LEVEL I

1. A and B together can do a piece of work in 8 days. If A alone can do the same work in 12 days,
then B alone can do the same work in?
A. 20 days B. 16 days C. 24 days D. 28 days

2. To complete a work, a person A takes 10 days and another person B takes 15 days. If they work
together, in how much time will they complete the work?
A. 2 days B. 6 days C. 4 days D. 8 days

3. Two friends A and B working together can complete an assignment in 4 days. If A can do the
assignment alone in 12 days, in how many days can B alone do the assignment?
A. 2 days B. 6 days C. 4 days D. 8 days

4. A can do a piece of work in 4 days. B can do it in 5 days. With the assistance of C they completed
the work in 2 days. Find in how many days can C alone do it?
A. 10 days B. 20 days C. 5 days D. 4 days

5. After working for 6 days, Ashok finds that only 1/3 rd of the work has been done. He employs Ravi
who is 60% as efficient as Ashok. How many days more would Ravi take to complete the work?
A. 19 days B. 10 days C. 20 days D. 12 days

6. A is twice as good a work man as B and together they finish the work in 14 days. In how many
days A alone can finish the work?
A. 21 B. 20 C. 22 D. 23

7. A, B and C can do a work in 6, 8 and 12 days respectively doing the work together and get a

A. Rs.600 B. Rs.450 C. Rs.300 D. Rs.500

8. If A, B and C together can finish a piece of work in 4 days. A alone in 12 days and B in 18 days,
then C alone can do it in?
A. 21 days B. 15 days C. 12 days D. 9 days

9. 16 men can complete a piece of work in 25 days. In how many days can 20 men complete that
piece of work?
A. 16 days B. 18 days C. 20 days D. 22 days

10. 5 men are equal to as many

wages are?
A. Rs.6 B. Rs.5 C. Rs.4.50 D. Rs.5.50

11. 45 men working 8 hours per day dig 30 m deep. How many extra men should be put to dig to a
depth of 50 m working 6 hours per day?
A. 25 B. 30 C. 45 D. 55
12. A can do half the work in one day whereas B can do it full. B can also do half the work of C in
one day. Ratio in their efficiency will be?
A. 4:2:1 B. 2:4:1 C. 2:1:4 D. 1:2:4

13. A can do a half of certain work in 70 days and B one third of the same in 35 days. They together
will do the whole work in.
A. 420 days B. 120 days C. 105 days D. 60 days

14. 3 men or 6 women can do a piece of work in 20 days. In how many days will 12 men and 8
women do the same work?
A. 7/2 B. 15/4 C. 5 D. 4

15. A can do a piece of work in 20 days. B in 15 days A and C in 12 days. In how many days can A
finish the work if he is assisted by B on one day and C on the next, alternately?
A. 10 B. 8 C. 6 D. 4

16. A can do a piece of work in 15 days and B in 20 days. They began the work together but 5 days
before the completion of the work, A leaves. The work was completed in?
A. 8 days B. 10 days C. 11 3/7 days D. 15 days

17. A is thrice as efficient as B and is, therefore, able to finish a piece of work 10 days earlier than B.
In how many days A and B will finish it together?
A. 5 days B. 3 4/5 days C. 3 days D. 3 1/2 days

18. A can do a piece of work in 12 days. When he had worked for 2 days B joins him. If they
complete work was finished in 8 days. In how many days B alone can finish the work?
A. 18 days B. 12 days C. 24 days D. 10 days

19. Twelve men can complete a work in 8 days. Three days after they started the work, 3 more men
joined them. In how many days will all of them together complete remaining work?
A. 2 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

20. Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days. Tanya is 25% more efficient than Sakshi. The number
of days taken by Tanya to do the same piece of work is?
A. 15 B. 25 C. 16 D. 20
 LEVEL II

1. Two friends A and B are employed to do a piece of work in 18 days. If A is twice as efficient as B,
find the time taken by each friend to do the work alone.
A. 54 B. 25 C. 50 D. 60

2. 45 men can dig a canal in 16 days. Six days after they started working, 30 more men joined them.
In how many more days will the remaining work be completed?
A. 5 B. 15 C. 6 D. 10

3. To complete a job, A alone takes 2 more days than A and B together. B alone takes 18 more days
than A and B together. Find the time taken if they work together.
A. 6 B. 15 C. 12 D. 10

4. Two friends A and B were employed to do a work. Initial deadline was fixed at 24 days. Both
started working together but after 20 days, A left the work and the whole work took 30 days to
complete. In how much time B alone can do the work?
A. 40 B. 50 C. 60 D. 80

5. A and B took a job to be completed in 20 days. They started working together and after 12 days, C
joined them and the whole job finished in 15 days. How much time would C require to complete the
job if only C was hired?
A. 15 B. 12 C. 10 D. 20

6. A alone and B alone can do a work in respectively 18 and 8 days more than both working together.
Find the number of days required if both work together.
A. 12 B. 8 C. 16 D. 36

