TIME & WORK

[Note of Paltu Mahajan (9231503079)]

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Type VI 
(01) Twenty women together can complete a piece of work in 16 days , 16 men together can complete the same work in 15 days .
The ratio of the working capacity of a man to that of a woman is :
(i) 3 : 4 (ii) 4 : 3 (iii) 5 : 3 (iv) 4 : 5 [SSC CGL Tier – I 2016]
(02)Two men can do a piece of work in x days . But y women can do that in 3 days . Then the ratio of the work done by 1 man and
1 woman is : (i) 3‫ ∶ ݕ‬2‫( ݔ‬ii) 2‫ ∶ ݔ‬3‫ݕ‬ (iii) ‫ݕ ∶ ݔ‬ (iv) 2‫ ∶ ݕ‬3‫[ ݔ‬SSC FCI Assistant Grade - III 2013]
(03)12 men and 16 boys can do a piece of work in 5 days, 13 men and 24 boys can do it in 4 days. Then the ratio of daily work
done by a man to that of a boy is (i) 2 : 1 (ii) 3 : 1 (iii) 3 : 2 (iv) 5 : 4
(04) 28 men can complete a piece of work in 15 days and 15 women can complete the same piece of work in 24 days. What is the
respective ratio between the amount of work done by 30 men in 1 day and the amount of work done by 18 women in 1 day?
(i) 10 : 7 (ii) 3 : 5 (iii) 5 : 4 (iv) 9 : 5 (v) none of these [IBPS Bank PO/MT CWE – V (Preliminary) 03.10.2015)]
(05)32 men can complete a piece of work in 12 days and 20 women can complete the same piece of work in 18 days. What is the
respective ratio between the amount of work done by 24 men in 4 days and amount of work done by 36 women in 5 days?
(i) 1 : 3 (ii) 1 : 2 (iii) 2 : 3 (iv) 3 : 1 (v) 1 : 4 [NABARD Assistant Manager Online Exam 06.08.2017]
(06)A man works for 10 hours per day to finish a work in 3 days. A boy finishes the same work in 5 days working 18 hours per day.
How many boys are required to do the job in the time taken by one man? (i) 1 (ii) 2 (iii) 3 (iv) 4
…………………
(07)24 men or 30 women completes a work in 12 days . 18 men and 40 women working together will complete the same work in
଼ ଵଵ ଵଽ ଵଵ
how many days ? ሺ݅ሻ 5 ଵହ ݀ܽ‫ݏݕ‬ ሺ݅݅ሻ 5
ଵହ
݀ܽ‫ݏݕ‬ ሺ݅݅݅ሻ 5
ଶହ
݀ܽ‫ݏݕ‬ ሺ݅‫ݒ‬ሻ 6
ଵହ
݀ܽ‫ ݏݕ‬.
(08) If 6 women or 12 childrens does a work in 18 days .So how many days will 4 women and 18 children takes to complete the work
(09) 10 men can finish certain piece of work in 8 days , 12 women can finish same piece of work in 16 days. Then find in how many
days 5 men and 12 women can finish the work ? (i) 6 days (ii) 7 days (iii) 8 days (iv) 10 days .
(10) If 12 boys or 15 girls can do a work in 48 days. In what time will 24 boys and 6 girls do twice the work?
(i) 42 days (ii) 40 days (iii) 45 days (iv) 30 days (v) None of these [RBI Grade – B Officer Online Exam 25.08.2013]
(11)10 women can complete a work in 7 days and 10 children take 14 days to complete the work. How many days will 5 women
and 10 children take to complete the work ? (i) 6 days (ii) 7 days (iii) 8 days (iv) 10 days .
[NICL (GIC) Administrative Officer Exam . 15.12.2013]
(12)10 men can finish a work in 10 days where 12 women takes to finish it in 10 days . If 15 men and 6 women undertake to
complete the work how many days will they take to complete it : (i) 11 days (ii) 5 days (iii) 4 days (iv) 2 days .
(13)24 men can complete a work in 16 days . 16 women can complete the same work in 24 days . In how many days will 8 men and
6 women complete the work ? [State Bank P.O. Exam: April – 10]
(14) 5 men can do a piece of work in 6 days while 10 women can do it in 5 days . In how many days can 5 women and 3 men do it ?
