QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

TOPIC- TIME AND WORK

LEVEL-2
Q 1. P can complete a job in 30 days, Q can complete in 50 days While R can complete the same job in 40 days. If P is assisted by
Q on one day and by R on the next day alternately work will be completed in

32 2 31 1
(a) 17 days (b) 19 days (c) 16 days (d) 18 days (e) none of these
35 3 37 3
Q 2. A and B can together finish a task in 12 days and B and C can complete it in 16 days. if A starts work for first 5 days and then
B work for next 7 days, and remaining work done by C alone in 13 days. In how many days will the whole work be completed
alone by C?
(a) 15 days (b) 16 days (c) 24 days (d) 26 days (e) none of these

Q 3. When A alone does a work, he takes 16 days more than the time taken by (A+B) to complete the work, while B alone takes
9 days more than the time taken by (A+B) to finish the work. What time, A and B together will take to finish this work ?

(a) 12 days (b) 14 days (c) 16 days (d) 20 days (e) none of these

Q 4. It takes 6 technicians a total of 10 hours to build a new server from direct computer, with each working at the same rate. If
six technicians start to build the server at 11 am and one technician per hour is added beginning at 5 pm, at what time will the
server be complete?

(a) 6:40 pm (b) 7:00 pm (c) 7:20 pm (d) 8:00 pm (e) none of these

Q 5. If A, B and C working together can complete a task in 40 days, they together work for 16 days and A leaves, the remaining
work is completed by B and C in 40 days. How much time it would take for A alone to complete the whole work?
(a) 60 days (b) 80 days (c) 100 days (d) 120 days (e) none of these

Q 6. A man a woman and a child can do a piece of work in 20 days, 30 days and 60 days respectively. If 2 men and 8 women
start the work and they wants to finish that work in 2 days so how many children are required?

(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 15 (e) none of these

Q 7. If 12 men and 16 boy can complete a job in 5 days, while 13 men and 24 boys can complete the same job in 4 days, then
the ratio of the daily work done by a man that of a boy is:

(a) 3 : 1 (b) 3 : 2 (c) 2 : 1 (d) 3 : 4 (e) none of these

Q 8. A water tank has three taps A, B and C. A fill four buckets in 24 min., B fills 8 buckets in 1 hour and C fills 2 buckets in 20
minutes. If all the taps are opened together a full tank is emptied in 2 hours. If a bucket can hold 5 litres of water, what is the
capacity of the tank?

(a) 60 litres (b) 180 litres (c) 240 litres (d) 120 litres (e) none of these

Q 9. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 24, and 30 days respectively. They undertook to do the work for 5400 Rs. They
begin the work together but B left 2 days before the completion of work and C left before 5 days of completion the work. The
share of A from the assured money is:

(a) 600 Rs. (b) 1800 Rs. (c) 2400 Rs. (d) 2700 Rs. (e) none of these

Q 10. There’s a lot of work in preparing a birthday dinner. Even after the turkey is in the oven, there’s still the potatoes and
gravy, yams, salad and cranberries, not to mention setting the table. Three friends - Asit, Arnold and Afzal – work together to
get all of these chores done. The time it takes them to do the work together in 6 hours less than Asit would have taken working
alone, 1 hr less than Arnold would have taken alone, and half the time Afzal would have taken working alone. How long did it