Sreedhar’s CCE TIME AND WORK

TIME AND WORK

1. A can do a piece of work in 6 days and B can do it in 12 days. In how many days
both A and B can do the work.
1) 6 2) 4 3) 12
4) 8 5) Other than those given as options
2. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 6, 12 and 24 days, respectively. They

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altogether will complete the work in
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1) 5 days 2) 4 days 3) 3 days
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4) 5 days 5) Other than those given as options
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3. A can do 1/3 of a work in 5 days and B can do 2/5 of the work in 10 days. In how
many days both A and B together can do the work ?
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1) 13 days
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4) 14 days 5) Other than those given as options
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4. A and B can together do piece of work in 6 days. B alone can do it in 9 days. In

how many days can A alone do it.
1) 18 2)40 3)45
4)60 5)Other than those given as options
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5. A and B can do a piece of work in 18 days, B and C in 24 days, A and C in 36 days.
In what time can they do it all working together.
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1) 12 days 2) 13 days 3)16 days

4) 26 days 5) Other than those given as options
6. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days, B and C in 15 days C and A in 20 days.
A alone can do the work in
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1) 15 days 2) 24 days 3) 30 days
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4) 40 days 5) Other than those given as options
7. A can do a piece of work in 20 days which B can do in 12 days B worked at it for 9
days. A can finish the remaining work in
1) 3 2) 5 3) 7
4) 11 5) Other than those given as options
8. A can do a certain job in 25 days which B alone can do in 20 days. A started the
work and was joined by B after 10 days. The work lasted for
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1) 12 2) 14 3) 15
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4) 16 5) Other than those given as options
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9. A can do a piece of work in 10 days and B can do the piece of work in 20 days.
They start the work together but after 5 days. A leaves off. B will do the remaining
piece of work in
1) 5 2) 6 3) 8
4) 10 5) Other than those given as options
10. A can do a piece of work in 14 days which B can do in 21 days. They began
together but 3 days before the completion of the work, A leaves off. The total
number of days to complete the work
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1) 6 2) 8 3) 10
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4) 13 5) Other than those given as options
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11. A and B can do a piece of work in 45 and 40 days respectively. They began the
work together, but A leaves after some days and B finished the remaining work in
23 days. After how many days did A leave.
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4) 12 days 5) Other than those given as options
12. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 16, 32 and 48 days, respectively. They started

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working together but C left after working 4 days and B 2 days before the completion
of work. Total number of days taken for completion of work was
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1) 8 days 2) 9 days 3) 11 days
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4) 10 days 5) Other than those given as options
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13. A can do a certain job in 12 days. B is 60% more efficient than A. The number of
days it take B to do the same piece of work in
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1) 6 days 2) 6 days 3) 7 days
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4) 8 days 5) Other than those given as options
14. Yesterday Shweta completed 300 units of work at the rate of 15 units per minute.
Today she completed the same units of work but her speed was 40% faster than
yesterday. What is the approximate difference in the time she took to complete
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the work yesterday and the time she took today ?
1) 16min 2) 26 min 3) 46 min 4) 36 min 5) 6 min
15. A is twice as good a workman as B and together they finish a piece of work in
16 days. A alone can finish the work in
1) 28 days 2) 21 days 3) 24 days
4) 36 days 5) Other than those given as options
16. A is thrice as good as B and is therefore able to finish a piece of work in 60 days
less than B. Find the time in which they can do it, working together.
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1) 22 days 2) 22 days 3) 24 days
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4) 16 days 5) Other than those given as options

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17. A and B working separately can do a piece of work in 6 and 12 days respectively.
If they work for a day alternately, A beginning, work will be completed in
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1) 8 days 2) 9 days 3) 6 days
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4) 5 days 5) Other than those given as options
18. A and B can do a piece of work in 24 and 36 days respectively. They began the
work working an alternate days. B began in how many days the work will be
completed.
1) 28 days 2) 29 days 3) 27 days
4) 30 days 5) Other than those given as options

