Time & Work

1. A can do a piece of work in 15 days

and B
can do
the same work in 30 days. In how
many days A and B together can
complete the work?
(a) 10 days
(b) 12 days
(c) 16 days
(d) 14 days
2. A can do a piece of work in 12 days
and B can do the same work in 18
days. If A works for 3 days and
leaves. Then in how many days the
remaining work will be completed by
B?
(a) 13

1
2

days

(b) 9 days

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2

(c) 16 days
(d) 12 days
3. The ratio of capacity to do a work of
A & B is 3: 2. If they together can
complete the work in 18 days. Then
in how many days A alone can
complete the work?
(a) 45
(b) 30
(c) 24
(d) 40
4. A can do a piece of work in 16 days.
He works for 4 days and then B joins,
who alone can complete the same
work in 32 days. If A gets Rs. 1200,
then how much does B get?
(a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.500
(d) Rs.400
5. X men can do a piece of work in 8
days. The same work can be done by
(x+4) men in 6 days. Find the value
of X?
(a) 10
(b) 12
(c) 14
(d) 20
6. A can do a work in 14 days. B can
do the
same work in 21 days. They began
the work

together but 3 days before the

completion of
the work, A leaves. In how many
days was the
work completed?
(a) 10

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5

days

(b) 11

1
2

days

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2

3
4

(c) 13 days
(d) 15 days
7. 400 women working 9 hours a day
can
1
4

complete th of a work in 10 days.

Find the
number of additional women
required to
finish the remaining work in 20
days, working
8 hours a day?
(a) 250
(b) 275
(c) 300
(d)
375
8. A is thrice as efficient as B and is
therefore
able to finish it in 50 days less than
B. Find
the number of days taken by them
to
complete the work, working
together?
(a) 15 days
(b) 20 days
(c) 25 days
(d) 75 days
9. A certain number of men can
complete a
work in 40 days. If there were 10
men more,
the work would be completed in 10
days less.
Find the initial number of men?
(a) 25
(b) 20
(c) 24
(d) 30

10. A garrison has food sufficient for

certain
number of men for some days.
After 40
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4
days, th of the men left and it is
found
that the food will now last just as
long as
before. How long was that?
(a) 100 days
(b) 120 days
(c) 160 days
(d) 180 days
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8

11. A can do th of a piece of work in

20 days.
After he worked for 2 days, B joins
him,
together they completed the work
in
another 20 days. How long would
B alone
take to complete the work?
(a) 42 days
(b) 48 days
(c) 60 days
(d) 64 days
12. If 3 more men join a group of men,
a given
work can be completed one day
earlier. If
there were 3 men less in the group
it would
have taken 2 days more to
complete the
same work. How many men are
there in the
group?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 9
(d) 12
13. 20 men can complete a job in 12
days
working 6 hours a day. Find the
number of

days in which 15 men can

complete it
working 8 hours a day?
(a) 10
(b) 15
(c) 12
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(d)

14. A is twice as efficient as B. B can

complete a
job in 30 days. Find the number of
days in
which both A & B can complete it?
(a) 10
(b) 8
(c) 6
(d) 12
15. X is thrice as efficient as Y, who is
twice as
efficient as Z. X, Y & Z can
complete a job in
15 days. Find the number of days
in which Z
can complete the work?
(a) 90 days
(b) 120 days
(c) 135 days
(d) 165 days
16. P & Q can complete a job in 20
days. Q & R
can complete it in 30 days. P & R
can
complete it in 40 days. Find the
number of
days in which R alone can
complete it?
(a) 180 days
(b) 240 days
(c) 270 days
(d) 300 days
17. 3 boys or 6 girls can complete a
job in 14
days. Find the number of days in
which 2
boys and 3 girls can complete it?
(a) 10 days
(b) 8 days
(c) 15 days
(d) 12 days
18. 4 men and 7 women can complete
a job in 6

days. Find the number of days in

which 11
men and 8 women can complete
it?
(a) 2 days
(b) 3 days
(c) 2.5 days
(d) 4 days
19. X and Y can complete a job in 50
days and
75 days respectively. Find the
number of
days that they would take to
complete it, if
they work on alternate days?
(a) 60 days
(b) 62.5 days
(c) 57.5 days
(d) 52 days
20. X, Y and Z can complete a job in
16 days, 20
days and 10 days respectively.
They work
done on a rotation basis with Z
starting it. Y
worked on the second day and X
worked on
the third day and so on. Find the
time taken
to complete the job?
(a) 13

