Quiz Discussion

X can do a piece of work in 40 days. He works at it for 8 days and then Y finished it in 16 days. How long will they together take to complete the work?

• 1]

  13 * 1/3 days

• 2]

  15 days

• 3]

  20 days

• 4]

  26 days

If 4 men or 6 women can do a piece of work in 12 days working 7 hours a day, how many days will it take to complete a work twice as large with 10 men and 3 women working together 8 hours a day ?

• 1] 6 days
• 2] 7 days
• 3] 8 days
• 4] 10 days

Two men undertake to do a piece of work for Rs. 1400. The first man alone can do this work in 7 days while the second man alone can do this work in 8 days. If they working together complete this work in 3 days with the help of a boy, how should the money be divided ?

• 1] Rs. 600, Rs. 550, Rs. 250
• 2] Rs. 600, Rs. 525, Rs. 275
• 3] Rs. 600, Rs. 500, Rs. 300
• 4] Rs. 500, Rs. 525, Rs. 375

16 women take 12 days to complete a work which can be completed by 12 men in 8 days. 16 men started working and after 3 days 10 men left and 4 women joined them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work ?

• 1] 4 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 8 days
• 4] 10 days

If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days and 26 men and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days then the time taken by 15 men and 20 boys to do the same type of work will be

• 1]

  5 days

• 2]

  4 days

• 3]

  6 days

• 4]

  7 days

A can do three times the work done by B in one day. They together finish \(\frac{2}{5}\) of the work in 9 days. The number of days by which B can do the work alone is?

• 1] 120 days
• 2] 100 days
• 3] 30 days
• 4] 90 days

A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 24, 5 and 12 days respectively. Working together, they will complete the same work in ?

• 1]

  \(\frac{7}{{24}}{ \text{days}}\)

• 2]

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

• 3]

  4 days

• 4]

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

If 28 men complete \(\frac{7}{8}\) of a piece of work in a week, then the number of men, who must be engaged to get the remaining work completed in another week, is = ?

• 1] 5
• 2] 6
• 3] 4
• 4] 3

A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days, B and C in 8 days and C and A in 6 days. How long would B take to do the same work alone ?

• 1] 24 days
• 2] 32 days
• 3] 40 days
• 4] 48 days

Two pipes, P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 and 15 minutes respectively. Both are opened together, but at the end of 3 minutes, P is turned off. In how many more minutes will Q fill the cistern?

• 1]

  7 minutes

• 2]

  \(7\frac{1}{2}\) minutes

• 3]

  8 minutes

• 4]

  \(8\frac{1}{4}\) minutes