Question

A person needs to fill 10 water jugs with a hose. Filling the first 2 jugs has taken 3 minutes. How long to finish filling the remaining jugs?

Answer 1

12 minutes!
How I got to this answer:
If we have the information, that 2 jugs, take 3 minutes, that means that one jug will take 1.5 minutes.

We have 8 more jugs to fill, and each jug takes 1.5 minutes each, or 3 minutes for 2.

We have 8 remaining jugs, so if we do 4x3 taking into account that this is 3 minutes for 2 jugs. If we do it individually, that means we should work it out as 8 x 1.5.
So for both equations the answer is 12 minutes!
If you need me to explain it to you differently, I am happy to help!!

Answer 2

Answer: It will take 12 more minutes to fill the remaining 8 jugs.

To find out how long it takes to fill each remaining jug, we can start by determining the time it takes to fill one jug.

The first 2 jugs took 3 minutes, so the average time per jug is:

3 minutes / 2 jugs = 1.5 minutes per jug.

Now, for the remaining 8 jugs, if each jug takes 1.5 minutes to fill, the total time to fill the remaining jugs would be:

$8jugs\times \frac{1.5minutes}{jug} =12minutes$