1
2
1
2

days

(b) 14 days

(c) 14 days
(d) 15 days
21. There are two groups of workers M
and N.
In each group there are 10
workers. Each
worker in N is thrice as efficient as
any
worker in M. A job was started by
all the
workers of N. After 30 days, all the
workers
of M joined them. The job was
completed in
another 15 days. In how many
days can
each worker of N complete it?
(a) 300 days
(b) 350 days

(c) 500 days

(d) 450 days

22. There are 5 men in a group. Each

of them
can complete a job in 12 days.
One of them
started the job. After each day of
work, a
man from the group joined him.
Find the
time taken to complete the job?
(a) 4.1 days
(b) 4.2 days
(c) 4.3 days
(d) 4.4 days
23. A, B and C can complete a work in
15 days,
20 days and 25 days respectively.
They
worked together and completed it.
They
were paid a total of Rs. 2820 after
completing the work. Find As
share in this
amount?
(a) Rs.705
(b) Rs.1080
(c) Rs.1200
(d) Rs.1260
24. A and B together can complete a
work in 12
days. If As efficiency is doubled
and Bs
efficiency is tripled. Which among
the
following could be the number of
days in
which they together can complete
the work?
(a) 4 days
(b) 6 days
(c) 3.5 days
(d) 5 days
25. Two men, three women and six
boys can
complete a job in 20 days .a
women and
four boys can complete it in 60
days. a man
and three women can complete it
in 40

days. Find the ratio of efficiencies

of a man
and women?
(a) 3:1 (b) 3:2
(c) 2:1
(d)
5:2
26. A garrison of 221 men has
provisions for 34
days when the consumption is 399
grams
per day per man .after 10 days ,
17 men left.
The remaining provisions were
sufficient for
X days more, only when the
consumption is
247 grams per day per man, find
X?
(a) 21 days
(b) 42 days
(c) 51 days
(d) 18 days
27. A father can do a job twice as fast
as his two
sons put together. If one son can
do it in 6
hours, and the other can do it in
12 hours,
in how many hours can the father
do the
job?
(a) 4 hours
(b) 2 hours
(c) 6 hours
(d) None of
these
28. A can do a piece of work in 12
days, B in 16
days, C in 32 days. They start the
work
together but A leaves after 3
days. B leaves
after sometime and C completes
the
remaining work in 3 days. How
many days
do they take to complete the
work?
(a) 60 days
(b) 70 days
(c) 8 days
(d) 10 days

29. A is four times as efficient as B

while C is
twice as efficient as B. If A can do
a job in 6
days, how long will A, B and C
together take
to complete the work?
(a) 3
days

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2

days

(b) 3

3
7

3
4

(c) 3
days
(d) None of
these
30. A can finish a piece of work in 10
days
working 6 hours a day. B can do it
in 15 days
working 8 hours a day. How many
days do
they take to finish the same work
together
if they work 10 hours a day?
(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 8 (d) None
of these
31. A group of 10 boys can do a job in
12 days.
Another group of 10 girls can do
the work in
6 days. How many days are
required to
complete the work, if both the
groups work
together?
(a) 8
(b) 6
(c) 4
(d) None
of these
32. A and B can do a piece of work in
40 and 45
days respectively. A started the
work and left
after a few days when B picked up
from
where A had left. If B took another
23 days to
finish the work, then after how
many days
did A leave the work?

