TIME & WORK
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1. 20 workers working for 5 h per day complete work in 10 days. If 25 workers are employed
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to work 10 h per day, what is the time required to complete the work? [CDS 2013 (II)]
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(a) 4 days (b) 5 days (c) 6 days (d) 8 days
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2. 18 men can earn Rs 360 in 5 days. How much money will 15 men earn in 9 days? [CDS 2013 (II)]
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(a) 600 (b) 540 (c) 480 (d) 360
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3. Let the work done by (x - 1) men in (x + 1) days be y. Let the work done by (x-+ 2) men in (x - 1)
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days be z. If y : z = 9:10 , then what is the value of x ? [CDS 2021 (I)]
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(a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 12
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4. 20 men are supposed to complete a work in 10 days. After working for 5 days, they realize that
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only one-fourth of the work is done. How many more men they need to employ to finish the work on
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time? [CDS 2021 (II)]
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(a) 40 (b) 30 (c) 20 (d) 15
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5. Let work done by (3n-1) men in (2n +1) days be x and work done by (3n + 1) men in (4n -3) days
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be y. If x : y = 6:11, then what is the value of n ? [CDS 2021 (II)]
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(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 9
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6. Sheela can stitch a suit in 2 days, while Meena can stitch a suit in 1 2days. How many days will
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both take in stitching 30 suits? [CDS 2021 (II)]
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(a) 32 days (b) 33 days (c) 35 days (d) 40 days
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7. 18 men can earn Rs 360 in 5 days. How much money will 15 men earn in 9 days? [CDS 2013 (II)]
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(a) 600 (b) 540 (c) 480 (d) 360
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8. A can do a piece of work in 4 days and B can complete the same work in 12 days. What is the
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number of days required to do the same work together? [CDS 2013 (II)]
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(a) 2 days (b) 3 days (c) 4 days (d) 5 days
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9. X can do a work in 16 days in how many days will be work be completed by Y if efficiency of Y is
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60% more than that of X? [CDS 2013 (II)]
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(a) 10 days (b) 12 days (c) 25 days (d) 30 days
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10. A, B and C can do a piece of work individually in 8, 12 and 15 days, respectively. A and B start
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working but A quits after working for 2 days. After this, C joins B till the completion of work. In how
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many days will the work be completed? [CDS 2014 (II)]
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(a) 3 9 days (b) 5 9 days (c) 5 3 days (d) 6 18 days
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11. The efficiency of P is twice that of Q, whereas the efficiency of P and Q together is three times
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that of R. If P, Q and R work together on a job, in what ratio should they share their earnings? (CDS)
(a) 2:1:1 (b) 4:2:1 (c) 4:3:2 (d) 4:2:3
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12. A can finish a work in 15 days, B in 20 days and C in 25 days. All these three worked together and
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earned Rs 4700. The share of C is? [CDS 2013 (II)]
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(a) 1200 (b) 1500 (c) 1800 (d) 2000
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13. A can do 50% more work than B in the same time. B alone can do a piece of work in 30hrs. B
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starts working and had already worked for 12 hours when A joins him. How many hours should B and
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A work together to complete the remaining work? [CDS 2016 (Il)
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(a) 6 hours (b) 12 hours (c) 4.8 hours (d) 7.2 hours
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14. Three persons A, B and C together can do a piece of work in 36 days. A and B together can do five
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times as much work as C alone, B and C together can do as much work as A alone. If A and C together
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can do n times as much work as B alone, then what is the value of n? [CDS-2023 (2)]
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(a) 1.5 (b) 2 (c) 2.5 (d) 3
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15. A, B, C, can complete a work in 3, 6, 9, 12 hours respectively. Further, only one person can work a
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time in each hour and nobody can work for two consecutive hours. It is not necessary to engage all.
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What is the minimum number of hours that they will take to finish the work? [CDS-2024 (1)]
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(a) 36/25 (b) 12/5 (c) 4 (d) 2
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16. 12 women and 16 men can do a piece of work in 5 days. 13 women and 24 men can do it in 4
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days. How long will 25 women and 50 men take to do it? [CDS 2022 (II)]
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(a) 1 day (b) 2 days (c) 3 days (d) 4 days
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17. If 17 women and 24 men can do a piece of work in 5 days and 12 women and 23 men can do it in
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6 days, then which one of the following is correct? [CDS - 2023 (1)]
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(a) efficiency of 13 women = efficiency of 18 men
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(b) efficiency of 11 women = efficiency of 16 men
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(c) efficiency of 13 women = efficiency of 17 men
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(d) efficiency of 11 women = efficiency of 15 men
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18. If 3 men and 4 boys can do a piece of work in 8 days then 6 men and 8 boys can do the same
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work in? [CDS 2013 (I)]
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(a) 2 days (b) 4 days (c) 6 days (d) 18 days
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19. A mason can build a tank in 12 h. After working for 6 h, he took the help of boy and finished the
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work in another 5 h. The time that the boy will take alone to complete the work is? [CDS 2013 (I)]
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(a) 30 h (b) 45 h (c)60 h (d) 64 h
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20. 4 goats or 6 sheep's can graze a field in 50 days. 2 goats and 9 sheep's can graze the
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field in? [CDS 2013 (II)]
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(a) 100 days (b) 75 days (c) 50 days (d) 25 days
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21. 8 men or 12 women can do a piece of work in 24 days. In how many days can the work be done by
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8 men and 12 women? [CDS 2022 (I)] (a) 12 days (b) 18 days (c) 24 days (d) cannot be determined due
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to insufficient data 22. 2 men and 1 woman can complete a piece of work in 14 days, while 4 women
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and 2 men can do
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the same work in 8 days. If a man gets Rs 90 per day, what should be the wages per day of a woman?
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[CDS 2013 (II)] (a) 48 (b) 60 (c) 72 (d) 135 23. A water tank has been fitted with two taps P and Q and a
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drain pipe R. Taps P and Q fill at the rate
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of 12 litre per minute and 10 litre per minute respectively. Consider the following statements S1, S2
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and S3 S1 : pipe R drains out at the rate of 6 litre per minutes S2 : if both the taps and the drain pipes
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are opened simultaneously then the water tank is filled in 5
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hours 45 minutes
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S3 : Pipe R drains out (fully) the field tank in 15 hours 20 minutes.
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To know what is the capacity of the tank which one of the following is correct ? [CDS 2018 (I)]
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(a) S2 is only sufficient (b) S1, S2 and S3 are necessary (c) any two out of S, S2 and S3 are sufficient
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(d) none of the above
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24. Three taps A, B and C together can fill a tank in 6 hours. Tap C alone can fill the tank in 12 hours.
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To fill the tank, when it is empty, all the three taps are started together. After-working t hours, tap C
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is closed and the tank is filled in 8 more hours What is t equal to? [CDS - 2023 (1)] (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 6
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25. In a water tank- there are two outlets. It takes 20 min to empty the tank of both the outlet are
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opened. If the first outlet is opened, the tank is emptied in 30 min. What is the time taken to empty
the tank by second outlet? [CDS 2020 (I)] (a) 30 min (b) 40 min (c) 50 min (d) 60 min