(i) 4 days (ii) 5 days (iii) 6 days (iv) 8 days [SSC CGL Tier – I 1999]
(15) If 3 men or 6 women can do a piece of work in 16 days , in how many days can 12 men and 8 woman do the same piece of
work ? (i) 4 days (ii) 5 days (iii) 3 days (iv) 2 days [SSC CGL Tier – I 2000]
(16)A particular job can be completed by a team of 10 men in 12 days . The same job can be completed by a team of 10 women in
6 days . How many days are needed to complete the job if the two teams work together ?
(i) 4 days (ii) 6 days (iii) 9 days (iv) 18 days [SSC CGL Tier – I 2000]
(17)8 men can do a work in 12 days while 20 women can do it in 10 days. In how many days 12 men and 15 women complete the
same work. (i) 5 days (ii) 8 days (iii) 6 days (iv) 4 days
(18)10 men can complete a piece of work in 15 days and 15 women can complete the same work in 12 days. If all the 10 men and
ଵ ଶ ଶ
15 women work together, in how many days will the work get completed? (i) 6 (ii) 6 ଷ (iii) 6 ଷ (iv) 7 ଷ .
(19) If 3 men or 4 women can reap a field in 43 days, how long will 7 men and 5 women take to reap it?
(i) 7 days (ii) 11 days (iii) 12 days (iv) 16 days .
(20) 10 men can complete a piece of work in 8 days. 20 women can complete the same piece of work in 6 days. In how many days
16 men and 18 women together can complete the same piece of work?
ହ ଺ ଷ ଷ
(i) 2 days (ii) 3 days (iii) 3 days (iv) 2 days (v) None of these [PNB Specialist Officer’s Exam. 16.08.2009]
଻ ଻ ଻ ଻
(21) 3 men can complete a piece of work in 6 days. 5 women can complete the same work in 18 days. In how many days will 4 men
and 10 women together complete the same work ? (i) 3 days (ii) 5 days (iii) 2 days (iv) 4 days (v) None of these
[Bank of Baroda PO Exam. 30.05.2010]
(22) 8 men can complete a piece of work in 20 days. 8 women can complete the same work in 32 days. In how many days will 5
men and 8 women together complete the same work ?
(i) 16 days (ii) 12 days (iii) 14 days (iv) 10 days (v) none of these [Central Bank of India PO Exam. 25.07.2010]
(23) Two men alone or three women alone can complete a piece of work in 4 days. In how many days can I woman and one man
together complete the same piece of work ?
ଶସ
(i) 6 days (ii) days (iii) 7 days (iv) Cannot be determined (v) None of these [Corporation Bank PO Exam. 16.01.2011]
ହ
(24)10 men can complete a piece of work in 6 days and 6 women can complete the same piece of work in 12 days. In how many
days will 15 men and 10 women together complete the same work?
ଵ ଵ ଵ ସ
(i) 3 ଶ (ii) 2 (iii) 3 ସ (iv) 2 ଶ (iv) 2 ଻ [SBI Assistant Management (System) Exam. 17.01.2016]
(25)If 8 men or 12 boys can do a piece of work in 16 days , the number of days required to complete the work by 20 men and 6
ଵ ଵ ଵ ଵ
boys is : (i) 5 ଷ ሺ݅݅ሻ 6 ሺ݅݅݅ሻ 8 ሺ݅‫ݒ‬ሻ 7 .
ଷ ଷ ଷ
(26)18 men or 36 boys working 6 hours a day can plough a field in 24 days . In how many days will 24 men and 24 boys working 9
hours a day plough the same field ? (i) 9 (ii) 10 (iii) 6 (iv) 8 [SSC CGL Tier – I 2016]
………………
(27)If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days and 26 men and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days,then the time taken
by 15 men and 20 boys to do the same type of work will be:
(i) 5 days (ii) 4 days (iii) 6 days (iv) 7 days [SSC CGL Tier – I 1999]
(28) Four men and three women can do a job in 6 days . When 5 men and 6 women work on the same job , the work gets
complete in 4 days . How many days will a woman take to do the job , if she works alone on it ?
(i) 30 days (ii) 36 days (iii) 50 days (iv) 54 days .
(29)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
2 men and 1 boy do the work ? (i) 12.5 days (ii) 25 days (iii) 10 days (iv) 8 days .
