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O-LevelMathematicsAlgebra and graphs4024/11 · Oct/Nov 2011 · Q214 Marks

The time taken to fill a tank with water varies inversely as the area of cross-section of the The time taken is 40 minutes when the area is 3 cm².

  1. (a)Find the number of minutes taken to fill the tank when the area is 5 cm².[2]
  2. (b)It is given that the area is A square centimetres. Find the expression, in terms of A, for the number of minutes taken to fill the tank.[1]
  3. (c)Water flowed into the empty tank through a pipe of area 4 cm². It flowed for 9 minutes. Find, in its simplest form, the fraction of the tank that now contained water.[1]

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Algebra and graphs, O-Level Mathematics (syllabus 4024). Structured question, 4 marks.
Source
O-Level Mathematics, Oct/Nov 2011 Paper 1 Variant 1, question 21.

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