Quiz Discussion

X alone can complete a piece of work in 40 days. He worked for 8 days and left. Y alone completed the remaining work in 16 days. How long would X and Y together take to complete the work ?

• 1]

  \(13\frac{1}{3}{ \text{days}}\)

• 2]

  14 days

• 3]

  15 days

• 4]

  \(16\frac{2}{3}{ \text{days}}\)

6 men can complete a piece of work in 12 days, 8 women can complete the same piece of work in 18 days and 18 children can do it in 10 days. 4 men, 12 women and 20 children do the work for 2 days. If the remaining work be completed by men only in 1 day, how many men will be required ?

• 1] 36
• 2] 24
• 3] 18
• 4] Cannot be determined

To complete a work, A takes 50% more time than B. If together they take 18 days to complete the work, how much time shall B take to do it?

• 1] 30 days
• 2] 35 days
• 3] 40 days
• 4] 45 days

A contractor was engaged to construct a road in 16 days. After working for 12 days with 20 labours it was found that only \({\frac{5}{8}}\) th of the road had been constructed. To complete the work in stipulated time the number of extra labours required are ?

• 1] 16
• 2] 12
• 3] 10
• 4] 18

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

18 men or 36 boys working 6 hours a day can plough a field in 24 days. In how many days will 24 men and 24 boys working 9 hours a day plough the same field ?

• 1] 9 days
• 2] 10 days
• 3] 6 days
• 4] 8 days

A can do a piece of work in 10 days, B in 15 days. They work for 5 days. The rest of the work was finished by C in 2 days. If they get Rs. 1500 for the whole work, the daily wages of B and C are ?

• 1] Rs. 150
• 2] Rs. 225
• 3] Rs. 250
• 4] Rs. 300

A man is twice as fast as a women and a woman is twice as fast as a boy in doing a work. If all of them, a man , a woman and a boy can finish the work in 7 days, a boy will do it alone ?

• 1] 49 days
• 2] 7 days
• 3] 6 days
• 4] 42 days

639 persons can repair a road in 12 days working 5 hours a day. In how many days will 30 persons working 6 hours a day complete the work ?

• 1] 210 days
• 2] 213 days
• 3] 214 days
• 4] 215 days

If 10 men can do a piece of work in 12 days, the time taken by 12 men to do the same piece of work will be:

• 1] 12 days
• 2] 10 days
• 3] 9 days
• 4] 8 days