours but takes 2 hours longer to fill because of a leak in its bottom. If the cistern is full, in how many hours will the leak empty it?
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Answer : 3. "40"
Q: Pipes A and B can fill a tank in 43.2 minutes and 108 minutes, respectively. Pipe C can empty it at 3 litres/minute. When all the three pipes are opened together, they fill the tank in 54 minutes. The capacity (in litres) of the tank is:
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Answer : 4. "216"
Q: Two pipe can fill a cistern in 3 hours and 4 hours respectively and a waste pipe can empty it in 2 hours. If all the three pipes are kept open, then the cistern will be filled in
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5f63273cf894324f90f8aae4- 15 hoursfalse
- 28 hoursfalse
- 310 hoursfalse
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Answer : 4. "12 hours"
Q: A pipe can fill a tank in 72 minutes. But there is a leak in the bottom of the tank due to which the tank is filled in 18 minutes more. Find in how many hours the leak can empty a full tank ?
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6064222acfdbf24a556220af- 17 hrsfalse
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Answer : 4. "6 hrs"
Q: Three pipes, A B and C, can fill a cistern in 12, 18 and 24 minutes, respectively. If all the pipes are opened together for 7 minutes, what will be the volume of the water that overflows as the percentage of the total volume of the cistern?
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