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A water tank is filled by three pipes with uniformflow. The first two pipes operating simultaneously, fill the tank in the same time during which the tank isfilled by the third pipe alone. The first pipe fills the tank six hours slower than the second pipe andeight hours slower than the third pipe. The time takenby the second pipe to fill the tank is what?

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