CSAT 2022

SECTION: MATHS AND BASIC NUMERACY

(TOPIC: TIME-WORK & PIPE-CISTERN: PRACTICE PAPER)

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 PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Q1. Sunil completes a work in 4 days whereas Dinesh completes the work in 6 days. Ramesh
work 11/2 times as fast as Sunil. How many days it will take for the three together to complete
the work?
a) 7 / 12 days
b) 17/19 days
c) 12/7 days
d) 24/19 days

Q2. Working together P and Q can do a job is 6 days. Q and R can do the same job in 10 days
while P and R can do it in 5 days. How long will it take, if all of them work together to complete
the job?
a) 30/7
b) 31/7
c) 32/7
d) 33/7

Q3. Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 15 and 20, respectively. Both the pipes are opened
together, but after 2 min, pipe A is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank?
a) 46/3 min
b) 43/3 min
c) 52/3 min
d) 51/3 min

Q4. Two taps A and B can fill a tank in 20 min and 30 min, respectively. An outlet pipe C can
empty the full tank in 15 min. A, B and C are opened alternatively, each for 1 min. How long
will the tank take to be filled?
a) 167 min
b) 105 min
c) 120 min
d) 185 min

Q5. Ram finishes a work in 7 days. Rahim finishes the same job in 8 days and Robert in 6 days.
They take turns to finish the work. Ram worked on the first day, Rahim on the second day and
Robert on the third and then again Ram and so on. Who was working on the last day when
work got finished?
a) Rahim
b) Ram
c) Robert
d) Rahim and Robert

Q6. A tank is fitted with 8 pipes, some of which that fill the tank and others that empty the
tank. Each of the pipes that fills the tank fills it in 8 hours, while each of those that empty the
tank empties it in 6 hours. If all the pipes are kept open when the tank is full, it will take 6 hours
to drain the tank. How many of these are fill pipes?
a) 6 fill pipes
b) 2 fill pipes
c) 4 fill pipes
d) 5 fill pipes

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Q7. A contractor undertook to do a certain piece of the work in 18 days. He employed certain
number of men but 12 of them being absent from the very 1st day, the rest could finish the
work in 30 days. Find the number of men originally employed?
a) 40
b) 45
c) 35
d) 30

Q8. A cylindrical overhead tank is filled by two pumps P1 and P2. P1 can fill the tank in 8 hr
while P2 can fill the tank in 12 hr. There is a pipe P3 which can empty the tank in 8 hr. Both
the pumps are opened simultaneously. The supervisor of the tank, before going out on a work,
sets a timer to open P3 when the tank is half filled so that the tank is exactly filled up by the
time he is back. Due to technical fault P3 opens when the tank is one-third filled. If the
supervisor comes back as per the plan what percent of the tank is till empty?
a) 10% tank
b) 25% tank
c) 12% tank
d) None of the above

Q9. There’s a lot of work in preparing a birthday dinner. Even after the turkey is in the oven,
there’s 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 alone, and half the time Afzal would have
taken working alone. How long did it take them to do these chores working together?
a) 20 min
b) 30 min
c) 40 min
d) 50 min

Q10. 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?
a) M : N = 1 : 1
b) M : N = 2 : 1
c) M : N = 2 : 3
d) M : N = 3 : 2

Q11. A contract is to be complete in 92 days and 234 men were set to work, each working 16
hrs a day. After 66 days, 4/7 of the work is completed. How many addition men may be
employed, so that the work may be completed in time, each man now working 18 h a day?
a) 234
b) 162
c) 262
d) 81

Q12. Three pipes A, B and C are connected to a tank. These pipes can fill the tank separately
in 5hr, 10 hr and 15hr respectively. When all the three pipes were opened simultaneously, it

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was observed that pipes A and B were supplying water at (3/4)th of their normal rates for the
1st hour after which they supplied water at normal rate. Pipe C supplied water at (2 /3 )rd of its
normal rate for 1st 2 hour, after which it supplied at its normal rate. In how much time, tank
would be filled?
a) 1.05 hrs
b) 4.05 hrs
c) 2.05 hrs
d) 3.05 hrs

Q13. Two workers A and B working together completed a job in 5 days. If A worked twice as
efficiently as he actually did and B worked 1 / 3 as efficiently as he actually did the work, then
they would have completed the work in 3 days. Find the time for A to complete the job alone?
a) 61/2 days
b) 61/4 days
c) 63/4 days
d) 121/2 days

Q14. In a 4000-meter race around a circular stadium having a circumference of 1000 meters,
the fastest runner and the slowest runner reach the same point at the end of the 5th minute, for
the first time after the start of the race. All the runners have the same starting point and each
runner maintains a uniform speed throughout the race. If the fastest runner runs at twice the
speed of the slowest runner, what is the time taken by the fastest runner to finish the race?
a) 20 min
b) 15 min
c) 10 min
d) 5 min

Q15. A draining pipe can drain a tank in 12 hours, and a filling pipe can fill the same tank in 6
hours. A total of n pipes – which include both types of pipes – can fill the entire tank in 2 hours.
Which of the following could be a value of n?
I. 6
II. 7
III. 9

a) I and II Only
b) II and III Only
c) I, II and III
d) I and III Only

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