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1. A, B and C can do a 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 com-
pletion. The number of days for which C worked is?

2. A and B can together finish 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?

3. A, B and C together can complete a piece of work in 10 days. All the three started
working at it together and after 4 days A left. Then B and C together completed the work
in 10 more days, A alone could complete the work in how many days?

4. A and B together can do a piece ofwork in 30 days. A having worked for 6 days. B fin-
ished the remaining work alone in 44 days. In how many days shall B finish the whole
work alone?

5. A and B can do a piece of work in 45 days and 40 days respectively. They began to
the work together but A leaves after some days and then B completed the remaining work
in 23 days. The number of days which A left the work was?

6. A and B can finish a work in 12 days and 15 days respectively. They started working
together. How many days before completion of the work B should leave the work so that
work will be finished in 8 days?

7. A and B can finish a work in 10 days while B and C can do it in 18 days. A started
the work, worked for 5 days, then B worked for 10 days and the remaining work was fin-
ished by C in 15 days. In how many days could C alone have finished the whole work?
8. A and B can do a piece of work in 10 days in 15 days respectively. They work for 5
days. The rest of the work had finished by C in 2 days. If they get Rs.1500 for the whole
work, the daily wages of B and C are:

9. 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?

10. A and B can separately do a piece of work in 20 and 15 days respectively. They
worked together for 6 days, after which B was replaced by C. If the work was finished in
next 4 days, then the number of days in which C alone could do the work will be?

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11. A and B can a piece of work in 20 days working together. They work for 5 days and
after it C assists them and work is completed in 5 days before. If 3 days work of B is
equal to the 2 days work of C, Find in how many days A will finish the work alone?

12. A, B and C together can do a piece of work in 40 days. After working with B and C
for 16 days, A leaves and then B and C complete the remaining work in 40 days more, A
alone could do the work in:

13. A can do a job in 3 days less time than B. A works at it alone for 4 days and then
B takes over and completes it. If altogether 14 days were required to finish the job, then
in how many days would each of them take alone to finish it?

14. A takes twice as much time as B and thrice as much as C to finish a place of work.
They together finish the work in one day. Find the time taken by B to finish the work.

15. A is 50% as efficient as 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 how many
days?

16. After working for 8 days, Anil finds that only (1/3) of the work has been done. He
employs Rakesh who is 60% efficient as Anil. How many more days will Anil take to com-
plete the job?

17. A can do a work in 6 days. B takes 8 days to complete it. C takes as long as A and
B would take working together. How long will it take B and C to complete the work to-
gether?

18. 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 how many days?

19. A alone would take 90 days more to complete the job than if both A and B would to-
gether. If B worked alone, he took 10 days more to complete the job than A and B
worked together. What time would they take if both A and B worked together?

20. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 8days, 10 days and 12 days respectively. They
started working together. After working for 1 day, A left the work while after 2 days, A

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joins and B left the work. After 3 days, B joins and C left the work. There is holiday after
4 days and 5th day again started working together and so on. In how many days work
would be finished?

21. Three machines A, B and C can make 12000 pens in 2 hours, 4 hours and 3 hours
respectively. All 3 machines work for half an hour each but not together. Find the number
of hours to make 18500 pens.

22. 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?

23. Three men, four women and six children can complete a work in seven days. A woman
does double the work a man does half the work a man does. How many women alone
can complete this work in 7 days?

24. A man, a woman and a boy can complete a job in 3, 4 and 12 days respectively.
How many boys must assist 1 man 1 woman to complete the job ¼ of a day?

25. 12 men can complete a piece of work in 4 days, while 15 women can complete the
same work in 4 days.6 men start working on the job and after working for 2 days, all of
them stopped working. How many women should be put on job to complete the remaining
work, if it is to be completed in 3 days?

26. Twelve children take sixteen days to complete a work which can complete by eight
adults in twelve days. Sixteen adults started working and after three days ten adults left
and four children joined them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining
work?

27. Sixteen men can complete a work in twelve days. Twenty –four children can complete
the same work in eighteen days. Twelve men and eight children started working and after
eight days three more children joined them. How many days will they now take to com-
plete the remaining work?

28. Twenty-four men can complete a work in sixteen days. Thirty-two women can complete
the same work in twenty-four days .Sixteen men and sixteen women started working and
worked for twelve days. How many more men are to added to complete the remaining
work in 2 days?

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29. One man,3 women and 4 boys can do a piece of work in 96 hours,2 men and 8 days
can do it in 80 hours,2 men and 3 women can do it in 120 hours then 5men and 12
boys can do it in?

