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Time and Work

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1) Kapil can finish a work in 10 days and Devesh can finish the same work in 40 days.

If
Devesh and Kapil both work together then what is the total number of days taken?
A) 9 B) 6 C) 8 D) 7

2) A can do a work in 15 days. While B alone can do the same work in 20 days, while A, B,
C together can do the same work in 8 days. In how many days C alone will complete the
total work?
A) 80 B) 100 C) 120 D) NOTA

3) Working together A and B can do a job in 40 days, B and C in 36 days and all three
together in 24 days. How many days can B alone do the job?
A) 90 B) 60 C) 100 D) 72

4) A can do 50% of the work in 16 days, B can do 1/4th of the work in 24 days. In how
many days they together will complete the total work?
A) 20 days B) 25 days C) 24 days D) 26 days

5) A does 4/5 part of work in 20 days, then he calls B and they finish the remaining work
in 3 days. In how many days B alone will complete the whole work?
𝟏
A) 𝟑𝟕 days B) 30 days C) 40 days D) NOTA
𝟐

6) A would have taken 45 hours less than what B would have taken to complete a task if
each of them worked alone. Working together they can complete the task in 12 hours. In
how many hours B alone will complete the work?
A) 60 B) 45 C) 30 D) 40

7) A and B together can do a work in 72 days, B & C together in 120 days, C & A together
in 90 days. In how many days they together will complete the total work.
A) 40 B) 60 C) 50 D) 70
8) Ajeet can do a job 10 days. Raman can do the same job in 20 days. They together start
doing the job but after 4 days Raman leaves. How many more days will be required by
Ajeet to complete this job alone?
A) 4 B) 2 C) 5 D) 3

9) A can do a work in 18 days, B in 9 days and C in 6 days. A and B start working together
and after 2 days C joins them. In how many days will the job be finished?
A) 4 Days B) 2 Days C) 3 Days D) 5 Days

10) A, B and C can do a piece of work in 24, 30 and 40 days respectively. They began the
work together but C left 4 days before completion of the work. In how many days was the
work done?
A) 13 B) 12 C) 14 D) 11

11) Ram can do a piece of work in 10 days, Deepak in 12 days and Parul in 15 days. They
all start together but Ram leaves after 2 days and Deepak leaves 3 days before the work is
completed. In how many days is the work completed?
A) 6 Days B) 7 Days C) 5 Days D) 4 Days

12) A can do a work in 20 days and B in 30 days. They work together for 7 days and after
this they leave the work. Then C alone finished the remaining work in 10 days. In how
many days will C finish the total work?
A) 25 B) 30 C) 24 D) 20

13) Ajeet works thrice as fast Kapil. If both of them can together finish the work in 12
days. Then Ajeet alone can do it?
A) 48 B) 32 C) 16 D) NOTA

14) A is twice as efficient as B. If they take 6 days to finish a certain job together, how
much time will they individually take to complete the work?
A) 9, 18 B) 9, 12 C) 18, 9 D) 12, 9
15) A can do a certain job in 12 days. B is 60% more efficient than A. How many days does
B alone take to do the same job?
A) 7 B) 7.5 C) 8 D) 8.5

16) The efficiency of A is twice than B and efficiency of B is thrice than C. If they together
can do the total work in 10 days. In how many days C alone will do the work.
A) 80 B) 90 C) 100 D) NOTA

17) The efficiency of A is twice than B. Efficiency of C is thrice than A & B both. They
together can finished the total work in 12 days. In how many days C alone do the work.
A) 144 B) 72 C) 48 D) 16

18) To complete a work, P takes 50% more times than Q. If together they take 18 days to
complete the work, how much time shall Q take to do it?
[RRB-2014(JE), BILASPUR]
A) 30 days B) 35 days C) 40 days D) 45 days

19) C takes 30 days to finish a work and A is thrice as good as C and twice as good as B. If
A, B and C work together, then how many days they will take to finish the work?
A) 5 B) 5.45 C) 4.45 D) 4

20) A and B together complete a job in 16 days, while B and C together finish the job in 24
days. If A is thrice as efficient as C, in how many days will all of them working together
complete the job?
` [VIZAG STEEL PLANT, 2015]
A) 96/7 B) 48/7 C) 24/3 D) 48/5

21) If 25 men can finish the work in 12 days, 30 men can finish the same work in how
many days?
A) 8 B) 10 C) 12 D) 9
22) In a camp there is ration for 250 men for 40 days. After 10 days 50 more men join.
Find in how many days, remaining ration would last?
A) 23 B) 24 C) 25 D) NOTA

23) 12 men complete a work in 9 days. After they have worked for 6 days, 6 more men
join them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work?
[VIZAG STEEL PLANT, 2015]
A) 2 days B) 3 days C) 4 days D) 5 days

