Two pipes together can fill a reservoir in 12 hours. If one pipe can fill the reservoir 10 hours faster than the other, how many hours will the second pipe take to fill the reservoir?
Topic : Quadratic equations
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1 Answers
Subhomoy Bakshi
·2011-03-03 14:59:33
112=1x+1x+10
x and x+10 are the time taken by the 2 taps!
(2x+10)12=x2+10x
→ x2-14x-120=0
→ x2-20x+6x-120=0
→ x=20
20,30 hrs! are answers!