Quiz Discussion

A contractor was engaged to construct a road in 16 days. After working for 12 days with 20 labours it was found that only \({\frac{5}{8}}\) th of the road had been constructed. To complete the work in stipulated time the number of extra labours required are ?

• 1] 16
• 2] 12
• 3] 10
• 4] 18

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

10 men working 6 hours a day can complete a work in 18 days. How many hours a day must 15 men work to complete the same work in 12 days ?

• 1] 6 hours/day
• 2] 10 hours/day
• 3] 12 hours/day
• 4] 15 hours/day

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

A group of 12 men can do a piece of work in 14 days and other group of 12 women can do the same work in 21 days. They begin together but 3 days before the completion of work, man's group leaves off. The total number of days to complete the work is:

• 1]

  \(\frac{{65}}{4}\)

• 2]

  \(\frac{{93}}{3}\)

• 3]

  \(\frac{{51}}{5}\)

• 4]

  60

A and B together can do a job in 2 days; B and C can do it in 4 days; A and C in \({ \text{2}}\frac{2}{5}\) days. The number of days required for A to do the job alone is = ?

• 1] 1
• 2] 3
• 3] 6
• 4] 12

A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 10, 12 and 15 days respectively. A left the work 5 days before the work was completed and B left 2 days after A had left. Number of days required to complete the whole work was ?

• 1] 5 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 8 days
• 4] 7 days

A takes three times as long as B and C together to do a job. B takes four times as long as A and C together to do the work. If all the three, working together can complete the job in 24 days, then the number of days, A alone will take to finish the job is = ?

• 1] 100 days
• 2] 96 days
• 3] 95 days
• 4] 90 days

Two persons having different productivity of labour, working together can reap a field in 2 days. If one-third of the field was reaped by the first man and rest by the other one working alternatively took 4 days. How long did it take for the faster person to reap the whole field working alone?

• 1] 3
• 2] 6
• 3] 8
• 4] 12
• 5] None of these

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