From two holes atop a covered aquarium certain amount of water can evaporate in 6 minutes,however one hole takes 5 minutes more two evaporate the same amount of water than the other.find the time taken by each whole to evaporate the same amount of water?

2 answers

If the faster time is x, then

1/x + 1/(x+5) = 1/6
1/x + 1/(x+5) = 1/6