Quiz Discussion

A particular job can be completed by a team of 10 men in 12 days. The same job can be completed by a team of 10 women in 6 days. How many days are needed to complete the job if the two teams work together ?

• 1] 4 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 9 days
• 4] 18 days

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 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 From second day onwards, one worker was withdrawn each day. The job was finished when the last worker was withdrawn. Had no worker been withdrawn at any stage, the group would have finished the job in 55% of the time.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

A tank can be filled with water by two pipes A and B together in 36 minutes. If the pipe B was stopped after 30 minutes, the tank is filled in 40 minutes. The pipe B can alone fill the tank in:

• 1] 45 minutes
• 2] 60 minutes
• 3] 75 minutes
• 4] 90 minutes

4 mat-weavers can weave 4 mats in 4 days. At the same rate how many mats would be woven by 8 mat-weavers in 8 days ?

• 1] 4
• 2] 8
• 3] 12
• 4] 16

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 one pipe A can fill a tank in 20 minutes, then 5 pipes, each of 20% efficiency of A, can fill the tank in:

• 1] 80 min
• 2] 100 min
• 3] 20 min
• 4] 25 min

Subhash can copy 50 pages in 10 hours; Subhash and Prakash together can copy 300 pages in 40 hours. In how much time can Prakash copy 30 pages?

• 1] 13 hour
• 2] 12 hour
• 3] 11 hour
• 4] 9 hour
• 5] 10 hour

60 men could complete a piece of work in 250 days. They worked together for 200 days. After that work had to be stopped for 10 days due to bad weather. How many more men should be engaged to complete the work in time ?

• 1] 10
• 2] 15
• 3] 18
• 4] 20

If 10 men can do a piece of work in 12 days, the time taken by 12 men to do the same piece of work will be:

• 1] 12 days
• 2] 10 days
• 3] 9 days
• 4] 8 days