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 completed in 4 days. How long will 2 women and 3 men take to do the job?
A and B can do a job in 12 days and B and C can do it in 16 days. After A has worked for 5 days and B has worked for 7 days, C can finish rest of the job in 13 days. In how many days can C do the work alone?
A person can complete a job in 120 days. He works alone on Day 1. On Day 2, he is joined by another person who also can complete the job in exactly 120 days. On Day 3, they are joined by another person of equal efficiency. Like this, everyday a new person with the same efficiency joins the work. How many days are required to complete the job
A can complete a piece of work in 4 days. B takes double the time taken by A, C takes double that of B, and D takes double that of C to complete the same task. They are paired in groups of two each. One pair takes two-third the time needed by the second pair to complete the work. Which is the first pair?
Ram completes 60% of the task in 15 days and then takes the help of Rahim and Rachel. Rahim is 50% as efficient as Ram is and Rachel is 50% as efficient as Rahim is. In how many more days will they complete the work?
1 out of 4
Three machines P, Q and R. working together, can do a job in x hours. When working alone, P needs an additional 6 hours to do the job; Q, one additional hour; and R, x additional hours. The value of x is
There's a lot of work in preparing a birthday dinner. Even after the turkey is in oven, there are still the potatoes and gravy, yams, salad, and cranberries, not to mention setting the table. Three friends, Asit, Arnold, and Afzal, work together to get all of these chores done. The time it takes them to do the work together is six hours less than Asit would have taken working alone, one hour less than Arnold would have taken, and half the time Afzal would have taken working alone. How long did it take them to do these chores working together?
Three small pumps and one large pump are filling a tank. Each of the three small pumps works at 2/3rd the rate of the large pump. If all 4 pumps work at the same time, then they should fill the tank in what fraction of time that it would have taken the large pump alone?
A company has a job to prepare certain number cans and there are three machines A, B and C for this job. A can complete the job in 3 days, B can complete the job in 4 days, and C can complete the job in 6 days. How many days will the company take to complete the job if all the machines are used simultaneously?
A water tank has M inlet pipes and N outlet pipes. An inlet pipe can fill the tank in 8 hours while an outlet pipe can empty the full tank in 12 hours. If all pipes are left open simultaneously, it takes 6 hours to fill the empty tank. What is the relationship between M and N. (M : N =?)
2 out of 4
A chemical plant has four tanks (A, B, C and D), each containing 1000 litres of a chemical. The chemical is being pumped from one tank to anther as follows. From A to B @ 20 litres/minute From C to A @ 90 litres/minute From A to D @ 10 litres/minute From C to D @ 50 litres/minute From B to C @ 100 litres/minute From D to B @ 110 litres/minute Which tank gets emptied first, and how long does it take (in minutes) to get empty after pumping starts?
It takes 6 technician a total of 10 hours to build a new server from direct computer, with each working at the same rate. If six technicians start to build the server at 11 am and one technician per hour is added beginning at 5 pm. At what time will the server be complete?
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 2/3rd time. How many workers were there in the group?
A contract is to be completed in 50 days and 105 men were set to work, each working 8 hours a day. After 25 days, 2/5th of the work is finished. How many additional men be employed so that the work may be completed on time, each man now working 9 hours a day?
Three friends, Larry, Jimmy and Jay, were working on a report and all that was left now was to type it out. They had been asked to type out 5 copies of the same report for their college submissions. The first 3 copies, each friend typed individually, and it was seen that Jay took an hour less than Larry to finish. The fourth copy, all three friends typed together, and they took 15 minutes to type 25% of the report. Then Jay fell seriously ill had to be rushed to the hospital. So, Larry and Jimmy started to type out the fifth copy together. An hour after they had begun, Larry went to the hospital to check up on his friend; while poor Jimmy continued typing for another 24 hours and finished the last copy. How much percent of a single report does Jay type in an hour?
3 out of 4
Two pipes A and B can separately fill a cistern in 15 and 20 minutes respectively and the waste pipe C can carry off 10 liters per minute. If all the pipes are opened when the cistern is full, it is emptied in 2 hours. How many liters does the cistern hold?
4 out of 4