1. 3 men and 5 women can do a work in 14 days while 5 men can do it in 14 days. 5 men and 5 women can complete the work in ?

13 days

11 days

10 days

12 days

Answer: 10 days

Explanation:


2. A alone can do a piece of work in 20 days and B alone in 30 days. They begin to work together. They will finish half of the work in ?

8 days

9 days

12 days

6 days

Answer: 6 days

Explanation:


3. Two workers A and B are engaged to do a piece of work. A working alone would take 8 hours more to complete the work than when work together. If B worked alone, would take 4 and 1/2 hours more than when work together. The time required to finish the work together is ?

5 hours

4 hours

8 hours

6 hours

Answer: 6 hours

Explanation:


4. A can do 1/6 of a work in 5 days and B can do 2/5 of the work in 8 days. In how many days, can both A and B together do the work ?

12 days

13 days

15 days

20 days

Answer: 12 days

Explanation:


5. A can do a work in 10 days and B in 20 days. If they together work on it for 5 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is ?

3/4

4/3

3/20

1/4

Answer: 1/4

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6. A company employed 200 workers to complete a certain work in 150 days. If only one fourth of the work has been done in 50 days, then in order to complete the whole work in time, the number of additional workers to be employed was ?

100

300

600

200

Answer: 100

Explanation:


7. Janardan completes 2/3 of his work in 10 days. Time he will take to complete 3/5 of the same work, is ?

8 days

6 days

9 days

4 days

Answer: 9 days

Explanation:


8. A, B and C contract a work for Rs. 440. A and B together are to do 9/11 of the work. The share of C should be ?

Rs. 75

Rs. 90

Rs. 100

Rs. 80

Answer: Rs. 80

Explanation:


9. P can do 1/4 th of work in 10 days, Q can do 40% of work in 40 days and R can do 1/3 rd of work in 13 days. Who will complete the work first ?

P

Q

R

Both P and R

Answer: R

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10. To complete a work, A takes 50% more time than B. If together they take 18 days to complete the work, how much time shall B take to do it ?

30 days

35 days

40 days

45 days

Answer: 30 days

Explanation: