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akredd90
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rates of work

by akredd90 Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:03 am

In a certain bathtub,both the cold-water and the hot-water fixtures leak . The cold-water leak alone would fill an empty bucket in "c" hours,and the hot-water leak alone would fill the same bucket in "h" hours,where c<h.If both the fixtures began to leak at the same time into the empty bucket at their respective constant rates and consequently it took "t" hours to fill the bucket ,which of the following must be true?

1) 0<t<h
2) c<t<h
3) c/2<t<h/2

A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) 3 only
D) 1 and 2
E) 1 and 3
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Re: rates of work

by jnelson0612 Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:32 pm

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