Time and work, Pipes

And cisterns & Wages

Session by

Vishwanathan Anand Rao K

 Concepts & Formulae
Sound Knowledge of Calculating LCM of two & three integers.
Efficiency is inversely proportional to time taken to
Finish the work.
Questions can be solved by two methods which have
equal importance.
1. Chocolate method
2. Fraction method
Question 1
A can do a piece of work in 40 days and B can do the same work in 60days. Working together, in how many days
will they complete the work?

A) 20 days
B) 24days
C) 25days
D) none
Question 2
A can do a piece of work in 10 days, B in 12 days and C in 15 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. How many days did the work last?

A) 5 days
B) 6days
C) 7days
D) none
Question 3
Working together, Rajeev and Vikram can complete a piece of working 48 days. Rajeev can complete the work
alone in 64 days. Both of them worked together for 30 days and then Rajeev left. How long will Vikram take to
complete the remaining work?

A) 120days
B) 72days
C) 192days
D) none
Question 4
A is thrice as good a work man as B. If together they can complete a task in 12 days, in how many days can A
alone complete it?

A) 10days
B) 15days
C) 16days
D) 20days
Question 5
Rajeev takes one hour to arrange 96 books. Sanjeev takes one and a half hour to arrange the same number of
books. Working together, how many hours will they take to arrange 4000 books?

A) 25hrs
B) 20hrs
C) 15hrs
D) none
Question 6
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 days. Working together, all three of them can build a similar ship in 4 days. In how many days
can Cyril alone build it?

A) 10days
B) 20days
C) 40days
D) none
Question 7
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 they finish, if A, B and C work together?

A) 12.5days
B) 25days
C) 30days
D) none
Bonus
Two women Renu and Usha are working on an embroidery design. If Usha worked alone, she would need eight
hours more to complete the design than if they both worked together. Now if Renu worked alone, it would need
4.5 hours more to complete the design than they both working together. What time would it take Renu alone to
complete the design?

a) 10.5 hrs
b) 12.5 hrs
c) 14.5 hrs
d) 18.5 hrs
Bonus
X takes 4 days to complete 1/3 of job, Y takes 3 days to complete 1/6th of the same work and Z takes 5 days to
complete half the job. If all of them work together for 3 days and X and Z quit. How long will it take for Y to
complete remaining work alone?

a) 6 days
b) 7 days
c) 5.1 days
d) 8.1 days
Question 8
Two taps A and B can fill a cistern in 42 and 56 minutes respectively. If both the taps are
opened together, then find the time taken to fill the cistern.

A)24mins
B) 25mins
C) Can never be filled
D) 120mins
Question 9
Two taps A and B can fill a cistern in 10 and 15 minutes respectively. Both the taps are opened together but at the
end of 3 minutes, tap B is turned off. In how much time will the cistern be filled?

A) 5mins
B) 8mins
C) 10mins
D) none
Question 10
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 (emptying tap fitted at the bottom of the cistern) can empty it in 12 minutes. If all the three pipes are
kept open, in how much time will the cistern be filled?

A) 10mins
B) 12mins
C) 15mins
D) 20mins
Question 11
A cistern generally takes 20 minutes to be filled by a pipe, but 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 water.

A) 30mins
B) 60mins
C) 90mins
D) none
Question 12
Two taps X and Y can fill a cistern in 32 and 40 minutes respectively. Both the taps are opened into the empty
cisterns and after some time tap X is closed. Tap Y alone fills the remaining portion of the cistern. If it took 25
minutes to fill the tank, for how much time was tap X kept open?

A) 12mins
B) 13mins
C) 10mins
D) 30mins
Bonus Question
A tank has a leak which usually empties it in 10 hours. An inlet pipe with a filling capacity of 50litres/hour is
turned on. When the leak and the inlet pipe are turned on, the tank filled with water is emptied in 15 hours. What
is the capacity of the tank?

