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Time and Work MCQs
A and B can do a work in 8 days, B and C can do the same work in 12 days. A, B and C together can finish it in 6 days. A and C together will do it in ___?
A. 4 days
B. 6 days
C. 8 days
D. 12 days
A can do a certain work-in the same time in which B and C together can do it. If A and B together could do it in 10 days and C alone in 50 days, then B alone could do it in ____?
A. 15 days
B. 20 days
C. 25 days
D. 30 days
A and B can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started doing the work together but after 2 days B had to leave and A alone completed the remaining work. The whole work was completed in _____?
A. 8 days
B. 10 days
C. 12 days
D. 15 days
A and B can do a piece of work in 72 days; B and C can do it in 120 days; A and C can do it in 90 days. In what time can A alone do it ?
A. 80 days
B. 100 days
C. 120 days
D. 150 days
Twenty women can do a work in sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete the same work in fifteen days. What is the ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman ?
A. 3 : 4
B. 4 : 3
C. 5 : 3
D. Data inadequate
X and Y can do a piece of work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. X started the work alone and then after 4 days Y joined him till the completion of the work. How long did the work last ?
A. 6 days
B. 10 days
C. 15 days
D. 20 days
A and B together can complete a work in 1.2 days,. A alone can complete it in 20 days. If B does the work only for half a day daily, then in how many days A and B together will complete the work ?
A. 10 days
B. 11 days
C. 15 days
D. 20 days
A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every Third day ?
A. 12 days
B. 15 days
C. 16 days
D. 18 days
A and B together take 6 days to complete a task. B and C together take 12 days to complete the same task. A and C together take 8 days to complete it. If A, B and C are working together, how long does it take for them to complete the task?
A. 4(2/3) days
B. 4 days
C. 5(1/3) days
D. 1(1/3) days
B can work 3 times faster than A. They work together on a task and complete it in a day. How long does it take for B alone to complete the task?
A. 32 hours
B. 48 hours
C. 3 days
D. 4 days
4 men and 2 woman can complete a work in 2 days. If 2 men alone take 5 days to complete the work, find the time taken by 2 women alone to complete the work.
A. 15 days
B. 10 days
C. 8 days
D. 20 days
A and B working separately can do a piece of work in 9 and 12 days respectively. If they work for a day alternately. If A begins first, in how many days the work will be completed ?
A. 42/4 days
B. 41/4 days
C. 55 days
D. None of these
Two pipes can fill a tank in 10 hrs. and 12 hrs. respectively while a third pipe empties the full tank in 20 hrs. If all the three pipes operate together , in how much time the tank will be filled ?
A. 7.5 hrs
B. 5 hrs
C. 7 hrs
D. None of these
If two pipes function together, the cistern will be filled in 6 hrs. One pipe fills the cistern 5 hrs. faster than the other. How many hours it take the second pipe to fill the cistern?
A. 5 hrs
B. 10 hrs
C. 15 hrs
D. 20 hrs
A can do a particular work in 6 days . B can do the same work in 8 days. A and B signed to do it for Rs. 3200. They completed the work in 3 days with the help of C. How much is to be paid to C?
A. Rs. 380
B. Rs. 600
C. Rs. 420
D. Rs. 400
A can complete a work in 12 days with a working of 8 hours per day. B can complete the same work in 8 days when working 10 hours a day. If A and B work together, working 8 hours a day, the work can be completed in _______ days.
A. 5 5⁄11
B. 4 5⁄11
C. 6 4⁄11
D. 6 5⁄11
P and Q can do a work in 30 days. Q and R can do the same work in 24 days and R and P in 20 days. They started the work together, but Q and R left after 10 days. How many days more will P take to finish the work?
A. 10
B. 8
C. 18
D. 19
If X and Y complete a certain work in 10 days, Y and Z in 16 days and X and Z in 22 days, find the time required for each one to complete the work while working separately.
A. 120, 40, 60 days
B. 120, 60, 80 days
C. 40, 30, 120 days
D. 30, 40, 60 days
A and B can finish a piece of work in 20 days .B and C in 30 days and C and A in 40 days. In how many days will A alone finish the job?
A. 48
B. 34(2/7)
C. 44
D. 45
Bilal can do a work in 15 days and Jalal in 12 days. If they work on it together for 4 days, the fraction of work that is left is _____?
A. 3/5
B. 4/7
C. 2/5
D. 1/4
2 men and 12 women can finish a job in 4 days. 4 men and 6 women can do the same job in 5 days. Find the time taken by 1 man and 1 woman to complete the job.
A. 30 days
B. 25 days
C. 24 days
D. 20 days
A alone can finish a work in 10 days and B alone can do it in 15 days. If they work together and finish, then out of a total wages of Rs.75. A will get:___________?
