TIME AND WORK

1. A company has a job to prepare certain number cans and there are three machines A,B and C for this job.A
can complete the job in 3 days,B can complete the job in 4 days and C can complete the job in 6 days.How
many days the company will take to complete the job if all the machines are used simultaneously?
a)4 days b)4/3 days c)3days d)12 days
2. A group of men decided to do a job in 8 days.But since 10 men dropped out everyday,the job got
completed at the end of the 12
th
day.How many men were there at the beginning?
a)165 b)175 c)80 d)90
3. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days,B and C can do it in 15 days,A and C can do it in 20 days.In how
many days will A,B and C finish it,working all together and also find number of days taken by each to finish
it working alone?
a)30,20,60 b)40,30,25 c)35,15,5 d)25,10,5
4. A is twice as good a workman as B and together they finish a piece of work in 18 days.In how many days
will A alone finish the work?
a)20 days b)25 days c)23 days d) 27 days
5. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can do the same work in 8
days.In how many days can 2 men and 1 boy do the work?
a)2 days
b)24 days c) 14 days
d) 12 days
6. A can do a piece of workin 15 days and B alone can do itin 10 days.B works at it for 5 days and then
leaves.A alone can finish the remaining work in
a) 6 days b) 7 days
c) 8 days d) 9 days
7. 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) 150 days b) 120 days c) 100 days d) 80 days
8. A can do a piece of work in 80 days.He works at it in 10 days and then B alone finishes the remaining work
in 42 days.The two together could complete the work in
a)24 days b)25 days c) 30 days d) 35 days
9. A and B can do a piece of work in 5 days; B and C can do it in 7 days ;A and C can do it in 4 days.Who
among these will take the least time if put to do it alone?
a)A b) B c) C d) Data inadequate
10. A can do of the work in 5 days; and B can do of the work in 10 days.In how many days both A and B
together can do the work?
a) 7 b)8 c)9
d)10
11. X takes 4 days to complete one-third of a job,Y takes 3 days to complete one-sixth of the same work 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?
a)6 days b)8.1 days c) 5.1 days d) 7 days
12. The time taken by 4 men to complete a job is double the time taken by 5 children to complete the same
job.Each man is twice as fast as a woman.How long will 12 men,10 children and 8 women take to
complete the job,given that a child would finish the job in 20 days?
a)2 days
b) 2 days
c)4 days d) none of these
13. A does work in 6 days,B in 8 days,and C in 10 days.A worked alone for 2 days before leaving and then B
and C worked together for 2 days and after that B left.The remaining work was finished by C alone.How
long did it take to finish the work?
a) 6 days b) 2 days c) 7 days
d) none of these
14. Two men A and B, started a job in which A was thrice as good as B and therefore took 60 days less than B
to finish the job.How many days will they take to finish the job,if they start working together?
a)20 days
b) 22 days
c) 25 days d)30 days
15. A group of labourers promise to do a workin 12 days,but 5 of them do not turn up.If rest of the group do
the work in 18 days,find the original number of men.
a)15 b) 25 c) 35 d)none of these
16. The work done by a man,a woman and a child are in the ratio 3:2:1.If daily wages of 20 men,30 women
and 36 children amount to Rs 78 ,What will be the wages of 15 men,21 women and 30 children for 18
weeks?
a)Rs 7371 b) Rs 8645 c) Rs 9000 d) none of these
17. Three men earn as much as 4 women,4 women earn as much as 6 boys,and 8 boys earn as much as 10
girls.If a girl earns Rs 50 a day,then the earning of a man would be
a)Rs 115 b) Rs 135 c) Rs 125 d) Rs 150
18. 20 men can do a job in 20 days.After each day a women is replaced by a man and a man is twice as
efficient as a woman.On which day does the job get completed?
a)14
th
day b) 15
th
day c) 16
th
day d) 11
th
day
19. 20 men take 10 days to complete a job working at the rate of 5 h per day.How much time would 15
men,who work for 8 h per day,take to complete the same job?
a) days
b) 10 days
c) 12 days
d) Nnone of these
20. A and B can do a job in 10 days.B and C can do the same job in 15 days.If all three together can do the
work in 6 days,then in how many days can B complete the whole job?
