WORK AND TIME

A and B working together can do a piece of work in 18 days , B and C in 24

days , C and A in 36 days . How many days will it take all of them work
together .

a) 18 days
b) 21 days
c) 16 days
d) 14 days
A and B can do a job in 12 days . B and C can do it in 16 days . After A has
worked for 5 days and B has worked for 7 days , C can finish the rest in 13
days . In how many days can C do the work alone .

a) 28 days
b) 32 days
c) 36 days
d) 24 days
A man completes 7/8 of a job in 21 days . How many more days will it take
him to finish the job if quantum of work is further increased by 50%

a) 24 days
b) 21 days
c) 18 days
d) 15 days
ALTERNATE DAYS WORK
A and B can do a job in 8 days and 12 days respectively . If they work on
alternate days with A working on the first day , then in how many days will
the work be finished .

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a) 9 days
2
1
b) 9 days
3
2
c) 9 days
3
3
d) 9 days
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Machines A and B produce 8000 clips in 4 hrs and 6 hrs respectively . The
machines work in alternate hours . If A starts first , then how much time will
be required to produce 8000 clips .

a) 4 hr 20 min
b) 4 hr 30 min
c) 4 hr 40 min
d) 5 hr 20 min
TIME AND EFFICIENCY
A is thrice as efficient as B , and B is twice as efficient as C . If A , B and C
work together , how long will they take to complete a job which B completes
in 10 days .

20
a) days
9
16
b) days
9
17
c) days
9
d) 2 days
A can do a piece of work , working alone in 6 days and B alone can do it in
8 days . A and B undertook to do it for Rs 640 and with help of C , they
finished it in 3 days . How much is paid to C .

a) Rs 75
b) Rs 80
c) Rs 100
d) Rs 120
A can do as much work in 3 days as B can do it in 5 days and B can do as
much work in 2 days as C can do in 3 days . All of them can do a certain
piece of work in 20 days . Find the number of days A alone take to do the
work .

a) 60 days
b) 40 days
c) 65 days
d) 50 days
Ram and Shyam work on a job together for four days and complete 60 % of
it. Ram takes leave then Shyam works for eight more days to complete job .
How long would Ram take to complete the entire job alone .

a) 6 days
b) 8 days
c) 10 days
d) 11 days
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W can do 25 % of the work in 30 days , X can do of work in 10 days ,Y can
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do 40 % of the work in 40 days and Z can do of the work in 13 days . Who
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will complete the work first .

a) W
b) X
c) Y
d) Z
P works thrice as fast as Q , whereas P and Q together can work four times
as fast as R . If P ,Q and R together work on a job , in what ratio should they
share the earnings .

a) 3 : 1 :1
b) 3 : 2 :4
c) 4 :3 :4
d) 3 :1 :4
WORK EQUIVALENCE
In 16 days , 45 men can complete a certain job . Working after 6 days , 30
more men joined them . How many more days would they take now to finish
the job .

a) 4 days
b) 12 days
c) 6 days
d) 8 days
Six technicians working at the same rate complete the work of one server
in 10 hrs . If they start at 11:00 am and one additional technician per hour
is being added beginning at 5 :00 pm , at what time the work on server will
be completed .

a) 6:40 pm
b) 7 :00 pm
c) 7 :40 pm
d) 8 :00 pm
If 3 men or 4 women can construct a tower in 43 days , then how many
days will 7 men and 5 women together take to construct it .

a) 14 days
b) 15 days
c) 12 days
d) 13 days
Five men take as much time to do a job as 10 women take .if 6 men take
10 days to complete a job working 4 hrs per day , how much time would 10
women take do a job twice as much as the former working 6 hr a day.

a) 14 days
b) 12 days
c) 16 days
d) 18 days
12 men can build a wall 100 m long , 3 m high and 0.5 m thick in 25 days .
In how many days will 20 men build a wall 60 m long , 4 m high and 0.25
m thick .

a) 6 days
b) 8 days
c) 12 days
d) 10 days
A group of workers was put on a job . From the second day onwards , one
worker was withdrawn each day . The job was finished when the last worker
was withdrawn . Had no worker been withdrawn at any stage , the group
would have finished the job in two – thirds time . How many workers were
there in the group .

a) 2
b) 3
c) 5
d) 10
A garrison of 600 men had provision for 28 days . After 4 days , a
reinforcement of 200 men arrived . Now , the food will last for how many
days .