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9

4
9

(a) 19 (b) 19
(c) 20 (d) 19
33. A, B and C can do a piece of work
in 18, 27
and 36 days respectively. They
started the
work together, but A left 8 days
before the
completion of work, while B left 6
days
before the completion of work.
How many
days did it take for the work to be
completed?
11
1
13
2
(a) 13
days
(b) 13 days
2
7
(c) 13 days
(d) None of
these
34. A group of 50 boys together can
finish a
piece of work in 70 days. The
group starts
the work but at the end of every
10 days. 10
new boys join. How many days
will it take
for the work to be finished?
(a) 50
(b) 60
(c) 70
(d)
80
35. 16 men and 12 boys can complete
a work in
26 days. 13 men can complete
the same
work in 48 days. In how many
days will 12
men and 6 boys complete half the
work?
(a) 30 (b) 34 (c) 39 (d) None of
these
36. Three men or four women can
construct a
hut in 31 days. How long will it
take for 12

men and 15 women to do the

same job?
(a) 8 days
(b) 12 days
(c) 4 days
(d) None of
these

37. 4 men or 8 women or 12 boys can

do a
certain work in 98 days. How many
days will
3 men, 5 women and 8 boys
together take
to do the work?
(a) 40
(b) 44
(c) 46 (d)
None of these
38. 18 men and 12 girls can do a work
in 18
days. A girl takes twice as much
time as a
man to do the work. How many
days will 8
men take to finish the same work?
(a) 45
(b) 50
(c) 54 (d) None
of these
39. A man, a women and a boy can do
a work in
20 days, 30 days and 60 days
respectively.
How many boys must assist 2
men and 8
women to do the work in 2 days?
(a) 4 boys
(b) 5 boys
(c) 6 boys
(d) None of
these
40. 12 men and 8 women can do a
piece of
work in 16 days, while 13 men
and 4
women can do it in 18 days. How
long will
13 men and 12 women take to
finish the
work?

(a) 12

6
13
3
5

days

(b) 12

1
2

days

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11

(c) 12 days
(d) 13 days
41. Two men and five women can do a
piece of
work in 5 days. If 3 men and 9
women do
the same work in 3 days and earn
Rs. 4,500
for the total work, how much does
each
woman receive per day?
(a) Rs. 150 (b) Rs. 200 (c) Rs. 100
(d) Rs. 50
42. A garrison has food sufficient for a
certain
number of men for some days.
After 40
days, 1/4th of the men left and it is
found
that the food will now last just as
long as
before, how long was that?
(a)100 days
(b) 120 days
(c) 160 days
(d) 180 days
43. A and B individually can complete
a work in
8 days and 12 days respectively. If
A works
at half his usual rate and B at onethird his
usual rate, how long will they take
to
complete the work together?
1
13
(a) 12 days
(b) 11
days
1
13

10
11

(c) 13 days
(d) 10
days
44. A can do piece of work in 10 days,
B can do
it in 20 days and C can do it in 30
days. If A

starts the work alone and is

helped on every
3rd day by both B and C, then in
how many
days is the job finished?
(a) 5 days
(b) 15 days
(c) 20 days
(d) None of
these
45. X can complete a piece of work in
9 days
which Y can complete in 12 days.
Z works
1
2

1 times as fast as X. How many

days will all
three of them working together
take to
finish the work?
3
1
4
2
(a) 2
(b) 2
(c) 3 (d) None of
these
46. Q can do a certain work in a
certain time. P
can do half that work, in 2/3rd of
the time
taken by Q. Working together they
can
complete a job in 12 days. How
long will Q
alone take to do the work?
(a) 20 days
(b) 21 days
(c) 22 days
(d) 23 days
47. A team has food stock for x
number of days.
After 20 days, 1/4th of the team
quits and
the food lasted for another x
number of days
for the remaining men. What is the
value of
x?
(a) 50
(b) 60
(c) 70
(d)
80

