Sreedhar’s CCE TIME AND WORK

TIME AND WORK

1. A, B and C can individually complete the task in 12,15 and 10 days respectively. A
started the work and worked for ‘X’ days and then a left the work. B then sarted the

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work and worked (x+2) days. and then both A and C joined B to complete the remain-
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ing work in days, Find the value of “X”?
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1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5
2. The efficiency of shrikant is five-fourth of that of Ravikant to do a certain work.Ravikant
and Riya together can complete three-fifth part of a work in 15 days. Ratio of efficiency
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of Riya and Sulekha is 5 : 7 and sulekha can complete the whole work in 25 days
alone. Find in how much time shrikant can complete the whole work alone?
1) 75 days 2) 70 days 3) 175 days 4) 60 days 5) 80 days
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Ram is 10% more efficient than vani. Vani worked for ‘y’ days and is replaced by ram
who completed the remaining work in ‘y+4’ days. Ratio of work done by ram and vani
is 3 : 2. Find in how many days Ram and Vani will complete the work together?
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10 1 2
1) 10 days 2) 12 days 3) 12 days 4) 13 days 5) 13 days
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4. Prabhas can wash 5 dishes in one minute where Bhavana who is 20% less efficient
then Prabhas, can wash all dishes of a hotel in 35 minute. Arun who take time equal
to time taken by Prabhas and bhavana together to wash dishes of hotel, then find the
time taken by all three to wash dishes of hotel?
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1) 1 min 2) 7 min 3) 2 min 4) 7 min 5) 8 min
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5. (B+C) can complete a work in 50% more time than (A+B+C) together. If they work
together on a job till the whole work complete then B earns Rs. 80 out of total earning
of Rs.300 then find in how many days (A+B+C) together complete the whole work
while A takes 6 days more to complete the whole work than (A+B+C) together
1) 9 days 2) 6 days 3) 4 days 4) 3 days 5) 10 days
6. A and B can finish a work working on alternatively in 17 days, where A works on the
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first day. Similarly they can finish the work, working on alternate days, in 17 days,
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where B works on the first day. C working alone can complete the work in 35 days. In
how many days can the work be completed when A, B, and C work together?
1) 5 2) 6 3) 7 4) 8 5) 2
7. 8 men and 4 women together can complete a piece of work in 6 days work alone by a
man in one day is double the work done by a women in one day. If 8 men and 4 women
started working and after 2 days, 4 men left and 4 new women joined. In how many
more days will the work be completed?
1) 2 days 2) 4 days 3) 6 days 4) 3 days 5) 5 days
8. Machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours. Machine Q can print the same num-
ber of books in 10 hours. While machine R can print the same in 12 hours. All the
machines started printing at 9 AM. Machine P is stopped at 11 AM and the remaining
two machines complete work. Approximately at what time will the printing of one lakh
books be completed?
1) 3 pm 2) 2 pm 3) 1:00 pm 4) 11 am 5) 4 pm

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9. 6 men can complete a piece of work in 12 days. 8 women can complete the same piece
of work in 18 days, whereas 18 children can complete the piece of work in 10 days, 4
men, 12 women and 20 children work together for 2 days. If only men were to com-
plete the remaining work in 1 day, how many men would be required totally?
1) 36 2) 40 3) 42 4) 30 5) 45
10. A, B, C, D can finish a work in 10, 40, 80 and 20 days respectively B works every day.
A helps him on every second day, C helps him on every third day and D helps on every
fourth day. Approximately in how many days will the work be finished?
1) 19.5 2) 11.5 3) 9.5 4) 13 5) 21
11. A can do a task in 18 days, B can do the same task in 24 days and C can destroy the
whole work in 36 days. If A & B work for first x days together after that C also joined

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them, remaining work is completed in  x  4  days. Find how many days all three
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worked together?
4 4 4 4 4
1) 6 days 2) 5 days 3) 4 days 4) 7 days 5) 8 days
5 5 5 5 5
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A can do a piece of work in 10 days, B can do the same work in 12 days and C in 15 days.
They all started working together, but A leaves the work after 2 days and B leaves the
work 3 days before the work is completed. For how many days the work lasted?

