TIME AND WORK

TYPE-I : Questions Based on the 2 1

(3) 12 days (4) 13 days
3 3
basic concept of time and work .
Q7.A, B and C together can complete a
Q1.A can do a work in 6 days and B in 9
piece of work in 30 minutes. A and B
days. How many days will both take
together can complete the same work in
together to complete the work?
50 minutes. C alone can complete the work
(1) 7.5 days (2) 5.4 days in (1) 60 minutes (2) 75 minutes

(3) 3.6 days (4) 3 days (3) 80 minutes (4) 150 minutes

Q2.A alone can complete a work in 12 Q8.While working 7 hours a day, A alone
days. A and B together can complete it in 8 can complete a piece of work in 6 days and
days. How long will B alone take to B alone in 8 days. In what time would they
complete the work ? complete it together, working 8 hours a
day?
(1) 24 days (2) 18 days
(1) 3 days (2) 4 days
(3) 16 days (4) 20 days
(3) 2.5 days (4) 3.6 days
Q3.A and B together can do a piece of work
in 10 days. A alone can do it in 30 days. The Q9.A, B and C individually can do a work in
time in which B alone can do it is 10 days, 12 days and 15 days respectively.
If they start working together, then the
(1) 10 days (2) 12 days number of days required to finish the work
(3) 15 days (4) 20 days is

Q4. If A and B together can complete a (1) 16 days (2) 8 days

work in 18 days, A and C together in 12 (3) 4 days (4) 2 days
days and B and C together in 9 days, then B
alone can do the work in Q10. A can do a piece of work in 25 days
and B can do the same work in 30 days.
(1) 18 days (2) 24 days They work together for 5 days, how much
(3) 30 days (4) 40 days of work is left ?

Q5. A and B together can complete a piece (1) 11/30 (2) 15/30 (3) 19/30 (4)
of work in 72 days, B and C together can 12/30
complete it in 120 days, and A and C
together in 90 days. In what time can A
TYPE-II : Questions where worker
alone complete the work ? leaves or joins .....
(1) 80 days (2) 100 days Q11. A and B can do a work in 18 and 24
days respectively. They worked together
(3) 120 days (4) 150 days for 8 days and then A left. The remaining
Q6.A and B can complete a piece of work in work was finished by B in :
30 days, B and C in 20 days, while C and A 1
in 15 days. If all of them work together, the (1) 5 days (2) 5 days
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time taken in completing the work will be
(1) 10 days (2) 12 days (3) 8 days (4) 10 days

