Pipes and Cisterns Practice Question and Answer

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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    After 8 hrs
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    After 12 hrs
    Correct
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  • 3
    After 14 hrs
    Correct
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  • 4
    After 16 hrs
    Correct
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Answer : 2. "After 12 hrs"

Q:

A tap takes 36 hours extra to fill a tank due to leakage equivalent to half of its inflow. The inflow can fill the tank in how many hours?

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    36 hours
    Correct
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    24 hours
    Correct
    Wrong
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    30 hours
    Correct
    Wrong
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    18 hours
    Correct
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Answer : 1. "36 hours"

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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Answer : 4. ""

Q:

12 pumps working 6 hours a day can empty a completely filled reservoir in 15 days. How many such pumps working 9 hours a day will empty the same reservoir in 12 days?

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    15
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    9
    Correct
    Wrong
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    10
    Correct
    Wrong
  • 4
    12
    Correct
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Answer : 3. "10"

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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    4 hrs
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    4 hrs15 min
    Correct
    Wrong
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    3 hrs 15 min
    Correct
    Wrong
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    3 hrs 45 min
    Correct
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Answer : 4. "3 hrs 45 min"

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Answer : 3. "05 : 20 pm "

Q:

The pipe can fill a tank in 36 minutes and the another pipe can empty it in 45 minutes. If both pipes are opened simultaneously, the time (in hours) it takes to fill half the capacity of the tank is:

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    2
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    1.5
    Correct
    Wrong
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    1.25
    Correct
    Wrong
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    1.75
    Correct
    Wrong
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Answer : 2. "1.5"

Q:

Pipes  A and B are emptying pipes and can empty a tank in 6 hours and 16 hours, respectively. C is a filling a pipe. All the three pipes were opened together. They took 80 minutes to empty of the tank. Pipe C alone can fill the tank in:

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    36 hours
    Correct
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    42 hours
    Correct
    Wrong
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    48 hours
    Correct
    Wrong
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    40 hours
    Correct
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Answer : 3. "48 hours"

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