Quiz Discussion

A and B together can complete a work in 12 days. B and C together can complete the same work in 8 days and A and C together can complete it in 16 days. In total, how many days do A, B and C together take to complete the same work ?

• 1]

  \({ \text{3}}\frac{5}{{12}}\)

• 2]

  \({ \text{3}}\frac{9}{{13}}\)

• 3]

  \({ \text{7}}\frac{5}{{12}}\)

• 4]

  \({ \text{7}}\frac{5}{{13}}\)

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]

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

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 can complete a piece of work in 18 days, B in 20 days and C in 30 days, B and C together start the work and forced to leave after 2 days. The time taken by A alone to complete the remaining work is:

• 1] 10 days
• 2] 12 days
• 3] 15 days
• 4] 16 days

Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 36 min. and 45 min. respectively. Another pipe C can empty the tank in 30 min. First A and B are opened. After 7 minutes, C is also opened. The tank filled up in:

• 1] 39 min.
• 2] 46 min
• 3] 40 min.
• 4] 45 min.

12 men can do a piece of work in 15 days and 20 women can do the same work in 12 days. In how many days can 5 men and 5 women complete the same work ?

• 1]

  \({ \text{20}}\frac{4}{7}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 2]

  \({ \text{2}}\frac{4}{7}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 3]

  \({ \text{20}}\frac{3}{7}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 4]

  18 days

40 men can complete a piece of work in 18 days. Eight days after they started working together, 10 more men joined them. How many days will they now take to complete the remaining work ?

• 1] 6 days
• 2] 8 days
• 3] 10 days
• 4] 12 days

A and B together can do a piece of work in 30 days, B and C together can do it in 20 days, A starts the work and works on it for 5 days, B takes up and work for 15 days. Finally C finishes the work in 18 days. The number of days in which C alone can do the work where doing it separately is = ?

• 1] 120 days
• 2] 40 days
• 3] 60 days
• 4] 24 days

A pipe can fill a tank in 0.9 hours and another pipe can empty in 0.7 hours. If tank is completely filled and both pipes are opened simultaneously then 450 liters of water is removed from the tank is 2.5 hours. What is the capacity of the tank?

• 1] 200 liters
• 2] 350 liters
• 3] 456 liters
• 4] 567 liters
• 5] None of these

A and B completed a work together in 5 days. had A worked at twice the speed and B at half the speed, it would have taken them four days to complete the job. How much time would it take for A alone to do the work?

• 1] 10 days
• 2] 20 days
• 3] 25 days
• 4] 15 days
• 5] 24 days