TIME AND WORK

1.CHAIN RULE
2.EFFICIENCY
3.FRACTION OF WORK
4.WORK AND WAGES
5.WORKING AND LEAVING
6.X AND Y PERSONS
7.ALTERNATE DAYS

1.CHAIN RULE

1) 50 hens lay 200 eggs in 2 days and 20

hens lay 400 eggs in how many days?
a) 5 b) 15 c) 10 d) 20

2) 400 men completed ¼ work in 10

 days working 9 hours a day. After
that some extra men are added to
complete the remaining work. How
many extra men are added if they
work 8 hours a day for 20 days ?

3) X persons complete a work in 24

days. If 9 persons are excluded
then it takes 32 days to complete
the same work. Then what is X?

1) It takes 108 days to complete an

agreement deal by a certain number of
men. After 70 days, 69 men are added
and 23 days are reduced to complete
the work. How many men were
working initially?
a) 45 b) 52 c) 39 d) None of these
 2) Some examiners evaluate certain number of papers in few days working 5 hours a
day. If half the number of examiners evaluate thrice the number of papers in 4
times the number of days, then how many hours per day should they work?
a) 8.3 b) 9.2 c) 7.5 d) 7

4)

2. EFFICIENCY

A man can complete a job in 12

1)

days and his wife can complete

the same job in 15 days. How
long will they take to complete
the job if they work together?
2)

a) 6 2/3 b) 6 ½ c) 10 ½ d) 10 2/3
An air container can cool the
3)

hall in 40 minutes while another

takes 45 minutes to cool under
similar conditions. If both air
conditioners are switched on at
same instance, then how long
 will it take to cool the room?
a) About 22 minutes b) About 20
minutes
c) About 30 minutes d) About 25
minutes

4) A is 30% more efficient than B.

How much time will they working
together take to complete a job
which A alone could have done it
in 23 days?

5) A is thrice as good workman as B

and is therefore able to finish a job
in 60 days less than B. Working
together they can complete in?
 3. FRACTION OF WORK

1) A can do a work in 15 days and B

in 20 days. If they work together on
it for 4 days then the fraction of
work that is left is?

2) A does 80% of the work in 20 days.

He then calls in B and they together
finish the remaining work in 3 days.
How long B alone would take to do
the whole work?
4.WORK AND WAGES

1) A and B undertook to do a
piece of work for Rs.4500. A alone
could do it in 8 days. And B alone
in 12 days. With the assistance of C
 they finished the work in 4 days.
Then C’s share of money is?

2) A, B, and C completed work

costing Rs. 1800. A worked for 6
days, B for 4 days and C for 9
days. If their daily wages are in
the ratio of 5:6:4, how much
amount will be received by A?
3) A man and a boy received
Rs.800 as wages for 5 days for the
work they did together. The man’s
efficiency in the work was three
times that of the boy. What are the
daily wages of the boy?
 4) 2 men and 1 women together can
complete a piece of work in 14 days, while
4 women and 2 men together can do it in 8
days. If a man gets Rs.600 per day, how
much should a woman get per day?

5. WORKING AND LEAVING

1) A machine P can print one lakh books in 8
hours, machine Q can print same number of
books in 10 hours while machine R can print
in 12 hours. All the machines are started at 9
AM while machine P is closed at 11 AM and
remaining two machines complete the work.
Approximately at what time will the work be
finished?

3) A can finish a work in 18 days and B can

 do the same work in 15 days. B worked
for 10 days and left the job. In how many
days A alone can complete the remaining
work?

6. X AND Y PERSONS
1) If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in
10 days and 26 men and 48 boys can do the
same in 2 days, then the time taken by 15 men
and 20 boys to do the same work be?

4) If8 men or 12 boys can do a piece of work

in 16 days, the number of days required to
complete the work by 20 men and 6 boys?
3) If 10 men or 20 women or 40 children can do
a piece of work in 7 months, then 5 men and 5
women and 5 children together can do it in?

7. ALTERNATE DAYS
A alone can complete a work in 16 days and B alone in 12
days. Starting with A, they work on alternate days. The total
work will be completed in :
To do a certain work, A and B work on alternate days with
B beginning the work on the first day. A alone can complete
the same work in 24 days. If the work gets completed in 11
(1/3) days, then B alone can complete 7/9 th part of the
original work in:
A) 4 DAYS B) 5 DAYS C) 6 DAYS D) 7 DAYS

8. ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION
1) One man started a project on the first day.
One man joins on each day starting from the second
day. The project will be completed exactly in 20
days. Instead, if a team of 7 men work regularly, the
project will be completed exactly in?
2) A person can complete a job in 120 days. He
works alone on day 1. On day 2, he is joined another
person. On day 3, they are joined by another person.
Like this everyday a new person with the same
efficiency joins the work. How many days are
required to complete the job?