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Q12. A can do a piece of work in 12 days joined him till the completion of the work.
and B can do it in 18 days. They work How long did the work last ?
together for 2 days and then A leaves. How
(1) 10 days (2) 20 days
long will B take to finish the remaining
work? (3) 15 days (4) 6 days
(1) 6 days (2) 8 days Q18. A and B can do a work in 45 days and
40 days respectively. They began the work
(3) 10 days (4) 13 days
together but A left after some time and B
Q13. A and B can do a job in 6 and 12 days completed the remaining work in 23 days.
respectively. They began the work together After how many days of the start of the
but A leaves after 3 days. Then the total work did A leave?
number of days needed for the completion
(1) 10 days (2) 9 days
of the work is :
(3) 8 days (4) 5 days
(1) 4 days (2) 5 days
Q19. A and B together can complete a
(3) 6 days (4) 9 days
work in 8 days. B alone can complete that
Q14. A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 work in 12 days. B alone worked for four
days and C in 12 days. B and C start the days. After that how long will A alone take
work but are forced to leave after 3 days. to complete the work?
The remaining work was done by A in :
(1) 15 days (2) 18 days
(1) 5 days (2) 6 days
(3) 16 days (4) 20 days
1
(3) 10 days (4) 10 days Q20. A can do a piece of work in 18 days
2
and B in 12 days. They began the work
Q15. A certain number of persons can together, but B left the work 3 days before
complete a piece of work in 55 days. If its completion. In how many days, in all,
there were 6 persons more, the work could was the work completed?
be finished in 11 days less. How many
(1) 12 days (2) 10 days
persons were originally there?
(3) 9.6 days (4) 9 days
(1) 17 (2) 24 (3) 30 (4) 22
Q21. A and B working separately can do a
Q16. A and B can do a piece of work in 28
piece of work in 10 days and 15 days
and 35 days respectively. They began to
respectively. If they work on alternate days
work together but A leaves after sometime
beginning with A, in how many days will
and B completed remaining work in 17
the work be completed?
days. After how many days did A leave?
(1) 18 days (2) 13 days
2
(1) 14 days (2) 9 days
5 (3) 12 days (4) 6 days
5 Q22. A, B and C can do a piece of work in
(3) 8 days (4) 7 days
9 30, 20 and 10 days respectively. A is
assisted by B on one day and by C on the
Q17. A and B can do a piece of work in 20
next day, alternately. How long would the
days and 12 days respectively. A started
work take to finish?
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 3 8 (3) 40 days (4) 35 days
(1) 9 days (2) 4 days
8 8
Q29. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of
4 9 work in 10 days and 26 men and 48 boys
(3) 8 days (4) 3 days
13 13 can do the same in 2 days, then the time
taken by 15 men and 20 boys to do the
Q23. A, B and C can do a piece of work in
same type of work will be :
20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how
many days can A do the work if he is (1) 5 days (2) 4 days
assisted by B and C on every third day ?
(3) 6 days (4) 7 days
(1) 10 days (2) 12 days
Q30. 3 men and 5 women can do a work in
(3) 15 days (4) 20 days 14 days while 5 men can do it in 14 days. 5
men and 5 women can complete the work
Q24. A can do a piece of work in 20 days
in
and B in 15 days. With the help of C, they
finish the work in 5 days. C can alone do (1) 13 days (2) 11 days
the work in
(3) 10 days (4) 12 days
(1) 5 days (2) 6 days
Q31. If 5 men or 8 women can do a piece
(3) 10 days (4) 12 days of work in 12 days, how many days will be
taken by 2 men and 4 women to do the
Q25. A certain number of men complete a
same work?
piece of work in 60 days. If there were 8
men more, the work could be finished in 1
(1) 15 days (2) 13 days
10 days less. The number of men originally 2
was (1) 30 (2) 40 (3) 32 (4) 36
1
(3) 13 days (4) 10 days
TYPE-III : Questions based on ‘M’ 3
man, ‘W’ women and ‘B’ boys ... Q32. 6 men or 12 women can do a piece of
work in 20 days. In how many days can 8
Q26. Twenty women can do a work in
men and 16 women do twice as big as this
sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete
work?
the same work in fifteen days. The ratio
between the capacity of a man and a (1) 2 days (2) 5 days
woman is
(3) 15 days (4) 10 days
(1) 3 : 4 (2) 4 : 3 (3) 5 : 3 (4) 5 : 7
Q33. 3 men or 5 women can do a work in
Q27. 5 men can do a piece of work in 6 12 days. How long will 6 men and 5 women
days while 10 women can do it in 5 days. In take to finish the work?
how many days can 5 women and 3 men
(1) 20 days (2) 10 days
do it ? (1) 4 days (2) 5 days
(3) 4 days (4) 15 days
(3) 6 days (4) 8 days
Q34. If 10 men or 20 boys can make 260
Q28. 4 men and 6 women can complete a
mats in 20 days, then how many mats will
work in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women
be made by 8 men and 4 boys in 20 days?
can complete it in 10 days. In how many
(1) 260 (2) 240 (3) 280 (4) 520
days will 10 women complete it ?

