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Time and Work(Pipes and Cistern)
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 Question 1
A cistern is fitted with three taps, namely p, q, and r. P and Q can fill a
cistern in 10 and 15 minutes respectively whereas R ( emptying tap fitted
at the bottom of the cistern ) can empty it in 12 minutes. If all the three
pipes are kept open, in how much time will the cistern be filled?

A) 12
B) 10
C) 7
D) 15

Option A
Tank capacity = LCM (10,15,12) = 60 litres
Capacity of P & Q = 6 & 4 litres per minute.
Capacity of R = -5 litres per minute.
Net filling = 6+4-5 = 5 litres per minute.
Time required to fill cistern = 60/5 = 12 minutes.

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 Question 2
A cistern generally takes 20 minutes to be filled by a pipe, but due to a
leak, it takes 10 extra minutes to get filled. Find the time in which the leak
alone can empty the cistern filled with water.

A) 20
B) 30
C) 60
D) 35

Option C.
Fill = 20 minutes
Fill + leak = 30 minutes.
Tank capacity = LCM (20,30) = 60 litres.
Capacity of filling = 3 litres per minute.
Capacity of filling & leak together = 2 litres per minute.
So, leak capacity = 1 litre per minute.
So, leak alone will empty the tank in 60 minutes.

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 Question 3
Two taps X and Y can fill a cistern in 32 and 40 minutes respectively. Both
the taps are opened into the empty cistern and after sometime tap X is
closed. Tap Y alone fills the remaining portion of the cistern. If it took 25
minutes to fill the tank, for how much time (min) was tap X kept open?

A) 15
B) 16
C) 14
D) 12

Option D.
Sol:
Tank capacity = LCM (32,40) = 160 litres.
Capacity of X = 5 litres per minute.
Capacity of Y = 4 litres per minute.
For the entire 25 minutes, pipe Y is working. So, it fills 100 litres.
Remaining 60 litres filled by X in (60/5) minutes.
So, X is opened for 12 minutes.

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 Question 4
Tap X and Y can fill a tank in 30 and 40 minutes respectively. Tap Z can
empty the filled tank in 60 minutes. If all the three taps are kept open for
one minute each, how much time (min) will the taps take to fill the tank?

A) 48
B) 72
C) 24
D) None of these

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Tank capacity = LCM (30,40,60) = 120 litres.
Capacity of A = 4 litres per minute
Capacity of B = 3 litres per minute
Capacity of C = -2 litres per minute.
If all the pipes opened for 1 minute each, net capacity = 5 litres/ 3 minutes.
After 69 minutes, quantity of water = 115 litres.
After 70th minute, quantity of water = 119 litres.
Next, pipe B will be opened. To fill remaining 1 litre with the help of B we need 1/3rd
of the minute.
So, Answer is 70 minutes 20 seconds.

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 Question 5
A large tanker can be filled by two pipes P and Q in 60 minutes and 40
minutes respectively. How many minutes will it take to fill the tanker from
empty state, if Q is used for half the time and P and Q fill it together for
other half?

A) 15 min
B) 20 min
C) 27.5 min
D) 30 min

Option D.
Time(min) Work(capacity) Working Time
Total amount filled.
P 60 120 t
t*120/60=2t
Q 40 120 2t
2t*120/40=6t
Capacity=120 units.
Hence 6t+2t=120; t=15min and 2t=30min.
Another method:
LCM(60,40)= 120l
Eff of P=120/60= 2l/m & Eff of Q=120/40= 3l/m
Let total time is ‘t’ & For half time ‘t/2’
Q- 1m - 3l
‘t/2’m - ? (3t/2) litres
P+Q - 1m - 5l
‘t/2’ - ?(5t/2) litres
Finally 3t/2 + 5t/2 = 120 litres
8t/2 = 120=>t = 30 min

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 Question 6
Pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 30, 60 and 120 minutes respectively.
Pipes B and C are kept open for 10 minutes, and then Pipe B is shut while
Pipe A is opened. Pipe C is closed 10 minutes before the tank overflows.
How long does it take to fill the tank?

A) 40 minutes
B) 28 minutes
C) 30 minutes
D) 36 minutes

Option C.
Let us assume that the tank has a capacity of 120 litres. So, the pipes discharge the
following amounts of water:
(A) 4 litres per minute (B) 2 litres per minute (C) 1 litre per minute.