A. 35 Rs.
B. 40 Rs.
C. 45 Rs.
D. None of these
To fill a cistern, pipes P, Q & R take 20, 15 & 12 minutes respectively. The time in minutes that the three pipes together will take to fill the cistern is: ___?
A. 5 min
B. 10 min
C. 15 min
D. 20 min
A cistern has two taps which fill it in 12 min. and 15 min.respectively There is one outlet pipe in the cistern. When all the taps & pipe are opened, the empty cistern is full in 20 min. How long will the waste pipe (outlet) take to empty the full cistern ?
A. 10 min
B. 20 min
C. 30 min
D. 40 min
6 men and 8 women can complete a work in 10 days. 26 men and 48 women can finish the same work in 2 days. 15 men and 20 women can do the same work in ____ days.
A. 4 days
B. 6 days
C. 2 days
D. 8 days
P is 30% more efficient than Q. P can complete a work in 23 days. If P and Q work together, how much time will it take to complete the same work?
A. 9
B. 11
C. 23
D. 13
P works twice as fast as Q. If Q alone can complete a work in 12 days, P and Q can finish the work in ________ days
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
If 6 men working together can complete 50 identical tasks in 4 hours then how many such identical tasks can be completed if 10 men are working together for 6 hours?
A. 20
B. 25
C. 125
D. 60
A,B,C, can do a work in 8,14,16 days respectively. A does the work for the first 2 days. B continues from it and finishes 2/3rd of the remaining work. C finishes the remaining work. How many days would have taken to complete the work?
A. 13
B. 11
C. 12
D. 15
A and B can do a piece of work in 21 and 24 days respectively.They start the work together and after some days, A leaves and B completes the rest of the task in 9 days. After how many days did A leave?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
A can do piece of work in 30 days while B can do it in 40 days. In how many days can A and B working together do it ?
A. 70 days
B. 120/7 days
C. 50 days
D. 45 days
A can do a certain job in 12 days. B is 60% more efficient than A. The number of days it takes for B to do the same piece of work, is: ____?
A. 12/6 days
B. 15/2 days
C. 23 days
D. 34 days
Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 minutes and 16 minutes respectively. Simultaneously both the pipes are opened together, then after how much time Q should be closed so that the tank is full in 9 min ?
A. 2 min
B. 3 min
C. 4 min
D. 5 min
P, Q and R can complete a work in 24, 6 and 12 days respectively. The work will be completed in ____ days if all of them are working together.
A. 2
B. 3 3⁄7
C. 4 ¼
D. 5
A work can be finished in 16 days by twenty women. The same work can be finished in fifteen days by sixteen men. The ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman is _____?
A. 1:3
B. 4:3
C. 2:3
D. 2:1
If 10 bulls can plough 20 identical fields in 3 days working 10 hours a day, then in how many days can 30 bulls plough 32 same identical fields working 8 hours a day?
A. 2
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12
A can lay a railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B can do the same job in 12 days. With help of C, they did the job in 4 days only. Then, C alone can do the job in ___?
A. 4
B. 9.6
C. 9
D. 10
Twelve men can do a work in twenty days while twenty women can finish the same work in sixteen days. Find the ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman.
A. 3:4
B. 5:4
C. 4:3
D. 5:3
A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days; B and C in 15 days; C and A in 20 days. A alone can do the work in _____?
A. 20 days
B. 30 days
C. 40 days
D. none of these
A tap can fill a tank in 32 min. and another can empty it in 16 min. If the tank is already half full and both the tanks are opened together, the tank will be _____?
A. 12 min
B. 14 min
C. 16 min
D. 20 min
A leak in the bottom of a tank can empty the full tank in 6 hrs. An inlet pipe fills water at the rate of 4 lit. a minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to the leak, the tank is empty in 8 hrs. The capacity of the tank in liters is ____?
A. 5,750 litres
B. 5,760 litres
C. 6,890 litres
D. None of these
P can do a work in the same time in which Q and R together can do it. If P and Q work together, the work can be completed in 10 days. R alone needs 50 days to complete the same work. then Q alone can do it in ____?
A. 30 days
B. 25 days
C. 20 days
D. 15 days
10 men can complete a work in 7 days. But 10 women need 14 days to complete the same work. How many days will 5 men and 10 women need to complete the work?
A. 7
B. 5
C. 6
D. 4
P and Q need 8 days to complete a work. Q and R need 12 days to complete the same work. But P, Q and R together can finish it in 6 days. How many days will be needed if P and R together do it?
A. 7
B. 8
C. 9
D. 10
Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per minute. At this rate, how many bottles could 10 such machines produce in 4 minutes?
