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The 3 containers (Posted on 2008-11-05) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Paul has 3 large identical empty open-top containers (C1, C2, C3) outside.

- He walks outside and soon after, at time 0 hours, a steady rain begins. Rain enters the containers at R gallons per minute (gpm).
- 7 minutes later, Paul starts emptying out C1 at a rate of J gpm. Exactly when C1 is empty, Paul starts emptying C2 out and finishes 42 minutes later.
- Exactly when he's done emptying out C2, it starts raining twice as hard (2R gpm) and Paul starts emptying out C3 twice as fast (at 2J gpm).
-When Paul finishes emptying C3, the rain stops.

1) At what time did Paul start emptying C3?
2) At what time did it stop raining?

  Submitted by pcbouhid    
Rating: 3.5000 (2 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
See Charlieīs solution.

See Dej Marīs solution.

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  Subject Author Date
Puzzle ThoughtsK Sengupta2024-06-03 09:53:43
re(2): Initial observationDej Mar2008-11-06 07:27:49
SolutionsolutionDej Mar2008-11-06 01:41:17
re: Initial observationCharlie2008-11-05 22:10:24
SolutionsolutionCharlie2008-11-05 22:08:31
Initial observationDej Mar2008-11-05 21:25:43
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