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Q35. Three men can complete a piece of Q41. A can do a work in 15 days and B in
work in 6 days. Two days after they started 20 days.If they together work on it for 4
the work, 3 more men joined them. How days, then the fraction of the work that is
many days will they take to complete the left is: (1) 8/15 (2) 7/15 (3) 1/4
remaining work ? (4) 1/10

(1) 1 days (2) 2 days (3) 3 days (4) 4 days Q42. A can cultivate 2 5 th of a land in 6
days and B can cultivate 1 3 rd of the same
Q36. If 1 man or 2 women or 3 boys can
land in 10 days. Working together A and B
complete a piece of work in 88 days, then 1
can cultivate 4 5 th of the land in:
man, 1 woman and 1 boy together will
complete it in (1) 4 days (2) 5 days

(1) 36 days (2) 42 days (3) 8 days (4) 10 days

(3) 48 days (4) 54 days Q43. A can finish a work in 18 days and B
can do the same work in half the time
Q37. If 1 man or 2 women or 3 boys can do
taken by A. Then working together what
a piece of work in 44 days, then the same
part of the same work they can finish in a
piece of work will be done by 1 man, 1
day?
woman and 1 boy in
(1) 1/6 (2) 2/5 (3) 1/9 (4) 2/7
(1) 21 days (2) 24 days
Q44. A can complete a work in 6 days while
(3) 26 days (4) 33 days
B can complete the same work in 12 days.
Q38. 18 men or 36 boys working 6 hours a If they work together and complete it, the
day can plough a field in 24 days. In how portion of the work done by A is
many days will 24 men and 24 boys
(1) 1/3 (2) 2/3 (3) 1/4 (4) ½
working 9 hours a day plough the same
field ? Q45. A can do 1 2 of a piece of work in 5
days, B can do 3 5 of the same work in 9
(1) 9 (2) 10 (3) 6 (4) 8
days and C can do 2 3 of that work in 8
Q39. Twenty women can do a work in days. In how many days can three of them
sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete together do the work ?
the same work in fifteen days. The ratio
(1) 3 days (2) 5 days
between the capacity of a man and a
woman is 1
(3) 4 days (4) 4 days
2
(1) 3 : 4 (2) 4 : 3 (3) 5 : 3 (4) 5 : 7
Q46. A contractor undertook to complete a
Q40. A man is twice as fast as a woman
project in 90 days and employed 60 men
and a woman is twice as fast as a boy in
on it. After 60 days, he found that 3 4 of
doing a work. If all of them, a man, a
the work has already been completed. How
woman and a boy can finish the work in 7
many men can he discharge so that the
days, in how many days a boy will do it
project may be completed exactly on time?
alone?
(1) 40 (2) 20 (3) 30 (4) 15
(1) 49 (2) 7 (3) 6 (4) 42
Q47. A can do a work in 20 days and B in
TYPE-IV : Questions based on 40 days. If they work on it together for 5
days, then the fraction of the work that is
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left is: (1) 5/8 (2) 8/15 (3) 7/15 work in time, the number of additional
(4) 1/10 workers to be employed was

Q48. A alone can do a piece of work in 20 (1) 100 (2) 300 (3) 600 (4)
days and B alone in 30 days. They begin to 200
work together. They will finish half of the
Q54. A does half as much work as B in
work in :
three fourth of the time. If together they
(1) 8 days (2) 9 days take 18 days to complete the work, how
much time will B alone take to do it ?
(3) 12 days (4) 6 days
(1) 40 days (2) 45 days
Q49. A does half as much work as B in
three- fourth of the time. If together they (3) 50 days (4) 30 days
take 18 days to complete a work, how
Q55. Jyothi can do 3 4 of a job in 12 days.
much time shall B take to do it alone?
Mala is twice as efficient as Jyothi. In how
(1) 30 days (2) 35 days many days will Mala finish the job ?

(3) 40 days (4) 45 days (1) 6 days (2) 8 days

Q50. P can do 1/4 th of work in 10 days, Q (3) 12 days (4) 16 days

can do 40% of work in 40 days and R can
Q56. A can do a piece of work in 70 days
do 1/3rd of work in 13 days. Who will
and B is 40% more efficient than A. The
complete the work first?
number of days taken by B to do the same
(1) P (2) Q (3) R (4) Both P and R work is (1) 40 days (2) 60 days

TYPE-V : Questions based on (3) 50 days (4) 45 days

efficiency of worker ... Q57. A is twice as good a workman as B
and B is twice as good a workman as C. If A
Q51. A doe’s half as much work as B in one
and B can together finish a piece of work in
sixth of the time. If together they take 10
4 days, then C can do it by himself in
days to complete a work, how much time
shall B take to do it alone? (1) 6 days (2) 8 days

