1. A alone can complete a work in 12 days. A and B together can complete it in 8 days. How long will B alone take to complete the work ?

24 days

18 days

16 days

20 days

Answer: 24 days

Explanation:


2. 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 ?

18 hrs

24 hrs

30 hrs

12 hrs

Answer: 24 hrs

Explanation:


3. A can do a piece of work in 4 days and B can do it in 12 days. In how many days will they finish the work, both working together ?

4 days

6 days

2 days

3 days

Answer: 3 days

Explanation:


4. x can copy 80 pages in 20 hours, x and y together can copy 135 pages in 27 hours. Then y can copy 20 pages in ?

20 hours

3 hours

24 hours

12 hours

Answer: 20 hours

Explanation:


5. A and B together can do a piece of work in 6 days. If A can alone do the work in 18 days, then the number of days required for B to finish the work is ?

10

12

9

15

Answer: 9

Explanation:


6. A and B can do a given piece of work in 8 days, B and C can do the same work in 12 days and A, B, C complete it in 6 days. Number of days required to finish the work by A and C is ?

16

8

12

24

Answer: 8

Explanation:


7. If 20 women can lay a road of length 100m in 10 days. Then 10 women can lay the same road of length 50 m in ?

20 days

15 days

5 days

10 days

Answer: 10 days

Explanation:


8. A and B together can finish a job in 24 days, while A, B and C together can finish the same job in 8 days. C alone will finish the job in ?

12 days

14 days

16 days

24 days

Answer: 12 days

Explanation:


9. A can do a piece of work in 18 days. He worked at it for 12 days and B finished the remaining work in 8 days. B alone can do the whole work in ?

16 days

24 days

28 days

29 days

Answer: 24 days

Explanation:


10. A and B together can do a piece of work in 9 days. If A does thrice the work of B in a given time, the time A alone will take to finish the work is ?

4 days

6 days

8 days

12 days

Answer: 12 days

Explanation: