Pipes and Cisterns Practice Question and Answer
8 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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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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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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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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5d7f1c46fb24f90208636734- 14 hrsfalse
- 24 hrs15 minfalse
- 33 hrs 15 minfalse
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Answer : 4. "3 hrs 45 min"
Q: A water reservoir has two inlets and one outlet. Through the inlet it can be filled in 3 hours and 3 hours 45 minutes respectively. It can be emptied completely in 1 hour by the outlet. If the two inlets are opened at 01 : 00 pm and 02 : 00 pm respectively and the outlet at 03 : 00 pm then it will be emptied at :
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5ddce78839b75a0aaa5709aa- 105 : 55 pmfalse
- 205 : 00 pmfalse
- 305 : 20 pmtrue
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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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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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60531c57a01bc44789ae2f78- 136 hoursfalse
- 242 hoursfalse
- 348 hourstrue
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