Pipes and Cisterns Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: A tank is fitted with two taps. The first tap can fill the tank completely in 45 minutes and the second tap can empty the full tank in one hour. If both the taps are opened alternately for one minute, then in how many hours the empty tank will be filled completely?
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5d984a0e68fda74fcf574195- 12 hours 55 minutesfalse
- 23 hours 40 minutesfalse
- 34 hours 48 minutesfalse
- 45 hours 53 minutestrue
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Answer : 4. "5 hours 53 minutes"
Q: Two pipes P and Q would fill a cistern in 24 hours and 32 hours respectively. If both pipes are opened together, find when the pipe “P” must be turned off so that the cistern may be just filled in 16 hours-
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639c90f84eaee21296c2aaf5- 1After 8 hrsfalse
- 2After 12 hrstrue
- 3After 14 hrsfalse
- 4After 16 hrsfalse
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Answer : 2. "After 12 hrs"
Q: A tap can fill a tank in 6 hours. After half the tank is filled, three more similar taps are opened. What is the total time taken to fill the tank completely?
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5d7f1c46fb24f90208636734- 14 hrsfalse
- 24 hrs15 minfalse
- 33 hrs 15 minfalse
- 43 hrs 45 mintrue
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Answer : 4. "3 hrs 45 min"
Q: A pipe of diameter ‘d’ can drain a certain water tank in 40 minutes. The time taken by a pipe of diameter ‘2d’ for doing the same job in:
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5db035fe75f2b04d9b7110a9- 15 minutesfalse
- 210 minutestrue
- 320 minutesfalse
- 480 minutesfalse
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Answer : 2. "10 minutes "
Q: A cistern has 3 pipes A, B and C. A and B can fill it in 3 and 4 hours respectively, and C can empty it in 1 hour. If the pipes are opened at 3 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively on the same day, the cistern will be empty at-
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630359612876110d0951efd9- 17.12 p.m.true
- 27.15 p.m.false
- 37.10 p.m.false
- 47.18 p.m.false
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Answer : 1. "7.12 p.m."
Q: Pipe A alone & pipe B alone can fill the same tank in 5 hours and 4 hours respectively. If the ratio of efficiency of pipe A & B together to that of pipe C alone is 9:2, then find time taken by pipe C alone to fill the same tank?
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62ff8be7fef7996822de1d8f- 18 hoursfalse
- 25 hoursfalse
- 36 hoursfalse
- 410 hourstrue
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Answer : 4. "10 hours"
Q: A tank can be filled with water by two pipes A and B together in 36 minutes. If the pipe B was closed after 30 minutes, the tank is filled in 40 minutes. The pipe B can alone fill the tank in?
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62d129446c73e80f8cdd9452- 145 minutesfalse
- 260 minutesfalse
- 375 minutesfalse
- 490 minutestrue
- 585 minutesfalse
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Answer : 4. "90 minutes"
Q: Two pipe A and B can fill a tank in 16 hrs and 12 hrs respectively. The capacity of the tank is 240 litres. Both the pipes are opened simultaneously and closed after 2 hrs. How much more water (In Liters) needed to fill the tank?
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62c6a0619ac8916f08cb8ee9- 1100false
- 2170true
- 370false
- 4190false
- 5None of thesefalse
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