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Question 5 - A and B together can complete a task in 20 days. B and C together can complete the
same task in 30 days. A and C together can complete the same task in 30 days. What is the
respective ratio of the number of days taken by A when completing the same task alone to the
number of days taken by C when completing the same task alone?

Solution - ⇒ Efficiency of A and B = 1/20 per day = 5% per day ___________1

⇒ Efficiency of B and C = 1/30 per day = 3.33% per day_________2
⇒ Efficiency of C and A = 1/30 per day = 3.33% per day_________3

Taking equation 2 and 3 together

⇒ B + C = 3.33% and C + A = 3.33%
⇒ C and 3.33% will be removed. Hence A = B
⇒ Efficiency of A = B = 5%/2 = 2.5% = 1/40
⇒ Efficiency of C = 3.33% - 2.5% = 0.833% = 1/120
⇒ A can do the job in 40 days and C can do the job in 120 days he they work alone.
⇒ Ratio of number of days in which A and C can complete the job 1:3.

Exercise - 12

1) A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on it together for 4 days, then the
fraction of the work that is left is:
a) 1/4 b) 1/10 c) 7/15
d) 8/15 e) None of these

2) A can lay railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B can do the same job in
12 days, with help of C, they did the job in 4 days only. Then, C alone can do the job in:
a) 9 b) 9 c) 9
d) 10 e) None of these

3) A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can
A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?
a) 12 days b) 15 days c) 16 days
d) 18 days e) None of these

4) A is thrice as good as workman as B and therefore is able to finish a job in 60 days less than
B. Working together, they can do it in:
a) 20 days b) 22 c) 25 days
d) 30 days e) None of these

5) A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone 8 days. A and B undertook to do it for
Rs.3200. With the help of C, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to
C?
a) Rs.375 b) Rs.400 c) Rs.600
d) Rs.800 e) None of these

6) 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) 4 days b) 5 days c) 6 days
d) 7 days e) None of these

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7) A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C together can do it in 3 hours, while A and C
together can do it in 2 hours. How long will B alone take to do it?
a) 8 hours b) 10 hours c) 12 hours
d) 24 hours e) None of these

8) A can do a certain work in the same time in which B and C together can do it. If A and B
together could do it in 10 days and C alone in 50 days, then B alone could do it in:
a) 15 days b) 20 days c) 25 days
d) 30 days e) None of these

9) A does 80% of a work in 20 days. He then calls in B and they together finish the remaining
work in 3 days. How long B alone would take to do the whole work?
a) 23 days b) 37 days c) 37
d) 40 days e) None of these

10) A machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours, machine Q can print the same number of
books in 10 hours while machine R can print them in 12 hours. All the machines are started at
9 A.M. while machine P is closed at 11 A.M. and the remaining two machines complete
work. Approximately at what time will the work (to print one lakh books) be finished?
a) 11:30 A.M. b) 12 noon c) 12:30 P.M.
d) 1:00 P.M. e) None of these

11) A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do the same work in 15 days. B worked for 10 days
and left the job. In how many days, A alone can finish the remaining work?
a) 5 b) 5 c) 6
d) 8 e) None of these

12) 4 men and 6 women can complete a work in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women can complete
it in 10 days. In how many days will 10 women complete it?
a) 35 b) 40 c) 45
d) 50 e) None of these

13) A and B can together finish a work 30 days. They worked together for 20 days and then B
left. After another 20 days, A finished the remaining work. In how many days A alone can
finish the work?
a) 45 b) 50 c) 54
d) 60 e) None of these

14) 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) 5 b) 5 c) 6
d) 6 e) None of these

15) 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?
a) 3 b) 5 c) 7
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

16) X and Y can do a piece of work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. X started the work alone
and then after 4 days Y joined him till the completion of the work. How long did the work
last?

