7 AND CISTERN PROBLEMS Tank/Pipes & Cistern Problems

TANK/PIPES
KEY FACTS:

(1) If an inlet pipe can fill a tank in x hours then the part of tank filled in one hour
1
=
x
1
(2) If part of tank filled in 1 hr = , the time required to fill the empty tank = x
x
hours.
(3) If an outlet pipe can empty a full tank in y hours then part of tank emptied in
1
one hour = .
y
1
(4) If part of tank emptied in 1 hr = , the time required to empty the full tank = y
y
hours.
(5) If an inlet pipe can fill a tank in x hours and another inlet pipe can fill the same
tank in y hours then the part of tank filled in one hour when both pipes are
1 1
opened = +
x y
(6) If an inlet pipe can fill a tank in x hours and outlet pipe empties the full tank in
y hours then the net part of tank filled in one hour when both the pipes are
1 1
opened = -
x y

TIME AND WORK PROBLEMS:

KEY FACTS:

(1) If A can do a piece of work in n days then the part of the work done by him in
1
one day =
n
1
(2) If A’s one day’s work = then the time taken by A to finish the work = m days
m
(3) If A can do a piece of work in x days and another person B can do the same job
1 1
in y days then the part of work done by them (working together) in one day = +
x y

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PRACTICE EXERCISE – 1
(1) If an inlet pipe fills a tank in 10 hrs, then part of tank filled in 1 hr.
1 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
5 10 15 8
1
(2) If part of tank filled in one hour = then time required to fill the tank.
10
(a) 8 (b) 12 (c) 10 (d) 15
(3) If an inlet pipe fills a tank in 10 hrs, and another inlet pipe fills the same tank
in 5 hrs then time required to fill the tank when both pipes are opened.
10 3 1
(a) (b) (c) (d) 3
3 10 3
(4) If an outlet pipe empties a full tank in 20 hrs, then part of tank emptied in
one hour.
3 2 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
20 5 10 20
(5) An inlet pipe can fill a tank in 10 hrs and an outlet pipe empties the same full
tank in 20 hrs. The time required to fill the tank when both pipes are opened.
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 30 (d) 25
(6) If A can do a piece of work in 10 days, then part of work done by him in one
day.
2 3 1 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
5 8 10 7
1
(7) If A’s 1 day’s work = then time required to finish the job (in days).
20
(a) 20 (b) 10 (c) 25 (d) 30
(8) If A can do a job in 10 days, another person B can do the same job in 20 days
then time required to do the job when both of them working together.
1 3 1 20
(a) (b) (c) (d)
30 20 10 3
(9) Alia can complete an assignment in 5 days and Babar can complete the same
assignment is 20 days. The time taken by both Alia and Babar to complete the
assignment working together is
(a) 3 days (b) 5 days (c) 4 days (d) 2 days
(10) Asghar can do a job in 60 days. And both Asghar and Babar can do the same
job in 20 day, working together. Babar alone can do the some job in
(a) 30 days (b) 60 days (c) 28 days (d) 45 days
(11) ‘X’ can do a job in 16 days, ‘Y’ can do the same job in 20 days X, Y and Z can do
the job in 7.5 days. Alone Z can do the same job in
(a) 100 days (b) 120 days (c) 80 days (d) 48 days
(12) Ahmar works twice as fast as Bina. If Bina can complete a work in 30 days, the
number of days taken by Ahmar and Bina to complete the work working
together is
(a) 16 days (b) 24 days (c) 20 days (d) 10 days
(13) A certain number of men could complete work in 40 days. If there were 20 men
more the work could be completed in 20 days. The original number of men is
(a) 85 (b) 30 (c) 40 (d) 20
(14) A and B can do a piece of work in 10 days. B and C in 15 days, C and A in 30
days. In how many days can they do it all working together?
(a) 8 days (b) 6 days (c) 11 days (d) 10 days

