Difference between revisions of "1971 AHSME Problems/Problem 15"

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Problem

An aquarium on a level table has rectangular faces and is $10$ inches wide and $8$ inches high. When it was tilted, the water in it covered an $8\times 10$ end but only $\tfrac{3}{4}$ of the rectangular bottom. The depth of the water when the bottom was again made level, was

$\textbf{(A) }2\textstyle{\frac{1}{2}}"\qquad \textbf{(B) }3"\qquad \textbf{(C) }3\textstyle{\frac{1}{4}}"\qquad \textbf{(D) }3\textstyle{\frac{1}{2}}"\qquad \textbf{(E) }4"$

Solution

$\boxed{\textbf{(B) }3"}$ .

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