Quiz Discussion

A and B can separately complete a piece of work in 20 days and 30 days respectively. They worked together for some time. Then B left the work. If A completed the rest of the work in 10 days, then B worked for

• 1]

  6 days

• 2]

  8 days

• 3]

  12 days

• 4]

  16 days

A company employed 200 workers to complete a certain work in 150 days. If only \(\frac{1}{4}\) th of the work had been done in 50 days, then in order to complete the whole work in time, the number of additional workers to be employed were?

• 1] 100
• 2] 600
• 3] 300
• 4] 200

A can complete a piece of work in 36 days, B in 54 days and C in 72 days. All the three began the work the work together but A left 8 days before the completion of the work and B 12 days before the completion of work. Only C worked up to the end. In how many days was the work completed?

• 1] 24 days
• 2] 25 days
• 3] 27 days
• 4] 30 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

If 4 men or 6 women can do a piece of work in 12 days working 7 hours a day, how many days will it take to complete a work twice as large with 10 men and 3 women working together 8 hours a day ?

• 1] 6 days
• 2] 7 days
• 3] 8 days
• 4] 10 days

If two persons, with equal abilities, can do two jobs in two days then 100 persons with equal abilities can do 100 similar jobs in = ?

• 1] 100 days
• 2] 10 days
• 3] 5 days
• 4] 2 days

A takes twice as much time as B or thrice as much time as C to finish a piece of work. Working together, they can finish the work in 2 days. B can do the work alone in:

• 1]

  4 days

• 2]

  6 days

• 3]

  8 days

• 4]

  12 days

Subhash can copy 50 pages in 10 hours; Subhash and Prakash together can copy 300 pages in 40 hours. In how much time can Prakash copy 30 pages?

• 1] 13 hour
• 2] 12 hour
• 3] 11 hour
• 4] 9 hour
• 5] 10 hour

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

A and B together can do a piece of work in 30 days, B and C together can do it in 20 days, A starts the work and works on it for 5 days, B takes up and work for 15 days. Finally C finishes the work in 18 days. The number of days in which C alone can do the work where doing it separately is = ?

• 1] 120 days
• 2] 40 days
• 3] 60 days
• 4] 24 days