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19. A alone can finish a work in 10 days and B alone can do it in 15 days. If they work
together and finish it, then out of a total wages of Rs. 75, A will get:
1) Rs. 30 2) Rs. 37.50 3) Rs. 45
4) Rs. 50 5) Other than those given as options
20. A can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone can do it in 8 days. A and B
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undertook to do it for Rs.320 with the help of C, they finished it in 3 days. How
much is paid to C.
1) Rs.30 2) Rs.40 3)Rs.60

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4) Rs.80

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45 men complete a piece of work in 30 days working 12 hours a day. In how many
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days will 60 men complete the work working 10 hours a day?
1) 27 days 2) 30 days 3) 24 days
4) 35 days 5) Other than those given as options
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22. If 18 persons can build a wall 140 m long in 42 days, the number of days that 30
persons will take to complete a similar wall 100m long is
1) 18 2) 21 3) 24
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4) 28 5) Other than those given as options
23. A, B, C have to type a document of 464 pages A can type one page in 16 mins. B in
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28 mins and C in 32 mins If they divide the document into 3 parts so that all
three of them spend equal amount of time in finishing the task, what is the
number of pages that B should type ?
1) 136 2) 118 3) 132 4) 112 5) 128
24. A contract is to be completed in 56 days and 104 men were set to work, each
working 8 hours a day. After 30 days, 2/5 of the work is completed. How many
additional men may be employed. So that the work may be completed in time,
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each man now working 9 hours a day ?
1) 60 2) 56 3) 70
4) 42 5) Other than those given as options
25. A contractor promised to finish a job in 40 days and employed 100 men on the job.
After 35 days he employed 100 more men to finish the job in time. Had he not
engaged extra men. How many more day the work would have taken to be finished.
1) 5 days 2) 6 days 3) 8 days
4) 10 days 5) Other than those given as options
26. 12 men can complete a work in 8 days. Three days after they started the work, 3
more men joined them. In how many days will all of them together complete the
remaining work ?
1) 2 dyas 2) 4 days 3) 5 days
4) 6 days 5) Other than those given as options

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27. 20 men can finish a piece of work in 30 days. When should 5 men leave the work
so that it may be finished in 35 days.
1) After 10 days 2) After 12 days 3) After 15 days
4) After 7 days 5) Other than those given as options
28. 4 men or 6 women can finish a piece of work in 20 days. In how many days can 6
men and 11 women finish the same work ?
1) 9 days 2) 6 days 3) 7 days
4) 5 days 5) Other than those given as options
29. 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

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alone can complete the piece of work in 6 days ?
1) 15 2) 12 3) 10
4) 24 5) Other than those given as options
30. 6 women alone can complete a piece of work in 12 days, whereas 6 children alone
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take 48 days to complete the same piece of work. How many days will 6 women
and 24 children together take to complete the piece of work ?
1) 6 2) 10 3) 8

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4) 4

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If 9 boys and 3 men working together can do 4 times as much work per hour as a
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boy and a man together, what will be the respective ratio of work done by a boy
and a man for the given time ?
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1) 3 : 2 2) 3 : 1 3) 1 : 3 4) 1 : 5 5) 4 : 1
32. Three friends (A, B and C) are assigned a piece of work. The fraction of work that
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A can do in one day is equivalent to 5 th of the fraction of work B can do in one
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day. which in turn is equivalent to th of the fraction of work C can do in one
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day. What amount of work does B working alone, complete in 2 days ?
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1) 2) 3) Cannot be determined 4) 5)
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33. A takes three times as long as B and C together to do a Job. B takes four times as
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long as A and C together can complete a job in 24 days. Then the number of days
A alone will take to finish the job is
1) 100 2) 96 3) 95 4) 90 5) None’
34. Three men A, B, C working together can do a job in 6 hours less time than A
alone, in 1 hour less time than B alone and in one half the time needed by C
when working alone. Then A and B together can do the job in
2 3 3 4
1) hrs 2) hrs 3) hrs 4) hrs 5) None
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35. If 7 men working 7 hrs a day for each of 7 days produce 7 units of work, then the
units of work produced by 5 men working 5 hrs a day for each of 5 days is
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1) 2) 3) 4) 5) None
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