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1) 8 days 2) 10 days

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3) 7 days 4) 9 days 5) 6 days
Rahul and Rajat together can complete a work in half the time of Pali, while Rajat and
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Pali together can complete the same work in rd time of Rahul. If they together com-
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plete the work in 30 days then in how many days Rahul alone can complete the work?
1) 120 days 2) 150 days 3) 90 days 4) 100 days 5) 140 days
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14. A 10 hectare field is reaped by 2 men, 3 women and 4 children together in 10 days. If
working capabilities of a man, a woman and a child are in the ratio 5 : 4 : 2, then a 16
hectare field will be reaped by 6 men, 4 women and 7 children in.
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1) 5 days 2) 6 days 3) 7 days 4) 8 days 5) None of these
15. 40 men together complete a work in 12 days while 12 women together complete that
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work in 48 days. All men started working together and on every next day 10 men left
the work and after four days, 16 women joined to do the remaining work then find the
time taken by 16 women to do the remaining work?
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1) 25 days 2) 22 days 3) 30 days 4) 28 days 5) 32 days
2 2 2
16. A certain number of men can complete a work in six hours less than the time taken by
some women.
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Work completed by one man in one hour is same as the work completed by one
woman in one hour.
 Which one of the following ratio of number of men to number of women can satisfy
the above given condition
(i) 5:6 (ii) 10:3 (iii) 8:5 (iv) 10:7
1) only (ii) 2) only (ii) and (iii) 3) only (i) and (iii)
4) all of the above 5) only (ii), (iii)and (iv)
17. A and B can together finish a piece of work in 10 days. If A starts working and after 3
days, A is replaced by B and B finished the remaining work in 24 days.
Quantity I : Number of days taken by B alone to finish the piece of work.
Quantity II : Number of days taken by C alone to finish the piece of work. (C is 40%
less effective than A)
1) Quantity I > Quantity II 2) Quantity I < Quantity II
3) Quantity I  Quantity II 4) Quantity I  Quantity II
5) Quantity I = Quantity II or the relation can’t be determined
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18. If 10 men and 15 women completes a piece of work in 8 days while 12 men and 8
women can complete the same piece of work in 10 days. If A boy who is 50% less
efficient than the man, can do the work in 50 days.
Quantity I: Time taken by 2 men, 4 women and 18 boys to complete the work.
Quantity II: Time taken by 9 men, 3 women and 6 boys to complete the same work.
1) Quantity I > Quantity II 2) Quantity I < Quantity II
3) Quantity I  Quantity II 4) Quantity I  Quantity II
5) Quantity I = Quantity II or the relation can’t be determined
Directions (19-23): Study the following graph carefully and answer the given questions.
The table shows the number of days taken by Swathi to complete the given percentage

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of work and the time ratio of Swathi to Shivani to complete the whole work.
Days ratio of
Percentage of Number of
Swathi to Shivani
Job Name a work done days taken
to complete the
by Swathi by Swathi
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A 20% 5 5: 4
B
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50%
40%

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12
6:5
2: 1
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D 15% 3 5: 6
E 30% 6 5: 4
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19. Find the number of days taken by Sumaya to complete the Job-C alone?
Statement I: Swathi and Shivani started working to complete Job-C, Sumaya also
joins with them to complete the work 4 days before the actual time taken by Swathi
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and Shivani working together.
Statement II : Swathi started working to complete Job-C with 75% of her original
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efficiency. After some days Sumaya joins with her and completed Job-C in 30 days. The
ratio of the number of days taken by Swathi and Sumaya to complete Job-C is 2 : 1.
1) Only statement I alone is sufficient to answer
2) Only statement II alone is sufficient to answer
3) Either statement I or II alone is sufficient to answer the question
4) Both statements I and II alone are sufficient to answer the question
5) Both statements I and II alone are not sufficient to answer the question
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20. Find the total wage to complete Job-B?
Statement I: Swathi and Shivani started working to complete Job-B with their 20%
and 25% less than the original efficiency respectively. The ratio of the number of days
taken by Swathi and Shivani to complete Job-B is 3 : 4. The difference between their
wages is Rs. 300.
Statement II: Shivani started working to complete Job-B. After 6 days swathi also
joins with her and increased her efficiency by 20%. Swathi left the work 5 days before
the work was completed and get Rs. 8400 as wage.
1) Only statement I alone is sufficient to answer
2) Only statement II alone is sufficient to answer
3) Either statement I or II alone is sufficient to answer the question
4) Both statements I and II alone are sufficient to answer the question
5) Both statements I and II alone are not sufficient to answer the question
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21. Find the total number of days taken to complete Job- A?
Statement I: Shivani started working to complete Job-A and after 5 days Janani joins
with her. The ratio of the number of days they worked to complete Job-A is 35: 12.
Statement II: Sumi is 25% more efficient than Swathi to complete Job-A. They worked
alternatively starting with Sumi to complete Job-A.
1) Only statement I alone is sufficient to answer
2) Only statement II alone is sufficient to answer
3) Either statement I or II alone is sufficient to answer the question
4) Both statements I and II alone are sufficient to answer the question
5) Both statements I and II alone are not sufficient to answer the question
22. Find the number of days taken by Krish alone to complete Job-D?

