Quiz Discussion

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

A can do a piece of work in 14 days which B can do in 21 days. They begin together but 3 days before the completion of the work. A leaves off. The total number of days to complete the work is ?

• 1]

  \({ \text{6}}\frac{3}{5}\)

• 2]

  \({ \text{8}}\frac{1}{2}\)

• 3]

  \({ \text{10}}\frac{1}{5}\)

• 4]

  \({ \text{13}}\frac{1}{2}\)

A and B working together completed a job in 5 days. If A works twice as efficiently as he actually did and B works \(\frac{1}{3}\) of actual efficiency, the work would have been completed in 3 days. Find the for A to complete the job alone.

• 1]

  \(6\frac{1}{2}\)

• 2]

  \(6\frac{1}{4}\)

• 3]

  \(6\frac{3}{4}\)

• 4]

  \(12\frac{1}{2}\)

• 5]

  None of these

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

Ram Lal is a renowned packager of fruits in Varanasi. He packs 70 mangoes or 56 guavas every day working 7 hours a day. His wife also helps him. She packs 30 mangoes or 24 guavas working 6 hours per day. Ram Lal has to pack 3300 mangoes and 2400 guavas with help of his wife. They works alternately, each day 10 hours. His wife started packaging firs day and works every alternate days. Similarly, Ram Lal started his work second day and and worked alternatively till the completion of the work. In how many days the work will finished?

• 1]

  \(85\frac{3}{2}\)

• 2]

  85

• 3]

  84

• 4]

  80

• 5]

  None of these

Three pipes A,B and C attached to a cistern. A can fill it in 10 min, B in 15 min, C is a waste pipe for emptying it. After opening both the pipes A and B, a man leaves the cistern and returns when the cistern should have been just full. Finding, however, that the waste pipe had left open, he closes it and the cistern now gets filled in 2 min. In how much time the pipe C, if opened alone, empty the full cistern?

• 1] 12 min
• 2] 16 min
• 3] 18 min
• 4] 15 min
• 5] None of these

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

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

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

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