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a) 6 days b) 10 days c) 15 days

d) 20 days e) None of these

17) A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working together, take to complete
a job which A alone could have done in 23 days?
a) 11 days b) 13 days c) 20
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

18) Ravi and Kumar are working on an assignment. Ravi takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a
computer, while Kumar takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take,
working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 pages?
a) 7 hours 30 minutes b) 8 hours c) 8 hours 15 minutes
d) 8 hours 25 minutes e) None of these

19) A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 24, 6 and 12 days respectively. Working together,
they will complete the same work in:
a) day b) day c) 3 ]
d) 4 days e) None of these

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) 16 c) 18
d) 25 e) None of these

21) A takes twice as much time as B or thrice as much time as C to finish a piece of work.
Working together, they can finish the work in 2 days. B can do the work alone in:
a) 4 days b) 6 days c) 8 days
d) 12 days e) None of these

22) A and B can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started doing the
work together but after 2 days B had to lea0ve and A alone completed the remaining work.
The whole work was completed in:
a) 8 days b) 10 days c) 12 days
d) 15 days e) None of these

23) A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days, while B and C can do the same work in 24 days
and C and A in 20 days. They all work together for 10 days when B and C leave. How many
days more will A take to finish the work?
a) 18 days b) 24 days c) 30 days
d) 36 days e) None of these

24) A works twice as fast as B. If B can complete a work in 12 days independently, the number of
days in which A and B can together finish the work in:
a) 4 days b) 6 days c) 8 days
d) 18 days e) None of these

25) Twenty women can do a work in sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete the same work in
fifteen days. What is the ration between the capacity of a man and a woman?
a) 3 : 4 b) 4 : 3 c) 5 : 3
d) Date inadequate e) None of these

26) A and B can do a work in 8 days, B and C can do the same work in 12 days. A, B and C
together can finish it in 6 days. A and C together will do it in:

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a) 4 days b) 6 days c) 8 days

d) 12 days e) None of these

27) A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 days and C in 12 days. B and C start the work but are
forced to leave after 3 days. The remaining work was done by A in:
a) 5 days b) 6 days c) 10 days
d) 10 e) None of these

28) X can do a piece of work in 40 days. He works at it for 8 days and then Y finished it in 16
days. How long will they together take to complete the work?
a) 13 b) 15 days c) 20 days
d) 26 days e) None of these

29) A and B can do a job together in 7 days. A is 1 times as efficient as B. The same job can be
done by A alone in:
a) 9 b) 11 days c) 12
d) 16 e) None of these

30) P is thrice as efficient as Q and is therefore able to finish a piece of work in 60 days less than
Q. Find the time in which P and Q can complete the work individually.
a) 90 days, 30 days b) 60 days, 20 days c) 65 days, 30 days
d) 85 days, 90 days e) None of these

31) A tub can be filled in 20 minutes but there is a leakage in it which can empty the full tub in 60
minutes. In how many minutes it can be filled?
a) 10 minutes b) 30 minutes c) 40 minutes
d) 25 minutes e) None of these

32) A can do a piece of work in 14 days while B can do it in 21 days. In how many days, working
together they will complete the whole work?
a) 10.5 b) 8 c) 8.4
d) 9 e) None of these

33) A is thrice as efficient as B. Working together they complete the work in 3 days. If B takes 8
days more than A, what is the number of days taken by A to finish the whole work, alone?
a) 4 b) 2 c) 12
d) 16 e) None of these

34) Aman can do a piece of work in 14 days, while Suneeta can do the same work in 21 days.
They started the work together but 3 days before the completion of the work, Aman left the
work. The total number of days to complete the work is :
a) 7 b) 8.5 c) 5
d) 10 e) None of these

35) Karan can do a work in 10 days while Sohan can do the same work in 20 days. They started
work together. After 3 days Karan left the work and Sohan completed it. For how many days
Sohan worked alone more than the number of days required when both worked together?
a)4 b) 3 c) 2
d) 3 e) None of these

