Pumps

After the floods, four equally powerful pumps exhausted water from the flooded cellar in 6 hours. How many hours would take a drained out with three equally powerful pumps?

Correct result:

t =  8 h

Solution:

$t=\dfrac{ 4 \cdot \ 6 }{ 3 }=8 \ \text{h}$

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