Filling the Cistern
Two pipes running together will fill a cistern in 6 2/3 minutes. If one pipe, running alone, took a minute less to fill the cistern, and the other pipe, two minutes more to do the same, then the two running together, would fill the cistern in seven minutes, Find what time will be taken to fill the cistern by each pipe running alone. (Problem from E.A.C., Wellington, to whom we offer the suggestion that the best way fo fill the ordinary cistern would be to turn both taps on and leave them alone.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 19
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96Filling the Cistern New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 19
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