48. A, B and C working together can

do a piece
of work in 6 days. After working at
it
together for 2 days, C leaves while
A and B
finish it in another 8 days. The
time taken by
C to complete the work alone in
how many
days?
(a) 12 days
(b) 13 days
(c) 14 days
(d) None of
these
49. P can do a piece of work in 5 days,
while Q
can do it in 10 days. They worked
together
for 2 days and the rest of the work
is
finished by R alone in 2 more
days. If they
get Rs. 3,600 for completing work,
the share
of R is?
(a) Rs. 1,200
(b) Rs. 1,300
(c) Rs. 1,400
(d) Rs. 1,440
50. 40 boys can finish a work in 60
days. If 40
boys start the work and at the end
of every
10 days 40 more boys join, then
how long
does it take for the work to be
completed?
(a) 30 days
(b) 20 days
(c) 40 days
(d) None of
these
51. Two girls A and B can do a piece
of work in 8 hours and 12 hours
respectively. If they work on
alternate
hours, starting with A at 10:00
a.m.,
when will the work be finished?
(a) 7:30 p.m.
(b) 5:30 p.m.

(c) 7:00 p.m.

these

(d) None of

52. Two men can complete a piece of

work in
20 days working 12 hours a day. If
the
working hours per day are
reduced by 4
hours, then how many more days
will they
now take for the work to be
completed?
(a) 5
(b) 10
(c) 15
(d)
30
53. X is 50% more efficient than Y in
doing a
work. If the difference of their
earnings
upon completing the work
together is Rs.
160, how much did they receive in
all?
(a) Rs. 210
(b) Rs. 240
(c) Rs. 800
(d) Rs. 400
54. A and B can complete a work in 10
and 15
days respectively, working 15
hours and 10
hours a day respectively. How
much does A
earn, if they get Rs. 500 for
completing a
work together (assume that they
work
together from the start till the end)
?
(a) Rs. 50 (b) Rs. 150 (c) Rs. 250
(d) Rs. 350
55. A can complete a piece of work in
five days
for which he gets Rs. 400. B, who
works half
as fast as A, works for eight days
and gets his
share of?
(a) Rs. 320
(b) Rs. 160

(c) Rs. 240

(d) Rs. 360

56. 4 boys and 2 girls can do a piece

of work in
14 days. While 8 girls and 2 boys
can do the
same in 8 days. If a boy gets Rs.
81 per day,
what should the wages of a girl per
day be?
(a) Rs. 72 (b) Rs.60 (c) Rs. 40
(d) Rs. 90
57. 4 men and 9 boys can earn
Rs.800 in 16
days. 6 men and 8 boys can earn
Rs. 1,200 in
24 days. How long will 3 men and
6 boys
take to earn Rs. 750, if men and
boys are
paid daily wages?
(a) 50 days
(b) 22 days
(c) 33 days
(d) 25 days
58. The ratio of the number of days in
which A,B
and C can complete a work
independently is
1: 3: 4. If 1/19th of total earnings is
Rs. 191,
what is the sum of the shares of B
and C?
(a) Rs.2,292
(b)
Rs.2,865
(c)Rs.1,337
(d)
Rs.3,056
59. X, Y and Z can do a piece of work
in 10 days,
15 days and 30 days respectively.
After all
three worked together for two
days, X and Z
left the work. How many more
days will Y
alone take to complete the
remaining work?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 9

60. The daily wage of a 50% more

than that of
B. If they work together they can
complete
a work in 6 days. How many days
would B
alone take to complete the work?
(a) 6
(b) 9
(c) 12
(d) 15
61. A can do 5/8th of a piece of work in
20
days. After he works for 2 days, B
joins
him. Together, they complete the
work in
another 20 days. How long would
B alone
take to complete the work?
(a) 42 days
(b) 48 days
(c) 60 days
(d) None of
these
62. Ratio of the respective earnings of
a man, a
women and a boy is 4: 3: 2. If
they are paid
in proportion to their rates of
work, how
many days would the boy alone
take to
complete the work, given that all
the three
together complete the work in 16
days?
(a)96
(b) 72
(c) 48 (d)
24
63. Palone can build a wall measuring
10ft x 6ft
in 5 days, Q alone can build a wall
measuring 16ft x 9ft in 6 days.
How many
days will they to build a wall
measuring 45ft
x 12ft working together?
(a) 3
(b) 9
(c) 12
(d)
15

