Quiz Discussion

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 in 23 days?

• 1]

  11 days

• 2]

  13 days

• 3]

  20 3/17 days

• 4]

  None of these

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 alone take to do it ?

• 1] 30 days
• 2] 40 days
• 3] 50 days
• 4] 70 days

18 women can complete a work in 12 days and 12 men can complete the same work in 9 days. In how many days will 8 men and 8 women complete that work?

• 1]

  9

• 2]

  6

• 3]

  12

• 4]

  18

A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they together work on it for 4 days, what fraction of the work will be left ? 

• 1]

  1/13

• 2]

  6/11

• 3]

  9/17

• 4]

  8/15

A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it for Rs. 3200. With the help of C, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C?

• 1] Rs. 375
• 2] Rs. 400
• 3] Rs. 600
• 4] Rs. 800

A group of men decided to do a job in 4 days. But since 20 men dropped out every day, the job completed at the end of the 7th day. How many men were there at the beginning?

• 1] 240
• 2] 140
• 3] 280
• 4] 150
• 5] None of these

A can do a piece of work in 5 days less than the time taken by B to do it. If both of them together take \({ \text{11}}\frac{1}{9}\) days, then the time taken by B alone to do the same work (in days ) is?

• 1] 15 days
• 2] 20 days
• 3] 25 days
• 4] 30 days

A 10 hectare field is reaped by 2 men, 3 women and 4 children together in 10 days. If working capabilities of a man, a woman and a child are in the ratio 5 : 4 : 2, then a 16 hectare field will be reaped by 6 men, 4 women and 7 children in = ?

• 1] 5 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 7 days
• 4] 8 days

45 men can complete a piece of work in 16 days. Four days they started working , 36 more men joined them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work ?

• 1]

  6 days

• 2]

  8 days

• 3]

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

• 4]

  \({ \text{7}}\frac{3}{4}{ \text{ days}}\)

There is provision of food in fort for 1200 soldiers for 60 days. After 15 days, 200 soldiers leave the fort. Remaining food will last for how many days?

• 1] 56 days
• 2] 50 days
• 3] 54 days
• 4] 48 days