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A pump usually fills a tank in 8 hours but due to a whole in the tank it took 10 hours to fill the tank. How much
time will it take the whole to drain the whole tank?

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40 hrs

A pump usually fills a tank in 8 hours but due to a hole in the tank it took 10 hours to fill the tank.
suppose the hole takes T hrs to drain the whole tank.

Then taking the case of 1 hr

1/8-1/T = 1/10

solving it , we get T=40 hrs
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