Given A takes x days to do work. B takes y days to do the same work.

If A and B work together, how

If A and B together can do a piece of work in x days, B and C together can do it in y days and C and A
together can do it in z days, find how many days it takes for each of them to complete the work if they
worked individually. How many days will it take to complete the work if they worked together?

Given A is n times efficient than B. Also A takes n days less than B to complete the work. How many days
will it take to complete the work if they worked together?

Given A takes x days to do work. B takes y days to do the same work. Now A& B together begins a work.
After few days one of them leaves. Also given the other takes n more days to complete the work.Find
total number of days to complete the work.How many days did they work together?

Given A takes x days to do work. B takes y days to do the same work. A started the work and B joined
him after n days.How long did it take to complete the work?How many days did they work together? Or
How long did B work?

Given A takes x days to do work. B takes y days to do the same work. If A and B works on alternate days
ie A alone works on first day, B alone works on next day and this cycle continues, in how many days will
the work be finished?

Given A alone can complete a job in x days and also B is b% efficient than A. How many days will it take
to complete work if B works alone.?

Problems where combinations of workers [men, women, girls and boys] take some days to do a work.
These problems are solved using man days concept.

You have to calculate for another combination of them to complete the work.

How long will one set of people take to complete the entire work?

A certain combination starts the job and after few days leaves the work. Find the number of people from
the category who are required to finish the remaining work.?

Basic Concepts ofTime and Work

Most of the aptitude questions on time and work can be solved if you know the basic correlation
between time, work and man per hours which you have learnt in your high school class.

Analogy between problems on time and work to time

distance and speed: Speed is equivalent to rate at which work is done.

Distance travelled is equivalent to work done.

Time to travel distance is equivalent to time to do work.

More men can do more work. More work means more time required to do work.
More men can do more work in less time

.`M` men can do a piece of work in `T` hours, then `"Total effort or work " = MT " man/hours"`.`
"Rate of work " "*" " Time " = " Work Done"

`If `A` can do a piece of work in `D` days, then `A`'s 1 day's work = `1/D`.

Part of work done by `A` for `t` days = `t/D`.

If `A`'s 1 day's work = `1/D`, then `A` can finish the work in `D` days.`(MDH)/W ="Constant"`
Where,M= Number of men D= Number of days H= Number of hours per day W= Amount of work

If `M_1` men can do `W_1` work in `D_1` days working `H_1` hours per day and `M_2` men can do `W_2`
work in `D_2` days working `H_2` hours per day, then`(M_1 D_1 H_1)/W_1 = (M_2 D_2 H_2)/W_2

`If `A` is `x` times as good a workman as`B`, then:Ratio of workdone by `A` and `B` = `x:1`

Ratio of times taken by `A` and `B` to finish a work = `1:x` ie; `A` will take `(1/x)^(th)` of the time taken
by `B` to do the same work.

Shortcuts for frequently asked time and work problems`

A` and `B` can do a piece of work in `'a'` days and `'b'` days respectively, then working together:They
will complete the work in `(ab)/(a+b)` days In one day, they will finish `((a+b)/(ab))^(th)` part ofwork.

If `A` can do a piece of work in `a` days, `B` can do in `b` days and `C` can do in `c` days
then,`"A, B and C together can finish the same work in" (abc)/(ab + bc + ca) " days"

If `A` can do a work in `x` days and `A` and `B` together can do the same work in `y` days then,`"Number
of days required to complete thework if B works alone"= (xy)/(x-y) days`

If `A` and `B` together can do a piece of work in `x` days, `B` and `C` together can do it in `y` days and `C`
and `A` together can do it in `z` days, then number of days required to do the same work:

If A, B, and C working together = `(2xyz) / (xy+ yz + zx)` If A working alone = `(2xyz) / (xy+ yz - zx)`
If B working alone = `(2xyz) / (- xy + yz + zx)` If C working alone = `(2xyz) / (xy - yz + zx)
If `A` and `B` can together complete a job in `x` days.If `A` alone does the work and takes `a` days more
than `A`and `B` working together.If `B` alone does the work and takes `b` days more than `A`and `B`
working together.Then,`x = sqrt(ab) " days"

`If `m_1` men or `b_1` boys can complete a work in `D` days, then `m_2` men and `b_2` boys can
complete the same work in `(Dm_1b_1) / (m_2b_1 + m_1b_2)` days.If `m` men or `w` women or `b`
boys can do work in `D` days, then 1 man, 1 woman and 1 boy together can together do the same work
in `(Dmwb)/(mw+ wb + bm)` days
If the number of men to do a job is changed in the ratio `a:b`, then the time required to do the work
will be changed in the inverse ratio. ie; `b:a`

If people work for same number of days, ratio in which the total money earned has to be shared is the
ratio of work done per day by each one of them.`A`, `B`, `C` can do a piece of work in `x`, `y`, `z` days
respectively.The ratio in which the amount earned should be shared is `1/x: 1/y : 1/z = yz:zx:xy`

If people work for different number of days, ratio in which the total money earned has to be shared is
the ratio of work done by each one of them.

Special cases of time and work problems

Given a number of people work together/alone for different time periods to complete a work, for eg:`A`
and `B` work together for few days, then `C` joins them, after few days `B` leaves the job. To solve such
problems, following procedure can be adopted.

Let the entire job be completed in `D` days.Let sum of parts of the work completed by each person=
1.Find out part of work done by each person with respect to `D`.

This can be easily found out if you calculate how many days each person worked with respect to
`D`.Substitute values found out in Step 3 in Step 2 and solve the equation to get unknowns.

A certain no of men can do the work in `D` days. If there were `m` more men, the work can be done in
`d` days less. How many men were there initially?

Let the initial number of men be `M` Number of man days to complete work = `MD`If there are `M + m`
men, days taken = `D - d` So, man days= `(M+m)(D-d)` ie; `MD = (M+m)(D-d)
``M(D – (D-d))= m(D-d)`` M = (m(D-d))/d`

A certain no of men can dothe work in `D` days. If there were `m` less men, the work can be done in `d`
days more. How many men were initially?

Let the initial number of men be `M` Number of man days to complete work = `MD`
If there are `M - m` men, days taken = `D + d`So, man days= `(M-m)(D+d) `ie; `MD = (M-m)(D+d)
``M(D + d – D)= m(D+d)`` M = (m(D+d))/d`

Given `A` takes `a` days to do work. `B` takes `b` days to do the same work. Now `A`and `B` started the
work together and`n` days before the completion of work `A` leaves the job. Find the total number of
days taken to complete work?

Let `D` be the total number of days to complete work.`A` and `B` work together for `D - n` days.
So, `(D-n)(1/a + 1/b) + n (1/b) = 1` or, `D(1/a + 1/b) – n/a - n/b + n/b = 1
``D(1/a + 1/b)= (n + a)/a ``D = (b (n+a))/(a+b) days