Quiz Discussion

If 3 men or 9 boys can finish a piece of work in 21 days, in how many days can 5 men and 6 boys together do the same piece of work ?

• 1] 8 days
• 2] 12 days
• 3] 14 days
• 4] Cannot be determined
• 5] None of these

18 women can complete a work in 12 days and 12 men can complete the same work in 9 days. In how many days will 8 men and 8 women complete that work?

• 1]

  9

• 2]

  6

• 3]

  12

• 4]

  18

Twenty women can do a work in sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete the same work in fifteen days. What is the ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman?

• 1]

  3 : 4

• 2]

  4 : 3

• 3]

  5 : 3

• 4]

  Data Inadequate

Three men A, B, C working together can do a job in 6 hours less time than A alone, in one hour less time than B alone and in one half the time needed by C when working alone. Then A and B together can do the job in:

• 1]

  \(\frac{2}{3}\) hours

• 2]

  \(\frac{3}{4}\) hours

• 3]

  \(\frac{3}{2}\) hours

• 4]

  \(\frac{4}{3}\) hours

If 72 men can build a wall of 280 m length in 21 days, how many men could take 18 days to build a similar type of wall of length 100 m ?

• 1] 30
• 2] 10
• 3] 18
• 4] 28

Two pipes can fill an empty tank separately in 24 minutes and 40 minutes respectively and a third pipe can empty 30 gallons of water per minute. If all three pipes are open, empty tanks become full in one hour. The capacity of the tank (in gallons) is:

• 1] 800 gallons
• 2] 600 gallons
• 3] 500 gallons
• 4] 400 gallons

If A and B together can complete a piece of work in 15 days and B alone in 20 days, in how many days can A alone complete the work?

• 1] 60
• 2] 45
• 3] 40
• 4] 30

If the work done by (x - 1) men in (x + 1) days and the work done by (x + 2) men in (x - 1) days are in the ratio 9 : 10, then the value of x is equal to ?

• 1] 5
• 2] 6
• 3] 7
• 4] 8

Two men undertake to do a piece of work for Rs. 1400. The first man alone can do this work in 7 days while the second man alone can do this work in 8 days. If they working together complete this work in 3 days with the help of a boy, how should the money be divided ?

• 1] Rs. 600, Rs. 550, Rs. 250
• 2] Rs. 600, Rs. 525, Rs. 275
• 3] Rs. 600, Rs. 500, Rs. 300
• 4] Rs. 500, Rs. 525, Rs. 375

A does 20% less work than B. If A can complete a piece of work in \({ \text{7}}\frac{1}{2}\) hours, then B can do it in?

• 1] 5 hours
• 2] 4 hours
• 3] 6 hours
• 4] 7 hours