TIME & WORK

1. Anjali, Kartika and Prabha can do a piece of in how many days R alone can complete the
work in 12 days, 15 days and 20 days, work?
respectively and the efficiency of Sapna is a. 10 b. 12.5 c. 16.66 d. 13.33
equal to the average of efficiencies of Anjali,
Kartika and Prabha. If Anjali and Kartika work 7. Deepak and Shivam together can complete a
together on it for initial 4 days, then find the work in ‘T’ days while the efficiency of
time taken by Prabha and Sapna together to Deepak and Shivam are in the ratio of 5:6
complete the remaining work. respectively. If Deepak alone started the
a. 60/11 b. 50/9 c. 21/8 d. 24/7 same work and after 11 days Shivam joins
Deepak and both together completed the
2. A and B alone can complete a work in 12 and remaining work in 31 days, then find ‘T’?
24 days, respectively. 50% of the work is a. 28 b. 32 c. 36 d. 38 e. 24
completed by C in 3x days and remaining
work is completed by A and B working 8. X, Y and Z individually can do a certain piece
together in ‘x’ days, find the time taken by B of work in 15, 35 and 21 days respectively.
and C to complete the work while working They started working together but after ‘D’
together. days Y and Z left the job and the remaining
a. 48 b. 12 c. 24 d. 36 work is completed by X with 14.28% more
efficiency. If the whole work is completed in
3. A can do a piece of work in (x-2) days. B can 35/4 days then find the value of ‘D’.
do the same work in (x+14) days. A, B a. 7 b. 5 c. 4 d. 3
together can do the same work in 6 days. Find
the time taken by C to complete the work if 9. P can complete 1/6th of a work in 5 days. Q
all the three working together to complete takes 6 days less than P and is 25% less
half work in 1 day. efficient than R. Each of them worked alone
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5 for 5 days each after that the remaining work
is completed by all of them together in 2.5
4. A alone can complete the work in x days and days. For last 2.5 days if Q and R worked with
B alone can complete the work in (x-2) days their original efficiencies, then find the
and the efficiency of B is 25% less than C. If C percentage increase / decrease in efficiency
alone completes the work in 12 days, in how of P.
many days A, B and C together can complete a. 25% b. 20% c. 15% d. 10%
87% of the work?
a. 4.84 b. 4.32 c. 5.42 d. 5.96 10. Aditi and Anita can do a piece of work in 27
days and 40.5 days. Both are started the work
5. Monika, Kajol and Sheetal take 15 days, (x-10) and after ‘m’ days Aditi left the work and
days and (x+10) days respectively to Adya joined who can complete the whole
complete a job, when they worked together work alone in 2/3rd of time taken by Aditi. If
they complete the whole work in 5 days. The Anita and Adya worked for ‘m’ days and Adya
three work in a rotation to complete the job left 6 days before completion of the work,
with only 1 person working on a day. Who then find the value of 4m?
should start the job so that the job is a. 12 b. 16 c. 24 d. 36
completed in the least possible time?
a. Kajol b. Monika c. Sheetal d. Anyone 11. A is twice efficient as B and together they can
do a work in as much time as C and D takes to
6. P takes 15 days more than Q to complete a do that work. If C and D alone can complete
piece of work, while the efficiency of Q is 60% the work in 20 days and 30 days respectively,
more than P. If P, Q and R together can then in how many days A can complete the
complete the same work in 8 days, then find same work alone.
a. 12 b. 18 c. 24 d. 30 e. 32
12. If efficiency of ‘A’ is reduced by 37.5% and 17. Three men A, B and C undertook a job for
that of B is reduced by 25%, then total Rs.1080. A working alone and B working
amount of work done by A and B individually alone can complete it in 21 days and 28 days
in a day is same. If A can complete a job alone respectively. They all together take 7 days to
in 30 days, then find the time taken by A and complete the same work. What is the share
B together to complete the same job when A of C?
worked with half efficiency and B worked a. 360 b. 840 c. 270 d. 540 e. 450
with 40% efficiency.
a. 30 b. 24 c. 36 d. 48 18. Manish and Rajan decided to do a task. They
can do the task in x and (x-5) days
13. A is thrice efficient as B. A started a work respectively. They were paid Rs.3000 for
alone and left after four days then B joined completing the task in 8(1/3) days. They took
and worked for 15 days. If both completed the help of Harsh and completed the work in
60% of the total work, then find the time time. If Harsh’s share is Rs.750, find the time
taken by B alone to complete the total work. taken by Rajan and Manish to complete the
a. 40 b. 35 c. 25 d. 15 e. 45 task individually.
A. 10, 15
14. Puja while working 40% more efficiently can B. 15, 10
complete a piece of work in 25 days and C. 20, 25
Sonali while working 25% more efficiently D. 25, 30
can complete the same work in 21 days.
While working with their original efficiencies 19. A alone completes the work in 15 days.
Puja and Sonali together worked for 9 days, Efficiency of B is 50% more than the efficiency
then find the time taken by Puja alone to of A. If A and B together can starts the work,
complete the remaining work with her after 4 days A and B left the work, then C
original efficiency. alone complete the remaining work in 2 days.
a. 18 b. 14 c. 12 d. 10 If they gets the wages for the whole work is
Rs.(4x+1000), then find the value of x if the
15. The ratio of the no. of days taken by A, B & C C’s wages share is Rs.1.5x.
to complete a work is 5:3:8 respectively. If the a. 4000 b. 3000 c. 5000 d. 2000
no. of days taken by A alone to complete the
work in 6 days more than the no. of days 20. Hemant can do a work in (x + 28) days while
taken by B alone, then in how many days all Manoj can do the same work in (x + 7) days.
together will take to complete the whole If they worked together they can complete
work with their 50% efficiency (in days). 60% of work in 3x/5. Find the value of x.
a. 250/39 a. 12 b. 10 c. 14 d. 17 e. 15
b. 324/37
c. 288/53
d. 720/79

16. A, B and C can complete a work in 24 days, 36