24) A group of workers estimate to finish a work in 10 days, but 5 workers could not join
the work. If the rest of them finished the work in 12 days, the number of members
present in the team originally is [ESE 2017, 2 MARKS]
A) 50 B) 45 C) 35 D) 30

25) A can complete a work in 60 days. He works for 15 days, after that the remaining work
is completed by B in 30 days. In how many days, A and B together can complete the work?
A) 22 B) 18 C) 24 D) NOTA

26) A and B can do a work in 4 hours and 12 hours respectively. A starts the work at 6 AM
and they work alternately for one hour each. When will the work be completed?
A) 4 Days B) 5 Days C) 6 Days D) 7 Days

27) A, B and c together can do a work in 6 days. They together work for 2 days then C left
the work. Remaining work completed in 7 days. In how many days C alone will complete
the total work?
A) 12 B) 14 C) 13 D) 6

28) 14 men can complete a work in 22 days. How many days will 11 men take to complete
𝟏
1 times the present work? [VIZAG STEEL PLANT, 2015]
𝟒
A) 35 B) 28 C) 17.5 D) 21
29) 15 men and 20 Women can do a piece of work in 10 days. Then 24 men and 32
Women can do the same work in how many days?
A) 25/4 B) 50/3 C) 25/8 D) Can’t determine

30) 12 Boys and 20 Girls can do a piece of work in 14 days. Then 18 Boys and 32 Girls can
do the same work in how many days?
A) 25/4 B) 50/3 C) 25/8 D) Can’t determine

31) 2 men and 7 boys can do a piece of work in 14 days. 3 men and 8 boys can do the
same piece of work in 11 days. Then 8 men and 6 boys can do the same work in how
many days?
A) 21 B) 27 C) 12 D) 7

32) 1200 men and 500 women can build a bridge in 2 weeks. 900 men and 250 women
will take 3 weeks to build the same bridge. How many men will be needed to build the
bridge in one week?
[GATE 2017, EC]
A) 3000 B) 3300 C) 3600 D) 3900

33) 12 Men or 18 Women can do a work in 14 days. In how many days the same work will
finish by 8 Men and 16 Women.
A) 8 B) 9 C) 10 D) 12

34) 1 Men or 2 women or 3 Children can finish a piece of work in 44 days. In how many
days the same work will finish by 1 Men, 2 Women & 3 Children.
A) 44/3 days B) 44/6 C) 44 D) NOTA

35) 3 Boys and 4 Girls can do a piece of work in 8 days. 4 Boys and 4 Girls can do the same
piece of work in 6 days. The 2 Boys and 4 Girls can do the same work in how many days?
Ans:-
36) Two man alone or three women alone can complete a piece of work in 4 days. In how
many days can one woman and one man together complete the same piece of work?
[CGPSC-2014]
A) 6 days B) 24/5 days C) 12/1.75 days D) NOTA

37) Radhika can finish some work in 6 days working 5 hours a day. Gita can finish the
same in 15 days working 3 hours a day. In how many days can they finish the work if
working together at 3 hours per day?
A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) NOTA

38) If 100 cats can kill 100 rats in 100 days. In how many days 10 cats can kill 10 rats.
A) 10 B) 100 C) 1000 D) Can’t determine

39) 14 workers make 17 boxes in 6 days. How many worker are required to make 289
boxes in 42 days?
A) 14 B) 17 C) 34 D) 6

40) Seven machines take 7 minutes to make 7 identical toys. At the same rate, how many
minutes would it take for 100 machines to make 100 toys? [GATE 2018, 1 MARK (ME)]
A) 1 B) 7 C) 100 D) 700

41) How many men will be required to plough 100 acres of land in 10 days. If 10 men
required 8 days to plough 20 acres of land?
Ans:-

42) A & B can complete a work in 20 days and 30 days respectively. If they work on
alternate days, Find the number of days in which the work will be completed.
A) 20 B) 24 C) 25 D) 30
43) A & B can complete a work in 10 days and 20 days respectively. If they work on
alternate days. Find the number of days in which the work will be completed.
𝟏
A) 10 B) 13 C) 𝟏𝟑 D) can’t say
𝟐

44) A & B can complete a work in 10 days and 20 days respectively. If they work on
alternate days. Find the least number of days in which the work will be completed.
𝟏
A) 10 B) 13 C) 𝟏𝟑 D) 15
𝟐

45) A can do a piece of work in 12 days and B can do the same work in 14 days. In how
many days they will complete the work together if they work on alternate days and the
works is started by A.
A) 12(6/7) B) 13(6/7) C) 14(6/7) D) 15(6/7)

46) A can do a piece of work in 12 days and B can do the same work in 14 days. In how
many days they will complete the work together if they work on alternate days and the
works is started by B.