Part 1: B and C (3 litres/min) are kept open for 10 minutes, filling 3 × 10 = 30 litres. 90
litres remain to be filled in the tank.
Part 2: Now, B is shut and A is opened. Effectively, this means that A and C are filling
the tank together (5 litres / minute). We don’t yet know how long A and C are open
together.
Part 3: C is closed 10 minutes before the tank overflows. This means that only A
works for the last 10 minutes, filling 40 litres (working@4 litres/min)
Since 30 litres are filled in Part 1 and 40 litres in Part 3, the balance (50 litres) should
have been filled in Part 2.
Working together, A and C fill 5 litres per minute in Part 2. This means that they
would have taken 10 minutes to fill 50 litres.
So, the entire time it took to fill the tank is:
10 + 10 + 10 = 30 minutes.

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Answer choice (c)

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 Question 7
Bibhor takes 3 hours to fetch as much water as Ahmed can fetch in 2 hours.
Deepak takes 5 hours to fetch as much water as Bibhor can fetch in 4 hours. A
tank takes 20 hours to fill if all work together. What time would Bibhor take
to fill the tank alone?

A) 50 hr
B) 56 hr
C) 77 hr

D) 66 hr

Option D.
Let the work done by Ahmed be 60 (LCM of 2,3,4,5)
So, work done per hour by:
Ahmed – = 30
Bibhor – = 20
Bibhor in 4 hours – 20 x 4 = 80
Deepak – = 16
Therefore, total work done in an hour = 30 + 20 + 16 = 66
If all 3 work for 20 hours, total work done = 66 x 20
If Bibhor alone has to work, time taken to do 66 x 20 of work = (work done by Bibhor
in 1 hour) = 66 hour

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 Question 8
A tank is fitted with 8 pipes, some of which that fill the tank and others that
empty the tank. Each of the pipes that fills the tank fills it in 8 hours, while
each of those that empty the tank empties it in 6 hours. If all the pipes are
kept open when the tank is full, it will take 6 hours to drain the tank. How
many of these are fill pipes?

A) 2 fill pipes
B) 4 fill pipes
C) 6 fill pipes
D) 5 fill pipes

Option B.
Let the number of fill pipes be x and empty pipes be 8-x
Let one pipe in 1 hr fills 1/8th part of the tank then x pipes will fill x/8 part
Similarly, 8-x pipes will empty (8-x)/6th part of the tank in 1 hour
Hence x/8 - (8-x)/6 =1/6 (All the pipes operating simultaneously so finding the result
of 1 hr)
Solving for x we get as x= 4
So no. of fill pipes =no. of empty pipes=4

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 Question 9
Pipe A, B and C are kept open and together fill a tank in t minutes. Pipe A is
kept open throughout, pipe B is kept open for the first 10 minutes and then
closed. Two minutes after pipe B is closed, pipe C is opened and is kept
open till the tank is full. Each pipe fills an equal share of the tank.
Furthermore, it is known that if pipe A and B are kept open continuously, the
tank would be filled completely in t minutes. How long will C alone take to
fill the tank?
A) 36
B) 27
C) 18
D) 24

Option D.
A is kept open for all t minutes and fills one-third the tank. Or, A should be able to fill
the entire tank in '3t' minutes.
A and B together can fill the tank completely in t minutes. A alone can fill it in 3t
minutes.
A and B together can fill 1t of the tank in a minute. A alone can fill 1/3t of the tank in
a minute. So, in a minute, B can fill 1/t−1/3t=2/3t. Or, B takes 3t/2 minutes to fill an
entire tank.
To fill one-third the tank, B will take t/2 minutes. B is kept open for t - 10 minutes.
t/2 = t - 10, t = 20 minutes.
A takes 60 minutes to fill the entire tank, B takes 30 minutes to fill the entire tank. A
is kept open for all 20 minutes. B is kept open for 10 minutes.
C, which is kept open for 8 minutes also, fills one-third the tank. Or, c alone can fill
the tank in 24 minutes.
Choice (D)

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 Question 10
A drain pipe can drain a tank in 12 hours, and a fill pipe can fill the same
tank in 6 hours. A total of n pipes which include a few fill pipes and the
remaining drain pipes can fill the entire tank in 2 hours. How many of the
following values could ‘n’ take?
a) 24 b) 16 c) 33 d) 13 e) 9 f) 8

A) 3
B) 4
C) 2
D) 1

Option A.
Some fill pipes and waste pipes amount to nothing. Between them they result in a
net zero.
Two drain pipes can drain the same volume that one fill pipe fills. This means that a
D-D-F combination has to have a net volume effect of 0.
In spite of this, the tank still gets filled. Only the fill pipes can manage to fill the tank.
In addition to all the net zero effect pipes, we need three more fill pipes in order to
fill the tank in 2 hours.
So, we can have as many D-D-Fs as we want, but we need one F-F-F at the end to
ensure that the tank gets filled in 2 hours.
So the number of pipes will be → (D – D - F) .......(D – D - F) + (F – F - F).
The number of pipes has to be a multiple of 3. Only options (a), (c) and (e) fit the
description.
The question is "How many of the following values could ‘n’ take?"
Hence, the answer is 3.

