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Time and Work + Pipes and Cistern

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Time and Work + Pipes and Cistern
1. A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 24, 5. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10
6 and 12 days respectively. Working together, days while 3 men and 2 boys can do the same
they will complete the same work in work in 8 days. In how many days can do 2 men
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A. day and 1 boy the work?
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7 A. 8 days
B. day

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24 B. 7 days
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C. 3 7 day 1
C. 122 days
D. 4 day

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D. 2 days

2. A man and a boy received Rs. 800 as wages for 6. A group of workers can complete a piece of
5 days for the work they did together. The work in 50 days, when they are working
man’s efficiency is twice of the boy. What are individually. On the first day one person works,
the daily wages of the boy? on the seconds day another person joins him,
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A. Rs. 53 on the third day one more person joins them
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1 and this process continues till the work is
B. Rs. 563
1 completed. How many approximate days are
C. Rs. 443
needed to complete the work?
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D. Rs. 403 A. 8 days
by
B. 9 days
C. 10 days
3. A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B D. 11 days
alone in 8 days, A and B undertook to do it for
Rs 3200. With the help of C they completed the
work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C? 7. A cistern can be filled with water by a pipe in 5
A. Rs. 375 hours and it can be emptied by a second pipe
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B. Rs. 400 in 4 hours. If both the pipes are opened when

C. Rs. 600 the cistern is full, the time in which it will be
D. Rs. 800 emptied the cistern:
A. 9 hours
B. 18 hours
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4. A and B working together: can do a piece of C. 20 hours

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work in 4 hours. B and C working together can D. 202 hours
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do it in 3 hours. C and A working together can
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do it in 24 hours. All of them begin the work at
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8. A cistern is provided with two pipes A and B. A

the same time. Find how much time they will
can fill it in 20 minutes and B can empty it in 30
take to finish the piece of work.
minutes. If A and B be kept open alternatively
A. 3 hours
for one minute each, how soon will the cistern
B. 2 hours
be filled?
C. 2.5 hours
A. 121 minutes
D. 3.25 hours
B. 110 minutes
C. 115 minutes

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D. 120 minutes How many days would be required by the
fastest worker to complete the entire work?
A. 20
9. Two pipes A and B can fill a water tank in 20 B. 25
and 24 minutes respectively and a third pipe C C. 30

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can empty at the rate of 3 gallons per minute. D. 10
If A, B and C are opened together to fill the
tank in 15 minutes, find the capacity of tank?

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A. 180 13. Three men A, B and C working together can do
B. 150 a job in 6 hours less time than A alone, in 1
C. 120 hour less time than B alone and in one half the
D. 60 time needed by C when working alone. Then A
and B together can do the job in
1
A. 3
hour
10. Two pipes can independently fill a bucket in 20

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B. 3
hour
minutes and 25 minutes. Both are opened 3
together for 5 minutes after which the second C. 2
hour
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pipe is turned off. What is the time taken by D. hour
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the first pipe alone to fill the remaining portion
of the bucket?
by
A. 11 min
14. Two workers A and B engaged to do a piece of
B. 16 min
work. A working alone would take 8 hours
C. 20 min
more to complete the work that when work
D. 15 min 1
together. If B worked alone, would take 42
hours more than when work together. The
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11. Amit, Bhawna and Chandan can do a piece of time required to finish the work together is
work, woking together in one day only. Amit is A. 5 hours
5 times efficient than Bhawna and Chandan B. 8 hours
takes half of the number of days taken by C. 4 hours
Bhawna to do the same work. What is the D. 6 hours
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difference between the number of days taken

by Amit and Chandan when they work alone?
A. 4 15. A and B together can do a piece of work in 12
B. 5 days which B and C together do in 16 days. If A
C. 3 works for 5 days, B works for 7 days than C
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2 complete the remaining work in 13 days. In

D. 25
how much time B alone do the whole work.
A. 48 days
B. 24 days
12. A and B work together to complete the rest of C. 16 days
a job in 7 days. However, 37/100 of the job was D. 12 days
already done. Also the work done by A in 5
days is equal to the work done by B in 4 days.

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16. A can do a piece of work in 18 days and B in 12 20. A can complete a piece of work in 4 days. B
days. They began the work together, but B left takes double the time taken by A, C takes
the work 3 days before its completion. In how double that of B, and D takes double that of C
many days, in all was the work completed? to complete the same task. They are paired in
A. 12 days groups of two each. One pair takes two-thirds

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B. 10 days the time needed by the second pair to
C. 9.6 days complete the work. Which is the first pair?
D. 9 days A. A and B

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B. A and C
C. B and C
17. Two men can do a piece of work in x days. But D. A and D
y women can do that in 3 days. Then the ratio
of the work done by 1 man and 1 woman is
A. 3y : 2x 21. Three pipes are connected to an inverted
B. 2x : 3y cone, with its base at the top. Two inlet pipes,