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Statement I: Shivani and Krish started working to complete Job-D and the ratio of
the number of days worked by Shivani to Krish is 5: 2.
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Statement II: Shivani and Krish completes the Job- B in days less than the total
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number of days taken by Shivani and Swathi working together till the work completed.
1) Only statement I alone is sufficient to answer
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2) Only statement II alone is sufficient to answer
3) Either statement I or II alone is sufficient to answer the question
4) Both statements I and II alone are sufficient to answer the question

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5) Both statements I and II alone are not sufficient to answer the question
What is the efficiency ratio of Janavi to Kamali?
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Statement I: Shivani started working to complete Job- C and after 4 days, Janavi
joins with him and after few days Janavi replaced by Kamali. The remaining work was
completed in 5 days.
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Statement II: Janavi and Kamali started working together to complete Job-B and
completed the work same as the number of days taken by Shivani and Swathi working
together.
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1) Only statement I alone is sufficient to answer
2) Only statement II alone is sufficient to answer
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3) Either statement I or II alone is sufficient to answer the question

4) Both statements I and II alone are sufficient to answer the question
5) Both statements I and II alone are not sufficient to answer the question
Directions (24-28) : Line chart given below shows time taken by five different persons
to complete a work ‘M’alone.Ratio of efficiency of all five persons remain same throughout
any work. Study the data carefully and answer the following questions.
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70

60
50
40

30
20

10
0
Abhi Bhavya Neeraj Satish Veer
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24. All five starts working together to complete work ‘X’. ‘Veer’ left after 8 days. Work done
by ‘Bhavya’ is same as work done by ‘Neeraj’ while ‘Abhi’ and ‘Neeraj’ worked for same
time. ‘Satish’ worked for ‘y’ days. If ‘Bhavya’, ‘Neeraj’ and ‘Satish’ together can complete
work ‘X’ in 24 days then find the value of ‘y’ if Bhavya worked for starting 10 days.
1) 7 days 2) 9 days 3) 11 days 4) 13 days 5) 15 days
25. Abhi and Neeraj together can complete work ‘Z’ in (A + 42) days while Bhavya and
Satish together can complete work ‘Z’ in (A + 15) days. Allstart the work Z such that
ratio between work done by Abhi, Bhavya and Veer is 1 : 2 : 3, while ratio between
days, Neeraj, Satish and Veerworked is 2 : 2 : 1. Find how many days ‘Bhavya’ worked.
1) 10 days 2) 15 days 3) 20 days 4) 30 days 5) 40 days

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26. All five persons started together to complete work ‘Y’. Veer worked forstarting 6 days
and left the work. After 3 days more both Bhavya and Satish left too. Remaining 40%
work should be completed by Abhi and Neeraj together but ‘Abhi’ left after ‘x’ days.
Remaining work is completed by ‘Neeraj’ in ‘z’ days. If ‘z - x = 3’, then number of days
for which ‘Neeraj’ worked is what percent more than number of days for which ‘Abhi’
worked.
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1) 33 % 2) 50% 3) 66 % 4) 75% 5) 100%
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Abhi, Bhavya and Neeraj together starts to do work ‘M’. After 7 days ‘Neeraj’ left and
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after 3 days more ‘Abhi’ and ‘Bhavya’ left. Remaining work is completed by Satish and
Veer working alternatively in ‘y’ days. If ‘y’ is integer then find ‘Veer’ worked for how
many days?
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1) 3 days 2) 4 days 3) 5 days 4) 6 days

