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1. P is able to do a piece of work in 15 days and Q can do the same work in 20 days. If they work
together for 4 days, what is the fraction of work left?
A. 8/15 B. 7/15
C. 11/15 D. 2/11

2. P can lay railway track between two stations in 16 days. Q can do the same job in 12 days.
With the help of R, they completes the job in 4 days. How much days does it take for R alone to
complete the work?
A. 9(3/5) days B. 9(1/5) days
C. 9(2/5) days D. 10 days

3. P, Q and R can do a work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. How many days does it need to
complete the work if P does the work and he is assisted by Q and R on every third day?
A. 10 days B. 14 days
C. 15 days D. 9 days

4. A is thrice as good as B in work. A is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. They can
finish the work in - days if they work together.
A. 18 days B. 22 ½ days
C. 24 days D. 26 days

5. A can do a particular work in 6 days . B can do the same work in 8 days. A and B signed to do
it for Rs. 3200. They completed the work in 3 days with the help of C. How much is to be paid to
C?
A. Rs. 380 B. Rs. 600
C. Rs. 420 D. Rs. 400

6. 6 men and 8 women can complete a work in 10 days. 26 men and 48 women can finish the
same work in 2 days. 10 men and 30 women can do the same work in - days.
A. 4 days B. 6 days
C. 2 days D. 8 days

7. A can do a piece of work in 4 hours . A and C together can do it in just 2 hours, while B and C
together need 3 hours to finish the same work. B alone can complete the work in --- hours.
A. 12 hours B. 6 hours
C. 8 hours D. 10 hours
8. P can do a work in the same time in which Q and R together can do it. If P and Q work
together, the work can be completed in 10 days. R alone needs 50 days to complete the same
work. then Q alone can do it in
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A. 30 days B. 25 days
C. 20 days D. 15 days

9. A completes 80% of a work in 20 days. Then B also joins and A and B together finish the
remaining work in 3 days. How long does it need for B if he alone completes the work?
A. 37 ½ days B. 25 days
C. 31 days D. 22 days

10. Machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours. Machine Q can print the same number of
books in 10 hours while machine R can print the same in 12 hours. All the machines started
printing at 9 A.M. Machine P is stopped at 11 A.M. and the remaining two machines complete
work. Approximately at what time will the printing of one lakh books be completed?
A. 3 pm B. 2 pm
C. 1:00 pm D. 11 am

11. P can finish a work in 18 days. Q can finish the same work in 15 days. Q worked for 10 days
and left the job. how many days does P alone need to finish the remaining work?
A. 8 B. 5
C. 4 D. 6

12. 3 men and 7 women can complete a work in 10 days . But 4 men and 6 women need 8 days to
complete the same work . In how many days will 10 women complete the same work?
A. 50 B. 40
C. 30 D. 20
13. A and B can finish a work 30 days if they work together. They worked together for 20 days
and then B left. A finished the remaining work in another 20 days. In how many days A alone can
finish the work?
A. 60 B. 50
C. 40 D. 30
14. A can complete a work in 12 days with a working of 8 hours per day. B can complete the
same work in 8 days when working 10 hours a day. If A and B work together, working 8 hours a
day, the work can be completed in --- days.
A. 5 5⁄11 B. 4 5⁄11
C. 6 4⁄11 D. 6 5⁄11
15. P is 30% more efficient than Q. P can complete a work in 23 days. If P and Q work together,
how much time will it take to complete the same work?
A. 9 B. 11
C. 13 D. 15

16. P, Q and R can complete a work in 24, 6 and 12 days respectively. The work will be
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completed in --- days if all of them are working together.

17. 10 men can complete a work in 7 days. But 10 women need 14 days to complete the same
work. How many days will 5 men and 10 women need to complete the work?
A. 5 B. 6
C. 7 D. 8

18. Kamal will complete work in 20 days. If Suresh is 25% more efficient than Kamal, he can
complete the work in --- days.
A. 14 B. 16
C. 15 D. 20

19. Anil and Suresh are working on a special assignment. Anil needs 6 hours to type 32 pages on
a computer and Suresh needs 5 hours to type 40 pages. If both of them work together on two
different computers, how much time is needed to type an assignment of 110 pages?
A. 7 hour 15 minutes B. 7 hour 30 minutes
C. 8 hour 15 minutes D. 8 hour 30 minutes

20. P and Q can complete a work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. P alone started the work
and Q joined him after 4 days till the completion of the work. How long did the work last?
A. 5 days B. 10 days
C. 14 days D. 22 days

21. P takes twice as much time as Q or thrice as much time as R to finish a piece of work. They
can finish the work in 2 days if work together. How much time will Q take to do the work alone?
A. 4 B. 5
D. 7
C. 6

22. P and Q can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started the work
together and then Q left after 2 days. P alone completed the remaining work. The work was
finished in --- days.
A. 12 B. 16
C. 20 D. 24

23. P and Q can do a work in 30 days. Q and R can do the same work in 24 days and R and P in
20 days. They started the work together, but Q and R left after 10 days. How many days more
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will P take to finish the work?

