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A cistern has a leak which would empty it in 8 hours. A tap is turned on which admits 6 litres a minute into cistern...

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A cistern has a leak which would empty it in 8 hours. A tap is turned on which admits 6 litres a minute into the cistern and it is now emptied in 12 hours. How many litres does the cistern hold?

posted Oct 21, 2015 by anonymous

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cistern has a leak which would empty it in 8 hours
=> Leak rate per hour = 1/8 cistern or say x/8 (x is the capacity of cistern)

Now from the second statement
=> x/8 - 6 = x/12
=> x/8-x/12 = 6
=> x/24 = 6
=> x=144 Ltr

So
cistern capacity is 144 ltr

answer Oct 21, 2015 by Salil Agrawal
This is wrong... the correct ans is 720 litres
u both are wrong. correct ans is 8640l



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