A. 2700
B. 1080
C. 450
D. 1800
A alone can finish a work in X days. B alone can finish the same work in X+5 days. Together, they take 6 days to complete the work. Find X
A. 12
B. 8
C. 10
D. 9
A can do (1/3) of a work in 5 days and B can do (2/5) of the work in 10 days. In how many days both A and B together can do the work ?
A. 75/8 days
B. 44/6 days
C. 48/5 days
D. None of these
A leak in the lower portion of a tank can empty the full tank in 9 hrs. An inlet pipe fills water at the rtae of 10 lit. a minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to leak, the tank is empty in 16 hrs. How many litres does the cistern hold ?
A. 12,342 litres.
B. 12,444 litres
C. 12,566 litres.
D. None of thes
12 buckets of water fill a tank when the capacity of each bucket is 13.5 litres. How many buckets will be needed to fill the same tank, if the capacity of each bucket is 9 litres?
A. 14
B. 15
C. 16
D. 18
A completes 80% of a work in 20 days. Then B also joins and A and B together finish the remaining work in 3 days. How long does it need for B if he alone completes the work?
A. 37 ½ days
B. 22 days
C. 31 days
D. 22 days
Kamal will complete work in 20 days. If Suresh is 25% more efficient than Kamal, he can complete the work in ________ days.
A. 14
B. 16
C. 15
D. 11
P can do a work in 24 days. Q can do the same work in 9 days and R can do the same in 12 days. Q and R start the work and leave after 3 days. P finishes the remaining work in _________ days.
A. 10
B. 9
C. 11
D. 12
Jameel can complete a task in 15 hours and Nasir can complete the same task in 12 hours. Jameel starts the task at 9:00 am and stops working at 2:00pm. Nasir starts working on the task at 4:00 pm. At what time is the task completed?
A. 12:00 pm
B. 2:00 am
C. 12:00 am
D. 10:00 pm
Farjan and Kashif can complete a task in 30 days. Farjan leaves after 20 days and Kashif alone completes it in another 25 days. How many days does Farjan alone take to complete the entire task?
A. 50
B. 75
C. 60
D. 45
A and B can together do a piece of work in 15 days. B alone can do it in 20 days. In how many days can A alone do it ?
A. 40 days
B. 50 days
C. 60 days
D. 70 days
Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 min. and 15 min. respectively but a third pipe ‘R’ can empty the full tank in 6 min. P and Q are kept open for 5 min. in the beginning and then ‘R’ is also opened. In what time is the cistern emptied ?
A. 30 min
B. 35 min
C. 40 min
D. 45 min
P is able to do a piece of work in 15 days and Q can do the same work in 20 days. If they can work together for 4 days, what is the fraction of work left?
A. 8/15
B. 7/15
C. 11/15
D. 2/11
Mansoor-Ul-Haque and Aaqib are working on a special assignment. Mansoor-Ul-Haque needs 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer and Aaqib needs 5 hours to type 40 pages. If both of them work together on two different computers, how much time is needed to type an assignment of 110 pages?
A. 7 hour 15 minutes
B. 7 hour 30 minutes
C. 8 hour 15 minutes
D. 8 hour 30 minutes
If daily wages of a man is double to that of a woman, how many men should work for 25 days to earn Rs.14400? Given that wages for 40 women for 30 days are Rs.21600.
A. 15
B. 14
C. 16
D. 13
If 12 men work 8 hours a day to complete a work in 10 days, how many men working 12 hours a day can complete the work in 5 days?
A. 16
B. 4
C. 12
D. 8
Efficiency of Rashid and Danish are in the ratio 5:8. If Danish takes 51 days less than Rashid to complete the work, find the time taken by Rashid to complete the work.
A. 85 days
B. 126 days
C. 118 days
D. 136 days
8 men can dig a pit in 20 days. If a man works half as much again as a boy, then 4 men and 9 boys can dig a similar pit in: ____?
A. 12 days
B. 16 days
C. 18 days
D. 20 days
wo pipes X and Y fill a tank in 15 hrs. and 20 hrs. respectively, while a third pipe ‘Z’ can empty the full tank in 25 hrs. All the three pipes are opened in the beginning. After 10 hrs. Z is closed. In how much time, will the tank be full ?
A. 12 hrs
B. 14 hrs
C. 16 hrs
D. 18 hrs
P can lay railway track between two stations in 16 days. Q can do the same job in 12 days. With the help of R, they completes the job in 4 days. How much days does it take for R alone to complete the work?
A. 9(3/5) days
B. 9(1/5) days
C. 9(2/5) days
D. 10 days
P can finish a work in 18 days. Q can finish the same work in 15 days. Q worked for 10 days and left the job. how many days does P alone need to finish the remaining work?
A. 8
B. 6
C. 4
D. 2
P and Q can complete a work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. P alone started the work and Q joined him after 4 days till the completion of the work. How long did the work last?