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(15) ‘A’ is thrice as good workman asTank/Pipes
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piece of work in
24 days. In how many days can ‘A’ alone finish the work
(a) 20 days (b) 25 days (c) 32 days (d) 29 days.
(16) ‘A’ works thrice as fast as ‘B’. If ‘B’ can complete a work in 18 days. Then
number of days taken by ‘A’ and ‘B’ working together, to complete this work is
(a) 8 days (b) 6 days (c) 5 days (d) 4.5 days
(17) ‘A’ can finish a work in 24 days; ‘B’ can finish the same work in 36 days. If they
work together and finish it, then out of total wages of Rs.500 ‘A’ will get
(a) Rs.220 (b) Rs.200 (c) Rs.300 (d) Rs.360
(18) 16 men can finish two fifth of the work in 4 days. The number of additional men
required to finish the remaining work in 6 days will be
(a) 24 men (b) 0 men (c) 30 men (d) 39 men
(19) Pipe A can fill a tank in 10 hours and pipe B can empty it in 15 hours. In how
many hours will the tank be filled if both the pipes are opened?
(a) 6 (b) 10 (c) 20 (d) 30
(20) A tank, which has a leak in the bottom, is filled in 20 hours. Had there been no
leak the tank would have been filled in 15 hours. The leak can empty the full
tank in
(a) 80 hrs (b) 5 hrs (c) 60 hrs (d) 2 hrs
(21) A tank that can be filled by an inlet pipe ‘A’ in 12 hours is filled in 18 hours
while out let pipe ‘B’ is opened. The outlet pipe ‘B’ can empty the full tank in
(a) 25 hrs (b) 36 hrs (c) 46 hrs (d) 50 hrs
(22) Two pipes can fill an empty tank in 10 and 15 hrs respectively. If waste pipe ‘C’
is opened both ‘A’ and ‘B’ together can fill the tank in 7.5 hours. The waste pipe
can empty the full tank in
(a) 30 hrs (b) 50 hrs (c) 60 hrs (d) 40 hrs
(23) Working 8 hours a day a work is done in 10 days. For how many hours a day
must the work be done in order to complete it in 8 days?
(a) 12 hours (b) 10 hours (c) 9 hours (d) 9 ½ hours
(24) ‘A’ and ‘B’ together can fill a ditch in 30 days while ‘A’ alone can fill it in 50
days. If B does the work for only half a day daily, how long will it take to fill the
ditch by ‘A’ and ‘B’?
67 75
(a) 25 days (b) days (c) days (d) 32 days
2 2
(25) ‘A’ can type 60 pages in 15 hours; ‘A’ and ‘B’ can type 150 pages in 25 hours.
How long will it take ‘B’ alone to type 120 pages?
(a) 40 hours (b) 45 hours (c) 55 hours (d) 60 hours

PRACTICE EXERCISE – 2
(26) 12 women or 16 girls can do a certain job in 20 days. 14 women and 8 girls can
do the same job in how many days?
(a) 15 (b) 7 (c) 12 (d) 9
(27) A can do a piece of work in 16 days while B can do it in 12 days. With the help
of C they can finish it in 6 days. In how many days can C alone do the work?
(a) 48 days (b) 10 days (c) 20 days (d) 30 days
(28) A can do a work in 40 days and B can do it in 25 days. A worked at it for 8
days. In how many days B can finish the remaining work.
(a) 8 days (b) 20 days (c) 16 days (d) 12 days