30. A group of workers can complete a job in 9 days. But it so happens that every alter-
nate day starting from the second day , 2 workers left the job and every alternate day
starting from the third day one worker join the job. In such a way that the job is finished
by the time and there is no worker left. If it takes double the time to finish the job now,
Find the number of workers who started the job?

31. A group of workers were 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?

32. 15 men can complete a work in 3 days, 10 children can complete the same work in 9
days and 7 women can complete the half of the work in 5 days. If 5 men and 5 children
were started the work and worked for ‘x’ days then left the work. To complete the remain-
ing work 7 women worked for 3 days then they were replaced by 11 children and they
worked for 3 days to complete the work, What is the value of ‘x’ ?

33. 1 man or 2 women or 3 boys can do a work in 44 days. Then in how many days will
1 man, 1 woman and 1 boy do the work?

34. A certain number of men can do a work in 60 days. If there were 8 men more it
could be finished in 10 days less. How many men are there?

35. Two coal loading machines each working 12 hours per day for 8 days handles 9,000
tons of coal with an efficiency of 90%. While 3 other coal loading machines at an effi-
ciency of 80 % set to handle 12,000 tons of coal in 6 days. Find how many hours per
day each should work.

36. If 5 engines consume 6 tons of coal when each runs 9 hrs per day, how much coal
will be needed for 8 engines, each running 10 hrs per day, it being given that 3 engines
of the former type consume as much as 4 engines of latter type ?

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37. A garrison of 1500 men is provisioned for 60 days. After 25 days the garrison is rein-
forced by 500 men, how long will the remaining provisions last?

38. George takes 8 hours to copy a 50 page manuscript while Sonia can copy the same
manuscript in 6 hours. How many hours would it take them to copy a 100 page manu-
script, if they work together?

39. A contractor undertakes to build a wall in 50 days. He employs 50 peoples for the
same. However after 25 days he finds that only 40% of the work is complete. How many
more man need to be employed to complete the work in time?

40. 12 men complete a work in 18 days. Six days after they had started working, 4 men
joined them. How many days will all of them take to complete the remaining work?

41. A can do a piece of work in 10 days, while B alone can do it in 15 days. They work
together for 5 days and the rest of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get Rs 450
for the whole work, how should they divide the money?

42. 12 men can complete a piece of work in 4 days, while 15 women can complete the
same work in 4 days. 6 men start working on the job and after working for 2 days, all of
them stopped working. How many women should be put on the job to complete the re-
maining work, If it is to be completed in 3 days?

43. A contract is to be completed in 46 days and 117 men were set to work, each work-
ing 8 hours a day. After 33 days, 4/7 of the work is completed. How many additional
men may be employed so that the work may be completed in time, each man now
working 9 hours a day?

44. One hundred men in 10 days do a third of a piece of work. The work is then re-
quired to be completed in another 13 days. On the next day (the eleventh day) 50 more
men are employed, and on the day after that, another 50. How many men must be dis-
charged at the end of the 18th day so that the rest of the men, working for the remain-
ing time, will just complete the work?

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45. If 12 men or 15 women or 18 boys can do a piece of work in 15 days of 8 hours

each, find how many men assisted by 5 women and 6 boys will finish the same work in
16 days of 9 hours each.

46. 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?

47. A can build up a wall in 8 days while B can break it in 3 days. A has worked
for 4 days and then B joined to work with A for another 2 days only. In how many days
will A alone build up the remaining part of wall?

48. 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?

49. One man and six women working together can do a job in 10 days. The same job is
done by two men in 'p' days and by eight women in p + 5 days. By what percentage is
the efficiency of a man greater than that of a woman?

50. The total number of men, women and children working in a factory is 18. They earn
Rs4000 in a day. If the sum of the wages of all men, all women and all children is in the
ratio of 18:10:12 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?

51. Seventy-five men are employed to lay down a railway line in 3 months. Due to certain
emergency conditions, the work was to be finished in 18 days. How many more men
should be employed to complete the work in the desired time?

52. 40 men can finish a piece of work in 60 days. After some days, 10 men leave the
work so that the work is finished in 70 days. The number of days after which 10 men left
the work is:

53. A does half as much work as B in three-fourth of the time. If together they take 18
days to complete the work, how much time shall B take to do it?

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54. 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 ma-
chines are started at 9 a.m. While machine P is closed at 11 am and the remaining two
machines complete the work. Approximately at what time will the work be finished?

