by darksaber21 » Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:28 pm
This is a rate problem, involving an addition of rates.
So, let's say that the first pipe does one job per 5 hours and the second pipe to do 1 job per 13 hours. The sum of that equals one job over t, which is the formula for rate. So now we just solve for t:
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