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36) A and B undertook a work for Rs.350. A got Rs.150 more than that of B, when they worked
together. B takes 9 days more than A, when they work individually. In how many days A and
B working together can do the whole work:
a) 5 b) 4 c) 4
d) 5 e) None of these

37) When A, B and C are deployed for a task, A and B together do 70% of the work and B and C
together do 50% of the work. Who is most efficient?
a) a b) b c) c
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

38) A contractor undertook a work to complete in 60 days. But just after 20 days he observed that
only th of the project work had been completed. To complete the work in time (i.e., in rest
days) minimum how many workers he had to increase, if there were initially 75 workers were
deployed for the task?
a) 25 b) 50 c) 75
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

39) If 2 men or 3 women or 4 boys can do a piece of work in 52 days, then the same piece of
work will be done by 1 man, 1 woman and 1 boy in :
a) 48 days b) 36 days c) 45 days
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

40) A contractor undertook to complete the work in 40 days and he deployed 20 men for his
work. 8 days before the scheduled time he realized that 1/3rd of the work was still to be done.
How many more men were required to complete the work in stipulated time?
a) 16 b) 15 c) 20
d) 25 e) None of these

41) B and C are equally efficient, but the efficiency of A is half of each B and C. A and B started
a work and 3 days later C joined them. If A alone can do the work in 14 days, then in how
many more days the work will be completed?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3
d) 4.5 e) None of these

42) A and B together can complete a piece of work in 4 days. If A alone can complete the same
work in 12 days, in how many days can B alone complete that work?
a) 6 days b) 12 c) 8 days
d) 9 days e) None of these

43) 4 men and 2 boys can finish a piece of work in 5 days. 3 women and 4 boys can finish the
same work in 5 days. Also 2 men and 3 women can finish the same work in 5 days. In how
many days 1 man, 1 woman and one boy can finish the work, at their double efficiency?
a) 4 b) 4 c) 3
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

44) A and B undertake to do a piece of work for Rs.600. A alone can do it in 6 days while B alone
can do it in 8 days. With the help of C, they finish it in 3 days. Find the share of each.
a) Rs.80 b) Rs.75 c) Rs.90
d) Rs.82 e) None of these

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45) Tap A can fill the empty tank in 12 hours, but due to a leak in the bottom it is filled in 15
hours, if the tank is full and then tap A is closed then in how many hours the leak can empty
it?
a) 45 hours b) 48 hours c) 52 hours
d) 60 hours e) None of these

46) 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) 72 days b) 30 days c) 27 days
d) 32 days e) None of these

47) Pipe A basically used as inlet pipe and pipe B is used as outlet pipe. Pipes A and B both are
opened simultaneously, all the time. When pipe A fills the tank and B empty the tank, it will
take double the time than when both the pipes fill the tank. When pipe B is used for filling the
tank, its efficiency remains constant. What is the ratio of efficiency of pipe A and pipe B
respectively?
a) 3 : 1 b) 5 : 2 c) 1 : 3
d) 3 : 2 e) None of these

48) 45 men can complete a work in 16 days. Six days after they started working. 30 more men
joined them. How many days will they now take to complete the remaining work?
a) 18 days b) 12 days c) 9 days
d) 6 days e) None of these

49) Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 15 hours and 10 hours respectively. A tap C can empty
the full cistern in 30 hours. All the three taps were open for 2 hours, when it was remembered
that the emptying tap had been left open. It was then closed. How many hours more would it
take for the cistern to be filled?
a) 30 min. b) 1.2 hours c) 24 min.
d) 35 min. e) None of these

50) A tyre has two punctures. The first puncture alone would have made the tyre flat in 9 minutes
and the second alone would have done it in 6 minutes. If air leaks out at a constant rate, how
long does it take both the punctures together to make it flat?
a) 1 b) 3 c) 3
d) 4 e) None of these

