Unitary method

Rishi Bhargava
• If 100 men could finish the job in 20 days, find
number of days taken by 80 men do finish the
same job?
• 20 men working 9 hours a day can complete the work
in 12 days. In how many days would 15 men complete
the same work in working 6 hours a day ?
• 32 carpenters make 400 tables in 25 days. How many
number of tables can me made by 30 carpenters in 24
days ?
• 19 men could build a wall 36 meters long in 25 days
working 4 hours a day. What is the length of the similar
wall that can be build by 20 men in 38 days working 5
hours a day?
• In a hostel 200 students have food available for 50 days.
After 10 days 50 more students join the hostel.
Remaining food would last for remaining men for how
many days ?
• 10 men can finish a work in 10 days. They started
working together but after 4 days , 4 men left the work.
The remaining work was finished by remaining men. Find
total number of days required to finish the job?
• 2 men can finish a job in 10 days. 5 women can finish he
same job in 8 days. Number of days required by 1 man
and 2 women ?
• 10 men can finish a job in 5 days. 15 women can finish
the same job in 4 days. 25 boys can finish the same job
in 12 days. In how many days would 4 men, 4 women
and 6 boys would finish the same job ?
• 3 men or 6 women can complete a work in 16 days. 12
men and 8 women will take how many days to complete
the same work?
A contractor undertakes to do a piece of work in 40 days. He
engages 100 men at the beginning and 100 more after 35 days and
completes the work in stipulated time. If he had not engaged the
additional men, how many days behind schedule would it be
finished?
(a) 5 (b) 6
(c) 3 (d) 9
2 men and 7 boys can do a piece of work in 14 days; 3 men and 8 boys can
do a same in 11 days, 8 men and 6 boys can do 3 times the amount of this
work in:
• (a) 21 days (b) 18 days
• (c) 24 days (d) 36 days
A garrison had provisions for a certain number of days. After 10
days (1/5)th of the men desert and it is found that the provision
will now last just as long as before. How long was that:
• (a) 35 days (b) 15 days
• (c) 25 days (d) 50 days
120 men had provisions for 200 days. After 5 days 30 men died
due to an epidemic. The remaining food will last for:
(a) 150 days (b) 146 ¼ days
(c) 245 days (d) 260 days
Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a
total of 270 bottles per minute. At this rate, how bottles could 10 such
machines produce in 4 minutes?
a) 648 b) 1800 c) 2700 d) 10800
In a hostel, food was available for 2000 students for 54 days, but after 15
days more students joined hostel and food lasts only for 20 more days.
Determine how many students came in hostel?
a) 1650 b) 1700 c) 1900 d) 2100
A certain number of men can finish a piece of work in 100 days. If there
were 10 men less, it would take 10 days more for the work to be finished.
How many men were there originally?
a) 75 b) 82 c) 100 d) 110
Some persons can do a piece of work in 12 days. Two times the
number of such persons will do half of that work in?
a)6 days b) 12 days c) 4 days d) 3 days
12 men working 9 hours a day can complete 40% of work
in 80 days. In how many days would 15 men working 6
hours a day would complete the remaining work?
In a camp for 200 soldiers food stock was available for 54 days.
After 15 days some more soldiers arrive in the camp. The remaining
food stock lasts for only 20 days. How many soldiers came to the
camp?
900 1100 1900 NONE OF THESE
In a camp there is a meal for 150 men or 180 children. If 150 children
have taken the meal, how many men will be catered to with the
remaining meal?
a) 40 b) 25 c) 20 d) 30
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400 persons, working 9 hours per day complete 𝒕𝒉 of the work in 10
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days. The number of additional persons, working 8 hours per days,
required to complete the remaining work in 20 days, is:
• a) 575 b)275 c) 300 d) 325
in a dairy farm, 40 cows eat 40 bags of husk in 40 days. in how
many days one cow will eat one bag of husk?
a) 1 b) 20 c) 40 d) 80
If 1 man or 2 women or 3 boys can do a piece of work in 44
days, then the same work will be done by 1 man, 1 woman and
1 boy in
• (a) 21 days ( b) 24 days
• (c) 26 days (d) 33 days.
12 men or 18 women can reap a fielding 14 days. The
number of days that 8 men and 16 women will take to
reap it, is
• (a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 9.
Twelve men can complete a work in 8 days. Three days
after they started the work, 3 more men joined them. In
how many days will all of them together complete the
remaining work:
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6.
A contractor undertook to finish a work in 120 days. He
employed 100 men for it. They could only finish half the
work in 80 days. How many more men would be needed
to complete the remaining work in remaining days?
A contractor undertook to do a work in 85 days and he engages
120 men working 10 hours per day. After 10 days all the workers
went on leave. After 25 days they came back and completed the
remaining work on time. How many more men would be
required if its know that they work 8 hours a day?
10 men can complete a job in 5 days, 15 woman can complete the same
job in 4 days and 25 boys can complete the same work in 12 days. In how
many days 4 men , 4 women and 6 boys finish the same job ?