A filling pipe can fill an empty cistern in 6 hours. However, because of a leak at the bottom of the cistern, the same pipe takes 9 hours to fill it completely. If the cistern is full and the filling pipe is closed, in how many hours will the leak empty the full cistern?
18 hours
15 hours
12 hours
3 hours
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