64. A is thrice as efficient as B who is

one-fourth
as efficient as C. If C earns Rs.
120 for
completing a work, what does A
earn for
completing a similar work on
similar terms
of work?
(a) Rs. 30 (b) Rs. 15 (c) Rs. 120
(d) Rs. 90
65. A can complete a piece of work in
12 days.
He worked for three days and left.
Then B
continued the work and
completed it. If B
gets Rs. 750 for his share of the
work, how
much does A get?
(a) Rs. 250
(b) Rs. 200
(c) Rs. 150
(d) Rs. 100
66. P and Q earn Rs. 250 and 750
respectively
for completing a work together in
12 days.
How many days does Q alone take
to
complete twice the earlier work?
(a) 16
(b) 24
(c) 32
(d)
40
67. A person can complete a work in
12 days.
After he works for some days, one
more
person, of equal capacity to work,
joins him
and the work is completed 3 days
earlier.
After how many days did the other
person
join?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 8
68. A can do a work in 20 days, while
B can do

the same work in 30 days. If B

works at 1/2
his usual rate, how many dates
will A and B
together take to complete 1/3 rd of
the work?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4 (d) 5
69. If 3 more men join a group of men
a given
work can be completed one day
earlier. If
there were 3 men less in the
group it would
have taken 2 days more to
complete the
same work. How many men are
there in the
group?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 9
(d)
12
70. Five men can complete a work in 8
days.
Three men work for 10 days and
then two
more men join them. How many
more days
do they take to complete the
work?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1
71. A alone can complete a piece of
work in 60
days. He can complete the same
work with B
in 30 days and in 20- days when
working
with both B and C. How many days
will C
alone take to do the work?
(a) 20
(b) 40
(c) 60
(d) 80
72. Eight men can complete a piece of
work in
five days working seven hours a
day. They

work for three days, then one man

leaves.
How many hours per day do they
have to
work now, in order to complete the
work in
the scheduled time?
1
2

1
2

(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 8
(d) 7
73. Three men can complete a work in
six days
working four hours a day. How
many more
men should join them so that the
work will
be completed in 4 days working 3
hours a
day?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d)
4
74. 4 men and 3 women finish a job in
6 days,
and 5 men and 7 women can do
the same
job in 4 days. How long will 1 man
and 1
woman take to do the work?
(a) 22
days

2

7

1

7

days

(b) 25

1

2

7

22

(c) 5
days
(d) 12
days
75. If 8 boys and 12 women can do a
piece of
work in 25 days, in how many
days can the
work be done by 6 boys and 11
women
working together?
(a) 15 days
(b) 10 days
(c) 12 days
(d) Cannot be
determined
76. A can do a piece of work in 20
days. He

works at it for 5 days and B can

do it in 10
days. With the help of C, they
finish it in 2
days. How much should C be paid
for his
contribution?
(a)Rs. 40 (b) Rs. 20 (c) Rs. 60
(d) Rs. 30
77. Twenty workers can finish a piece
of work in
30 days. After how many days
should 5
workers leave the job so that the
work is
completed in 35 days?
(a) 5 days
(b) 10 days
(c) 15 days
(d) 20 days
78. A and B together can do a piece of
work in 7 days. If A does twice as
much
work as B in a given time, how
long will
A alone take to do the work.
(a) 6.33 days
(b) 10.5 days
(c) 11 days
(d) 72 days
79. A can copy 50 pages in 10 hours; A
and B
together can copy 300 pages in
40 hours. In
how much time can B copy 30
pages?
(a) 13 hours
(b) 12 hours
(c) 11 hours
(d) 9 hours
80. A can do a piece of work in 10
days, B
in 12 days and C in 15 days. They
all start
the work together, but A leaves
after 2 days
and B leaves 3 days before the
work is
completed. In how many days is
the work
completed?

