Quiz Discussion

40 men can complete a piece of work in 15 days. 20 more men joined them after 5 days they start doing work. How many days will be required by them to finish the remaining work ?

• 1]

  \({ \text{7}}\frac{2}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 2]

  \({ \text{6}}\frac{1}{5}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 3]

  \({ \text{8}}\frac{1}{4}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 4]

  \({ \text{6}}\frac{2}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

Ram Lal is a renowned packager of fruits in Varanasi. He packs 70 mangoes or 56 guavas every day working 7 hours a day. His wife also helps him. She packs 30 mangoes or 24 guavas working 6 hours per day. Ram Lal has to pack 3300 mangoes and 2400 guavas with help of his wife. They works alternately, each day 10 hours. His wife started packaging firs day and works every alternate days. Similarly, Ram Lal started his work second day and and worked alternatively till the completion of the work. In how many days the work will finished?

• 1]

  \(85\frac{3}{2}\)

• 2]

  85

• 3]

  84

• 4]

  80

• 5]

  None of these

A and B working separately can do a piece of work in 9 and 15 days respectively. If they work for a day alternately, with A beginning, then the work will be completed in:

• 1] 9 days
• 2] 10 days
• 3] 11 days
• 4] 12 days

Two pipes can fill an empty tank separately in 24 minutes and 40 minutes respectively and a third pipe can empty 30 gallons of water per minute. If all three pipes are open, empty tanks become full in one hour. The capacity of the tank (in gallons) is:

• 1] 800 gallons
• 2] 600 gallons
• 3] 500 gallons
• 4] 400 gallons

A is thrice as good a workman as B and so takes 60 days less than B for doing a job. The time in which they can do the job together is = ?

• 1]

  \(22\frac{1}{2}{ \text{days}}\)

• 2]

  30 days

• 3]

  45 days

• 4]

  60 days

A can write 75 pages in 25 hours. A and B together can write 135 pages in 27 hours. In what time can B write 42 pages ?

• 1] 17 hrs
• 2] 19 hrs
• 3] 21 hrs
• 4] 23 hrs

A contractor undertake to do a piece of work in 40 days. He engages 100 men at the beginning and 100 more after 35 days and completes the work in stipulated time. If he had not engaged the work in men, how many days behind the scheduled the work should have been finished ?

• 1] 5
• 2] 6
• 3] 7
• 4] 8

A does half as much work as B in one -sixth of the time.If together they take 10 days to complete a work, how much time shall B take to do it alone?

• 1] 13.33 days
• 2] 20 days
• 3] 30 days
• 4] 40 days

A can lay railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B can do the same job in 12 days. With help of C, they did the job in 4 days only. Then, C alone can do the job in:

• 1]

  \(9\frac{1}{5}\) days

• 2]

  \(9\frac{2}{7}\) days

• 3]

  \(9\frac{3}{5}\) days

• 4]

  10

A can do a piece of work in 12 days and B in 20 days. If they together work on it for 5 days, and remaining work is completed by C in 3 days, then in how many days can C do the same work alone ?

• 1] 10 days
• 2] 9 days
• 3] 12 days
• 4] 15 days