Topic: Time & Work : Practice questions

1. A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on it 8. A can do a certain work in the same time in which B and C together
together for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is : can do it. If A and B together could do it in 10 days and C alone in 50
1 days, then B alone could do it in:
a) a) 15 days
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b) 20 days
1 c) 25 days
b)
10 d) 30 days
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c)
15 9. A does 80% of a work in 20 days. He then calls in B and they together
8 finish the remaining work in 3 days. How long B alone would take to
d) do the whole work?
15 a) 23 days
b) 37 days
2. A can lay railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B 1
can do the same job in 12 days. With help of C, they did the job in 4 c) 37
days only. Then, C alone can do the job in: 2
d) 40 days
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a) 9 days
5 10. A machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours, machine Q can print
2 the same number of books in 10 hours while machine R can print them
b) 9 days
5 in 12 hours. All the machines are started at 9 A.M. while machine P is
3 closed at 11 A.M. and the remaining two machines complete work.
c) 9 days Approximately at what time will the work (to print one lakh books) be
5 finished ?
d) 10 a) 11:30 A.M.
b) 12 noon
3. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. c) 12:30 P.M.
In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on d) 1:00 P.M.
every third day?
a) 12 days 11. A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do the same work in 15
b) 15 days days. B worked for 10 days and left the job. In how many days, A
c) 16 days alone can finish the remaining work?
d) 18 days a) 5
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4. A is thrice as good as workman as B and therefore is able to finish a b) 5
job in 60 days less than B. Working together, they can do it in: 2
a) 20 days c) 6
1 d) 8
b) 22 days
2 12. 4 men and 6 women can complete a work in 8 days, while 3 men and
c) 25 days 7 women can complete it in 10 days. In how many days will 10
d) 30 days women complete it?
a) 35
5. A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A b) 40
and B undertook to do it for Rs. 3200. With the help of C, they c) 45
completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C? d) 50
a) Rs. 375
b) Rs. 400 13. A and B can together finish a work 30 days. They worked together for
c) Rs. 600 20 days and then B left. After another 20 days, A finished the
d) Rs. 800 remaining work. In how many days A alone can finish the work?
a) 40 b) 50
6. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men c) 54 d) 60
and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days, the time taken by 15 men and
20 boys in doing the same type of work will be: 14. P can complete a work in 12 days working 8 hours a day. Q can
a) 4 days complete the same work in 8 days working 10 hours a day. If both P
b) 5 days and Q work together, working 8 hours a day, in how many days can
c) 6 days they complete the work?
d) 7 days
5 6
a) 5 b) 5
7. A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C together can do it in 3 11 11
hours, while A and C together can do it in 2 hours. How long will B 5 6
c) 6 d) 6
alone take to do it? 11 11
a) 8 hours b) 10 hours
c) 12 hours d) 24 hours

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15. 10 women can complete a work in 7 days and 10 children take 14 23. A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days, while B and C can do the
days to complete the work. How many days will 5 women and 10 same work in 24 days and C and A in 20 days. They all work together
children take to complete the work? for 10 days when B and C leave. How many days more will A take to
a) 3 finish the work?
b) 5 a) 18 days
c) 7 b) 24 days
d) Cannot be determined c) 30 days
e) None of these d) 36 days

16. X and Y can do a piece of work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. 24. A works twice as fast as B. If B can complete a work in 12 days
X started the work alone and then after 4 days Y joined him till the independently, the number of days in which A and B can together
completion of the work. How long did the work last? finish the work in :
a) 6 days a) 4 days
b) 10 days b) 6 days
c) 15 days c) 8 days
d) 20 days d) 18 days

17. A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working 25. Twenty women can do a work in sixteen days. Sixteen men can
together, take to complete a job which A alone could have done in 23 complete the same work in fifteen days. What is the ratio between the
days? capacity of a man and a woman?
a) 11 days a) 3 : 4 b) 4 : 3
b) 13 days c) 5 : 3 d) Data inadequate
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c) 20 days
17 26. A and B can do a work in 8 days, B and C can do the same work in
d) None of these 12 days. A, B and C together can finish it in 6 days. A and C together
will do it in :
18. Ravi and Kumar are working on an assignment. Ravi takes 6 hours to a) 4 days
b) 6 days
type 32 pages on a computer, while Kumar takes 5 hours to type 40
c) 8 days
pages. How much time will they take, working together on two
d) 12 days
different computers to type an assignment of 110 pages?
a) 7 hours 30 minutes
b) 8 hours 27. A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 days and C in 12 days. B and
c) 8 hours 15 minutes C start the work but are forced to leave after 3 days. The remaining
d) 8 hours 25 minutes work was done by A in:
a) 5 days
b) 6 days
19. A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 24, 6 and 12 days
c) 10 days
respectively. Working together, they will complete the same work in:
1 7 1
d) 10 days
a) day b) day 2
24 24
3
c) 3 days d) 4 days 28. X can do a piece of work in 40 days. He works at it for 8 days and
7 then Y finished it in 16 days. How long will they together take to
complete the work?
20. Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days. Tanya is 25% more efficient 1
than Sakshi. The number of days taken by Tanya to do the same piece a) 13 days
of work is:
3
b) 15 days
a) 15
c) 20 days
b) 16
d) 26 days
c) 18
d) 25
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29. A and B can do a job together in 7 days. A is 1 times as efficient
21. A takes twice as much time as B or thrice as much time as C to finish 4
a piece of work. Working together, they can finish the work in 2 days. as B. The same job can be done by A alone in :
B can do the work alone in: 1
a) 4 days b) 6 days a) 9 days b) 11 days
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c) 8 days d) 12 days
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c) 12 days d) 16 days
22. A and B can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. 4 3
They started doing the work together but after 2 days B had to leave
and A alone completed the remaining work. The whole work was 30. A and B together can do a piece of work in 30 days. A having
completed in : worked for 16 days, B finishes the remaining work alone in 44
a) 8 days b) 10 days days. In how many days shall B finish the whole work alone?
c) 12 days d) 15 days a) 30 days b) 40 days
c) 60 days d) 70 days

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