Quiz Discussion

Shashi can do piece of work in 20 days. Tanya is 25% more efficient than Sashi. The number of days taken by Tanya to do the same piece of work is = ?

• 1] 15
• 2] 25
• 3] 18
• 4] 16

At a Tech Pvt Ltd. there are some engineering students employed as trainee engineers, belong to two eminent institutions of India. One group belongs to IIT and another to NIT. Each student of IIT works for 10 hours a day till 60 days and each student of NIT works for 8 hours a day till 80 days on the two same project. The ratio of students of IIT and that of NIT is 4:5 respectively. Students of which institution is slower in work and by how much?

• 1] IITian is 20% less efficient
• 2] NITian is 33.33% less efficien
• 3] NIT is 25% less efficient
• 4] IIT is 33.33% less efficient
• 5] Cannot be determined

A man can do a piece of work in 30 hours. If he works with his son then the same piece of work is finished in 20 hours. If the son works alone then he do the work in ?

• 1] 60 hours
• 2] 50 hours
• 3] 25 hours
• 4] 10 hours

Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 12 min and 16 min respectively. Both the pipes are opened together for a certain time but due to some obstruction, the flow of water was restricted to \(\frac{7}{8}\) of full flow in pipe A and \(\frac{5}{6}\) of full in pipe B. This obstruction is removed after some time and the tank are now filled in 3 min from that moment. How long was it before the full flow?

• 1] 8 min
• 2] 3 min
• 3] 5.6 min
• 4] 4.5 min
• 5] None of these

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, B and C completed a work costing Rs. 1800. A work 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?

• 1] Rs. 800
• 2] Rs. 600
• 3] Rs. 900
• 4] Rs. 750

While working 7 hour a day, A alone can complete a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. In what time would they complete it together, 8 hour a day?

• 1] 3 days
• 2] 4 days
• 3] 2.1 days
• 4] 3.6 days

4 men and 10 women were put on work. They completed \(\frac{1}{3}\) of the work in 4 days. After this 2 men and 2 women were increased. They completed \(\frac{2}{9}\) more of the work in 2 days. If the remaining work is to be completed in 3 days, then how many more women must be increased?

• 1] 8
• 2] 32
• 3] 50
• 4] 55

If 20 women can lay a road of length 100m in 10 days. 10 women can lay the same road of length 50m in = ?

• 1] 5 days
• 2] 15 days
• 3] 10 days
• 4] 20 days

A road of 5 m length will be constructed in 100 days. So, 280 workers were employed. But after 80 days it was found that only \({ \text{3}}\frac{1}{2}\) km road was completed. Now, how many more people were needed to finish the work in the specified time?

• 1] 480
• 2] 80
• 3] 200
• 4] 100