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C. x : y A and B, are connected to the top of the cone
D. 2y : 3x and can fill the empty in 8 hours and 12 hours,
respectively. The outlet pipe C, connected to
the bottom, can empty a filled cone in 4 hours.
18. A water reservoir has two inlets and one When the cone is completely filled with water,
by
outlet. Through the inlet it can be filled in 3 all three pipes are opened. Two of the three
hours and 3 hours 45 minutes respectively. It pipes remain open for 20 hours continuously
can be emptied completely in 1 hour by the and the third pipe remains open for a lesser
outlet. If the two inlets are opened at 01:00 time. As a result, the height of the water inside
pm and 02:00 pm respectively and the outlet the cone comes down to 50%. Which of the
at 03:00 pm then it will be emptied at. following options would be possible?
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A. 05 : 55 pm A. Pipe A was open for 19 hours.

B. 05 : 00 pm B. Pipe A was open for 19 hours 30
C. 05 : 20 pm minutes.
D. 05 : 30 pm C. Pipe B was open for 19 hours 30
minutes
D. None of these
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19. Two pipes can fill a tank with water in 15 and

12 hours respectively and a third can empty it
in 4 hours. If the pipes be opened in order at 8,
9 and 11 a.m. respectively, the tank will be
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emptied at
A. 11 : 40 a.m. 22. A tank is connected with both inlet pipes and
B. 12 : 40 p.m. outlet pipes. Individually, an inlet pipe can fill
C. 1 : 40 p.m. the tank in 7 hours and an outlet pipe can
D. 2 : 40 p.m. empty it in 5 hours. If all the pipes are kept
open, it takes exactly 7 hours for a completely
filled-in tank to empty. If the total number of

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pipes connected to the tank is 11, how many 26. In Bilaspur village, 12 men and 18 boys
of these are inlet pipes? completed construction of a primary health
A. 2 center in 60 days, by working for 7.5 hours a
B. 4 day. Subsequently the residents of the
C. 5 neighbouring Harigarh village also decided to

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D. 6 construct a primary health center in their
locality, which would be twice the size of the
facility build in Bilaspur. If a man is able to

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23. 12 men can complete a work in 10 days. 20 perform the work equal to the same done by 2
women can complete the same work in 12 boys, then how many boys will be require to
days. 8 men and 4 women started working and help 21 men to complete the work in Harigarh
after 9 days, 10 more women joined them. in 50 days, working 9 hours a day?
How many days will they now take to complete A. 45 boys
the remaining work? B. 48 boys
A. 2 days C. 40 boys

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B. 5 days D. 42 boys
C. 8 days
D. 10 days
27. Three pipes A, B and C are connected to a tank.
These pipes can fill the tank separately in 5
by
24. Capacity of tap Y is 60% more than that of X. If hours, 10 hours and 15 hours respectively.
both the taps are opened simultaneously, they When all the three pipes were opened
take 40 hours to fill the tank. The time taken simultaneously, it was observed that pipes A
by Y alone to fill the tank is and B were supplying water at 3/4th of their
A. 60 hours normal rates for the first hour after which they
B. 65 hours supplied water at the normal rate. Pipe C
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C. 70 hours supplied water at 2/3rd of its normal rate for

D. 75 hours first 2 hours, after which it supplied at its
normal rate. In how much time, tank would be
filled.
25. A contract is to be completed in 56 days and A. 1.05 hours
B. 2.05 hours
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104 men are set to work, each working 8 hours

a day. After 30 days, 2/5th of the work is C. 3.05 hours
finished. How many additional men may be D. 4.05 hours
employed so that work may be completed on
time, each man now working 9 hours per day?
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A. 56 men 28. To complete a project, 18 women take 4 more

B. 65 men days than the number of days taken by 12
C. 46 men men. If eight men complete the project in 9
D. None of the above days, how much work will be left when 15
women and 12 men together work for 3 days?
A. 2/3
B. 3/4
C. 3/2
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D. 1/4 30. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 24 hours
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and 177 hours respectively. Harihar opened
the pipes A and B to fill an empty tank and
29. The time taken by 24 children to complete a some times later he closed the taps A and B,
project is twice the time taken by 16 women when the tank was supposed to be full. After

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to complete the same project. If 28 women that it was found that the tank was emptied in
complete the project in 8 days, how many days 2.5 hours because an outlet pipe “C”
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connected to the tank was open from the
to complete the project ? beginning. If Harihar closed the pipe C instead
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A. 69 of closing pipes A and B the remaining tank
2 would have been filled in
B. 59
1 A. 2 hours
C. 53
B. 8 hours
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D. 4 hours

Answers Keys:-
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1 C 11 D 21 C
2 A 12 A 22 D
3 B 13 D 23 A
4 B 14 D 24 B
5 C 15 A 25 A
6 C 16 D 26 D
7 C 17 A 27 C
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8 C 18 C 28 D
9 C 19 D 29 A
10 A 20 C 30 B
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