Quiz Discussion

A job can be done by 3 skilled workmen in 20 days or by 5 boys in 30 days. How many days will they take if they work together ?

• 1] 8 days
• 2] 10 days
• 3] 11 days
• 4] 12 days

If the expenditure of gas on burning 6 burners for 6 hours a day for 8 days is Rs. 450, then how many burners can be used for 10 days at 5 hours a day for Rs. 625 ?

• 1] 12
• 2] 16
• 3] 4
• 4] 8

Dinesh and Rakesh are working on an Assignment, Dinesh takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while Rakesh takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 page ?

• 1] 7 hours, 30 minutes
• 2] 8 hours
• 3] 8 hours, 15 minutes
• 4] 8 hours, 25 minutes

If 28 men complete \(\frac{7}{8}\) of a piece of work in a week, then the number of men, who must be engaged to get the remaining work completed in another week, is = ?

• 1] 5
• 2] 6
• 3] 4
• 4] 3

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

There are three boats A, B and C, working together they carry 60 people in each trip. One day an early morning A carried 50 people in few trips alone. When it stopped carrying the passengers B and C started carrying the people together. It took a total of 10 trips to carry 300 people by A, B and C. It is known that each day on an average 300 people cross the river using only one of the 3 boats A, B and C. How many trips it would take to A to carry 150 passengers alone?

• 1] 15
• 2] 30
• 3] 25
• 4] 10
• 5] None of these

A can do as much work as B and C together can do. A and B can together do a piece of work in 9 hours 36 minutes and C can do it in 48 hours. The time in hours that B needs to do the work alone, is ?

• 1] 18 hours
• 2] 24 hours
• 3] 30 hours
• 4] 12 hours

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.

6 women can complete a piece of work in 10 days, whereas 10 children alone take 15 days to complete the same piece of work. How many days will 6 women and 10 children together take to complete the piece of work?

• 1]

  7

• 2]

  8

• 3]

  6

• 4]

  4

If 4 men and 6 women can complete a work in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women can complete it in 10 days, then 10 women complete it in ?

• 1] 35 days
• 2] 50 days
• 3] 45 days
• 4] 40 days