(30)2 men and 3 women together or 4 men can complete a piece of work in 20 days . 3 men and 3 women will complete the same
work in : (i) 12 days (ii) 16 days (iii) 18 days (iv) 19 days . [SSC CHSL DEO & LDC 2010]
(31) 4 men and 6 women finish a job in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women finish in 10 days. In how many days will 10 women finish
it ? (i) 20 days (ii) 30 days (iii) 40 days (iv) 50 days .
(32)12 men and 16 boys can do a piece of work in 5 days. 13 men and 24 boys can do the same work in 4 days. How long will 7
ଶହ ଶହ
men and 10 boys take to do the same work? (i) 5 days (ii) ସ
days (iii) 6 days (iv) ଷ
days .
(33) Sixteen men and twelve women can complete a work in 8 days, if 20 men can complete the same work in 16 days, in how
many days 16 women can complete the same piece of work ?
(i) 12 (ii) 8 (iii) 10 (iv) 15 (v) 20 [IBPS RRBs Officer Scale – I CWE 06.09.2014]
(34)15 men and 16 women together can complete a piece of work in 6 days. If 12 women can complete the same project in 32
days, in how many days will 10 men complete the same project ?
(i) 12 (ii) 20 (iii) 16 (iv) 8 (v) 14 [IBPS Specialist Officer (IT) CWE 14.02.2016]
(35)3 man and 4 boys can complete a piece of work in 12 days . 4 men and 3 boys can do the same work in 10 days . Then 2 men
ଵ ହ
and 3 boys can finished the work in number of days is : (i) 17 ଶ ሺ݅݅ሻ 5 ଵଵ ሺ݅݅݅ሻ 8 ሺ݅‫ݒ‬ሻ 22 .
 ଶ
(36) A project can be completed by 20 men and 36 women together in 8ହ days. 28 men can complete the same project in 15 days.
How much work will be left unfinished if 40 women together work for 7 days?
ଵ ଵ ଶ ଶ
(i)
ଷ
(ii) ହ
(iii) ହ
(iv) ଷ
(v) none of these [IBPS SO (Agriculture) Exam. 29.01.2017)]
(37)2 men and 3 boys can finish a work in 6 days . But 3 men and 2 boys can finish the same work in 4 days . A man and a boy can
finish the work in ….. days . [P.S.C (Clerkship)2011]
૚
(38)2 men and 5 boys can do half of a piece of work in 5 days and 3 men and 4 boys can do ૜ ࢘ࢊ of it in 3 days . The number of
days that 9 men will take to do it are ……
(39) If 30 men and 14 boys can reap a field in 21 days, in how many days will 20 men and 4 boys reap it , supposing that 3 men can
do as much as 5 boys ? (i) 36 days (ii) 30 days (iii) 42 days (iv) 45 days (v) none of these .
……………………
(40) If 10 men or 20 boys can make 260 mats in 20 days , then how many mats will be made by 8 men and 4 boys in 20 days ?
(i) 260 (ii) 240 (iii) 280 (iv) 520 [SSC CGL Tier – I 1999]
(41)A wall of 100 metres can be built by 7 men or 10 women in 10 days . How many days will 14 men and 20 women take to build
a wall of 600 metres ? (i) 15 (ii) 20 (iii) 25 (iv) 30 [SSC CGL Tier – I 2003]
(42) Either 8 men or 17 women can paint a house in 33 days . The number of days required to paint three such houses by 12 men
and 24 women working at the same rate is : (i) 44 days (ii) 43 days (iii) 34 days (iv) 66 days [SSC CHSL DEO & LDC 2011]
(43) If 4 men or 6 women can do a piece of work in 12 days working 7 hours a day ; how many days will it take to complete a work
twice as large with 10 men and 3 women working together 8 hours a day ?
(i) 6 days (ii) 7 days (iii) 8 days (iv) 10 days [SSC CHSL DEO & LDC 2013]
(44)12 men can complete a piece of work in 36 days , 18 women can complete the same piece of work in 60 days. 8 men and 20
women work together for 20 days. If only women were to complete the remaining piece of work in 4 days , how many women
would be required ? (i) 60 (ii) 70 (iii) 75 (iv) 80 . [Union Bank of India PO Exam. 27.11.2005]
(45) 16 women take 12 days to complete a work which can be completed by 12 men in 8 days . 16 men started working and after 3
days 10 men left and 4 women joined them . How many days will they take to complete the remaining work ?
