Quiz Discussion

A contractor undertake to do a piece of work in 40 days. He engages 100 men at the beginning and 100 more after 35 days and completes the work in stipulated time. If he had not engaged the work in men, how many days behind the scheduled the work should have been finished ?

• 1] 5
• 2] 6
• 3] 7
• 4] 8

A and B can together finish a piece of work in 30 days. They worked on it 20 days and then B left. The remaining work was done by A alone in 20 days. A alone can finish the work in = ?

• 1] 60 days
• 2] 54 days
• 3] 48 days
• 4] 50 days

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

A labourer was appointed by a contractor on the condition he would be paid Rs. 75 for each day of his work but would be, fined at the rate of Rs. 15 per day for his absent. After 20 days, the contractor paid the labourer Rs. 1140. The number of days the labourer absented from work was ?

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

If 20 women can lay a road of length 100m in 10 days. 10 women can lay the same road of length 50m in = ?

• 1] 5 days
• 2] 15 days
• 3] 10 days
• 4] 20 days

A man can do a piece of work in 30 hours. If he works with his son then the same piece of work is finished in 20 hours. If the son works alone then he do the work in ?

• 1] 60 hours
• 2] 50 hours
• 3] 25 hours
• 4] 10 hours

A can do a piece of work in 20 days and B in 15 days. With help of C, they finish the work in 5 days. In how many days C alone can do the same work ?

• 1] 5 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 10 days
• 4] 12 days

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 group of workers was put on a job. From second day onwards, one worker was withdrawn each day. The job was finished when the last worker was withdrawn. Had no worker been withdrawn at any stage, the group would have finished the job in 55% of the time. How many workers were there in the group?

• 1] 15
• 2] 14
• 3] 12
• 4] 10
• 5] 8

An employee pays Rs. 26 for each day a worker and forfeits Rs. 7 for each day he idle. At the end of 56 days, if the worker got Rs. 829, for how many days did the worker remain idle?

• 1] 21
• 2] 15
• 3] 19
• 4] 13
• 5] 17