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Time & Work

1. A and B together can complete a piece of work in 12 days, B and C can do it in 20 days and C and
A can do it in 15 days. A, B and C together can complete it in
a. 6 days b. 9 days c. 10 days d. 10 days

2. A and B together can complete a work in 3 days. They star together. But, after 2 days, B left the
work. If the work is completed after 2 more days, B alone could the work in :
a. 5 days b. 6 days c. 9 days d. 10 days

3. 9 men working 7 hours a day can complete a piece of work in 15 days. In how many days can 6
men working for 9 hours a day, complete the same piece of work?
a. 15 days b. 16 days c. 16 days d. 17 days

4. If 5 men or 9 women can finish a piece of work in 19 days, 3 men and 6 women will do the same
work in :
a. 10 days b. 12 days c. 13 days iv. 15 days

5. A works twice as fast as B. If both of them can together finish a piece of work in 12 days, then B
alone can do it in :
a. 24 days b. 27 days c. 36 days d. 48 days

6. A can do a piece of work in 10 days and B in 20 days. They begin together but A leaves 2 days
before the completion of the work. The whole work will be done in
a. 8 days b. 7 days c. 7 days d. 6 days

7. A and B together can complete a piece of work in 8 days while B and C together can do it in 12
days. All the three together can complete the work in 6 days. In how much time will A and C
together complete the work?
a. 6 days b. 10 days c. 12 days d. 8 days

8. X and Y can do a piece of work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. X started the work alone and
then after 4 days Y joined him till the completion of the work. How long did the work last?
a. 6 days b. 10 days c. 15 days d. 20 days

9. 7 men can complete a piece of work in 12 days. How many additional men will be required to
complete double the work in 8 days?
a. 28 b. 21 c. 14 d. 7

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10. A takes 10 days less than the time taken by B to finish a piece of work. If both A and B can do it
in 12 days, then the time taken by B alone to finish the work is
a. 30 days b. 27 days c. 20 days d. 25 days

11. 30 workers can complete a job in 36 days. After 30 days, sum more workers joined and the job
was completed 2 days earlier. How many new workers joined?
a. 13 b. 15 c. 17 d. 19

12. A and B can do work in 72 days. B and C can do it in 120 days. A and C can do it in 90 days. In
what time can A alone do it?
a. 80 days b. 100 days c. 120 days d. 150 days

13. If A and B together can complete a work in 18 days, A and C together in 12 days, and B and C
together in 9 days, then B alone can do the work in
a. 18 days b. 24 days c. 30 days d. 40 days

14. A can complete of a work in 4 days and B can complete of the work in 6 days. In how many
days can both A and B together completes the work?
a. 3 days b. 2 days c. 3 days d. 2 days

15. A and B can do a piece of work in 40 days and 50 days, respectively. Both begin together but after
a certain time, A leaves off. In this case B finishes the remaining work in 20 days. After how many
days did A leave?
a. 13 days b. 13 days c. 8 days d. None of these

16. A does half as much work as B in one-sixth of time. If together they take 10 days to complete the
work, how much time shall B alone take to do it?
a. 70 days b. 30 days c. 40 days d. 50 days

17. In a camp, 95 men had provisions for 200 days. After 5 days, 30 men left the camp. For how many
days will the remaining food last now?
a. 180 b. 285 c. 139 d. 240

18. A man, a women and a boy together complete a piece of work in 3 days. If a man alone can do it
in 6 days and a boy alone in 18 days, how long will a woman take to complete the work?
a. 9 days b. 21 days c. 24 days d. 27 days

19. X and Y can do a piece of work in 30 days. They work together for 6 days and then X quits and Y
finishes the work in 32 more days. In how many days can Y do the piece of work alone?
a. 30 days b. 32 days c. 34 days d. 40 days

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20. A completes a piece of work in 4 days and B completes it in 6 days. If they both work on it together,
then the number of days required to complete the same work is (in days)
a. 3 b. 2 c. 2 d. 3

21. A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 days and C in 12 days. B and C start the work but are forced
to leave after 3 days. The remaining work was done by A in (days)
a. 5 b. 6 c. 10 d. 10

22. Two men X and Y started a job in which X was thrice as good as Y and therefore took 60 days less
than Y to finish the job. How many days will they take to finish the job, if they start working
together? (in days)
a. 15 b. 20 c. 22 d. 25

23. X and Y can separately do a piece of work in 20 and 15 days respectively. They worked together
for 6 days after which Y was replaced by Z. the work was finished in next 4 days. The number of
days in which Z alone could do the work is (in days)
a. 40 b. 30 c. 45 d. 35

24. A is thrice as good a workman as B and takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than B takes. The
number of days taken by B to finish the work is
a. 12 b. 15 c. 20 d. 30

25. A certain job was assigned to a group of men to do in 20 days. But, 12 men did not turn up for the
job and the remaining men did the job in 32 days. The original number of men in the group was
a. 32 b. 34 c. 36 d. 40

26. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 16, 32 and 48 days, respectively. He employed certain
number of men but 12 of them being absent from the very 1st day, the rest could finish the work
in 30 days. Find the number of men originally employed.
a. 10 days b. 20 days c. 15 days d. 9 days

27. A is thrice as good a workman as B and therefore, is able to finish a job in 30 days less than B.
How many days will they take to finish the job working together?
a. 10 b. 11 c. 11 d. 11

28. A fort has provisions for 420 soldiers for 70 days. After 10 days 210 more soldiers enter into the
fort. The remaining food will last for
a. 30 days b. 25 days c. 35 days d. 40 days

29. A and B together can do a piece of work in 12 days, which B and C together can do in 16 days. After
A has been working at it for 5 days and B for 7 days, C finishes it in 13 days. In how many days C
alone will do the work?
a. 16 b. 24 c. 37 d. 48
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30. A and B can do a piece of work in 45 days and 40 days respectively. They began to do the work
together but A leaves after some days and then B completed the remaining work in 23 days. The
number of days after which A left the work was:
a. 11 b. 7 c. 9 d. 12

31. A and B complete a piece of work in 12 and 18 days respectively. A begins to do the work and they
work alternatively one at a time for one day each. The whole work will be completed in
a. 14 days b 15 days c. 16 days d. 18 days

32. A can do a piece of work in 18 days and B in 12 days. They began the work together, but B left
the work 3 days before its completion. In how many days, in all, was the work completed?
a. 12 days b. 10 days c. 9.6 days d. 9 days

33. A certain number of men complete a piece of work in 60 days. If there were 8 men more, the work
could be finished in 10 days less. How many men were originally there?
a. 30 b. 32 c. 36 d. 40

34. A contractor undertook to complete a project in 90 days and employed 60 men on it. After 60 days,
he found that of the work has already been completed. How many men can he discharge so that
the project may be completed exactly on time?
a. 40 b. 20 c. 30 d. 15

35. A does half as much work as B in one-third of the time taken by B. If together they take 10 days
to complete a work, then the time taken by B alone to do it would have been
a. 30 days b. 25 days c. 6 days d. 12 days

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