Quiz Discussion

8 men can complete a piece of work in 20 days. 8 women can complete the same work in 32 days. In how many days will 5 men and 8 women together complete the same work ?

• 1] 10 days
• 2] 12 days
• 3] 14 days
• 4] 16 days
• 5] None of these

Three taps A, B and C together can fill an empty cistern in 10 minutes. The tap A alone can fill it in 30 minutes and the tap B alone in 40 minutes. How long will the tap C alone take to fill it?

• 1] 16 minutes
• 2] 24 minutes
• 3] 32 minutes
• 4] 40 minutes

A contractor undertook to do a certain piece of work in 9 days. He employed certain number of men, but 6 of them being absent from the very first day, the rest could finish the work in 15 days. The number of men originally employed were

• 1]

  12

• 2]

  15

• 3]

  18

• 4]

  24

X can do a piece of work in 24 days. When he had worked for 4 days, Y joined him. If complete work was finished in 16 days, Y can alone finish that work in ?

• 1] 27 days
• 2] 36 days
• 3] 42 days
• 4] 18 days

A can do in one day three times the work done by B in one day. They together finish $\frac{2}{5}$ of the work in 9 days. The number of days by which B can do the work alone is =?

• 1] 90 days
• 2] 120 days
• 3] 100 days
• 4] 30 days