24. P works twice as fast as Q. If Q alone can complete a work in 12 days, P and Q can finish the
work in --- days
A. 1 B. 2
C. 3 D. 4

25. A work can be finished in 16 days by twenty women. The same work can be finished in
fifteen days by sixteen men. The ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman is
A. 1:3 B. 4:3
C. 2:3 D. 2:1

26. P and Q need 8 days to complete a work. Q and R need 12 days to complete the same work.
But P, Q and R together can finish it in 6 days. How many days will be needed if P and R
together do it?
A. 3 B. 8
C. 12 D. 4

27. P can do a work in 24 days. Q can do the same work in 9 days and R can do the same in 12
days. Q and R start the work and leave after 3 days. P finishes the remaining work in --- days.
A. 7 B. 8
C. 9 D. 10
28. If daily wages of a man is double to that of a woman, how many men should work for 25 days
to earn Rs.14400? Given that wages for 40 women for 30 days are Rs.21600.
A. 12 B. 14
C. 16 D. 18
29. P,Q and R together earn Rs.1620 in 9 days. P and R can earn Rs.600 in 5 days. Q and R in 7
days can earn Rs.910. How much amount does R can earn per day?
A. Rs.40 B. Rs.70
C. Rs.90 D. Rs.100

30. Assume that 20 cows and 40 goats can be kept for 10 days for Rs.460. If the cost of keeping 5
goats is the same as the cost of keeping 1 cow, what will be the cost for keeping 50 cows and 30
goats for 12 days?
A. Rs.1104 B. Rs.1000
C. Rs.934 D. Rs.1210
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ANSWERS: 1A, 2A, 3C, 4B, 5D, 6A, 7A, 8B, 9A, 10C, 11D, 12B, 13A, 14A, 15C, 16B, 17C,
18B, 19C, 20B, 21C, 22A, 23C, 24D, 25B, 26B, 27D, 28C, 29B, 30A

1. Two forest officials in their respective divisions were involved in the harvesting of tendu leaves. One
division had an average output of 21 tons from a hectare and the other division, which had 12 hectares
of land less, dedicated to tendu leaves, got 25 tons of tendu from a hectare. As a result, the second
division harvested 300 tons of tendu leaves more than the first. How many tons of tendu leaves did the
first division harvest?
(a) 3150 (b) 3450 (c) 3500 (d) 3600

2. According to a plan, a drilling team had to drill to a depth of 270 metres below the ground level. For
the first three days the team drilled as per the plan. However, subsequently finding that their resources
were getting underutilised according to the plan, it started to drill 8 metres more than the plan every
day. Therefore, a day before the planned date they had drilled to a depth of 280 metres. How many
metres of drilling was the plan for each day.
(a) 38 metres (b) 30 metres (c) 27 metres (d) 28 metres

3. A pipe can fill a tank in x hours and another can empty it in y hours. If the tank is 1/3rd full then the
number of hours in which they will together fill it in is
(a) (b) (c) (d)

4. Dev and Tukku can do a piece of work in 45 and 40 days respectively. They began the work together,
but Dev leaves after some days and Tukku finished the remaining work in 23 days. After how many days
did Dev leave
(a) 7 days (b) 8 days (c) 9 days (d) 11 days

5. A finishes 6/7th of the work in 2z hours, B works twice as fast and finishes the remaining work. For
how long did B work?
(a) (b) (c) (d)

Directions for Questions 6 to 10: Read the following and answer the questions that follow.
A set of 10 pipes (set X) can fill 70% of a tank in 7 minutes. Another set of 5 pipes (set Y) fills 3/8 of the
tank in 3 minutes. A third set of 8 pipes (set Z) can empty 5/10 of the tank in 10 minutes.

6. How many minutes will it take to fill the tank if all the 23 pipes are opened at the same time?
(a) 5 minutes (b) minutes (c) 6 minutes (d) minutes

7. If only half the pipes of set X are closed and only half the pipes of set Y are open and all other pipes
are open, how long will it take to fill 49% of the tank?
(a) 16 minutes (b) 13 minutes (c) 7 minutes (d) None of these

8. If 4 pipes are closed in set Z, and all others remain open, how long will it take to fill the tank?
(a) 5 minutes (b) 6 minutes (c) 7 minutes (d) 7.5 minutes

9. If the tank is half full and set X and set Y are closed, how many minutes will it take for set Z to empty
the tank if alternate taps of set Z are closed.
(a) 12 minutes (b) 20 minutes (c) 40 minutes (d) 16 minutes
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10. If one pipe is added for set X and set Y and set Z’s capacity is increased by 20% on its original value
and all the taps are opened at 2.58 p.m., then at what time does the tank get filled? (If it is initially
empty.)
(a) 3.05 p.m. (b) 3.04 p.m. (c) 3.10 p.m. (d) 3.03 p.m.