a)10 days b) 12 days c) 18 days d) none of these
21. A can do a job in 10 days.Due to problematic relationship with B ,his efficiency reduces to 60% and both
can finish the same job in 10 days.In how many days can B alone do the job?[Given that Bs efficiency
remains the same while working alone].
a)25 days
b) days
c)22 days d) 20 days
22. 20 women can do a job in 20 days. After each day,one woman is replaced by a man or a boy alternatively
starting with a man.Man is twice efficient and boy is half efficient as a woman.On which day does the job
get completed?
a)16
th
day b) 18
th
day c) 20
th
day d) 22
nd
day
23. A can do a certain job in 12 days.B is 60% more efficient than A .The number of days.it takes B to do the
same piece of of work is
a)6
b) 6 c) 7
d)8
24. A does half as much work as B in three-fourth of the time.If together they take 18 days to complete the
work,how much time shall B take to do it?
a)30 days b) 35 days c) 40 days d) none of these
25. A is thrice as good a workman as B and and takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than B takes.B alone
can do the whole work in
a)12 days b) 15 days c) 20 days d) 30 days
26. A can do a piece of work in 14 days,which B can do in 21 days.They begin together but 3 days before the
completion of the work,A leaves off.The total number of days to complete the work is
a) 6 b) 8 c) 10 d) 13
27. A and B together can do a piece of work in 12 days,which B and C together can do in 16 days.After A has
been workingworking at it for 5 days and B for 7 days,C finishes in 13 days.In how many days C alone will
do the work?
a)16 b) 24 c) 36 d) 48
28. A and B together can do a piece of work in 36,54 and 72 days respectively.They started the work but A
left 8 days before the completion of the work,while B left 12 days before the completion.The number of
days The number of days for which C worked is
a)4 b) 8 c)12 d)24
29. A does half as much work as B and C does half as much work as A and B together.If C alone can finish the
work in 40 days,then together all will finish the work in
a)13 days
b) 15 days c) 20days d) 30 days
30. A,B and C can do a piece of work in 11 days,20 days and 55 days respectively,working alone.How soon can
the work be done if A is assisted by B and C on alternate days?
a)7 days b) 8 days c) 9 days d)10 days
31. A and B working separately can do a piece of work in 9 and 12days respectively.If they work for a day
alternately,A beginning,in how many days the work will be completed?
a)10 b) 10 c) 10 d) 10
32. Ram can do a piece of workin 8 days which shyam can finish can finish in 12 days.If they work at it on
alternate days with Ram beginning,in how many days,the work will be finished?
a)9 b) 9 c) 9 d) 10
33. 12 Children take 16 days to complete a work which can be completed by 8 adults 12 days.16 adults started
working and after 3 days 10 adultsleft and 4 children joined them.How many days will it take them to
complete the remaining work?
a)6 b) 8 c) 4 d) 3
34. A piece of work can be done by 6 men and 5 women in 6 days or 3 men and 4 women in 10 days.It can be
done by 9 men and 15 women in
a)1 day b) 2 days c) 3 days d) 4 days
35. 12 men can complete a work in 18 days.Six days after they started working,4 men joined them.How many
days will all of them take to finish the remaining work?
a)9 b) 10 c) 12 d) 15
36. A and B can separately do a piece of work in 20 and 15 days respectively.They worked together for 6
days,after which B was replaced by C .If the work was finished in next 4 days,then the number of days in
which C alone could do the work,will be
a)60 b) 40 c) 35 d)20
37. A certain number of men complete a piece of work in 60 days.If there were 8 men more,the work could be
finished in 10 days less.How many men were originally there?
a)30 b) 32 c) 36 d) 40
38. 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)10 days b) 12 days c) 15 days d) 16 days
39. Two workers A and B working together completed a job in 5 days.If A worked twice as efficiently as he
actually did and B worked 1/3 as efficiently as he actually did,the work would have completed in 3
days.Find the time for A to complete the job alone.
a)6 days b) 6 days c) 6 days d) 12 days
40. Ramesh can finish a job in 20 days.He worked for 10 days alone and completed the remaining job working
with Dinesh,in 2 days.How many days would both Dinesh and Ramesh together take to complete the
entire job?
a)4 b) 5 c) 10 d) 12