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A can finish a work in 20 days; B Tank/Pipes
can do the same & work
Cistern
in 10 Problems
days. After A has
worked for 5 days B joins A, in how many days the remaining work will be
finished.
(a) 15 days (b) 8 days (c) 5 days (d) 7 days
(30) ‘A’ can finish a work in 7 days ‘B’ in 14 days and ‘C’ in 28 days. ‘B’ and ‘C’ start
working and are forced to leave the work after 2 days. The number of days
taken by ‘A’ to finish the remaining work is
(a) 8.5 days (b) 10 days (c) 5.5 days (d) 15.5 days
(31) ‘A’ can do a piece of work in 28 days. If ‘B’ is 40% more efficient than ‘A’, ‘B’ can
do the same piece of work in
(a) 20 days (b) 25 days (c) 27.5 days (d) 30 days.
(32) ‘A’ is twice as good a workman as ‘B’ and takes 6 less days to complete a piece
of work as ‘B’ does. To finish the work alone ‘B’ will take
(a) 12 (b) 10 (c) 13 (d) 6
(33) ‘A’ can complete a piece of work in 16 days and ‘B’ can complete it in 20 days.
They start working together. Two days before the completion of the work ‘A’
leaves. Work is completed in
(a) 10 days (b) 8 days (c) 6.4 days (d) 11 days
(34) ‘A’ can do a piece of work in 10 days and ‘B’ in 15 days. If they work for a day
alternately, ‘A’ beginning, the work will be completed in
(a) 6 days (b) 12 days (c) 8 days (d) 15 days.
(35) ‘A’ and ‘B’ can complete a task in 44 days when working together. After having
worked together for 33 days ‘B’ is called away. ‘A’ completes the remaining task
in the next 25 days. A can complete the job working alone in
(a) 140 days (b) 90 days (c) 100 days (d) 84 days.
(36) Three pipes ‘A’,’B’ and ‘C’ can fill a tank in 20 hours. After working at it together
for 5 hours ‘C’ is closed and ‘A’ and ‘B’ fill it in 30 hrs. ‘C’ alone can fill it in
(a) 35 hrs (b) 40 hrs (c) 30 hrs (d) 28 hrs
(37) A tank has a leak, which would empty it in 10 hrs. A tap is turned on and it
admits 9 liters per minute into the tank and tank is now emptied in 25 hrs.
How many liters does tank hold?
(a) 9000 (b) 13400 (c) 14500 (d) 10000
(38) A tank can be filled by tap ‘A’ in 16hrs and by tap ‘B’ in 20hrs. Both the taps
are kept opened for 8hrs and then ‘A’ is closed. In how many more hours will
the tank be completely filled?
2
(a) 2hrs (b) 12 (c) 10 hrs (d) 0.5 hrs
3
(39) Two pipes ‘A’ and ‘B’ can fill a tank in 14 and 21 hrs respectively. If both pipes
are opened together, then after how many hours ‘A’ should be closed so that
remaining tank is full in 7 hours.
28
(a) hrs (b) 6.5 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 4 hrs
5
(40) A and B working together can finish a job in T days. If A works alone and completes the
job, he will take T + 5 days. If B works alone and completes the same job, he will take T
+ 45 days. What is T?
(a) 25 (b) 60 (c) 15 (d) None of these
(41) A, B and C can do a work in 5 days, 10 days and 15 days respectively. They started
together to do the work but after 2 days A and B left. C did the remaining work (in days)
(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 4
(42) X alone can do a piece of work in 15 days and Y alone can do it in 10 days. X and Y
undertook to do it for Rs. 720. With the help of Z they finished it in 5 days. How much is
paid to Z?

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(d) Rs. 300
(43) Raheem starts working on a job and works on it for 12 days and completes 40% of the
work. To help him complete the work, he employs Rahim and together they work for
another 12 days and the work gets completed. How much more efficient is Raheem than
Rahim?
(a) 50% (b) 200% (c) 60% (d) 100%
(44) A and B can do a piece of work in 21 and 24 days respectively. They started the work
together and after some days A leaves the work and B completes the remaining work in 9
days. After how many days did A leave?
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 8 (a) 6
(45) Two identical taps fill 2/5 of a tank in 20 minutes. When one of the taps goes dry in how
many minutes will the remaining one tap fill the rest of the tank?
(a) 5 minutes (b) 10 minutes (c) 50 minutes (d) 60 minutes
(46) 20 men can do a certain work in 60 days but after every five days five additional
men join them. In how many days will work be done now?
(a) 30.5 days (b) 31 days (c) 33.5 days (d) 34.5 days
(47) 20 men or 30 boys can do a certain job in 20 days. How long will it take 6 men
and 15 boys to do the same job?
(a) 25 days (b) 10 days (c) 8 days (d) 6 days
(48) 30 men can do a certain work in 15 days. They started working on the project
but 5 of them leave after every five days. In how many days will the work be
completed now?
(a) 20 days (b) 22 days (c) 25 days (d) 18 days
(49) A red light flashes 3 times per minute and a green light flashes 5 times in two minutes at
regular intervals. If both lights start flashing at the same time, how many times do they
flash together in each hour?
(a) 30 (b) 24 (c) 20 (d) 60
(50) ‘M’ and ‘N’ working separately can complete a job in 6 and 12 hours
respectively. If they work for an hour alternately, ‘M’ starting at 10:00 AM when
will the job be done?
(a) 2:00 PM (b) 8:00 PM (c) 7:00 PM (d) 6:00 PM

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