(1) 70 days (2) 30 days (3) 24 days (4) 12 days

(3) 40 days (4) 50 days Q58. A and B together can complete a

work in 15 days. A is 50% more efficient
Q52. A doe’s half as much work as B in
worker than B. How long will A take to
one-third of the time taken by B. If
complete the work alone?
together they take 10 days to complete a
work, then the time taken by B alone to do (1) 20 days (2) 21 days
it would have been
(3) 21.4 days (4) 22.5 days
(1) 30 days (2) 25 days
Q59.Tapas works twice as fast as Mihir. If
(3) 6 days (4) 12 days both of them together complete a work in
12 days, Tapas alone can complete it in
Q53. A company employed 200 workers to
complete a certain work in 150 days. If only (1) 15 days (2) 18 days
one fourth of the work has been done in 50
(3) 20 days (4) 24 days
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Q60. P is thrice as good a workman as Q persons join them so as to complete the
and therefore able to finish a job in 48 days work in 4 days, they need to work per day
less than Q. Working together, they can do for :
it in (1) 18 days (2) 24 days
(1) 10 hours (2) 9 hours
(3) 30 days (4) 12 days
(3) 12 hours (4) 8 hours
Q61. If A, B and C can complete a work in 6
Q67. Two persons can complete a piece of
days. If A can work twice faster than B and
work in 9 days. How many more persons
thrice faster than C, then the number of
are needed to complete double the work in
days C alone can complete the work is :
12 days?
(1) 33 days (2) 44 days
(1) 3 (2) 2 (3) 4 (4) 1
(3) 22 days (4) 11 days
Q68. If p men working p hours per day for
Q62. A is twice as good as B and together p days produce p units of work, then the
they finish a piece of work in 16 days. The units of work produced by n men working
number of days taken by A alone to finish n hours a day for n days is
the work is 2 3
p p
(1) 20 days (2) 21 days (1) 2 (2) 2
n n
(3) 22 days (4) 24 days 2 3
n n
(3) 2 (4) 2
Q63. Shashi can do a piece of work in 20 p p
days. Tanya is 25% more efficient than
Q69. 7 men can complete a piece of work
Shashi. The number of days taken by Tanya
in 12 days. How many additional men will
to do the same piece of work is :
be required to complete double the work
(1) 15 (2) 16 (3) 18 (4) 25 in 8 days ?

TYPE-VI : Questions based on the (1) 28 (2) 21 (3) 14 (4) 7

formulae M1D1W1 = M2D2W2 Q70. ‘x’ number of men can finish a piece
and its interchange ... of work in 30 days. If there were 6 men
more, the work could be finished in 10
Q64. 39 persons can repair a road in 12 days less. The original number of men is
days working 5 hours a day. In how many
days will 30 persons working 6 hours a day (1) 6 (2) 10 (3) 12 (4) 15
complete the work? Q71. Some carpenters promised to do a
(1) 10 days (2) 13 days job in 9 days but 5 of them were absent
and remaining men did the job in 12 days.
(3) 14 days (4) 15 days The original number of carpenters was
Q65. If 72 men can build a wall of 280 m (1) 24 (2) 20 (3) 16 (4) 18
length in 21 days, how many men could
take 18 days to build a similar type of wall Q72 .If the work done by (x –1) men in (x +
of length 100 m? 1) days is to the work done by (x + 2) men
in (x – 1) days are in the ratio 9 : 10, then
(1) 30 (2) 10 (3) 18 (4) 28 the value of x is equal to :
Q66. 5 persons can prepare an admission (1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) 8
list in 8 days working 7 hours a day. If 2

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TYPE-VII : Questions based on Q79. If there is a reduction in the number
of workers in a factory in the ratio 15 : 11
Work and Wages ...
and an increment in their wages in the
Q73. Suman can do a work in 3 days. ratio 22 : 25, then the ratio by which the
Sumati can do the same work in 2 days. total wages of the workers should be
Both of them finish the work together and decreased is
get 150. What is the share of Suman ?
(1) 6 : 5 (2) 5 : 6 (3) 3 : 7 (4) 3 :5
(1) 30 (2) 60 (3) 70 (4) 75
Q80.. A, B and C together earn 150 per day
Q74. A and B can complete a piece of work while A and C together earn 94 and B and C
in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They together earn 76. The daily earning of ‘C’ is
contracted to complete the work for (1) 56 (2) 20 (3) 34 (4) 75
30,000. The share of A in the contracted
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money will be :

