Quiz Discussion

Two pipes can fill an empty tank separately in 24 minutes and 40 minutes respectively and a third pipe can empty 30 gallons of water per minute. If all three pipes are open, empty tanks become full in one hour. The capacity of the tank (in gallons) is:

• 1] 800 gallons
• 2] 600 gallons
• 3] 500 gallons
• 4] 400 gallons

25 men with 10 boys can do in 6 days as much work as 21 men with 30 boys can do in days. How many boys must help 40 men to do the same work in 4 days ?

• 1] 5
• 2] 10
• 3] 20
• 4] 40

Kamal can do a work in 15 days. Bimal is 50% more efficient then Kamal. The number of days, Bimal will take to do the same piece of work, is = ?

• 1]

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

• 2]

  10

• 3]

  12

• 4]

  14

A road of 5 m length will be constructed in 100 days. So, 280 workers were employed. But after 80 days it was found that only \({ \text{3}}\frac{1}{2}\) km road was completed. Now, how many more people were needed to finish the work in the specified time?

• 1] 480
• 2] 80
• 3] 200
• 4] 100

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

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]

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

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 can do a certain work in 12 days. B is 60% more efficient then A. How many days will B and A together take to do the same job?

• 1]

  \(\frac{{80}}{{13}}{ \text{days}}\)

• 2]

  \(\frac{{70}}{{13}}{ \text{days}}\)

• 3]

  \(\frac{{75}}{{13}}{ \text{days}}\)

• 4]

  \(\frac{{60}}{{13}}{ \text{days}}\)

A does half as much work as B in one-sixth of the time. If together they take 10 days to complete a work. How much time shall B alone take to do it ?

• 1] 30 days
• 2] 40 days
• 3] 50 days
• 4] 70 days

X can do a piece of work in 24 days. When he had worked for 4 days, Y joined him. If complete work was finished in 16 days, Y can alone finish that work in ?

• 1] 27 days
• 2] 36 days
• 3] 42 days
• 4] 18 days