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Six pipes are fitted to a water tank. Some of these are inlet pipes and the others outlet pipes. Each inlet pipe can fill the tank in 9 h and each outlet pipe can empty the tank in 6 h. On opening all the pipes, an empty tank is filled in 9 h. The number of inlet pipes is
Let there are x inlet pipes.
work done by inlet =1/9
work done by outlet=1/6
Here 6-x is the outlets
x/9-(6-x)/6=1/9
5x=20
x=4
Then there will be 4 inlet pipes the will to fill the tank
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