A. 5 days
B. 10 days
C. 15 days
D. 12 days
P,Q and R together earn Rs.1620 in 9 days. P and R can earn Rs.600 in 5 days. Q and R in 7 days can earn Rs.910. How much amount does R can earn per day?
A. Rs.40
B. Rs.70
C. Rs.90
D. Rs.100
C takes 6 days to complete half of a work and D takes 5 days to complete 1/3rd of the same work. They take turns to complete the task. If C works for the first 4 days, in how many days will D complete the rest of the work without the help of C?
A. 10 days
B. 12 days
C. 8 days
D. 9 days
If 28 men can finish a work in 15 days, 21 men can finish the same work in ___?
A. 24 days
B. 14 days
C. 15 days
D. 20 days
15 men can build a 500m long wall in 30 days. In how many days can 30 men build a 1.2 km long wall?
A. 48 days
B. 24 days
C. 40 days
D. 36 days
8 children and 12 men complete a certain piece of work in 9 days. If each child takes twice the time taken by a man to finish the work, in how many days will 12 men finish the same work ?
A. 6 days
B. 8 days
C. 10 days
D. 12 days
A is thrice as good a work man as B and takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than B takes. B can do the work in _____?
A. 15 days
B. 14 days
C. 16 days
D. 30 days
A tank can be filled by a pipe in 20 min. and by another pipe in 60 min. Both the pipes are kept open for 10 min. and then the first pipe is shut off. After this, the tank will be completely filled in __?
A. 10 min
B. 20 min
C. 30 min
D. 40 min
P, Q and R can do a work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. How many days does it need to complete the work if P does the work and he is assisted by Q and R on every third day?
A. 10 days
B. 14 days
C. 15 days
D. 9 days
3 men and 7 women can complete a work in 10 days . But 4 men and 6 women need 8 days to complete the same work . In how many days will 10 women complete the same work?
A. 50
B. 30
C. 40
D. 13
P takes twice as much time as Q or thrice as much time as R to finish a piece of work. They can finish the work in 2 days if work together. How much time will Q take to do the work alone?
A. 7
B. 8
C. 9
D. 6
Assume that 20 cows and 40 goats can be kept for 10 days for Rs.460. If the cost of keeping 5 goats is the same as the cost of keeping 1 cow, what will be the cost for keeping 50 cows and 30 goats for 12 days?
A. Rs.1104
B. Rs.1000
C. Rs.934
D. Rs.1210
If 6 men take 9 days to complete a work, how many men can complete the work in 3 days?
A. 2 men
B. 12 men
C. 9 men
D. 18 men
If 10 workers can make 10 tables in 10 days, then how many days would it take for 5 workers to make 5 tables?
A. 1
B. 5
C. 10
D. 25
If 6 men can make 10 sofas in 2 days, then 8 men can make 8 sofas in __?
A. 1.8 days
B. 1.5 days
C. 1.2 days
D. 1 day
If 3 men or 4 women can construct a wall in 43 days, then the number of days that 7 men and 5 women take to construct it is :
A. 12 days
B. 14 days
C. 16 days
D. 18 days
A, B and C together earn Rs.150 per day while A and C together earn Rs.94 and B and C together earn Rs.76. The daily earning of C is _____?
A. 10 Rs,
B. 15 Rs,
C. 20 Rs.
D. 25 Rs.
Two taps X and Y can fill a tank in 10 hrs. and 15 hrs.respectively. If the both taps are opened together, the tank will be full in _____?
A. 3 hrs.
B. 4 hrs,
C. 5 hrs.
D. 6 hrs.
A is thrice as good as B in work. A is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. They can finish the work in _____ days if they work together.
A. 18 days
B. 22 ½ days
C. 24 days
D. 26 days
A and B can finish a work 30 days if they work together. They worked together for 20 days and then B left. A finished the remaining work in another 20 days. In how many days A alone can finish the work?
A. 70
B. 50
C. 40
D. 60
P and Q can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started the work together and then Q left after 2 days. P alone completed the remaining work. The work was finished in _____ days.
A. 12
B. 15
C. 22
D. 20
Twelve children take sixteen days to complete a work which can be completed by 8 adults in 12 days. After working for 3 days, sixteen adults left and six adults and four children joined them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work ?
A. 3 days
B. 4 days
C. 6 days
D. 8 days
A student can solve q questions in 1/h hour. At this rate how many questions can she solve in q hours?
A. hq
B. hq2
C. 1/hq
D. h/q
If Arif can read 39 pages of a book in half an hour. How long will It take her to finish a book that is 1287 pages?
A. 16 Hours
B. 16.5 Hours
C. 17 Hours
D. 15.5 Hours
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