a) 21
b) 27
c) 18
d) 16
1000 soldiers confined can survive for 13 days with remaining stock of
cereals if they consume half – meal a day . How many soldiers may
consume for 78 days if they consume full- meal a day but having 3 times
the stock of cereals .

a) 3000
b) 500
c) 250
d) 125
50 men and 80 women can finish a job in 50 days . A contractor deploys
40 men and 48 women for this work , but after every duration of 10 days ,
5 men and 8 women are removed till the work is completed . The work is
completed in .

a) 45 days
b) 50 days
c) 54 days
d) 62 days
In a garrison there was food for 1000 soldiers for one month . After 10
days , 1000 more soldiers joined the garrison . How long would the soldiers
be able to carry on with the remaining food .

a) 25 days
b) 20 days
c) 15 days
d) 10 days
Carpenter A can make a chair in 6 hrs , carpenter B in 7 hrs and carpenter
C in 8 hrs . If each carpenter works for 8 hrs per day , how many chairs will
be made in 21 days .

a) 61
b) 67
c) 73
d) 79
15 men complete a work in 210 days . They started the work but at the end
of 10 days 15 additional men, with double efficiency , were inducted . How
many days , in whole , did they take to finish the work .

2
a) 76 days
3
3
b) 84 days
4
c) 76 days
d) 80 days
24 men and 12 women can do a piece of work in 30 days . In how many
days can 12 men and 24 women do the same piece of work ?

a) 30 days
b) More than 30 days
c) Less than 30 days or more than 30 days
d) Data is inadequate to draw any conclusion .
PIPES AND CISTERNS
Water is filled in a container in such a manner that its volume doubles after
every five minutes . If it takes 30 minutes for the container to be full , in
how much time will it be one –forth full.

a) 7 mins 30 sec
b) 10 mins
c) 20 mins
d) 25 mins
Because of a leak , a tank which is usually filled in 3 hrs , now takes 3.5
hrs to get filled . Find the time when the leak will empty the filled tank .

a) 18 hrs
b) 21 hrs
c) 15 hrs
d) 16 hrs
A supply of water lasts for 200 days , if 10 litres water leak off every day ,
but supplies last only for 180 days if 16 litres water leak off every day . If
the daily consumption is constant , then what is the total quantity of water
in the supply

a) 1080 litres
b) 10800 litres
c) 8800 litres
d) none of these
A tank of 2400 m3 capacity is full of fuel . The discharging capacity of the
pump is 10 m3 / min higher than its filling capacity . As a result , the pump
needs 8 min less to discharge the fuel than to fill up the tank . Find the
filling capacity of the pump .

a) 40 m3 / min
b) 50 m3 / min
c) 35 m3 / min
d) 60 m3 / min
Two pipes ‘ L’ and ‘ M ’ can fill a tank in 36 min and 45 min respectively . A
third pipe ‘ N’ can empty the tank in 30 min . Initially both ‘L’ and ‘M’ are
opened . After 7 min , pipe ‘N’ is also opened . In how much time from the
beginning the tank will be full .

a) 44 min
b) 46 min
c) 39 min
d) 47 min
Two pipes ‘P’ and ‘Q’ can fill a tank in 12 minutes and 15 minutes
respectively . A third pipe ‘R’ can empty the full tank in 6 minutes . ‘P’ and
‘Q’ are kept open for 15 minutes initially and then pipe ‘R’ is also opened .
Find out whether the tank will get filled or emptied and in how many
minutes from the start .
a) Filled , 15 minutes
b) Emptied , 45 minutes
c) Filled , 45 minutes
d) emptied , 60 minutes
If 15 pumps of equal capacity can fill a tank in 7 days , then how many
extra pump will be required to fill the tank in 5 days ?

a) 6
b) 7
c) 14
d) 21
5 skilled workers can build a wall in 20 days , 8 semi- skilled workers can
build a wall in 25 days , 10 unskilled workers can build a wall in 30 days . If
a team has 2 skilled , 6 semi-skilled and 5 unskilled workers , how long will
it take to build the wall .

(a) 20
(b) 18
(c) 16
(d) 15
A conveyer belt delivers baggage at the rate of 3 tons in 5 minutes , and a
second conveyer belt delivers baggage at the rate of 1 ton in 2 minutes.
How much time will it take to get 33 tons of baggage delivered , using both
the conveyer belt ?

a) 25 minutes 30 sec
b) 30 minutes
c) 35 minutes
d) 40 minutes 45 sec