11. Ajit can do as much work in 2 days as Baljit can do in 3 days and Baljit can do as much in 4 days as
Diljit in 5 days. A piece of work takes 20 days if all work together. How long would Baljit take to do all
the work by himself?
(a) 82 days (b) 44 days (c) 66 days (d) 50 days

12. Two pipes can fill a cistern in 14 and 16 hours respectively. The pipes are opened simultaneously and
it is found that due to leakage in the bottom of the cistern, it takes 32 minutes extra for the cistern to be
filled up. When the cistern is full, in what time will the leak empty it?
(a) 114 h (b) 112 h (c) 100 h (d) 80 h

13. A tank holds 100 gallons of water. Its inlet is 7 inches in diameter and fills the tank at 5 gallons/min.
The outlet of the tank is twice the diameter of the inlet. How many minutes will it take to empty the
tank if the inlet is shut off, when the tank is full and the outlet is opened? (Hint: Rate of filling or
emptying is directly proportional to the diameter)
(a) 7.14 min (b) 10.0 min (c) 0.7 min (d) 5.0 min

14. A tank of capacity 25 litres has an inlet and an outlet tap. If both are opened simultaneously, the
tank is filled in 5 minutes. But if the outlet flow rate is doubled and taps opened the tank never gets
filled up. Which of the following can be outlet flow rate in liters/min?
(a) 2 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 3

15. X takes 4 days to complete one-third 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

16. A completes 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 3/4 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

17. Three diggers dug a ditch of 324 m deep in six days working simultaneously. During one shift, the
third digger digs as many metres more than the second as the second digs more than the first. The third
digger’s work in 10 days is equal to the first digger’s work in 14 days. How many metres does the first
digger dig per shift?
(a) 15 m (b) 18 m (c) 21 m (d) 27 m

18. 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
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19. 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

20. Two typists of varying skills can do a job in 6 minutes if they work together. If the first typist typed
alone for 4 minutes and then the second typist typed alone for 6 minutes, they would be left with 1/5 of
the whole work. How many minutes would it take the slower typist to complete the typing job working
alone?
(a) 10 minutes (b) 15 minutes (c) 12 minutes (d) 20 minutes

21. 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

22. 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

23. Each of A, B and C need a certain 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%

24. Two women Renu and Ushi are working on an 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

25. Mini and Vinay are quiz masters preparing for a quiz. In x minutes, Mini makes y questions more
than Vinay. If it were possible to reduce the time needed by each to make a question by two minutes,
then in x minutes Mini would make 2y questions more than Vinay. How many questions does Mini make
in x minutes?
(a) 1/4[2(x + y) – ] (b) 1/4[2(x – y) – ] (c) Either a or b (d) 1/4 [2(x – y) – ]

26. A tank of 3600 cu m capacity is being filled with water. The delivery of the pump discharging the tank
is 20% more than the delivery of the pump filling the same tank. As a result, twelve minutes more time is
needed to fill the tank than to discharge it. Determine the delivery of the pump discharging the tank.
(a) 40 m3 /min (b) 50 m3 /min (c) 60 m3 /min (d) 80 m3 /min

27. Two pipes A and B can fill up a half full tank in 1.2 hours. The tank was initially empty. Pipe B was
kept open for half the time required by pipe A to fill the tank by itself. Then, pipe A was kept open for as
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much time as was required by pipe B to fill up 1/3 of the tank by itself. It was then found that the tank
was 5/6 full. The least time in which any of the pipes can fill the tank fully is
(a) 4.8 hours (b) 4 hours (c) 3.6 hours (d) 6 hours

28. A tank of 425 litres capacity has been filled with water through two pipes, the first pipe having been
opened five hours longer than the second. If the first pipe were open as long as the second, and the
second pipe was open as long as the first pipe was open, then the first pipe would deliver half the
amount of water delivered by the second pipe; if the two pipes were open simultaneously, the tank
would be filled up in 17 hours. How long was the second pipe open?
(a) 10 hours (b) 12 hours (c) 15 hours (d) 18 hours

29. Two men and a woman are entrusted with a task. The second man needs three hours more to cope
with the job than the first man and the woman would need working together. The first man, working
alone, would need as much time as the second man and the woman working together. The first man,
working alone, would spend eight hours less than the double period of time the second man would
spend working alone. How much time would the two men and the woman need to complete the task if
they all worked together?
(a) 2 hours (b) 3 hours (c) 4 hours (d) 5 hours

30. The Bubna dam has four inlets. Through the first three inlets, the dam can be filled in 12 minutes;
through the second, the third and the fourth inlet, it can be filled in 15 minutes; and through the first
and the fourth inlet, in 20 minutes. How much time will it take all the four inets to fill up the dam?
(a) 8 min (b) 10 min (c) 12 min (d) None of these

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(a) 18. (a) 19. (a) 20. (b) 21. (c) 22. (d) 23. (c) 24. (a) 25. (a) 26. (c) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (a) 30. (b)