(a) 5 days (b) 6 days (c) 7 days

(d) 8 days
81. A can do 1/2 of the work in 8 days
while B
can do 1/3 of the work in 6 days.
How long
will it take for both of them to
finish the
work?
144
88
17
17
(a)
days
(b)
days
72
17
(c)
days
(d) 8 days
82. An engineer undertakes a project
to build a
road 15 km long in 300 days and
employs 45
men for the purpose. After 100
days, he
finds only 2.5 km of the road has
been
completed. Find the (approx.)
number of
extra men he must employ to
finish the
work in time.
(a) 43 days
(b) 45 days
(c) 55 days
(d) 68 days
83. A can do a piece of work in 12
days. A and B
complete the work together and
were paid
Rs. 54 and Rs. 81 respectively.
How many
days must they have taken to
complete the
work together?
(a) 4 days
(b) 4.5 days
(c) 4.8 days
(d) 5 days
84. 30 men working 5 hours a day can
do a work
in 16 days. In how many days will
20 men
working 6 hours a day do the
same work?

1
2

(a) 22 days
(c) 21 days
these

(b) 20 days
(d) None of

85. 15 men could finish a piece of

work in 210
days. But at the end of 100 days,
15
additional men are employed. In
how many
more days will the work be
complete?
(a) 80 days
(b) 60 days
(c) 55 days
(d) 50 days
86. A, B and C are employed to do a
piece of
work for Rs. 529. A and B together
are
supposed to do 19/23 of the work
and B
and C together 8/23 of the work.
How much
should A be paid?
(a) Rs. 245
(b) Rs. 295
(c) Rs. 300
(d) Rs. 345
87. A is thrice as good a workman as B
and
therefore is able to finish the job
in 60
days less than B. In how many
days will
they finish the job working
together?
1
3


2
2
(a) 22
days
(b) 11
days
(c) 15 days
(d) 20 days
88. In a fort there was sufficient food
for 200
soldiers for 31 days. After 27 days
120
soldiers left the fort. For how
many extra

days will the rest of the food last

for the
remaining soldiers?
(a) 12 days
(b) 10 days
(c) 8 days
(d) 6 days
89. A and B can do a piece of work in
12 days. B
and C together do it in 15 days. If
A is twice
as good a workman as C. In how
much time
will B alone can do the work?
(a) 15 days
(b) 20 days
(c) 25 days
(d) 35 days
90. 24 men working 8 hours a day can
finish a
work in 10 days. Working at a rate
of 10
hours a day, the number of men
required to
finish the work in 6 days is
(a) 30
(b) 32
(c) 34
(d) 36
91. 12 men complete a work in 18
days. 6 days
after they had started working, 4
men join
them. How many more days will
all of them
take to complete the remaining
work?
(a) 10 days
(b) 12 days
(c) 15 days
(d) 9 days
92. A takes 5 days more than B to do a
certain
job and 9 days more than C; A
and B
together can do the job in the
same time as
C. How many days A would take
to do it?
(a) 16 days
(b) 10 days
(c) 15 days
(d) 20 days
93. A can do some work in 10 days, B
can do it

in 20 days and C can do it in 40

days. They
start working in turns with A
starting to
work on the first day followed by
B on the
second day and by C on the third
day and
again by A on the fourth day and
so on till
the work is completed fully. Find
the time
taken to complete the work fully?
(a) 16 days
(b) 15 days
(c) 17 days
(d) 16.5 days
94. A, B and C can do some work in 36
days. A
and B together do twice as much
as C alone
and A and C together can do
thrice as much
work as B alone. Find the time
taken by C to
do the whole work.
(a) 72 days
(b) 96 days
(c) 108 days
(d) 120 days
95. A can do some work in 24 days, B
can do it
in 32 days and C can do is in 60
days. They
start working together. A left after
6 days
and B left after working for 8 days.
How
many more days are required to
complete
the whole work?
(a) 30
(b) 25
(c) 22
(d) 20
96. According to a plan, a drilling team
had to
drill to a depth of 270 meters
below the
ground level. For the first three
days the
team drilled as per the plan.
However,

