Quiz Discussion

A can build up a wall in 8 days while B can break it in 3 days. A has worked for 4 days and then B joined to work with A for another 2 days only. In how many days will A alone build up the remaining part of the wall ?

• 1]

  \({ \text{6}}\frac{1}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 2]

  7 days

• 3]

  \({ \text{7}}\frac{1}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 4]

  \({ \text{13}}\frac{1}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

Five men are working to complete a work in 15 days. After five days 10 women are accompanied by them to complete the work in next 5 days. If the work is to be done by women only, then in how many days could the work be over if 10 women have started it ?

• 1] 10 days
• 2] 12 days
• 3] 15 days
• 4] 18 days

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]

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

Dinesh and Rakesh are working on an Assignment, Dinesh takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while Rakesh takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 page ?

• 1] 7 hours, 30 minutes
• 2] 8 hours
• 3] 8 hours, 15 minutes
• 4] 8 hours, 25 minutes

A can complete a piece of work in 36 days, B in 54 days and C in 72 days. All the three began the work the work together but A left 8 days before the completion of the work and B 12 days before the completion of work. Only C worked up to the end. In how many days was the work completed?

• 1] 24 days
• 2] 25 days
• 3] 27 days
• 4] 30 days

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 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

While working 7 hour a day, A alone can complete a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. In what time would they complete it together, 8 hour a day?

• 1] 3 days
• 2] 4 days
• 3] 2.1 days
• 4] 3.6 days

A completed \(\frac{7}{{10}} \)of work in 15 days, then he completed the remaining work with the help of B in 4 days. In how many days A and B can complete the entire work together?

• 1]

  \(10\frac{1}{2}{ \text{days}}\)

• 2]

  \(12\frac{2}{3}{ \text{days}}\)

• 3]

  \(13\frac{1}{3}{ \text{days}}\)

• 4]

  \(8\frac{1}{4}{ \text{days}}\)

Amit, Bhawana and Chandan can do a piece of work, working together in one day only. Amit is 5 times efficient than Bhawna and Chandan takes half of the number of days taken by Bhawna to do the same work. What is the difference between the number of days taken by Amit and Chandan when they work alone ?

• 1]

  4

• 2]

  5

• 3]

  3

• 4]

  \({ \text{2}}\frac{2}{5}\)