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Asked: March 4, 20222022-03-04T13:02:27+05:30 2022-03-04T13:02:27+05:30

Pipe A fills a tank of capacity 700 liters at the rate of 40 liters a minute. Another pipe, pipe B, fills the same tank at the rate of 30 liters a minute. A pipe at the bottom of the tank drains the tank at the rate of 20 liters a minute. If pipe A is kept open for a minute and then closed and pipe B is kept open for a minute and then closed and then pipe C is kept open for a minute and then closed and the cycle repeated, when will the tank be full?

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Pipe A fills a tank of capacity 700 liters at the rate of 40 liters a minute. Another pipe, pipe B, fills the same tank at the rate of 30 liters a minute. A pipe at the bottom of the tank drains the tank at the rate of 20 liters a minute. If pipe A is kept open for a minute and then closed and pipe B is kept open for a minute and then closed and then pipe C is kept open for a minute and then closed and the cycle repeated, when will the tank be full?

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    1. Bhanu Chaudhary Professional
      2022-03-04T13:09:31+05:30Added an answer on March 4, 2022 at 1:09 pm

      40 minutes 20 seconds

      Pipe A fills the tank at the rate of 40 liters a minute, pipe B at the rate of 30 liters a minute and pipe C drain the tank at the rate of 20 liters a minute.

      lf each of them is kept open for a minute in the order A+B-C, then the tank will have 50 liters of water at the end of 3 minutes.

      After 13 such cycles, the tank will have 13×50 = 650 litres of water.

      It will take 13×3 = 39 minutes for the 13 cycles to be completed.

      At the end of the 29th minute, Pipe C will be closed and pipe A will be opened.

      Pipe A will add 40 more liters to the tank.

      Therefore, at the end of the 40th minute, the tank will have 650 + 40 = 690 liters of water.

      At the end of the 40th minute, Pipe A will be closed and Pipe B will be opened.

      Pipe B will add 30 liters of water in a minute. Therefore, at the end of the 41st minute, the tank will have 690 + 30 = 720 liters of water.
      But as the capacity of the tank is only 700 liters, the tank will overflow before Pipe B can complete its 14th cycle. Therefore, Pipe B need not be kept open for a full minute at the end of 40 minutes.

      Pipe B needs to add just 10 more liters of water at the end of 40 minutes for which it will take 1/3rd of a minute.

      Therefore, the total time taken for the tank to overflow
      = 40 minutes + 1/3 of a minute or 40 minutes 20 seconds.

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