Any mathematicians out there??
max888
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Does anybody want to have a crack at an algebraic puzzle, I have not got very far i.e. nowhere at all.
'A small swimming pool can be filled with two pipes in 3 hours. If the larger pipe alone takes 8 hours less than the smaller pipe to fill the pool, find the time in which it will be filled by each pipe singly.'
Thanks,
Max
'A small swimming pool can be filled with two pipes in 3 hours. If the larger pipe alone takes 8 hours less than the smaller pipe to fill the pool, find the time in which it will be filled by each pipe singly.'
Thanks,
Max
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I'm struggling with that.
Large pipe must be more than 3 hours, so small pipe must be more than 11.
And I can't get further than that.
"I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
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Thanks for your help it's further than I got, I'll just keep going back to it.
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Got it.
PMed."I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
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12 hours and 4 hours.
Make the pool 300 units in size. Make the rates of the two pipes X and Y units per hour. (Y is the faster)
Therefore 300/3=X+Y. So X=100-Y
And 300/X - 8 = 300/Y
Multiply by X and Y: 300Y -8XY= 300X
Substitute X: 300Y -800Y +8Y^2 = 30,000 -300Y
Simplify: Y^2 -25Y -3,750 = 0
Solve : Y= 75 so X=25
Therefore times are 300/75 and 300/25. 8 hours and 4 hours.Twitter: @RichN950 -
RichN95 wrote:12 hours and 4 hours.
Make the pool 300 units in size. Make the rates of the two pipes X and Y units per hour. (Y is the faster)
Therefore 300/3=X+Y. So X=100-Y
And 300/X - 8 = 300/Y
Multiply by X and Y: 300Y -8XY= 300X
Substitute X: 300Y -800Y +8Y^2 = 30,000 -300Y
Simplify: Y^2 -25Y -3,750 = 0
Solve : Y= 75 so X=25
Therefore times are 300/75 and 300/25. 8 hours and 4 hours.
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Same as I got, but different. I put pool full = 1 and solved it like:
Pool Full = 1 (arbitrarily)
large pipe time alone = x
small pipe time alone = y,
y = x+8
3 hours is the total time so you divide it by the individual pipes to get their contribution.
(3/x+8 ) + (3/x) = 1
times by x(x+8 ) gives
3x + 3(x+8 )l = x(x+8 )
3x + 3x+24= x^2 + 8x
(-6x, - 24) equals
0 = x^2 + 8x - 6x - 24
0 = x^2 + 2x - 24
0 = (x-4)(x+6)
only positive answer is that x (large pipe) = 4
therefore y (small pipe) = x+8 = 12."I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
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you lot need to get out more....
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Thanks everyone for your help, it's much appreciated!
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Good to know that 32 years after leaving school I am still 5H1T at algebra. X? Y? Why? I work at a Uni and sometimes I see equations on a board and the rabble studying them and think how smart they are. Recently had a Nuclear Technology Conference at the Uni and all of the Ph. D students were ridiculously smart. It prob.was akin to rocket science.M.Rushton0
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Did you lot just do Max's homework for him?0
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Umm i just sort of figured it straight away (without looking at the other answers) quite by accident i think, it sort of clicked :oops: I was always crap a algebra at school, i just didn't like the look of it... god knows what you guys have written up there but it just confuses me, thank god i decided not to bother studying physics at uni...0
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i feel the same way!Flasheart wrote:RichN95 wrote:12 hours and 4 hours.
Make the pool 300 units in size. Make the rates of the two pipes X and Y units per hour. (Y is the faster)
Therefore 300/3=X+Y. So X=100-Y
And 300/X - 8 = 300/Y
Multiply by X and Y: 300Y -8XY= 300X
Substitute X: 300Y -800Y +8Y^2 = 30,000 -300Y
Simplify: Y^2 -25Y -3,750 = 0
Solve : Y= 75 so X=25
Therefore times are 300/75 and 300/25. 8 hours and 4 hours.
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I is fick :oops:Coveryourcar.co.uk RT Tester
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Here's some more fun questions:
Pool filled in 3 hours (originally), than a leak appeared!!
If full, the pool completely empties in 5 hours through the annoying leak.
How long does the pool take to fill, bearing in mind the annoying leak?"I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Tennyson0 -
9 hoursnolf wrote:Here's some more fun questions:
Pool filled in 3 hours (originally), than a leak appeared!!
If full, the pool completely empties in 5 hours through the annoying leak.
How long does the pool take to fill, bearing in mind the annoying leak?
Edit - no, 7.5 hours ...0 -
Did you lot just do Max's homework for him
It's not technically homework, just a small pack to stop me forgetting everything over the holidays!
