Homework Help: physics

Posted by amal on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 2:44pm.

A fire hose can fill a certain tank with water during 1 hour. A 2nd fire hose can fill the same tank in half hour. A 3rd fire hose can fill the same tank in quarter hour.
find the time necessary to fill the same tank by the 3 fire hoses together

physics - Henry, Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:14pm
1/T = 1/1 + 2/1 + 4/1 = 12,
T = (1/12)h = 5 Min.
physics - Henry, Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:20pm
Correction:

!/T = 1/1 + 2/1 + 4/1 = 7,
T = (1/7) hr. = 8.57 Min.

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