Saturday, August 30, 2014

time and work

two pipes running together can fill up a cistern in 40/13 mins. If one pipe takes 3 mins more than the other to fill the cistern, find the time in which each time would fill the cistern?


distance and speed

Two trains leave the railway station at the same time. One train is travelling due north and the other due east. The first train is 5 km/hr faster than the second train. If after 2 hours, the trains are 50 km apart, what is the speed of each train?

circle

The sum of the areas of two circles is 116π cm2 (refer diagram below). the centre of the circles is 6 cm apart. find the radius of the circles.