Quiz Discussion

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

A can do a work in 10 days. The efficiency of A is 20% less than B. How many days B need to finish the same work?

• 1] 8.5 days
• 2] 12.3 days
• 3] 8 days
• 4] 7.5 days

P is thrice as good a workman as Q and therefore able to finish a job in 48 days less than Q. Working together, they can do it in ?

• 1] 18 days
• 2] 24 days
• 3] 30 days
• 4] 12 days

A can write 75 pages in 25 hours. A and B together can write 135 pages in 27 hours. In what time can B write 42 pages ?

• 1] 17 hrs
• 2] 19 hrs
• 3] 21 hrs
• 4] 23 hrs

6 women can complete a piece of work in 10 days, whereas 10 children alone take 15 days to complete the same piece of work. How many days will 6 women and 10 children together take to complete the piece of work?

• 1]

  7

• 2]

  8

• 3]

  6

• 4]

  4

A does half as much work as B in one-sixth of the time. If together they take 10 days to complete a work. How much time shall B alone take to do it ?

• 1] 30 days
• 2] 40 days
• 3] 50 days
• 4] 70 days

A boy and a girl together fill a cistern with water. The boy pours 4 liters of water every 3 minutes and girl pours 3 litres every 4 minutes. How much time will it take to fill 100 litres of water in the cistern?

• 1] 36 minute
• 2] 42 minutes
• 3] 48 minutes
• 4] 44 minutes

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

A can do as much work as B and C together can do. A and B can together do a piece of work in 9 hours 36 minutes and C can do it in 48 hours. The time in hours that B needs to do the work alone, is ?

• 1] 18 hours
• 2] 24 hours
• 3] 30 hours
• 4] 12 hours