7. Two friends A and B were hired to paint a room. A alone can paint the room in 10 days and is twice
as efficient as B. Due to lack of resources, they decided to work alternatively with A starting first.
Find the days it will take to paint the room.
A. 13 B. 15 C. 16 D. 18

8. Two friends A and B take a job for Rs. 10000. Had they worked alone, A would have taken 20 days
while B would have taken 30 days. They started working together but after 10 days, A left and B
completed the remaining work alone. Find the difference between their share?
A. 0 B. 1000 C. 2000 D. 5000

9. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men and 48 boys can do the same
in 2 days, the time taken by 15 men and 20 boys in doing the same type of work will be:
A. 7 days B. 5 days C. 6 days D. 4 days

10. 10 men and 15 women together can complete a work in 6 days. It takes 100 days for one man
alone to complete the same work. How many days will be required for one woman alone to complete
the same work?
A. 215 days B. 225 days C. 235 days D. 240 days
11. M, N and O can complete the work in 18, 36 and 54 days respectively. M started the work and
worked for 8 days, then N and O joined him and they all worked together for some days. M left the
job one day before completion of work. For how many days they all worked together?
A. 4 B. 5 C. 3 D. 6

12. The ratio of efficiencies of P, Q and R is 2 : 3 : 4. While P and R work on alternate days and Q
work for all days. Now the work completed in total 10 days and the total amount they get is Rs. 1200.
Find the amount of each person (respectively).
A. 200, 600, 400 B. 400, 600, 200 C. 600, 200, 400 D. 400, 200, 600

13. To complete a work, A and B take 30 days, B and C take 24 days, and C and A take 20 days. They
all start together and work for 5 days after which B and C leave. How many days will A take to finish
the remaining work?
A. 11 B. 28 C. 33 D. 18

14. A can do a job in 20 days, B in 30 days and C in 60 days. If A is helped by B and C every 3rd day.
How long will it take for them to complete the job?
A. 12 days B. 4 days C. 15 days D. 18 days

15. If a soldier fires 7 shots from a gun in 12 minutes then find the total number of shots fired by the
man in 3/2 hrs.
A. 45 B. 44 C. 46 D. 47

16. A woman fills a bucket in 6 minutes. 1845 buckets have to be filled from 8 am. to 9:30 am. How
many woman employees should be employed for this task?
A. 111 B. 117 C. 139 D. 123

17. A group of men decided to do a job in 4 days. But since 20 men dropped out every day, the job
completed at the end of the 7th day. How many men were there at the beginning?
A. 240 B. 140 C. 280 D. 150

18. C is twice efficient as A, B takes thrice as many days as C. A takes 12 days to finish the work
alone. If they work in pairs (i.e., AB, BC, CA) starting with AB on the first day then BC on the
second day and AC on the third and so on, then how many days are required to finish the work?
A. 6 (1/5) B. 4.5 C. 8 D. 5 (1/9)

19. The work done by a man, a woman and a child is in the ratio of 3 : 2 : 1. There are 20 men, 30
women and 36 children in a factory. Their weekly wages amount to Rs 780, which is divided in the
ratio of work done by the men, women and children. What will be the wages of 15 men, 21 women
and 30 children for 2 weeks?
A. Rs 1170 B. Rs 292.5 C. Rs 585 D. Rs 900

20. P can complete a work in 12 days working 8 hours a day. Q can complete the same work in 8 days
working 10 hours a day. If both p and Q work together, working 8 hours a day, in how many days can
they complete the work?
A. 60/11 B. 61/11 C. 71/11 D. 72/11
 LEVEL III

1. Three people A, B and C are working in a factory. A and B working together can finish a task in 18
days whereas B and C working together can do the same task in 24 days and A and C working
together can do it in 36 days. In how many days will A, B and C finishes the task working together
and working separately?
A. 15 B. 25 C. 16 D. 20

2. Two workers A and B are employed to do a clean-up work. A can clean the whole area in 800 days.
He works for 100 days and leaves the work. B working alone finishes the remaining work in 350
days. If A and B would have worked for the whole time, how much time would it have taken to
complete the work?
A. 800/3 B. 700/3 C. 850/3 D. 200/3

3. Three workers A, B and C are given a job to paint a room. At the end of each day, they are given
Rs. 800 collectively as wages. If A worked alone, the work would be completed in 6 days. If B
worked alone, the work would be completed in 8 days. If C worked alone, the work would be
completed in 24 days. Find their individual daily wages?
A. 200, 500, 100 B. 400, 300, 100 C. 300, 150, 350 D. 400, 100, 200

4. A person A can do a piece of work in 9 days, whereas another person B can do the same piece of
work in 12 days. Because of busy schedule, they decide to work one day alternately. If B is the first
one to start, find the time required for the work to be completed. Consider that if a part of day is used,
the whole day is to be counted.
A. 15 B. 12 C. 16 D. 11