(i) 4 days (ii) 6 days (iii) 8 days (iv) 10 days [SSC CHSL DEO & LDC 2014]
(46) 20 men can complete a work in 14 days and 10 women can complete the same work in 36 days. 7 men and 9 women started
the work. After working for some days , they were replaced by 5 men and 15 women who complete the remaining work in 9
ଶ଼ ଵଷ ଷଵ ଼ଶ
days . How much work was completed by initially employed men and women ? (i) ሺ݅݅ሻ ሺ݅݅݅ሻ ሺ݅‫ݒ‬ሻ
ଵଷ ଶ଼ ଼ଶ ଷଵ
(47) 24 men can complete a piece of work in 18 days while 12 women can complete the same piece of work in 28 days. 27 men
start working and are replaced by 14 women after 8 days. In how many days will 14 women finish the remaining work?
ଵ
(i) 12 days (ii) 14 days (iii) 13 days (iv) 12 ଶ days (v) 15 days [IBPS Bank PO/MT CWE – V (Pre.) 10.10.2015]
(48) 18 men can complete a project in 30 days and 16 women can complete the same project in 36 days. 15 men start working and
after 9 days they are replaced by 18 women. In how many days will 18 women complete the remaining work ?
(i) 20 (ii) 30 (iii) 26 (iv) 28 (v) 24 [IBPS Bank PO/MT CWE – V (Pre.) 10.10.2015]
(49) 14 men can do a work in 18 days. 15 women can do the same work in 24 days. If 14 men work for first three days and 10
women work after that for three days, find the part of work left after that?
ଷ ଵ ଵ ଵ ଵ
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) [IBPS Bank PO/MT CWE – VI (Pre.) Exam. 16.10.2016 (IInd Sitting) ]
ସ ସ ଶ ଺ ହ
(50)18 men can complete a piece of work in 10 days. 16 women can complete the same piece of work in 12 days. Only 8 men
started working and they worked for few days. As such they could complete certain amount of work. The remaining work was
଼
completed by 8 women and 6 men together in 8ଽ days. For how many days did only 8 men work?
ଵ ଵ
(i) 8 ଶ (ii) 6 (iii) 8 (iv) 10 (v) 7 ଶ [NABARD Officer Grade A Online Exam 03.08.2014]
(51) 8 men can finish a piece of work in 25 days. 15 women can finish the same piece of work in 16 days. 4 men and 8 women
started working together and worked for 10 days. After that 6 more men joined them. How many days will they now take to
finish the remaining work?
ସ ଷ ଶ ଷ ଶ
(i) 4 ହ (ii) 6 (iii) 6 (iv) 5 (v) 5 [IBPS RRBs Officer CWE (Prelim Exam) 16.09.2017)]
ହ ହ ହ ହ
(52)15 men can finish a piece of work in 8 days. 18 women can finish the piece of work in 10 days. 6 men and 6 women started
working together and worked for 10 days. If the remaining work needed to be finished in 2 days, how many men should be
added to the existing number of workers ?
(i) 2 (ii) 5 (iii) 3 (iv) 0 (v) 1 [Bank Of Baroda Exam. 25.09.2016]
(53)10 men can finish a piece of work in 15 days. 8 women can finish the same piece of work in 25 days. Only 10 women started
working and in few days completed certain amount of work. After that 3 men joined them. The remaining work was
completed by 10 women and 3 men together in 5 days. After how many days 3 men joined 10 women?
(i) 11 (ii) 13 (iii) 15 (iv) 10 (v) 12 [SBI PO Phase – I (Preliminary) Online Exam 21.06.2015]
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(54) 10 women can do a piece of work in 6 days , 6 men can do same work in 5 days and 8 children can do it in 10 days what is the
ratio of the efficiency of a woman , a man and child respectively .
(i) 4 : 6 : 3 (ii) 4 : 5 : 3 (iii) 2 : 4 : 3 (iv) 4 : 8 : 3 [SSC CGL Tier – I 2017]
(55) 1 man or 2 women or 3 boys can do a work in 44 days. Then in how many days will 1 man, 1 woman and 1 boy do the work?
(i) 12 days (ii) 24 days (iii) 18 days (iv) 36 days .
