Quiz Discussion

Two typists of varying skills can do a job in 6 minutes if they work together. If the first typist typed alone for 4 minutes and then the second typist typed alone for 6 minutes, they would be left with \(\frac{1}{5}\) of the whole work. How many minutes would it take the slower typist to complete the typing job working alone?

• 1] 10 minutes
• 2] 15 minutes
• 3] 12 minutes
• 4] 20 minutes
• 5] 17 minutes

A contractor undertook to do a certain piece of work in 9 days. He employed certain number of men, but 6 of them being absent from the very first day, the rest could finish the work in 15 days. The number of men originally employed were

• 1]

  12

• 2]

  15

• 3]

  18

• 4]

  24

If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men 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:

• 1] 4 days
• 2] 5 days
• 3] 6 days
• 4] 7 days

8 men can complete a piece of work in 20 days. 8 women can complete the same work in 32 days. In how many days will 5 men and 8 women together complete the same work ?

• 1] 10 days
• 2] 12 days
• 3] 14 days
• 4] 16 days
• 5] None of these

X takes 4 days to complete one-third of a job. Y takes 3 days to complete one-sixth of the job and Z takes 5 days to complete half the job. If all of them work together for 3 days and X and Z quit, how long will it take for Y to complete the remaining work done.

• 1] 6 days
• 2] 8.1 days
• 3] 5.1 days
• 4] 7 days
• 5] None of these

If 3 men or 9 boys can finish a piece of work in 21 days, in how many days can 5 men and 6 boys together do the same piece of work ?

• 1] 8 days
• 2] 12 days
• 3] 14 days
• 4] Cannot be determined
• 5] None of these

If m men can do a work in r days, then the number of days taken by (m + n) men to do it is :

• 1]

  \(\frac{{{ \text{m}} + { \text{n}}}}{{{ \text{mn}}}}\)

• 2]

  \(\frac{{{ \text{m}} + { \text{n}}}}{{{ \text{mr}}}}\)

• 3]

  \(\frac{{{ \text{mr}}}}{{{ \text{m}} + { \text{n}}}}\)

• 4]

  \(\frac{{{ \text{r}}\left( {{ \text{m}} + { \text{n}}} \right)}}{{{ \text{mn}}}}\)

A can write 75 pages in 25 hours. A and B together can write 135 pages in 27 hours. In what time can B write 42 pages ?

• 1] 17 hrs
• 2] 19 hrs
• 3] 21 hrs
• 4] 23 hrs

X alone can complete a piece of work in 40 days. He worked for 8 days and left. Y alone completed the remaining work in 16 days. How long would X and Y together take to complete the work ?

• 1]

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

• 2]

  14 days

• 3]

  15 days

• 4]

  \(16\frac{2}{3}{ \text{days}}\)

Two workers A and B are engaged to do a work. A working alone takes 8 hours more to complete the job than if both worked together. If B worked alone, he would need 41/2 hours more to complete the job than they both working together. What time would they take to do the work together ?

• 1] 4 hours
• 2] 5 hours
• 3] 6 hours
• 4] 7 hours