5. 2 Men and 3 Women working together can finish a job in 10 days. It takes 8 days to finish the same
job if 3 Men and 2 Women are employed. If only 2 Men and 1 Woman are employed, find the time
they would take to complete the job?
A. 12.5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 20.5

6. Three people A, B and C working individually can finish a job in 10, 12 and 20 days respectively.
They decided to work together but after 2 days, A left the work and after another one day, B also left
work. If they got two lacs collectively for the entire work, find the difference of the highest and
lowest share.
A. 70000 B. 60000 C. 10000 D. 20000

7. Three friends A, B and C are employed to make pastries in a bakery. Working individually, they
can make 60, 30 and 40 pastries respectively in an hour. They decided to work together but due to
lack of resources, they had to work on shifts of 30 minutes. Find the time taken to make 185 pastries.
A. 4 hours B. 3 hours 45 minutes C. 4 hours 15 minutes D. 5 hours

8. A person employed a group of 20 men for a construction job. These 20 men working 8 hours a day
can complete the job in 28 days. The work started on time but after 18 days, it was observed that two
thirds of the work was still pending. To avoid penalty and complete the work on time, the employer
had to employ more men and also increase the working hours to 9 hours a day. Find the additional
number of men employed if the efficiency of all men is same.
A. 40 B. 44 C. 64 D. 80
9. 6 men and 10 women were employed to make a road 360 km long. They were able to make 150
kilometres of road in 15 days by working 6 hours a day. After 15 days, two more men were employed
and four women were removed. Also, the working hours were increased to 7 hours a day. If the daily
working power of 2 men and 3 women are equal, find the total number of days required to complete
the work.
A. 19 B. 35 C. 34 D. 50

10. A stadium was to be built in 1500 days. The contractor employed 200 men, 300 women and 750
robotic machines. After 600 days, 75% of the work was still to be done. Fearing delay, the contractor
removed all women and 500 robotic machines. Also, he employed some more men having the same
efficiency as earlier employed men. This led to a speedup in work and the stadium got built 50 days in
advance. Find the additional number of men employed if in one day, six men, ten women and fifteen
robotic machines have same work output.
A. 1100 B. 1340 C. 1300 D. 1140

11. 3 men and 4 women can complete a work in 10 days by working 12 hours a day. 13 men and 24
women can do the same work by working same hours a day in 2 days. How much time would 12 men
and 1 woman working same hours a day will take to complete the whole work?
A. 4 B. 6 C. 8 D. 10

12. 600 men can make a road in 500 days. They start working together but after every hundred days,
50 men leave the work. Find the total time (in days) it takes to make the road.
A. 600 B. 550 C. 650 D. 750

13. 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 complete the remaining work in 1 day how
many men would be required totally?
A. 38 B. 72 C. 36 D. 76

14. To do a certain work B would take three times as long as A and C together and C twice as long as
long as A and B together. The three men together complete the work in 10 days. How long would A,
B and C take separately?
A. 20, 40, 30 B. 24, 40, 30 C. 40, 30, 24 D. 30, 24, 40

15. A builder decided to build a farmhouse in 40 days. He employed 100 men in the beginning and
100 more after 35 days and completed the construction in stipulated time. If he had not employed the
additional men, how many days behind schedule would it have been finished?
A. 10 days B. 5 days C. 45 days D. 30 days

16. 38 men, working 6 hours a day can do a piece of work in 12 days. Find the number of days in
which 57 men working 8 hrs. a day can do twice the work. Assume that 2 men of the first group do as
much work in 1 hour as 3 men of the second group do in 3/2 hr.
A. 27 days B. 25 days C. 20 days D. 15 days
17. Saket and Prakash take 7.5 days working together. However, if Saket and Prakash work
individually to complete the equal half amount of work, it takes them 20 days to complete the job.
How long will Prakash alone take to do the job if Saket is more efficient than Prakash?
A. 18 days B. 24 days C. 30 days D. 27 days

18. Three factories are capable of manufacturing a particular part of the bike. Each of the two
factories can produce 1,00,000 parts in 15 days. The third factory can produce them 30% faster. How
many days (approx.) would it take to produce a million parts with all the three working
simultaneously?
A. 43 B. 45 C. 48 D. 52

19. A group of workers was put on a job. From the second day onwards, one worker was withdrawn
each day. The job was finished when the last worker was withdrawn. Had no worker been withdrawn
at any stage, the group would have finished the job in 55% of the time. How many workers were there
in the group?
A. 50 B. 40 C. 45 D. 10

20. Amit can do a piece of work in 45 days, but Bharath can do the same work in 5 days less, than
Amit, when working alone. Amit and Bharath both started the work together but Bharath left after
some days and Amit finished the remaining work in 56 days with half of his efficiency but he did the
work with Bharath with his complete efficiency. For how many days they had worked together?
A. 6 B. 8 C. 9 D. 12