Riddle Me This
- Thread starter StrangerInAStrangeLand
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Why are hotels so great?
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sculptor
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I thought I had the answer bookmarked but cannot find it now.
I'm thinking 3 for now. If not then 3 & 4. A short search found 3 different answers : 3, 4 & both 3 & 4.
I am certain it cannot be 1 or 2 or both.
I will be searching more.
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3
Water will flow into
2 and straight out into
3 and rise up to outlet pipe leading to
4 when it will begin to flow into
4
The water flowing from
3 to
4 will be replaced by the incoming water from
2 keeping
3 full
I hope ^^^3
Water will flow into
2 and straight out into
3 and rise up to outlet pipe leading to
4 when it will begin to flow into
4
The water flowing from
3 to
4 will be replaced by the incoming water from
2 keeping
3 full
Very close to what I was thinking. Also that it takes more pressure to force water up than straight across thus 3 must be fuller than 4 & will be full just before 4 is.
Anyone else?
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Once the flow from
3 reaches the overflow into
4 the water flow effectively becomes a direct flow from
2 into
4
As a sub question
The pressure from 3 is pushing water up connecting tube to 4
Once water begins to flow into 4 does the water going across the level tube
Drop in pressure?
Remains at same pressure?
Increase in pressure?
My thinking is drop but I am by no means certain
I need to copy this to a document to answer at this point. I would not want this to happen much but maybe it is good I lost the solution. This is interesting.
(Damn. I meant to reply to your post.)
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(Damn. I meant to reply to your post.)
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With the tank question, water will rise up in tank 3 until it is level with the inlet to tank 4, and tank 4 will only start filling after that. So if tank 3 is considered "full" when the water is at the level of the inlet to tank 4, then tank 3 will definitely fill first. While 3 is filling, water will be running from 1 to 2 to 3, so that 1 and 2 won't fill up.
Also, if tank 4 is open at the top, then 1 and 2 will never fill up unless the flow rate from the input tap is very high.
Also, if tank 4 is open at the top, then 1 and 2 will never fill up unless the flow rate from the input tap is very high.
30 minutes! (I always liked this one.)
A computer keyboard?
Usually I'm not very good at these kinds of things, but I seem to be on a bit of a roll here...
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In 1493 Columbus sailed across the sea. True or false?
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