Question

It takes 3 hours of 10 pumps to pump 40000 liters of water into a farm dam.How long will it take nine similar pumps to pump 60000 liters of water into the dam

Answer 1

It will take 5 hours to pump 60000L of water using 9 pumps

Data;

• 10 pumps = 40000L in 3 hours
• 9 pumps = 60000L in x hours

Rate of the Pump

Rate = Time * number of pumps

$\frac{a}{3*10} = \frac{60000}{40000}\\ \frac{a}{30} = \frac{6}{4} \\a = 45$

But since we've established the equation above, let's substitute the values and solve for the time required to pump 60000L into the dam using 9 pumps as compared to 10 pumps. We can easily do this by calculating the rate of the pump.

Rate = time * number of pumps

$45=x*9\\x = \frac{45}{9} \\x = 5 hours$

It will take 5 hours to pump 60000L of water using 9 pumps

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