(1) 18,000 (2) 16,500

Q1.. Sevenmachinestake7 minutes to make
(3) 12,500 (4) 12,000
7 identical toys. At the same rate, how
Q75. A and B undertook to do a piece of many minutes would it take for 100
work for 4500. A alone could do it in 8 days machines to make 100 toys? GATE 2018
and B alone in 12 days. With the assistance
(A) 1 (B) 7 (C) 100 (D) 700
of C they finished the work in 4 days. Then
C’s share of the money is Q2.It was estimated that 52 men can
complete a strip in a newly constructed
(1) 2250 (2) 1500 (3) 750 (4) 375
highwayconnecting cities P and Q in 10
Q76. Two men undertook to do a job for days. Due to an emergency, 12 men were
1400. One of them can do it alone in 7 sent to anotherproject. How many number
days, and the other in 8 days. With the of days, more than the original estimate,
assistance of a boy they together will be required tocomplete the strip?
completed the work in 3 days. How much
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money will the boy get?
(A) 3 days (B) 5 days
(1) 300 (2) 325 (3) 275 (4) 250
(C) 10 days (D) 13 days
Q77. If 5 men or 7 women can earn 5,250
per day, how much would 7 men and 13 Q3. It takes two hours for a person X to
women earn per day ? mow the lawn. Y can mow the same lawn
in fourhours. How long (in minutes) will it
(1) 11,600 (2) 11,700
take X and Y, if they work together to mow
(3) 16,100 (4) 17,100 the lawn? GATE 2019

Q78. 2 men and 1 woman together can (A) 60 (B) 80 (C) 90 (D) 120
complete a piece of work in 14 days, while
Q4. It would take one machine 4 hours to
4 women and 2 men together can do it in 8
complete a production order and another
days. If a man gets 600 per day, how much
machine 2hours to complete the same
should a woman get per day?
order. If both machines work
(1) 400 (2) 450 (3) 480 (4) 360 simultaneously at their respective constant
rates, the time taken to complete the same
order 1s hours. GATE 2019

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(A) 2/3 (B) 3/4 (C) 4/3 (D) 7/3 contribution of M to contribution of E in
the project? GATE 2016
Q5.1200 men and 500 women can build a
bridge in 2 weeks. 900 men and 250 (A) 1:1 (B) 1:2 (C) 1:4 (D) 2:1
women will take 3weeks to build the same
Q10. P , Q, R and S are working on a
bridge. How many men will be needed to
project. Q can finish the task in 25 days,
build the bridge in one week? GATE 2017
working alone for 12 hours a day. R can
(A) 3000 (B) 3300 (C) 3600 (D) 3900 finish the task in 50 days, working alone for
12 hours per day. Q worked 12 hours a day
Q6.X bullocks and Y tractors take 8 days to
but took sick leave in the beginning for two
plough a field. If we halve the number of
days. R worked 18 hours a day on all days.
bullocks anddouble the number of tractors.
What is the ratio of work done by Q and R
it takes 5 days to plough the same field.
after 7 days from the start of the project?
How many days will it take X bullocks alone
to plough the field? GATE 2017 GATE 2016

(A) 30 (B) 35 (C) 40 (D) 45 (A) 10:11 (B) 11:10

Q7.Two machines M1 and M2 are able to (C) 20:21 (D) 21:20

execute any of four jobs P. Q. R and S. The
machines canperform one job on one
object at a time. Jobs P. Q. R and S take 30
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APTITUDE
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takes 4 hours to read a book. Both started
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Q9. S, M, E and F are working in shifts in a

team to finish a project. M works with
twice the efficiency of others but for half as
many days as E worked. S and M have 6
hour shifts in a day, whereas E and F have
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