UNIT TEST-7 [ARITHMETIC]
1. A pipe can fill a tank in 15 hours. Due to a leak in the bottom. It is filled in 20 hours. If the tank if full,
how much time the leak to empty?
a. 48 hours
b. 45 hours
c. 60 hours
d. 72 hours
2. Two tapes A and B can fill a tank in 10 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. While C can empty it in
20 minutes. If all three pipes opened for 1 minute, then tap C is closed, the extra time required to fill
up the tank is?
83
a.
10
63
b.
10
53
c.
10
d. 5
3. A tap can fill a tank in 6 hours after the half tank is filled, three more similar taps are opened. What is
the total time taken to fill the tank completely?
a. 4 hours
b. 4 hours 15 minutes
c. 3 hours 15 minutes
d. 3 hours 45 minutes
4. There are 3 filling pipes each capable filling a cistern alone in 8 minutes and 2 emptying pipes each
capable of emptying a cistern alone in 10 minutes. All pipes are opened together and as a result tank
fills 7 litres of water per minute. Find the capacity of the tank?
a. 20 litres
b. 25 litres
c. 40 litres
d. 30 litres
5. Three pipes A, B and C can fill a cistern in 6 hours, after working at it together for 2 hours. C is closed
and A & B fill it in 7 hours more. The time taken by C alone to fill the cistern is?
a. 14 hours
b. 15 hours
c. 16 hours
d. 17 hours
6. A cistern is provided with two pipes A and B, A can fill it in 20 minutes and B can empty it in 30
minutes. If A and B be kept open alternatively for one minute each. How soon will the cistern be
filled?
a. 121 min
b. 110 min
c. 115 min
d. 120 min
7. In what time would a cistern be filled by three pipes whose diameters are 1cm, 2cm and 4cm running
together. When the largest alone fills it in 21/20 hours. The amount of water flowing the each pipe
being proportional to the square of its diameter?
3
a. hours
5
4
b. hours
5
7
c. hours
8
10
d. hours
11
8. A boy and girl together fill a cistern with water. The boy pours 4 litres of water every 3 minutes and
the tirl pours 3 litres of water every 4 minutes. How much time will take to fill 100 litres of water in
the cistern?
a. 36 minutes
b. 42 minutes
c. 44 minutes
d. 48 minutes
9. Two pipes can separately fill a tank in 20 hours and 30 hours respectively. Both the pipes are opened
rd rd
to fill the tank but when the tank is
1 full a leak develops in the tank through which 1 of the
3 3
water supply by both the pipes leak out. What is the total time to fill the tank?
a. 12 hours
b. 16 hours
c. 18 hours
d. 20 hours
10. 9 taps are filled to a water tank some of them are water taps to fill the tank and the remaining are
outlet taps used to empty the tank. Each water tap can fill the tank in 9 hours and each outlet tap can
empty it in 9 hours. On opening all the taps, the tank is filled in 9 hours. Find the number of empty
taps?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
d. Can’t determine
11. A, B and C can do a work in 4, 6 and 10 days respectively. They finish the work tougher and earn 310.
What is the share of each?
a. 310, 100, 60
b. 610, 90, 60
c. 410, 110, 60
d. 150, 100, 60
12. Three persons A, B and C complete a piece of work in 5 days for which they are paid a sum of Rs-350.
If the efficiency of A, B and C are in the ratio 2:3:2, then find the daily income of B?
a. Rs-25
b. Rs-21
c. Rs-30
d. Rs-22
13. A would have taken 12 hours less than what B would have taken to complete a task if each of them
worked alone. Working together they can complete the task in 17.5 hours. How many hours would B
take to do 50% of the task?
a. 18
b. 21
c. 22
d. 16
14. A and B, working together can complete a work in d days, working alone A takes (8+d) days and B
takes (18+d) days to complete the same work. A works for 4 days. The remaining work will be
completed by B alone in?
a. 24 days
b. 16 days
c. 18 days
d. 20 days
15. 40 men can finish a piece of work in 40 days. They started the work together but after every 10 days,
5 men leave the work, the whole work will finish in?
a. 56 days
b. 42 days
2
c. 42days
3
2
d. 56 days
3
16. A and B can do a work in 15 days. If A alone works on it for 3.5 days and B completes remaining work
in 26.5 days. Then A can alone complete the whole work in how many days?
a. 20 days
b. 25 days
c. 30 days
d. 40 days
17. 1 man, 3 woman and 4 boys can do a piece of work in 96 hours. 2 men and 8 boys can do it in 80
hours, 2 men and 3 women can do it in 120 hours. 5 men and 12 boys can do it in?
1
a. 39 hours
11
7
b. 43 hours
11
7
c. 7 3 hours
11
d. 44 hours