Quiz Discussion

Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 12 min and 16 min respectively. Both the pipes are opened together for a certain time but due to some obstruction, the flow of water was restricted to \(\frac{7}{8}\) of full flow in pipe A and \(\frac{5}{6}\) of full in pipe B. This obstruction is removed after some time and the tank are now filled in 3 min from that moment. How long was it before the full flow?

• 1] 8 min
• 2] 3 min
• 3] 5.6 min
• 4] 4.5 min
• 5] None of these

A is thrice as good as workman as B and therefore is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. Working together, they can do it in:

• 1]

  20 days

• 2]

  \(22\frac{1}{2}\) days

• 3]

  25 days

• 4]

  30 days

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

While working 7 hour a day, A alone can complete a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. In what time would they complete it together, 8 hour a day?

• 1] 3 days
• 2] 4 days
• 3] 2.1 days
• 4] 3.6 days

A single reservoir supplies the petrol to the whole city, while the reservoir is fed by a single pipeline filling the reservoir with the stream of uniform volume. When the reservoir is full and if 40, 000 litres of petrol is used daily, the supply fails in 90 days. If 32, 000 litres of petrol used daily, it fails in 60 days. How much petrol can be used daily without the supply ever failing?

• 1] 64000 litres
• 2] 56000 litres
• 3] 60000 litres
• 4] 78000 litres
• 5] None of these

Three pipes A,B and C attached to a cistern. A can fill it in 10 min, B in 15 min, C is a waste pipe for emptying it. After opening both the pipes A and B, a man leaves the cistern and returns when the cistern should have been just full. Finding, however, that the waste pipe had left open, he closes it and the cistern now gets filled in 2 min. In how much time the pipe C, if opened alone, empty the full cistern?

• 1] 12 min
• 2] 16 min
• 3] 18 min
• 4] 15 min
• 5] None of these

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

A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it for Rs. 3200. With the help of C, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C?

• 1] Rs. 375
• 2] Rs. 400
• 3] Rs. 600
• 4] Rs. 800

A job can be complete by 12 men in 12 days. How many extra days will be needed to complete the job if 6 men leave after working for 6 days ?

• 1] 3 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 12 days
• 4] 24 days

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