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TIME AND WORK

Concepts 8. 12 men can dig a well in 15 days, working 8 hours a day. How
 If a man can do a piece of work in x days, then the work done many days will 18 men require to dig a similar well working for
1 5 hours aday?
by him in one day will be of the total work.
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9. 30 workers can make 24 tables in 21 days, working 8 hours a
The relation between Number of people working (N), Number
day. If35 workers want to make 18 such tables in 12 days, how
of Days (D) worked, Number of hours (H) worked per day and
many hours should they work every day?
the Quantity of Work (W) is
𝑁1 ×𝐷1 ×𝐻1 𝑁2 ×𝐷2 ×𝐻2 10. If 9 friends can eat 9 ice creams in 9 minutes, how long will 15
𝑊1
= 𝑊 friends take to eat 15 such ice creams?
2
1
 If A can complete a work in ‘x’ days, he will do of the work in 11. A mess has provisions for 360 men for 70 days. If the number
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one day. of men increases by 90, for how many days will the provisions
1 last?
 If B can complete a work in ‘y’ day, he will do of the work in
𝑦 12. 12 boys and 16 girls can do a piece of work in 10 days while 13
one day. boys and 24 girls can do the same work in 8 days. Find the time
1 1 𝑥+𝑦
 Total work done by both in one day = + = taken by 15 boys and 20 girls to do the same work.
𝑥 𝑦 𝑥𝑦
𝑥𝑦 13. A can complete a piece of work in 30 days. B can complete the
 Time taken for them to complete the work =
𝑥+𝑦 same work in 40 days. If they complete the work together and
 If you are solving questions by assuming the total amount of earn Rs. 350 for the job, find A’s share.
work to be done, assume the total amount of work to be 14. A can do a piece of work in 25 days and B can do it in 20 days.
completed as the LCM of time taken by different people to They work together for 5 days and then A quits. B completes
complete the same piece of work (to make calculations easier). the remaining work. If they are paid Rs. 750 for the job, find B’s
 The wages paid for any task has to be divided between workers share.
in the proportion of their contribution towards the completion 15. A and B can do a work in 20 and 30 days respectively. If both of
of the task. them working along with C can finish the work in 8 days, then
 For questions based on Pipes and cisterns, the same concept of find C’s share in the total wage of Rs. 1200.
people working with different efficiencies is used. The work 16. In the question discussed earlier, “12 boys and 16 girls can do a
done in filling a cistern is taken as positive and the work done piece ofwork in 10 days while 13 boys and 24 girls can do the
in emptying a cistern is taken as negative. same work in 8 days. Find the time taken by 15 boys and 20
Drill girls to do the same work.”, if the group is paid Rs. 40,000 for
1. A can do a piece of work in 40 days and B can do the same the task, what will be the wage paid to each boy and girl per
work in 60days. Working together, in how many days will they day?
complete the work?
2. Working together, Rajeev and Vikram can complete a piece of Concept review questions
workin 48 days. Rajeev can complete the work alone in 64 days. 1. A certain number of men can finish a job in 90 days. If there
Both of them worked together for 30 days and then Rajeev left. were 16 more men, the work could have been completed 18
How long will Vikram take to complete the remaining work? days earlier. How many men were there initially?
3. A can do a piece of work in 10 days, B in 12 days and C in 15 a. 108 b. 64 c. 80 d. 48
days. They all start the work together, but A leaves the work
after 2 days and B leaves 3 days before the work is completed. 2. 12 men can build a wall 100 metres long, 3 metres high and 0.5
How many days did thework last? meter thick in 25 days. In how many days will 20 men build a
4. Two taps A and B can fill a cistern in 42 and 56 minutes wall 60 metres long, 4 metres high and 0.25 metres thick?
respectively. If both the taps are opened together, then find
a. 3 days b. 12 days c. 6 days d. 8 days
the time taken to fill thecistern.
5. Two taps A and B can fill a cistern in 10 and 15 minutes 3. A man works twice as fast as a woman. A woman works twice
respectively.Both the taps are opened together but at the end as fast as a child. If 16 men can complete a job in 12 days, then
of 3 minutes, tap B is turned off. In how much time will the how many days would be required for 32 women and 64
cistern be filled? children together to complete the same job?
