Quiz Discussion

Madhu takes twice as much time as Uma to complete a work and Rahul does it in the same time as Madhu and Uma together. If all three working together can finish the work in 6 days, then the time taken by Madhu to finish the work is = ?

• 1] 12 days
• 2] 14 days
• 3] 36 days
• 4] 40 days

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

A can do as much work as B and C together can do. A and B can together do a piece of work in 9 hours 36 minutes and C can do it in 48 hours. The time in hours that B needs to do the work alone, is ?

• 1] 18 hours
• 2] 24 hours
• 3] 30 hours
• 4] 12 hours

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

A sum of money is sufficient to pay A's wages for 21 days and B's wages for 28 days. The same money is sufficient to pay the wages of both for ?

• 1] 12 days
• 2] 13 days
• 3] 14 days
• 4] 15 days

A contractor undertook to finish a work in 92 days and employed 110 men. After 48 days, he found that he had already done \(\frac{3}{5}\) part of the work, the number of men he can withdraw so that his work may still be finished in time is?

• 1] 45
• 2] 40
• 3] 35
• 4] 30

A man is twice as fast as a women and a woman is twice as fast as a boy in doing a work. If all of them, a man , a woman and a boy can finish the work in 7 days, a boy will do it alone ?

• 1] 49 days
• 2] 7 days
• 3] 6 days
• 4] 42 days

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 group of workers can complete a piece of work in 50 days, when they are working individually. On the first day one person works, on the second day another person joins him, on the third day one person joins them and this process continues till the work is completed. How many approximate days are needed to complete the work ?

• 1] 8 days
• 2] 9 days
• 3] 10 days
• 4] 11 days

If 72 men can build a wall of 280 m length in 21 days, how many men could take 18 days to build a similar type of wall of length 100 m ?

• 1] 30
• 2] 10
• 3] 18
• 4] 28