Time and Work
TYPE - 1
1) A can do some job in 10 days and B can do same in 20
days. If both of them work together, how long will they
take to finish that job?
1) 5.55days 2) 6.66days 3) 4.76days 4) 5.88days 5) none
of these
2) A can do some work in 10 days, B can do same work in
12 days, C in 15 days. What is the time taken to finish half
of the work if they all work together?
1) 2 days 2) 6 days 3) 12 days 4) 3 days 5) none of these
3) I can do some work in 8 days, YOU can do same work in
4 days. What fraction of the work can be completed if we
work together for 2 days?
1) 3/4 2) 1/4 3) 2/3 4) cannot be determined 5) none
of these
4) A can do a piece of work in 10 days, A and B together can
finish the same work in 6 days. how many days will B take
if he works alone on same work?
1) 10 2) 12 3) 14 4) 15 5) none of these
5) To complete a piece of work A and B take 8 days, B and
C 12 days, A, B and C together will take 6 days. A and C will
take how many days?
1) 7 2) 7.5 3) 8 4) 8.5 5) none of these
6) A is thrice as good as workman as B and therefore is able
to finish a job in 60 days less than B. Working together, they
can do it in how many days?
1) 20 2) 25 3) 22.5 4) 30 5) none of these
7) A can do 1/4 of the job in 3 days. B can do 1/6 of the
same job in 4 days. If they work together Rs 180 is to be
paid to them in total, how much A should get?
1) Rs 64 2) Rs 60 3) Rs 100 4) Rs 120 5) none of these
8) A can build a wall in 10 days and B can build it in 5 days,
while C can completely destroy the wall in 20 days. If they
start working at the same time, in how many days will the
work be completed?
1) 5 days 2) 2 days 3) 3 days 4) 4 days 5) none of these
9) A can do a piece of work in 10 days. B alone can do it in
15 days. If the total wages for the work is Rs 50, how much
money should A be paid if they work together for entire
duration of work?
1) Rs 30 2) Rs 40 3) Rs 50 4) Rs 20 5) none of these
10) A and B together can do a piece of work in 7 days. If A
does twice as much work as B in a given time, how long will
A alone take to do the work?
1) 11 days 2) 9.5 days 3) 6.33 days 4) 10.5 days
5) none of these
11) A and B can do piece of work in 45 and 40 days
respectively. They began work together, but A leaves after
some days and B finished the remaining work in 23 days.
After how many days did A leave?
1) 7 days 2) 8 days 3) 9 days 4) 10 days 5) 11 days
12) A can do as much work in 2 days as B can do in 3 days
and B can do as much work in 4 days as C can do in 5 days.
A piece of work takes 20 days if all work together. How long
would B take to do all the work by himself?
1) 50 days 2) 44 days 3) 66 days 4) 82 days 5) none of
these
13) A and B together can complete a piece of work in 20
days. B and C together can complete the same work in 30
days A and C together can complete the same work in 40
days. What is the ratio of number of days taken by A when
completing the same work alone to the number of days
taken by C when completing the same work alone?
1) 2:5 2) 2:7 3) 3:7 4) 1:5 5) 3:5
14) Amit and Sujit together can complete an assignment in
of data entry in 5 days. Sujit’s speed is 80% of Amit’s speed
and total key depressions in the assignment are 576000.
What is Amit’s speed in key depressions per hour if they
work for 8 hours a day?
1) 4800 2) 6400 3) 8000 4) 7200 5) none of these
TYPE - 2
1) 9 women can complete the piece of work in 19 days.
How many days will 18 women take to complete the same
piece of work?
1) 12 2) 8.5 3) 6.5 4) 9.5 5) none of these
2) 8 men take 12 days to finish a piece of work by working
6 hours a day. How many days will 6 men take to finish the
same piece of work, working 4 hours a day?
1) 20 2) 16 3) 24 4) 12 5) none of these
3) 56 men can do a job in 14 days. How many additional
men are required to do the same job in 8 days?
1) 42 2) 24 3) 52 4) 35 5) none of these
4) 6 men can complete a piece of work in 48 hours. In how
many hours 24 men complete the same piece of work?
1) 18 2) 16 3) 12 4) 24 5) none of these
5) A juice shop requires 35kg of sugar for 7 days. How many
kg of sugar will it require for 50 days?
1) 250 2) 150 3) 350 4) 300 5) none of these
6) If 3 pumps can empty a tank in 2 days by working 8 hours
a day, then how many hours a day must 4 pumps work to
empty the tank in one day?
1) 12 hours 2) 15 hours 3) 18 hours 4) 9 hours 5) none
of these
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7) A canteen requires 651 bananas for a week. Totally, how

many bananas will it require for the months of April, May
and June 2009?
1) 9086 2) 8547 3) 9284 4) 8463 5) none of these

8) If 34 men completed 2/5th of a work in 8 days working

9 hours a day, how many more men should be engaged to
finish the rest of the work in 6 days working 9 hours a day?
1) 38 2) 34 3) 68 4) 62 5) none of these

9) A carbon copier requires 27 bundles of paper for 6 days.

How many bundles of paper will be required for 14 days?
1) 43 2) 36 3) 63 4) 44 5) none of these

10) If 2 men or 6 women or 4 boys can finish the work in 99

days, how many days will one man, one women and one
boy together take to finish the same work?
1) 54 2) 64 3) 44 4) 108 5) none of these

11) 3 men or 8 boys can do a piece of work in 17 days. How

many days will two men and six boys together take to finish
the same work?
1) 9 2) 11 3) 14 4) 12 5) none of these

12) 6 women alone can complete a piece of work in 10

days, where as 10 children alone take 15 days to complete
the same piece of work. How many days will 6 women and
10 children together take to complete the piece of work?
1) 7 2) 8 3) 6 4) 4 5) none of these

13) 2 women and 10 children together take 8 days to

complete a piece of work. How many days will 10 children
alone take to complete the piece of work if 8 women alone
can complete the piece of work in 6 days?
1) 15 2) 12 3) 10 4) 24 5) none of these

14) 12 women alone can complete the piece of work in 5

days, whereas 3 women and 9 children together can
complete same piece of work in 10 days. In how many days
can 36 children complete the same piece of work?
1) 20 2) 2 3) 5 4) 8 5) none of these

TYPE:1
1.B 2.A 3.C 4.D 5.C 6.C 7.D 8.D 9.A 10.D
TYPE:2
1.D 2.C 3.A 4.C 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.C 12.C 13.D 14.C
A A D B C D
11. 12. 13. 14.
D C B D

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