Quiz Discussion

A's 2 days work is equal to B's 3 days work. If A can complete the work in 8 days, then to complete the work B will take ?

• 1] 15 days
• 2] 12 days
• 3] 16 days
• 4] 14 days

P is thrice as good a workman as Q and therefore able to finish a job in 48 days less than Q. Working together, they can do it in ?

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

18 men can complete a piece of work in 63 days. 9 women take 189 days to complete the same piece of work. How many days will 4 men, 9 women and 12 children together take to complete the piece of work if 7 children alone can complete the piece of work in 486 days ?

• 1] 54 days
• 2] 63 days
• 3] 76 days
• 4] 81 days
• 5] None of these

A and B together can complete a job in 8 days. Both B and C, working alone can finish the same job in 12 days, A and B commence work on the job, and work for 4 days, where upon A leaves, B continues for 2 more days, and then he leaves too, C now starts working, and finishes the job. How many days will C require to finish the remaining work ?

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

If 3 men or 4 women can plough a field in 43 days, how long will 7 men and 5 women take to plough it?

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

16 men can finish a work in 24 days and 48 boys can finish the same work in 16 days. 12 men started the work and after 4 days 12 boys joined them. In how many days can they finish the remaining work ?

• 1] 6
• 2] 12
• 3] 16
• 4] None of these

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 single reservoir supplies the petrol to the whole city, while the reservoir is fed by a single pipeline filling the reservoir with the stream of uniform volume. When the reservoir is full and if 40, 000 litres of petrol is used daily, the supply fails in 90 days. If 32, 000 litres of petrol used daily, it fails in 60 days. How much petrol can be used daily without the supply ever failing?

• 1] 64000 litres
• 2] 56000 litres
• 3] 60000 litres
• 4] 78000 litres
• 5] None of these

Two workers A and B are engaged to do a piece of work. A working alone would take 8 hours more to complete the work that when work together. If B worked alone, would take \({ \text{4}}\frac{1}{2}\) hours more than when working together. The time required to finish the work together is =?

• 1] 5 hours
• 2] 8 houras
• 3] 4 hours
• 4] 6 hours

The time taken by 4 men to complete a job is double the time taken by 5 children to complete the same job. Each man is twice as fast as a woman. How long will 12 men, 10 children and 8 women take to complete a job, given that a child would finish the job in 20 days ?

• 1] 4 days
• 2] 2 days
• 3] 1 day
• 4] 10 days