Placement Training Programme Time and Work Class Work Problem Solving 01.

. A contractor takes 60 days to complete a job and employs 90 persons for the same. After 45 days, he finds 90% of the work is over. In order to complete the work in 60 days, how many persons should he remove from this job? 02.15 men can complete a piece of work in 210 days. After 10 days 15 additional men are employed. In what time can the work be completed now? 03. 30 men can finish a piece of work in 30 days but if 5 men leave the work every 10th day, in what time will the work be completed? 04. A and B can do a piece of work together in 10 days, B and C in 12 days and A and C in 20 days. After working together for 2 days A leaves, and B and C go on together for 4 more days, and then B leaves. In how many more days will C complete the work? 05. 3 taps X, Y and Z can fill a cistern in 10 minutes, 12 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. They are all turned on at once and after 3 minutes Y and Z are turned off. How many more minutes will X take to fill the cistern? 06. A and B together finish a work in 30 days. They worked for 10 days together and B left. The remaining work was completed by A alone in 30 more days. B alone can finish the work in how many days? 07. A can complete a project in 20 days and B can complete the same project in 30 days. If A and B start working on the project together and A quits 10 days before the project is completed, in how many days will the project be completed? 08. 8 engines consume 10 tons of coal when each runs 9 hours a day. How much coal will be needed for 11 engines each running 12 hours a day, if 3 engines of the former type consume as much coal as 4 engines of the latter type? 09. A contractor undertook to lay a road in 300 days. He employed 180 men. After 120 1 days rd of the road was laid. Find the number of additional men to be employed 3 the work within the remaining time.

10. A cistern can be filled by 3 pipes in 10, 18 and 30 minutes respectively and emptied by a drain pipe in three-fourth of an hour. The three taps are turned on at noon, but the drain pipe, is accidentally left open and closed after one-tenth of a minute. Find the time taken to fill the cistern. (a) 18 minutes (b) 13 minutes (c) 23 minutes (d) none 11. 6 cats can kill 6 rats in 6 minutes. How many cats are required to kill 100 rats in 50 minutes?

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12. Working together Jose and Jane can complete an assigned task in 20 days. However, if Jose works alone and completes half the work, and then Jane takes over the task and completes the second half of the task, the task will be completed in 45 days. How long will Jose alone take to complete the task? Assume that Jane is more efficient than Jose. (a) 25 days (b) 30 days (c) 60 days (d) 65 days 13. Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 3 hours and 4 hours respectively while a waste pipe C can empty it in 2 hours. If these pipes are opened in order at 7, 8 and 9 a.m. at what time will the cistern be filled? 14. A cistern can be filled by one of the two pipes in 30 minutes and by the other in 36 minutes. Both pipes are opened together for a certain time, but being clogged, 5 9 only th of the full quantity of water flow through the former and only th of 6 10 through the later. The obstructions, however, being suddenly remove, the cistern is filled in 15.5 minutes from that moment. For how many minutes were the pipes clogged? (a) 2 minutes (b) 5 minutes (c) 1 minute (d) Cannot be determined
15. A game of football with 11 players lasts for 90 minutes. There are 4 substitutes that alternate equally. Therefore each player plays for the same length of the time. How long did each player play?
Reasoning : Use the following information to answer the questions 1 -5. There is a family of six persons A, B, C, D, E and F. They are lawyer, doctor, teacher, engineer and accountant. There are two married couples in the family. D, the salesman, is married to the lady teacher. The doctor is married to the lawyer. F, the accountant is the son of B and the brother of E. C, the lawyer, is the daughter-in-law of A. E is the unmarried Engineer. A is the grandmother of F.

1. How is E related to F? (a) Brother (b) Sister (c) Cousin Brother 2. Which of the following is the profession of B? (a) Teacher (b) Doctor (c) Lawyer 3. Which of the following is the profession of A? (a) Lawyer (b) Teacher (c) Doctor 4. Which of the following is one of the couples? (a) F D (b) D B (c) E A 5. How is D related to F? (a) Grandfather (b) Father (c) Uncle

(d) Cannot be determined (d) Cannot be determined (d) Cannot be determined (d) None of these (d) Brother

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