55. A, B and C are 3 typists who working simultaneously can type 216 pages in 4 hours.
In 1 hour, C can type as many pages more than B as B can type more than A. During a
period of 5 hours, C can type as many pages as A can type during 7 hours. How many
pages does each of them type per hour?

56. A contractor says about 2 workers that one can make a wall in 12 hours and the
other in 11 hours. He finds his experience that if both the workers work together they use
300 bricks more per hour and build the wall in 4 hours, find the number of bricks in
wall?

57. A started a work and left after 12 days, rest work is done by B in 15 days. Had A
left work, 2 days before, the rest work could have been done by B in 18 days. If A re-
duces his efficiency by 20% and B increases his efficiency by 50% then in how many
days working together they will finish the work?

58. Ram and Shyam working together can finish a work in 10 days. If Ram works at 2/3
of his actual efficiency and Shyam works at 5/3 of his actual efficiency then the work will
be completed in 9 days. If Ram works at ½ of his actual efficiency and Shyam works at
double of his actual efficiency then in how many days work will be finished?

59. A can do a piece of work in a certain number of days. To do the same piece of
work, B takes thrice the number of days as A takes whereas C takes thrice as many days
as B does and D takes thrice as many days as C does. Now, they are paired and 2
groups are formed. The first pair takes one-third the time taken by the second pair to
complete the work. Which is the first pair?

60. Mr. Vineet Singh wanted to make his building in 20 days. For this purpose he hired a
labour union of 20 members having male and female. If number of female worker was
50% more than that of male where as efficiency was 33.33% less than that of male. They
started working and due to some reason after 4 days of starting half of the male and
three-fourth of the female left the work thus work is finished in 8 days before the
scheduled time. Had they not left the work then work would be finished how many days
before the scheduled time?

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61. A piece of work is done by 3 persons A, B and C in 5 days in the following manner:
A works for whole time, B only on the first 2 days and C only on the last 3 days. This
work could have been done by B and C without help of If Band C working together can
do as much work in 2 days as A can do in 3 days then find how long will it take
for A alone to do this work?

62. 2 workers undertook to do a job. The second worker started working 2 hours after the
first. Five hours after the second worker has begun working, there is still 9/20 of the
work to be done. When the assignment is completed , It turns out that first worker has
done 60% of the work, while second worker has done rest of the work. How many hours
would first worker take to do the whole job?

63. Working together B and C take 50% more number of days than A, B and C together
take. A and B working together, take 8/3 more numbers of days than A, B and C take to-
gether. If A, B and C all have worked together till the completion of the work and B
has received Rs 120 out of the total earning of Rs 450 then in how many days did A, B
and C together complete the whole work?

64. A, B and C three friends with different productivity. A working alone needs as much
time as B and C working together, While B himself needs 8 hours more working alone
than when he works with C. A working alone needs 8 hours less than C needs working
alone. In how much time A, B and C working together can complete the work?

65. The time required to solve a question paper is directly proportional to the number
question and difficulty of the question and inversely proportional to the student intelli-
gence. A student P requires 80 min to solve 40 easy questions and Q requires 120 min
to solve 15 tough questions. If P is twice as intelligent as Q, how many easy questions
will Q solve in the time in which P solve 30 easy questions and 20 tough questions?

66. A, B and C completed a work in 10 days and they get Rs 30000. If initially all of
them work together but last 60% of the work is completed by B and C together. If A, B
and C work for initially 2 days and A left due to his poor health. If B takes 20% less time
to complete the job alone than C then find the share of least efficient person.

67. A, B and C can finish a work in 10, 15 and 20 days respectively. They start working
together and after some days C left the work. At the completion of the work, They were
paid total amount of Rs 24000 and B received an amount Rs 8000 more than C. find
the number of days for which B worked?

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68. If 25% of a certain work is done by A and after that remaining was done by B then
the work will be completed in 20 days. If 75% of the work is done by A and the remain-
ing is done by B then the work is completed in 30 days. If A and B work together then
in how days work will be completed?

69. A and B can complete a work in 6 days. A and C can do the same work 2.5 days
earlier than (B+C). They together can finish the whole work in 5 days, In how many days
A will complete the work alone?

70. A contractor employed a certain number of workers to construct a road in scheduled

time. Sometime later, when a part of work had been completed, he realized that the work
would get delayed by three-fourth of the scheduled time, so he at once doubled the num-
ber of workers and thus he managed to finish the road on the scheduled time. How much
work had been completed, before increasing the number of workers?

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