(56)If 1 man or 2 women or 3 boys can complete a piece of work in 88 days , then 1 man , 1 woman and 1 boy together will
complete it in : (i) 36 days (ii) 42 days (iii) 48 days (iv) 54 days [SSC CHSL DEO & LDC 2010]
(57) If 10 men or 20 women or 40 children can do a piece of work in 7 months , then 5 men , 5 women and 5 children together can
do the work in : (i) 6 months (ii) 4 months (iii) 5 months (iv) 8 months [SSC CGL Tier – I 2013]
(58)9 children can complete a piece of work in 360 days. 18 men can complete the same piece of work in 72 days and 12 women
can complete the piece of work in 162 days. In how many days can 4 men, 12 women and 10 children together complete the
piece of work? (i) 124 days (ii) 81 days (iii) 68 days (iv) 96 days
[Corporation Bank PO Exam. 29.07.2006] [NICL (GIC) Administrative Officer Exam 15.12.2013]
(59) 4 men can complete a piece of work in 2 days. 4 women can complete the same piece of work in 4 days whereas 5 children
can complete the same piece of work in 4 days. If, 2 men, 4 women and 10 children work together, in how many days can the
work be completed? (i) 1 day (ii) 3 day (iii) 2 days (iv) 4 days (v) none of these [SBI & Rural Business PO Exam. 18.04.2010]
(60)Five men can do a piece of work in 2 hours , which 7 women could do in 3 hours , or 9 children in 4 hours . How long would 1
man , 1 woman and 1 child together take to do the work ?
ଵଶ଺଴ ଵଶ଻଴ ଵଶଶଵ
ሺ݅ሻ ℎ‫ ݏݎݑ݋‬. ሺ݅݅ሻ ℎ‫ݏݎݑ݋‬ ሺ݅݅݅ሻ ℎ‫ݏݎݑ݋‬ ሺ݅‫ݒ‬ሻ ݊‫ݐ ݂݋ ݁݊݋‬ℎ݁‫( ݁ݏ‬v) can’t determine .
ଶଶଵ ଶଷଵ ଶ଺଴
(61)A man , a woman and a boy can complete a piece of work in 20 days , 30 days and 60 days respectively . How many boys
must assist 2 men and 8 women as to complete the work in 2 days ? (i) 8 (ii) 12 (iii) 4 (iv) 6
(62)6 men can do a piece of work in 12 days while 8 women can do the same work in 18 days . The same work can be done by 18
children in 10 days . 4 men , 12 women and 20 children work together for 2 days . If only men have to complete remaining
work in 1 day , then find the required number of men . (i) 28 (ii) 30 (iii) 35 (iv) 36
[Bank of India Banking Officer Exam. 24.01.2010][RBI Officer Grade – B Phase – I Online Exam 22.11.2015]
(63) 2 men can complete a piece of work in 6 days. 2 women can complete the same piece of work in 9 days, where as 3 children
can complete the same piece of work in 8 days. 3 women and 4 children worked together for 1 day. If only men were to finish
the remaining work in 1 days, how many total men would be required?
(i) 4 (ii) 8 (iii) 6 (iv) Cannot be determined (v) None of these [Union Bank of India PO Exam. 14.11.2010]
(64)12 men can finish a piece of work in 20 days. 8 men started working and after 10 days they were replaced by 18 women. These
18 women finished the remaining work in 16 days. In how many days can 18 women finish the whole work?
(i) 32 (ii) 18 (iii) 28 (iv) 24 (v) 21 [LIC Assistant Administrative Officer (AO) Online Exam 05.03.2016]
(65)8 men can finish a piece of work in 21 days. 14 men started working and after 3 days were replaced by 9 women. These 9
women finished the remaining work in 24 days. In how many days 9 women can finish the whole work?
(i) 24 (ii) 26 (iii) 36 (iv) 32 (v) 30 [LIC Assistant Administrative Officer (AAO) Exam 06.03.2016]
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(66) One man , 3 women and 4 boys can do a piece of work in 96 hours , 2 men and 8 boys can do it in 80 hours , 2 men and 3
women can do it in 120 hours , then 5 men and 12 boys can do it in :
ଵ ଻ ଻
(i) 39 ଵଵ hours (ii) 42 hours (iii) 43 hours (iv) 44 hours [SSC CGL Tier – I 2013]
ଵଵ ଵଵ
(67) Three men, four women and six children can complete a work in seven days. A woman does double the work a man does and
a child does half the work a man does. How many women alone can complete this work in 7 days?
(i) 7 (ii) 8 (iii) 12 (iv) Cannot be determined

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