5) Cannot be determined
28. Abhi, Bhavya and Satish starts working together to complete work ‘M’.After 5 days,
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Bhavya and Satish replaced by Neeraj and Veer. After 5 more days Abhi left the work.
After 1 more day Veer left too. Neeraj worked for total ‘x’days. In other case Abhi and
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Bhavya starts working together to complete ‘M’.After 4 days both are replaced by Veer.
Veer worked for 5 days and replaced by Satish who worked for 8 days. Remaining
work is completed by Neeraj in ‘y’days. Find (y -x)2?
1) 25 2) 36 3) 49 4) 64 5) 81
Directions (29-33): A, B, C, D and E are five persons employed to complete a job X.
Line graph shows the data regarding the time taken by these five persons to complete
the job X individually. Table shows the actual time for which every one of them worked
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on the job X.

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D 20
15
C 18
B 15
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A 12
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Person Time (in Days)

A 2
B -
C 3
D -
E 2
Note 1: All the persons worked on the job X for ‘whole number’ days.
Note 2: Two jobs Y and Z are similar to job X and require same effort as required by

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job X.
29. A and C worked on job Y working alternatively for 10 days. B and D then worked
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together for ‘x’ days. If of the job was still remained, then find the value of ‘x’ ?
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1) 2 days 2) 1
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days
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3) 1 days
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4) 1 days 5) 1 day
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30. E worked on job ‘Z’ for 5 days and the remaining job was completed by A, B and D who

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worked on alternate days starting with A followed by B and D in that order. Find the
no. of days B worked for ?
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1) 2 2) 4 3) 9 4) 3 5) 5
31. If A, C and E worked on job Z for 2 days each and the remaining job was done by B and
D. If the ratio of no. days for which B and D worked is in ratio 20 : 21, then find the
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number of days for which B worked ?

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1) 50 days 2) 4 days 3) 5 days 4) 4 days 5) None of these
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32. If the ratio of number of days for which B and D worked on job X in the ratio of 4 : 3,
then find the difference between number of days for which B and D worked ?
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1) 2 2) 3 3) 1 4) 4 5) 5
33. If C worked on job Y with 54 times his given efficiency and was assisted by B every 3rd
day, then find the time taken by C to complete the job Y?
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1) 13 days 2) 12 days 3) 13 days 4) 9 days 5) 12 days
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Directions (34-37) : Jethalal works ‘a’ hours a day and rests ‘b’ hours a day. This
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pattern continues for 1 week, with an exactly opposite pattern next week, and so on
for four weeks. Every fifth week he has a different pattern. When he works longer than
he rests, his wage per hour is twice what he earns per hour when he rests longer than
he works. The following are his daily working hours for the weeks numbered 1 to 13.
It is also known that Jethalal receives Rs. 20 per hour of work when he works longer
than he rests in the day.

1st Week 5 th Week 9th Week 13 th Week

Rest 2 3 4 -
Work 5 7 6 8

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34. What is his salary for 1st month ?
1) Rs.1760 2) Rs. 1440 3) Rs. 1320 4) Rs. 2880 5) Rs. 1520
35. Jethalal’s average monthly salary at the end of the first four months will be
1) Rs. 1280 2) Rs. 2040 3) Rs. 1830 4) Rs. 1680 5) Rs. 1940
36. The new manager Babita stipulated that Rs. 5 is deducted for every hour of rest and
Rs. 25 is paid per hour starting from 9th week, then what will be the change in
Jethalal’s salary for the 3rd month ?
(Hourly deductions are constant for all weeks starting 9th week)
1) Rs. 540 2) Rs. 480 3) Rs. 240 4) Rs. 120 5) Rs. 360
37. Using the data in the previous questions, what will be the total earning of Jethalal at
the and of sixteen weeks ?

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1) Rs. 7320 2) Rs. 7000 3) Rs. 8600 4) Rs. 9600 5) Rs. 8400

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1) 3 2) 2 3) 5 4) 2 5) 4 6) 3 7) 5 8) 3 9) 1 10) 2
11) 5
21) 2
12) 3
22) 2
13) 1
23) 5
14) 4
24) 4

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15) 4
25) 2
16) 5
26) 2
17) 1
27) 2
18) 5
28) 4
19) 1
29) 1
20) 3
30) 4
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31) 4 32) 3 33) 4 34) 2 35) 3 36) 4 37) 4
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