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To fill swimming pool two pipes are to be used. If the pipe of larger diameter is used for 4 hours and the pipe of smaller diameter for 9 hours, only half the pool can be filled. Find, how long it would take for each pipe to fill the pool separately, if the pipe of smaller diameter takes 10 hours more than the pipe of larger diameter to fill the pool

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Suppose that x hours to the total time taken by the larger pipe and y hour of the smaller pipe
Now, `4/x+9/y=1/2...........(1)`
smaller diameter takes 10 hour more than the larger diameter pipe.
`y=x+10.............(ii)`
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