51) A single reservoir supplies the petrol to the whole city, while the reservoir is fed by a single
pipeline filling the reservoir with the stream of uniform volume. When the reservoir is full
and if 40,000 litres of petrol is used daily, the supply fails in 90 days. If 32,000 litres of petrol
is used daily, it fails in 60 days. How much petrol can be used daily without the supply every
failing?
a) 64000 litres b) 56000 litres c) 78000 litres
d) 60000 litres e) None of these

52) A is 50% more efficient than B. C does half of the work done by A and B together. If C alone
does the work in 40 days, then A, B and C together can do the work in :
a) 13 days b) 15 days c) 20 days
d) 30 days e) None of these

53) The total number of men, women and children working in a factory is 18. They earn Rs.4000
in a day. If the sum of the wages of all men, all women and all children is in the ratio of 18 :

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10 : 12 and if the wages of an individual man, woman and child is in the ratio 6 : 5 : 3, then
how much a woman earn in a day?
a) Rs.400 b) Rs.250 c) Rs.150
d) Rs.120 e) None of these

54) 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) 5 b) 5 c) 6
d) 6 e) None of these

55) Eklavya can do the 6 times the actual work in 36 days while Faizal can do the one-fourth of
the original work in 3 days. In how many days will both working together complete the 3
times of the originalwork?
a) 6 b) 10 c) 12
d) 15 e) None of these

56) A and B can together finish a work in 30 days. They worked together for 20 days and then B
left. After another 20 days, A finished the remaining work. In how many days A alone can
finish the job?
a) 40 b) 50 c) 54
d) 60 e) None of these

57) Aman and Raman are two workers. Working together they can complete the whole work in
10 hours. If the Aman worked for 2.5 hours and Raman worked for 8.5 hours, still there was
half of the work to be done. In how many hours Aman working alone, can complete the whole
work?
a) 24 hours b) 17 hours c) 40 hours
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

58) 5 men and 2 boys working together can do four times as much work as a man and a boy.
Working capacities of a man and a boy are in the ratio :
a) 1 : 2 b) 2 : 1 c) 1 : 3
d) 3 : 1 e) None of these

59) A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it
for Rs.3200. With the help of C, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid
to C?
a) Rs.375 b) Rs.400 c) Rs.600
d) Rs.800 e) None of these

60) If there is leakage also which is capable of draining out the liquid drom the tank at half of the
rate of outlet pipe, then what is the time taken to fill the empty tank when both the pipes are
opened?
a) 3 hours b) 3 hours c) 4 hours
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

61) A, B and C are employed to do a piece of work for Rs.529. A and B together are supposed to
do of the work and B and C together of the work. What amount should A be paid?
a) Rs.315 b) Rs.345 c) Rs.355
d) Rs.375 e) None of these

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62) A and B can do a job together in 7 days. A is 1 times as efficient as B. The same job can be
done by A alone in :
a) 9 days b) 11 days c) 12 days
d) 16 days e) None of these

63) A, B and C 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 for which C worked is :
a) 4 b) 8 c) 12
d) 24 e) None of these

64) A and B together can complete a work in 12 days. A alone can complete it in 20 days. If B
does the work only for half a day daily, then in how many days A and B together will
complete the work?
a) 10 days b) 11 days c) 15 days
d) 20 days e) None of these

65) 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?
a) 3 b) 5 c) 7
d) Data inadequate e) None of these

66) 12 men complete a work in 9 days. After they have worked for 6 days, 6 more men join them.
How many days will they take to complete the remaining work?
a) 2 days b) 3 days c) 4 days
d) 5 days e) None of these

67) A, B and C together earn Rs.300 per day, while A and C together earn Rs.188 and B and C
together earn Rs.152. The daily earning of C is :
a) Rs.40 b) Rs.68 c) Rs.112
d) Rs.150 e) None of these

Solutions:

1. Option D

A’s 1 day’s work =

B’s 1 day’s work =

(A + B)’s 1 day’s work = [ + ]=

(A + B)’s 4 day’s work = [ × 4] =

Therefore, Remaining work = [1 ⎯ ] =

2. Option C

(A + B + C)’s 1 day’s work =

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