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Plug the hole or buy a new pool?!0
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Assume it fills at 100 gals per hour, pool holds 300 gals. 5 hours to empty = 300 divided by 5 = 60 gals per hour lost; ergo pools fills at 100 - 60 = 40 gals per hour. Filling 300 gal pool @ 40 gals per hour = 7hours 30mins. Don't ask me how to do this using 'proper' algebra as I wouldn't have a clue!
By the way... can someone explain in layman's language how binary works? In 1st year at Secondary I was a lazy git so got kicked out of the top class into the next one down - they had already done binary, we hadn't, so I missed it. There was a question on my O-level paper using binary and I couldn't even attempt it. Ta.Visit Ireland - all of it! Cycle in Dublin and know fear!!
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steady rider wrote:
i feel the same way!Flasheart wrote:RichN95 wrote:12 hours and 4 hours.
Make the pool 300 units in size. Make the rates of the two pipes X and Y units per hour. (Y is the faster)
Therefore 300/3=X+Y. So X=100-Y
And 300/X - 8 = 300/Y
Multiply by X and Y: 300Y -8XY= 300X
Substitute X: 300Y -800Y +8Y^2 = 30,000 -300Y
Simplify: Y^2 -25Y -3,750 = 0
Solve : Y= 75 so X=25
Therefore times are 300/75 and 300/25. 8 hours and 4 hours.
:shock: :shock: :? :? :oops: :oops:
I is fick :oops:
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Oi!!!!!!!! VORDERMAN I said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Tail end Charlie
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no i think thats ignorance at it's bestRichN95 wrote:steady rider wrote:
i feel the same way!Flasheart wrote:RichN95 wrote:12 hours and 4 hours.
Make the pool 300 units in size. Make the rates of the two pipes X and Y units per hour. (Y is the faster)
Therefore 300/3=X+Y. So X=100-Y
And 300/X - 8 = 300/Y
Multiply by X and Y: 300Y -8XY= 300X
Substitute X: 300Y -800Y +8Y^2 = 30,000 -300Y
Simplify: Y^2 -25Y -3,750 = 0
Solve : Y= 75 so X=25
Therefore times are 300/75 and 300/25. 8 hours and 4 hours.
:shock: :shock: :? :? :oops: :oops:
I is fick :oops:
We all show thickness in different ways. I didn't realise it was a bank holiday until they mentioned it on the radio at 8.30 on Monday morning. Now that's thick. Coveryourcar.co.uk RT Tester
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as they say "ignorance is bliss"no i think thats ignorance at it's best 0 -
I'm terrible at mathematics but I'm exceptional at working with my hands (shut up Flasheart ). The first day at secondary school they gave us algebra, I'd never done it before and being the quiet lad I was back then I didn't ask. Spent my entire time at school struggling with maths with no one even helping me. The kids in the low sets were ignored and given up on, whilst the kids in high sets were encouraged. http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.0
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It not that like at my school. Last year I was in the second lowest set but got an A* at IGCSE. Everyone gets really good support and the teaching is excellent!0
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@Max888's teacher - come on now, we all know it's easy to hack your kids' online accounts, but it's really unprofessional to use them!Max888 wrote:It not that like at my school. Last year I was in the second lowest set but got an A* at IGCSE. Everyone gets really good support and the teaching is excellent!0 -
No hacking going on here but no sh1t, at my last school I could not do any maths at all but hey I just got top marks at GCSE, I ain't complaining.0
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Bear in mind my experiences are from the late 80s to early 90s. Thing have changed somewhat and I have done quite a good number of courses, from English through to my European Computer Driving License (chocolate teapot?). You get support, and good tutors who actually do give a damn - I seem to recall my Maths teacher giving up and my English teacher whining that my stories were too imaginative. I suspect she couldn't be arsed reading 12 pages...http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.0
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mrushton wrote:Good to know that 32 years after leaving school I am still 5H1T at algebra. X? Y? Why? I work at a Uni and sometimes I see equations on a board and the rabble studying them and think how smart they are. Recently had a Nuclear Technology Conference at the Uni and all of the Ph. D students were ridiculously smart. It prob.was akin to rocket science.
Good to know that 31 years after leaving school, and having to learn sufficient algebra to pass various science exams, that I still don't understand it, I still can't do it and, what's more, during my entire working life I've never needed to.
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Turbo Man wrote:
9 hoursnolf wrote:Here's some more fun questions:
Pool filled in 3 hours (originally), than a leak appeared!!
If full, the pool completely empties in 5 hours through the annoying leak.
How long does the pool take to fill, bearing in mind the annoying leak?
Edit - no, 7.5 hours ...
2nd one is right. "I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Tennyson0