47) A, B, and C can do piece of work in 12, 15 and 20 days respectively. They completed
the work together and got ₹ 240 for job. What is A’s share?
A) ₹100 B) ₹110 C) ₹120 D) ₹200

48) A can do a work in 12 days, B can do the same work in 20 days. A did the work for 3
days and then left. B did the work for 6 days and then he also left. Rest of the work was
completed by C. If they received ₹1200 as total wages. Find out B’s share?
A) ₹300 B) ₹360 C) ₹540 D) NOTA

49) A and B promised to complete a work for ₹300. A can do this work in 8 days and B can
do this work in 12 days. With the help of C they completed the work in 4 days. Find out
C’s share?
A) ₹150 B) ₹100 C) ₹50 D) NOTA
50) If 6 men working 8 hours a day earn ₹ 1680 per week, then 9 men working 6 hours a
day will earn per week: [AAI(ATC)-2016]
A) ₹1680 B) ₹1920 C) ₹2680 D) ₹1890

51) Pooja employs 8 workers to work for 6 hours per day. In total he pays them ₹630 for a
week. How much should Pooja pay 18 workers working 4 hours per day for a week?
A) ₹945 B) ₹645 C) ₹630 D) ₹1050

52) 5 skilled workers can build a wall in 20 days, 8 semi-skilled worker can build a wall in
25 days; 10 unskilled workers can build a wall in 30 days. If a team has 2 skilled, 6 semi-
skilled and 5 unskilled workers, how long will it take to build the wall?
[GATE 2010, 2 MARKS]
A) 20 days B) 18 days C) 16 days D) 15 days

53) The current erection cost of a structure is ₹13,200. If the labour wages per day
𝟏 𝟏
increase by of the current wages and the working hours decreased by of the current
𝟓 𝟐𝟒
period, then the new cost of erection in rupees is [GATE 2013, 2 MARKS]
A) 16,500 B) 15,180 C) 11,000 D) 10,120

54) A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days, B and C can do it in 40 days. A and C can do
it in 60 days. In how many days can B alone do it? [UPPCL-2016]
A) 80 B) 120 C) 240 D) 48

55) A contract is to be completed in 52 days and 125 identical robots were employed,
each operational for 7 hours a day. After 39 days, five-seventh of the work was
completed. How many additional robots would be required to complete the work on
time, if each robot is now operational for 8 hours a day?
[GATE 2018, 2 MARKS (ME, AE)]
A) 50 B) 89 C) 146 D) 175
56) It takes two hours for a person X to mow the lawn. Y can mow the same lawn in four
hours. How long (in minutes) will it take X and Y, if they work together to mow the lawn?
[GATE-2019, 1 MARK (CS, CE)]
A) 60 B) 80 C) 90 D) 120

57) It would take one machine 4 hours to complete a production order and another
machine 2 hours to complete the same order. If both machine work simultaneously at
their respective constant rates, the time taken to complete the same order is _________
hours. [GATE-2019, EC]
A) 2/3 B) 3/4 C) 4/3 D) 7/3

58) A, B and C can do a piece of work in 24 days, 30 days and 40 days respectively. They
began the work together but C left 4 days before the completion of the work. In how
many days was the work completed?
A) 11 Days B) 12 Days C) 13 Days D) 14 Days

59) A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days , while B and C can do the same work in 24
days and C and A in 20 days . They all work together for 10 days when B and C leave. How
many days more will A take to finish the work?
A) 18 Days B) 24 Days C) 30 Days D) 36 Days

60) 12 men can complete a work in 8 days. 16 women can complete the same work in 12
days. 8 men and 8 women started working and worked for 6 days. How many more men
are to be added to complete the remaining work in 1 day?
A) 8 B) 12 C) 16 D) 24

61) A works twice as fast as B. If B can complete a work in 18 days independently, the
number of days in which A and B can together finish the work is:
A) 4 Days B) 6 Days C) 8 Days D) 10 Days

62) A is thrice efficient as B and C is twice as efficient as B. what is the ratio of number of
days taken by A, B and C, when they work individually?
A) 2:6:3 B) 2:3:6 C) 1:2:3 D) 3:1:2
63) A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working together, take to
complete a job which A alone could have done in 23 days?
A) 9 Days B) 11 Days C) 13 Days D) 15 Days

64) A and B can do a piece of work in 40 and 50 days. If they work at it an alternate days
with A beginning in how many days, the work will be finished?
Ans:-

Answer Key:-
Question (55):- Mark to All, Question (64):- 44(2/5) Days

1) C 2) C 3) A 4) C 5) A 6) A 7) B 8) A 9) A
10) D 11) B 12) C 13) C 14) A 15) B 16) C 17) D 18) A
19) B 20) A 21) B 22) C 23) A 24) D 25) C 26) C 27) B
28) A 29) A 30) D 31) D 32) C 33) B 34) A 35) 12 36) B
37) C 38) B 39) C 40) B 41) 40 42) B 43) D 44) B 45) A
46) 13 47) A 48) B 49) C 50) D 51) A 52) D 53) B 54) D
55) ** 56) B 57) C 58) A 59) A 60) B 61) B 62) A 63) C
64) *

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