8.

A particular job can be completed by a team of

TIME AND WORK 10 men in 12 days. The same job can be
completed by a team of 10 women in 6 days. How
1. A alone can complete a work in 12 days. A many days are needed to complete the job if the
and B together can complete it in 8 days. How two teams work together?
long will B alone take to complete the work ?
a) 18 days b) 9 days
a) 20 days b) 16 days c) 4 days d) 6 days
c) 24 days d) 18 days
9. P is thrice as good a workman as Q and
2. If A and B together can complete a piece of together they finish a piece of work in 24 days.
work in 15 days and B alone in 20 days, in how The number of days taken by P alone to finish the
many days can A alone complete the work ? work is:

a) 30 days b) 40 days a) 25 days c) 22 days

c) 60 days d) 45 days d) 34 days d) 32 days

3. If A and B together can complete a work in 12 10. 18 women can complete a work in 12 days
days, B and C together in 15 days and C and A and 12 men can complete the same work in 9
together in 20 days, then B alone can complete days. In how many days will 8 men and 8 women
the work in complete that work?

a) 20 days b) 24 days a) 9 days b)6 days

c) 30 days d) 25 days c)12 days d)8 days

4. A and B together can complete a piece of work 11. 50 persons can do a work in 12 days, working
in 18 days, B and C in 24 days and A and C in 36 6 hours/day. 60 persons can do the same work in
days. In how many days, will all of them together 8 days, working x hours per day. The value of x
complete the work ? is

a) 10 days b) 12 days a) 15 hours b) 7 ½ hours

c) 16 days d) 15 days d)5 2/3 hours d)5 hours

5. A, B and C together can complete a piece of 12. A can do a work in 18 days, B in 20 days and
work in 30 minutes. A and B together can
C in 30 days. B and C together start the work and
complete the same work in 50 minutes. C alone
can complete the work in forced to leave after 2 days. What is the time
taken by A alone to complete the remaining work.
a) 150 minutes b) 80 minutes
c) 60 minutes d) 75 minutes a) 10 days b)12 days
c)15 days d)16 days
6. A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C
can do it in 3 hours. A and C can do it in 2 hours. 13) X and Y can do a piece of work in 20 days
How long will B alone take to do it ? 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
a) 24 hours b) 8 hours
last?
c) 10 hours d) 12 hours
a) 6 days b) 10 days
c) 15 days d)20days
7. While working 7 hours a day, A alone can
complete a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in
14) Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days.
8 days. In what time would they complete it
together, working 8 hours a day ? Tanya is 25% more efficient than Sakshi. The
number of days taken by Tanya to do the same
a) 3.6 days b) 2.5 days piece of work is:
c) 3 days d) 4 days a) 15 b) 16
c) 18 d) 25
15) A and B can together complete a piece of hours. If all the three pipes are open, in how
work in 4 days. If A alone can complete the same many hours the cistern will be full?
work in 12 days, in how many days can B alone
a) 30 hours b) can’t be filled
complete that work ?
c) 10 hours d) 15 hours
a)4 b)7
c)5 d)6 23) A tap can empty a tank in one hour. A second
tap can empty it in 30 minutes. If both the taps
16) A tyre has two punctures. The first puncture operate simultaneously, how much time is
alone would have made the tyre flat in 9 minutes needed to empty the tank?
and the second alone would have done it in 6
minutes. If air leaks out at a constant rate, how a) 45 minutes b) 20 minutes
long does it take both the punctures together to c) 30 minutes d) 40 minutes
make it flat ?
24) Three taps A, B, C can fill an overhead tank in
a)3 min b)3 min 4, 6 and 12 hours respectively. How long would
c)3 min d)3 min the three taps take to fill the tank if all of them are
opened together ?
17) A is twice as good as workman as B and
together they finish a piece of work in 18 days. In a) 5 hrs. b) 2 hrs.
how many days will B alone finish the work. c) 4 hrs. .d) 3 hrs.
a)27 days b)54 days
25) Pipe A can fill an empty tank in 6 hours and
c)56 days d)68 days
pipe B in 8 hours. If both the pipes are opened
18) A can do a job in 16 days, B can do same job and after 2 hours pipe A is closed, how much time
in 12 days. With the help of C they did the job in 4 B will take to fill the remaining tank?
days. C alone can do the same job in how many
a) 3 hrs. b)7 ½ hrs.
days ?
c)2 hrs. d)2 hrs.
a)6 ½ days b)7 ½ days
c)48/5 days d)9 3/5 days 26) Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 20
minutes and 30 minutes respectively. If both
19) To complete a work A and B takes 8 days, B pipes are opened together, the time taken to fill
and C takes 12 days, A,B and C takes 6 days. the tank is :
How much time A and C will take
a)15 mins b)50 mins
a)24 days b)16 days c)12 mins d)25 mins
c)12 days d)8 days
20) A can do a piece of work in 15 days and B 27) One tap can fill a water tank in 40 minutes
alone can do it in 10 days. B works at it for 5 days and another tap can make the filled tank empty in
60 minutes. If both the taps are open, in how
and then leaves. A alone can finish the remaining
many hours will the empty tank be filled ?
work in
a) 5 days b) 6 days a)3.5 hours b)2 hours
c) 7.5 days d)8.5 days c)2.5 hours d)3 hours

