TIME AND WORK

A and B together can complete a piece of work in 35 days while A alone can complete the
same work in 60 days. B alone will be able to complete the same work in.
(a) 42 days
(b) 84 days
(c) 72 days
(d) 96 days

A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr. Brown can paint a house in 16 days while Mr.
Black would take 18 days and Mr. Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr. Brown goes on vacation
and Mr. Black begins to work and he leaves after working for 6 days. How many days will it
take Mr. Blue to complete the remaining part of the contract?
(a) 7 days
(b) 2 days
(c) 4days
(d) 8 days

Adrain completes 60% of a task in 72 days. He realizes that to meet his deadline, he needs
additional help and gets Allen who is thrice as efficient as Adrain to help him. They
complete the task with four days to spare. What was the deadline for the project from the
day Adrain started work on it?
(a) 30 days
(b) 40 days
(c) 90 days
(d) 60days

A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it
for Rs. 3200. With the help of C, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be
paid to C?
(a)Rs. 300
(b)Rs. 400
(c)Rs. 500
(d)Rs. 600

P can lay railway track between two stations in 16 days. Q can do the same job in 12 days.
With the help of R, they complete the job in 4 days. How much days does it take for R alone
to complete the work?
(d) 10 days
(a) 9 days
(b) 9 days
(c) 9 days

5 men and 2 boys working together can do four times as much work as a man and a boy.
Working capacity of man and boy is in the ratio
(a) 1: 2
(b) 1 : 3
(c) 2: 1
(d)2 : 3

X is half as efficient as Y and he is able to complete a job 50 days more than Y. If they are
working together how many days will it take to complete the job?
(a) 40 days
(b) 25 days
(c) 23 days
(d) 33 days

P, Q and R can do a work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. How many days does it need to
complete the work if P does the work and he is assisted by Q and R on every third day?
(a) 10 days
(b) 14 days
(c) 15 days
(d) 9 days

A piece of work can be done by 6 men and 5 women in 6 days or 3 men and 4 women in 10
days. It can be done by 9 men and 15 women in how many days?
(a) 3 days
(b) 4 days
(c)5 days
(d) 6 days

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If 9 men working 7 hours a day can finish a piece of work in 20days, then how many days
will be taken by 12 men, working 6 hours a dayto finish the work? It is being given that 2
men of latter type work asmuch as 3 men of the former type?
(b) 11 days
(d) 13 days
(a) 9 days
(c) 12 days

11 Arun is 20% more efficient than Bala. In 72 daysBala can complete a work. If they two are
working together, in how many days the work can be completed?
(a) 33 days
(b) 33 days
(c)32 days
(d) 31 days
12 A contractor undertook to make 15 km of roadway in 40 weeks. In 10 weeks, 3 km was
complete by 180 men working 8 hours a day. The men then agreed to work 1 hour per day
overtime, And some boys were engaged to assist them, the work was finished in the
stipulated time (40 weeks). How many boys were employed, if the work of 3 boys is equal
to that of 2 men?
(a) 45 boys
(b) 50 boys
(c) 30 boys
(d) 60 boys
13 For a football team there are four substitutes. Each and every player plays the same amount
of time (11 players in the field at a time). How much time each player played provided the
whole game lasts for 90 minutes?
(a) 55 minutes
(b) 60 minutes
(c) 63 minutes
(d) 66 minutes
14 A and B are two taps which can fill a tank individually in 10 minutes and 20 minutes
respectively. However, there is a leakage at the bottomwhich can empty a filled tank in 40
minutes. If the tank is emptyinitially, how much time will both the taps take to fill the tank
(Leakage is still there)?
(a) 8 minutes
(b) 7 minutes
(c) 10 minutes
(d) None of these
15 A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days, when given at arate of 850 grams per
head. At the end of 7 days a reinforcement arrivesand it was found that now the provisions
will last 8 days less, whengiven at the rate of 825 grams per head. How many more men can
it feed?
(a) 2400 men
(b) 1700 men
(c)1500 men
(d)1300 men
16 Three pipes A, B and C can fill a cistern in 6 hours. After workingat it together for 2 hours,
C is closed and A and B can fill theremaining part in 7 hours. The number of hours taken by
C alone to fillthe cistern is:
(a) 12 hours
(b) 14 hours
(c) 16 hours
(d) 18 hours
17 Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in20 & 30 minutes
respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A,B and C are kept open successively for
1 minute each, how soon will thetank be filled?
(a)167 minutes
(b) 170 minutes
(c) 159 minutes
(d) 192 minutes

18 Pipe A can fill a tank in 36 minutes. Pipe B can fill the same tank in 72 minutes. There is a
drain pipe, pipe C, at the bottom of the tank. A man opens pipe A and pipe B when the tank
is empty and returns back to shut them when the tank should overflow. However, he finds
that he had kept pipe C also open and shuts it immediately. The tank overflows in the next 6
minutes. How long will pipe C take to drain the tank, if pipes A and B are kept shut?
(a)90 minutes
(b) 96 minutes
(c) 63 minutes
(d) 60 minutes
19 Ram completes 60% of a task in 15 days and then takes the help of Rahim and Rachel.
Rahim is 50% as efficient as Ram is and Rachel is 50% as efficient as Rahim is. In how
many more days will they complete the work?
(a) 13 days

(b) 8 days

(c) 5 days

(d) 7 days

20 A leak in the bottom of a tank can empty the full tank in 6 hours. An inlet pipe fills water at
the rate of 4 liters a minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to the leak the
tank is empty in 8 hours. The capacity of the tank (in liters) is
(a) 5750 litres
(b) 5760 litres
(c) 5770 litres
(d) 5780 litres

Answer Key
Q.No.
Answer
1
b
2
b
3
a
4
b
5
a
6
c
7
d
8
c
9
a
10
c
11
c
12
b
13
d
14
a
15
b
16
b
17
a
18
b
19
c
20
b