A) 1200 litres
B) 1300 litres
C) 1000 litres
D) 1500 litres
E) None of these
Bonus Question
A tank of capacity 600 litres is attached with two pipes P1 and P2 at the top and another pipe P3 at the bottom of
the tank. P1 and P2 fill the tank at the rate of four litres per minute and six litres per minute respectively while P3
empties the full tank in five hours. All the three pipes are opened when the tank is empty. In how much time will
the tank be filled?

1 : One hour 15 minutes

2 : One hour 20 minutes
3 : two hour 45 minutes
4 : Two hours
5 : None of these
Question 13
12 men can dig a well in 15 days, working 8 hours a day. How many days will 18 men require to dig a similar
well working for 5 hours a day?

A) 16days
B) 15days
C) 17days
D) 18days
Question 14
30 workers can make 24 tables in 21 days, working 8 hours a day. If 35 workers want to make 18 such tables in
12 days, how many hours should they work every day?

A) 9hrs
B) 10hrs
C) 12hrs
D) none
Question 15
If 9 friends can eat 9 ice creams in 9 minutes, how long will 15 friends take to eat 15 such ice creams?

A) 9mins
B) 10mins
C) 12mins
D) none
Question 16
12 boys and 16 girls can do a piece of work in 10 days while 13 boys and 24 girls can do the same work in 8
days. Find the time taken by 15 boys and 20 girls to do the same work.

A) 8days
B) 10days
C) 12days
D) 15days
Question
Four men and six women together can complete a work in nine days, while six men and three women can
complete the work in nine days. In how many days can two men and three women complete the work?

1 : 10 days
2 : 16 days
3 : 18 days
4 : 20 days
5 : None of these
Question 17
A mess has provisions for 360 men for 70 days. If the number of men increases by 90, for how many days will
the provisions last?

A) 56days
B) 70days
C) 50days
D) none
Question
Work done by P in one day is double the work done by Q in one day and work done by Q in one day is thrice the
work done by R in one day. If P, Q and R together can complete the work in 30 days then in how many days P
alone can do the work?

1 : 52 days
2 : 42 days
3 : 30 days
4 : 45 days
5 : 50 days
Question 18
A man works twice as fast as a woman. A woman works twice as fast as a child. If 16 men can complete a job in
12 days, then how many days would be required for 32 women and 64 children together to complete the same
job?

A) 6days
B) 8days
C) 10days
D) 12days
Question 19
To complete a task in 45 days, a contractor employs 45 people. Upon reviewing the work after 30 days, he
notices that only half of the task is complete. In order to complete the work in 45 days, how many extra people
must he employ now?

A) 45men
B) 90men
C) 30men
D) none
Question 20
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?

A) 12days
B) 15days
C) 20days
D) none
Question
Two boys can do a piece of work in ten days. Three girls can do the same work in five days. In how many days
can a boy and a girl together do the work?

1 : 16 days
2 : 8(4/7) days
3 : 12 days
4 : 5 (1/2)days
5 : None of these
Question 21
A, working alone can make a cabinet in 12 days. B will take 6 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 job, find C’s share.

A) 2250
B) 2500
C) 2750
D) 3000
Question 22
A can do a piece of work in 25 days and B can do it in 20 days. They work together for 5 days and then A quits.
B completes the remaining work. If they are paid Rs. 750 for the job, find B’s share.

A) 150
B) 600
C) 300
D) 400
Question 23
A and B can do a work in 20 and 30 days respectively. If both of them working along with C can finish the work
in 8 days, then find C’s share in the total wage of Rs. 1200.

A) 400
B) 600
C) 700
D) 300
Question 24
A can complete a piece of work in 30 days. B can complete the same work in 40 days. If they complete the work
together and earn Rs. 350 for the job, find A’s share.

A) 200
B) 150
C) 50
D) none
Bonus
The wages of 24 men and 16 women amount to Rs 11600 per day. Half the number of men and 37 women earn
the same money. The daily wages paid to each woman is

a) Rs 375
b) Rs 200
c) Rs 350
d) Rs 325
THANK YOU !