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 Question 11
A fill pipe can fill a tank in 20 hours, a drain pipe can drain a tank in 30
hours. If a system of n pipes (fill pipes and drain pipes put together) can fill
the tank in exactly 5 hours, which of the following are possible values of n
(More than one option could be correct)?
1)32 2)54 3)29 4)40

A) 1 and 2 only
B) 1 and 3 only
C) 2 and 4 only
D) 2 and 3 only

Option D.
Find a complete "Null System". Work on the question after that.
3 fill pipes cancel out 2 drain pipes. Plus, you need an additional 4 fill pipes fill the
tank in 5 hours. so the answer has to be 5k + 4. Both 54 and 29 are possible.
The question is "which of the following are possible values of n?"
Hence, the answer is "2 and 3 only".
Choice D is the correct answer.

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 Question 12
A cistern of capacity 40 litres has an inlet and an outlet pipe. When both
the pipes are opened at once, it takes 8 minutes to fill the cistern. However,
if the outflow rate is increased 1.5 times, the cistern never gets filled.
Which of the following can be the outflow rate?

A) 8 litres/minute
B) 6 litres/minute
C) 12 litres/minute
D) 9 litres/minute

Option C.
Initially, net flow in the tank = 40 litres/ 8 minutes = 5 litres/minute
Now, the increase in outflow should be greater than 5 litres/min for the tank to fill
up.
Increase in outflow = 1.5x – x = 0.5x
Only in option C, 0.5 * 12 = 6 litres/min > 5 litres/min
The question is "Which of the following can be the outflow rate?"
Hence, the answer is "12 litres/minute".
Choice C is the correct answer.

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 Question 13
A cistern of 475 litres is completely filled using pipes A and B, with Pipe A
being open for 5 more hours than pipe B. If we are to interchange the
operating hours of the two pipes than pipe A would have pumped half the
water as much as pipe B, then find the time for which pipe B was open.
Also, given that if the two pipes were open simultaneously the tank would
fill in 19 hours.

A) 10 hr
B) 14 hr
C) 16 hr
D) 20 hr

Option C
The 475 litres is filled in 19 hours by the two pipes when they are opened
simultaneously.
Therefore, rate of water flow by A and B,
A + B = 475/19 = 25 litres/hour…………. (1)
Let pipe B was opened for t hours
Then, pipe A was opened for t + 5 hours
A x (t+5) + B x t = 475
(A + B) x t + 5A = 475
25t + 5A = 475
=> 5t + A = 95
Now, using option analysis
a) t = 10 => 5 x 10 + A = 95 => A = 45 (not possible from (1))
b) t = 14 => 5 x 14 + A = 95 => A = 25 (not possible from (1) as B can’t be zero)
c) t = 16 => 5 x 16 + A = 95 => A = 15
The question is "if the two pipes were open simultaneously the tank would fill in 19
hours."
Hence, the answer is "16 hr".
Choice C is the correct answer.

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 Question 14
If A and B are opened as inlet pipe into the cistern and C and D are opened
as outlet pipes from the cistern and all the four pipes are opened
simultaneously, how many hours will it take to fill the cistern completely?

A) 20 hours
B) 11(1/9) hours
C) 22 (2/9) hours
D) 45 hours

Option C.
Efficiency of P + Q = 9 % ( inlet
pipes)
Efficiency of R + S = 4.5% ( outlet
pipes)
Net Efficiency = 4.5%
So, the time taken = 100/4.5 = 22 *
2/9 hours

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 Question 15
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 24 hours and 120/7 hours respectively.
Harihar opened the pipes A and B to fill an empty tank and some times later he
closed the taps A and B, when the tank was supposed to be full. After that it
was found that the tank was emptied in 2.5 hours because an outlet pipe C'
connected to the tank was open from the beginning. If Harihar closed the pipe
C instead of closing pipes A and B the remaining tank would have been filled in
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A) 2 hours
B) 8 hours
C) 6 hours
D) 16 hours

Option B
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