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Save my spa! (Posted on 2018-06-27) Difficulty: 3 of 5
True story: For safety, I had put chlorine powder in my spa water and my guests were coming soon. But, when I used my water testing kit, I realized I had over-chlorinated. I had thrown in about n times too much powder, and so I needed to dilute the water by adding fresh water, and fast. Would I better off first draining out some of the over-chlorinated water and then filling the spa back up with fresh water and mixing, or would it be faster emptying and filling at the same time? The garden hose fills the spa at the same rate that the drain faucet at the bottom empties the spa. Assuming that the mixing of fresh water and chlorinated water is instantaneous and that the drain rate does not change with water height, which way is faster and how does the answer depend on n?

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Interesting.

As an observation in the same spirit as the problem, if sometimes my bath taps run cold (e.g. because the pilot light blows out) I generally add hot water while draining the cold water at the same time.

This always seems quicker than emptying the bath and starting from scratch. I'll be interested to see what the right answer is!


  Posted by broll on 2018-06-27 11:28:35
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