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Work and Time

If any task is given to a person and he has to do
an effort for completing that task. Then the effort
.B wil complete it in x4=12 days
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for which he applied to complete the task is said
Example 2 A can finish a piece of work in
to be work and the duration (or interval) to 12 days while B can do it in 15 days. If both
complete that work is said to be time. work together, what time will they take to
do the work?
Important Formulae 20 20
(a)days b)days
If Acan do a piece of work in n days, then the work is 0
completed by A in one day (days (d) None of these

(i.e. efficiency ofA) is

n Sol. (4) We know that, if A can do a piece of work
in n days and B in m days, then they both working
f Ais 3 times as efficient as B, then ratio of time taken
bythem to complete the work is 1:3. together in
m+n
davs
FAcan complete a work in n days and B can do it in
m days, then one day combine work of A and B is Here, n =12 days m =15 days
12 x15
determine the combine work Both A and B work together
m
Similarly
n
we can
12+15
for more than two persons. 180 20
27 days
O r Aand Bcan complete it in days.
n+ m Example 3 Efficiency of A is three times to
UsePipethe same approach to solve questions related to that of B. If they will complete the work in
and cistern. i.e. if we use the term leakage (or
empty) then we usesign.
15 days by working together, thentheinwork?
how
many days can B alone complete
Example1 The ratio of working eficiencies of (a) 20 days (b) 25 days (c) 15 days (d) 60 days
A
and B is 4:5.If A alone completes the Sol. (d) We know that, if A and B can do a work in
work in 15 days, then in how many days n and m days, then they do combine work for one
can B alone complete the work?
(a) 12 days (b) 15 days
day is m

16 days (d) 20 days Let A can do the work in x days, then B can do the
same work in 3x days.
Sol.(4) Ratio ofefficiency of Aand B=4:5
Ratio oftime taken by them to complete work
4 1
= 5:4
Then
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But A can complete it in 15 days.