subsequently finding that their

resources
were getting underutilized
according to the
plan, it started to drill 8 meters
more than
the plan every day. Therefore, a
day before
the planned date they had drilled
to a depth
of 280 meters. How many meters
of drilling
was the plan for each day.
(a) 38 meters
(b) 30
meters
(c) 27 meters
(d) 28
meters
97. A can do as much work in 2 days
as B can do
in 3 days and B can do as much
work in 4
days as C in 5 days. A piece of
work takes 20
days if all work together. How long
would B
take to do all the work by himself?
(a) 82 days
(b) 44 days
(c) 66 days
(d) 50 days
98. X takes 4 days to complete onethird of a
job, Y takes 3 days to complete
one-sixth of
the same work and Z takes 5 days
to
complete half the job. If all of
them work
together for 3 days and X and Z
quit, how
long will it take for Y to complete
the
remaining work done.
(a) 6 days
(b) 8.1 days
(c) 5.1 days
(d) 7 days
99. A complete 2/3 of a certain job in 6
days. B
can complete 1/3 of the same job
in 8 days

and C can complete of the work

in 12
days. All of them work together for
4 days
and then A and C quit. How long
will it take
for B to complete the remaining
work alone?
(a)3.8 days
(b) 3.33 days
(c) 2.22 days
(d) 4.3 days
100. Three diggers dug a ditch of 324
m deep in
six days working simultaneously.
During
one shift, the third digger digs as
many
meters more than the second as
the
second digs more than the first.
The third
diggers work in 10 days is equal
to the first
diggers work in 14 days. How
many
meters does the first digger dig
per shift?
(a) 15 m
(b) 18 m (c) 21 m
(d) 27 m
101. A, B and C working together
completed a
job in 10 days. However, C only
worked for
the first three days when 37/100
of the job
was done. Also, the work done
by A in 5
days is equal to the work done by
B in 4
days. How many days would be
required by
the fastest worker to complete
the entire
work?
(a) 20 days
(b) 25 days
(c) 30 days
(d) 40 days
102. A and B completed a work
together in 5

days. Had A worked at twice the

speed and
B at half the speed, it would have
taken
them four days to complete the
job. How
much time would it take for A
alone to do
the work?
(a) 10 days
(b) 20 days
(c) 25 days
(d) 15 days
103. Three cooks have to make 80
idlis. They
are known to make 20 pieces
every minute
working together. The first cook
began
working alone and made 20
pieces having
worked for sometime more than
three
minutes. The remaining part of
the work
was done by the second and the
third cook
working together. It took a total
of 8
minutes to complete the 80 idlis.
How
many minutes would it take the
first cook
alone to cook 160 idlis for a
marriage party
the next day?
(a) 16 minutes
(b) 24
minutes
(c) 32 minutes
(d) 40
minutes
104. It takes six days for three women
and two
men working together to
complete a work.
Three men would do the same
work five
days sooner than nine women.
How many
times does the output of a man
exceed

that of a woman?
(a) 3 times
(b) 4 times
(c) 5 times
(d) 6 times
105. Each of A, B and C need a unique
time to
do a certain work. C needs 1 hour
less than
A to complete the work. Working
together,
they require 30 minutes to
complete 50%
of the job. The work also gets
completed if
A and B start working together
and A leaves
after 1 hour and B works for a
further 3
hours. How much work does C do
per
hour?
(a) 16.66%
(b) 33.33%
(c) 50%
(d) 66.66%
106. Two women Renu and Ushi are
working on
as embroidery design. If Ushi
worked alone,
she would need eight hours more
to
complete the design than if they
both
worked together. Now if Renu
worked
alone, it would need 4.5 hours
more to
complete the design than they
both
working together. What time
would it take
Renu alone to complete the
design?
(a) 10.5 hours
(b) 12.5
hours
(c) 14.5 hours
(d) 18.5
hours

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