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A pipe can fill a tank with petrol in 3 hours. Due to leakage, it took 4234\dfrac{2}{3} hours to fill the tank. How much time will it take for the leakage to drain all the petrol of the full tank?

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

Filling rate is 1/31/3 per hour; with the leak the effective rate is 3/143/14 per hour.

Leak rate =13−314=542= \frac13 - \frac{3}{14} = \frac{5}{42} per hour.

Time to empty a full tank =42/5=8.4= 42/5 = 8.4 hours.

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