Quiz Discussion

A and B together can complete a work in 3 days. They start together but after 2 days, B left the work. If the work is completed after two more days, B alone could do the work in

• 1] 5 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 9 days
• 4] 10 days

A and B together can finish a bit of work in 12 days, B and C can do it in 20 days and C and A do it 15 days. A, B and C together can finish it in

• 1]

  6 days

• 2]

  9 days

• 3]

  10 days

• 4]

  21/2 days

10 men working 6 hours a day can complete a work in 18 days. How many hours a day must 15 men work to complete the same work in 12 days ?

• 1] 6 hours/day
• 2] 10 hours/day
• 3] 12 hours/day
• 4] 15 hours/day

If the expenditure of gas on burning 6 burners for 6 hours a day for 8 days is Rs. 450, then how many burners can be used for 10 days at 5 hours a day for Rs. 625 ?

• 1] 12
• 2] 16
• 3] 4
• 4] 8

A can do a work in 10 days. The efficiency of A is 20% less than B. How many days B need to finish the same work?

• 1] 8.5 days
• 2] 12.3 days
• 3] 8 days
• 4] 7.5 days

There are three boats A, B and C, working together they carry 60 people in each trip. One day an early morning A carried 50 people in few trips alone. When it stopped carrying the passengers B and C started carrying the people together. It took a total of 10 trips to carry 300 people by A, B and C. It is known that each day on an average 300 people cross the river using only one of the 3 boats A, B and C. How many trips it would take to A to carry 150 passengers alone?

• 1] 15
• 2] 30
• 3] 25
• 4] 10
• 5] None of these

A can do a piece of work in 6 days. B is 25% more efficient than A. How long would B alone take to finish this work ?

• 1]

  \({ \text{ 4}}\frac{4}{5}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 2]

  \({ \text{ 3}}\frac{1}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 3]

  \({ \text{ 5}}\frac{1}{4}{ \text{ days}}\)

• 4]

  \({ \text{2}}\frac{2}{3}{ \text{ days}}\)

16 women take 12 days to complete a work which can be completed by 12 men in 8 days. 16 men started working and after 3 days 10 men left and 4 women joined them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work ?

• 1] 4 days
• 2] 6 days
• 3] 8 days
• 4] 10 days

A road of 5 m length will be constructed in 100 days. So, 280 workers were employed. But after 80 days it was found that only \({ \text{3}}\frac{1}{2}\) km road was completed. Now, how many more people were needed to finish the work in the specified time?

• 1] 480
• 2] 80
• 3] 200
• 4] 100

A completed \(\frac{7}{{10}} \)of work in 15 days, then he completed the remaining work with the help of B in 4 days. In how many days A and B can complete the entire work together?

• 1]

  \(10\frac{1}{2}{ \text{days}}\)

• 2]

  \(12\frac{2}{3}{ \text{days}}\)

• 3]

  \(13\frac{1}{3}{ \text{days}}\)

• 4]

  \(8\frac{1}{4}{ \text{days}}\)