6. A cistern is fitted with three taps, namely P, Q and R. P and Q
can fill a cistern in 10 and 15 minutes respectively whereas R a. 2 days b. 12 days c. 3 days d. 6 days
(emptying tap fitted at the bottom of the cistern) can empty it
4. To complete a task in 45 days, a contractor employs 45 people.
in 12 minutes. If all the three pipes are kept open, in how much
Upon reviewing the work after 30 days, he notices that only
time will the cistern be filled?
half of the task is complete. In order to complete the work in
7. A cistern generally takes 20 minutes to be filled by a pipe, but
45 days, how many extra people must he employ now?
due to a leak, it takes 10 extra minutes to get filled. Find the
time in which the leak alone can empty the cistern filled with a. 90 b. 15 c. 60 d. 45
water.
5. To complete a task, two men work on the first day, three men
on the second day and so on, till it gets completed. If the same
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work can becompleted by 9 men working for 15 days, in how a. 25 days b. 15 days c. 10 days d. None
many days will the work be completed in the earlier case?
12. A, working alone can make a cabinet in 12 days. B will take 6
a. 15 days b. 16 days c. 14 days d. 17 days days more than A to do the same work. A and B along with the
help of C completes it in 5 days. If they are paid Rs. 9000 for the
6. 4 men and 4 women can build a room in 5 days. 7 men and 2
job, find C’s share.
women will take 4 days to complete the same piece of work.
How many days will 6 men and 1 woman take to complete a. Rs. 2750 b. Rs. 2500 c. Rs. 2250 d. None
twice the job?
13. Two taps X and Y can fill a cistern in 32 and 40 minutes
a. 10 days b. 20 days c. 5 days d. None respectively. Both the taps are opened into the empty cisterns
and after some time tap X is closed. Tap Y alone fills the
7. If 3 men or 4 women can reap a field in 43 days, how long will 7
remaining portion of the cistern. If it took 25 minutes to fill the
men and 5 women take to reap it?
tank, for how much time was tap X keptopen?
a. 12 days b. 1 day c. 6 days d. 8 days
a. 13 min b. 25 min c. 12 min d. None
8. A is thrice as good a work man as B. If together they can 14. Taps X and Y can fill a tank in 30 and 40 minutes respectively.
complete a task in 12 days, in how many days can A alone Tap Z can empty the filled tank in 60 minutes. If all the three
complete it? taps are kept open for one minute each, how much time will
a. 48 days b. 16 days c. 24 days d. None the taps take to fill the tank?
a. 48 min b. 72 min c. 24 min d. None
9. Rajeev takes one hour to arrange 96 books. Sanjeev takes one
and a half hour to arrange the same number of books. Working 15. A booster pump can be used for filling as well as emptying a
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together, how many hours will they take to arrange 4000 tank of capacity 2400 m . The emptying capacity of the pump is
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books? 10 m per minute higher than its filling capacity and the pump
2 1 1 needs 8 minutes lesser to empty the tank than it needs to fill it.
a. 20 hrs b. 31 hrs c. 41 hrs d. 25 hrs What is the filling capacity of the pump?
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3 3 3 3
a. 20 m /min b. 60 m /min c. 40 m /min d. 50 m /min
10. Anil, Benny and Cyril work for a ship building company. Anil can
build a ship in 10 days while Benny can build the same ship in 8
16. A tap requires 18 hours to fill a tank. On a particular day, it was
days. Working together, all three of them can build a similar
noticed that 18 hours after the tap was turned open, the tank
ship in 4 days. In how many days can Cyril alone build it?
was not filled due to leak at the bottom of the tank. The leak
a. 20 days b. 80 days c. 40 days d. None was plugged and it took the tap 3 more hours to fill the tank.
Working alone, how long will the leak take to empty the tank?
11. A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days. B and C can do it in
37.5 days. C and A can do it in 50 days. In how many days will a. 3 hrs b. 108 hrs c. 72 hrs d. None
they finish, if A, B and C work together?

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