21) A can do a piece of work in 4 hours . A and C 28) A tap can fill a cistern in 8 hours and another
together can do it in just 2 hours, while B and C tap can empty it in 16 hours. If both the taps are
together need 3 hours to finish the same work. In open, the time (in hours) taken to fill the tank will
how many hours B can complete the work ? be :

a) 10 hours b)12 hours a) 24 b) 8

c)16 hours d)18 hours c) 10 d) 16

22) Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 3 hours 29) Two pipes can fill a cistern in 3 hours and 4
and 5 hours respectively. Pipe C can empty in 2 hours respectively and a waste pipe can empty it
in 2 hours. If all the three pipes are kept open, c)15 d)18
then the cistern will be filled in :
36) Two pipes can fill a tank in 25 and 30 minutes
respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3 gallons
a)12 hrs b)5 hrs
per minute. All the three pipes working together can
c)8 hrs d)10 hrs
fill the tank in 15 minutes. The capacity of the tank
is:
30) If two pipes function simultaneously, a tank is
filled in 12 hours. One pipe fills the tank 10 hours a) 400 Gallon b)500 Gallon
faster than the other. How many hours does the
faster pipe alone take to fill the tank? c) 450 gallon d)300 Gallon
37) Thomas takes 7 days to paint a house
a)12 hrs b)20 hrs completely whereas Aashay require 9 days to
c)18hrs d)15 hrs paint the same house completely. how many days
will take to paint the house if both them work
Questions asked in Infosys Drive together?
a) 3.9 b)2
31) If Rita spends every day 40 minutes for
c) 5 d)3 (asked in TCS)
watering the plants how much time does Rita
spend watering the plants in 20 days? 38) Jake can dig a well in 16 days. Paul can dig
a)13.33 b)14.33 the same well in 24 days. Jake, Paul and Hari
c)15.33 d))8 together dig the well in 8 days. Hari alone can dig
the well in?
32) If a pipe A can fill a tank in 40 minutes and
pipe B fill the same tank in 30 minutes. How long a)47 b)48
will it take for both pipes together to fill the tank?
a) min b)15min c)49 d)46 (asked in TCS)
c)16 min d) min
39) A alone can do 1/4th of the work in 2 days. B
33) 3 men finish painting a wall in 8 days. Four alone can do 2/3th of the work in 4 days. If all the
boys do the same job in 7 days. In how many three work together, they can complete it in 3
days will 2 men and 2 boys working together paint days so what part of the work will be completed
two such walls of the same size? by C in 2 days?
a)7 b)6
a) b)
c) 7 d)9
c) d) (asked in Cognizant)
34) An inlet pipe fill a tank in 5 hrs and outlet pipe
40) Raj can build a house alone in 16 days but
empty same tank in 35 hrs working
Suraj alone can build it in 12 days. Raj and Suraj
individually.how many additional number of outlet
work on alternate days. If Raj works on first day,
pipes of same capacity required to be opened so
the house will be built in how many days
that tank never overflows?
a)5 b)6 a)13 b)12
c)7 d)8 c)15 d)14 (asked in Cognizant)

35) 5 skilled workers can build a wall in 20days;

8 semi-skilled workers can build a wall in 25 days;
10 unskilled workers can build a wall in 30days. If
a team has 2 skilled, 6 semi-skilled and 5
unskilled workers, how long will it take to build the
wall?
a)12 b)14