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]

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

12 men can do a piece of work in 24 days. How many days are needed to complete the work, if 8 men do this work ?

• 1] 28 days
• 2] 36 days
• 3] 48 days
• 4] 52 days

A and B can complete a piece of work in 12 and 18 days respectively. A begins to do the work and they work alternatively one at a time for one day each. The whole work will be completed in ?

• 1]

  \({ \text{14}}\frac{1}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 2]

  \({ \text{15}}\frac{2}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 3]

  \({ \text{16}}\frac{1}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 4]

  \({ \text{18}}\frac{2}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

A contractor undertook to finish a work in 92 days and employed 110 men. After 48 days, he found that he had already done \(\frac{3}{5}\) part of the work, the number of men he can withdraw so that his work may still be finished in time is?

• 1] 45
• 2] 40
• 3] 35
• 4] 30

If 10 men or 20 boys can make 260 mats in 20 days, then how many mats will be made by 8 men and 4 boys in 20 days?

• 1] 260
• 2] 240
• 3] 280
• 4] 520

Two workers A and B are engaged to do a work. A working alone takes 8 hours more to complete the job than if both worked together. If B worked alone, he would need 41/2 hours more to complete the job than they both working together. What time would they take to do the work together ?

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

A is thrice as good a workman as B and so takes 60 days less than B for doing a job. The time in which they can do the job together is = ?

• 1]

  \(22\frac{1}{2}{ \text{days}}\)

• 2]

  30 days

• 3]

  45 days

• 4]

  60 days

A tank can be filled with water by two pipes A and B together in 36 minutes. If the pipe B was stopped after 30 minutes, the tank is filled in 40 minutes. The pipe B can alone fill the tank in:

• 1] 45 minutes
• 2] 60 minutes
• 3] 75 minutes
• 4] 90 minutes

42 women can do a piece of work in 18 days, How many women would be required do the same work in 21 days.

• 1] 35
• 2] 36
• 3] 37
• 4] 38

Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 12 min and 16 min respectively. Both the pipes are opened together for a certain time but due to some obstruction, the flow of water was restricted to \(\frac{7}{8}\) of full flow in pipe A and \(\frac{5}{6}\) of full in pipe B. This obstruction is removed after some time and the tank are now filled in 3 min from that moment. How long was it before the full flow?

• 1] 8 min
• 2] 3 min
• 3] 5.6 min
• 4] 4.5 min
• 5] None of these