Quiz Discussion

If one pipe A can fill a tank in 20 minutes, then 5 pipes, each of 20% efficiency of A, can fill the tank in:

• 1] 80 min
• 2] 100 min
• 3] 20 min
• 4] 25 min

A started a ,work and left after working for 2 days. Then B was called and he finished the work in 9 days. had A left the work after working for 3 days, B would have finished the remaining work in 6 days. In how many days can each of them, working alone, finish the whole work ?

• 1] 2.5 days, 7.5 days
• 2] 5 days, 8.5 days
• 3] 5 days, 15 days
• 4] None of these

An engineer undertakes a project to build a road 15 km long in 300 days and employs 45 men for the purpose. After 100 days, he finds 2.5 km of the road has been completed. Find the (approx.) number of extra men he must employ to finish the work in time.

• 1] 43
• 2] 45
• 3] 55
• 4] 68
• 5] 60

The charges per hour of internet surfing is increased by 25% then find the percentage decrease in the time period of surfing user (a net savy) who can afford only 10% increase in expenditure:

• 1] 22%
• 2] 12%
• 3] 15%
• 4] 9.09%

Working 5 hours a day, A can Complete a work in 8 days and working 6 hours a day, B can complete the same work in 10 days. Working 8 hours a day, they can jointly complete the work in:

• 1] 3 days
• 2] 4 days
• 3] 4.5 days
• 4] 5.4 days

A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on it together for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is :

• 1]

  \(\frac{1}{4}\)

• 2]

  \(\frac{1}{{10}}\)

• 3]

  \(\frac{7}{{15}}\)

• 4]

  \(\frac{8}{{15}}\)

A and B together can do a piece of work in 30 days. A having worked for 16 days, B finishes the remaining work alone in 44 days. In how many days shall B finish the whole work alone?

• 1]

  30 days

• 2]

  40 days

• 3]

  60 days

• 4]

  70 days

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

A can do a piece of work in 5 days less than the time taken by B to do it. If both of them together take \({ \text{11}}\frac{1}{9}\) days, then the time taken by B alone to do the same work (in days ) is?

• 1] 15 days
• 2] 20 days
• 3] 25 days
• 4] 30 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