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- Important Formulas
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| A pipe connected with a tank or a cistern or a reservoir, that fills it, is known as an inlet. | |||||||||||||
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| A pipe connected with a tank or cistern or reservoir, emptying it, is known as an outlet. | |||||||||||||
| 2. | If a pipe can fill a tank in x hours, then: | ||||||||||||
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| 3. | If a pipe can empty a tank in y hours, then: | ||||||||||||
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| 4. | If a pipe can fill a tank in x hours and another pipe can empty the full tank in y hours (where y > x), then on opening both the pipes, then |
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| 5. | If a pipe can fill a tank in x hours and another pipe can empty the full tank in y hours (where x > y), then on opening both the pipes, then |
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