Quiz Discussion

A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working together, take to complete a job which A alone could have done in 23 days?

• 1]

  11 days

• 2]

  13 days

• 3]

  20 3/17 days

• 4]

  None of these

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 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 does 20% less work than B. If A can complete a piece of work in \({ \text{7}}\frac{1}{2}\) hours, then B can do it in?

• 1] 5 hours
• 2] 4 hours
• 3] 6 hours
• 4] 7 hours

X can copy 80 pages in 20 hours, x and y together can copy 135 pages in 27 hours. Then y can copy 20 pages in ?

• 1] 20 hours
• 2] 24 hours
• 3] 3 hours
• 4] 12 hours

A job can be done by 3 skilled workmen in 20 days or by 5 boys in 30 days. How many days will they take if they work together ?

• 1] 8 days
• 2] 10 days
• 3] 11 days
• 4] 12 days

P and Q together can do a job in 6 days. Q and R can finish the same job in \(\frac{{60}}{7}\) days. P started the work and worked for 3 days. Q and R continued for 6 days to finish the work. Then the difference of days in which R and P can complete the alone is P can complete the job alone is ?

• 1] 10 days
• 2] 8 days
• 3] 12 days
• 4] 15 days

12 monkeys can eat 12 bananas in 12 minutes. In how many minutes can 4 monkeys eat 4 bananas ?

• 1] 4 minutes
• 2] 10 minutes
• 3] 12 minutes
• 4] 8 minutes

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

A man and a boy can do a piece of work in 24 days. If the man works alone for the last 6 days, it is completed in 26 days. How long would the boy take to do it alone ?

• 1] 20 days
• 2] 24 days
• 3] 36 days
• 4] 72 days