Question

It would take 120 mins to fill a swimming pool using water from 5 taps.
How many minutes will it take to fill the pool if only 3 taps were used?

Answer 1

Answer:

If  

5 taps ----> 120 mins

3 taps -----> X mins

Then

X = [3*120]/(5)

X = 72 mins

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Answer 2

Answer:

200 mins

Step-by-step explanation:

Notice that if there is more taps it will take less time to fill the swimming pool! so: Less Taps = more time

1. calculate how long it would take to fill the pool with only 1 tap, we do this by Timing the time it would take to fill with 5 taps (120 mins) by 5 and 1

120×5= 600 mins

2. now that we know that it would take 600 minutes to fill the pool with one tap, we calculate how much it would take with 3 taps using the info we have.

600÷3= 200 minutes