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This section includes 13 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Maths knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
A pump can fill a cistern in 40 minutes and another pump can empty the filled up cistern in 1 hour. By mistake, without closing the second pump, the first pump is opened. The time in which the empty cistern will be filled up is |
A. | 3 hours |
B. | 4 hours |
C. | 1 hours |
D. | 2 hours |
Answer» E. | |
2. |
Pipes A and B are emptying pipes and can empty a tank in 6 hours and 16 hours, respectively. C is a filling a pipe. All the three pipes were opened together. They took 80 minutes to empty $$ {5 over 8}th$$ of the tank. Pipe C alone can fill the tank in: |
A. | 36 hours |
B. | 42 hours |
C. | 48 hours |
D. | 40 hours |
Answer» D. 40 hours | |
3. |
Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 24 minutes and 30 minutes respectively. Both are opened together, but at the end of 6 minutes the first is turned off. How much longer pipe B will take to fill the cistern? |
A. | $$ {22{1 over 2}}{minute}$$ |
B. | 21 minute |
C. | 24 minute |
D. | 25 minute |
E. | $$ {23{1 over 2}}{minute}$$ |
Answer» B. 21 minute | |
4. |
In a stream running at 2 km/hr, a motor boat goes 10 km upstream and back again to the starting point in 55 minutes. Find the speed of the motorboat in still water ? |
A. | 22 km/hr |
B. | 24 km/hr |
C. | 26 km/hr |
D. | 20 km/hr |
E. | 28 km/hr |
Answer» B. 24 km/hr | |
5. |
A cistern can be filled by two pipes filling separately in 12 and 16 min respectively. Both pipes are opened together for a certain time but being obstructions, only 7/8 of full quantity water flows through the former and only 5/6 through the latter pipe. The obstructions, however, being suddenly removed, the cistern is filled in 3 minutes from that moment. How long was it obstructions before the full flow began? |
A. | 4.5 min |
B. | 2.5 min |
C. | 3.5 min |
D. | 5.5 min |
Answer» B. 2.5 min | |
6. |
A tap can fill a tank in 6 hours. After half the tank is filled, three more similar taps are opened. What is the total time taken to fill the tank completely? |
A. | 4 hrs |
B. | 4 hrs15 min |
C. | 3 hrs 15 min |
D. | 3 hrs 45 min |
Answer» E. | |
7. |
Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 hrs and 24 hrs respectively. A third pipe can empty the tank in 40 hours. If all the three pipes are opened and function simultaneously. Then, in how much time the tank will be full? |
A. | 10 hrs |
B. | 15 hrs |
C. | 16 hrs |
D. | 12 hrs |
E. | 18hrs |
Answer» C. 16 hrs | |
8. |
Four pipes P, Q, R and S can fill a cistern in 25, 20, 50 and 40 hours respectively. The pipe Q was opened at 7 pm, P at 9 pm, S at 10 pm and R at 11 pm. When will the cistern be full? |
A. | 3 : 29 AM |
B. | 2 : 47 AM |
C. | 4 : 09 AM |
D. | 5 : 02 AM |
Answer» D. 5 : 02 AM | |
9. |
A tap can fill the tank in 8 hours and another can empty it in 16 hours. If both the taps are opened simultaneously, the time (in hours) to fill the tank is__. |
A. | 18 hours |
B. | 16 hours |
C. | 8 hours |
D. | 10 hours |
Answer» C. 8 hours | |
10. |
Three pipes, A B and C, can fill a cistern in 12, 18 and 24 minutes, respectively. If all the pipes are opened together for 7 minutes, what will be the volume of the water that overflows as the percentage of the total volume of the cistern? |
A. | $$ {23{2 over 3}}$$ |
B. | $$ {26{5 over 18}}$$ |
C. | $$ {23{1 over 3}}$$ |
D. | $$ {26{7 over 18}}$$ |
Answer» E. | |
11. |
Pipes P and Q can fill a tank in 18 and 27 minutes, respectively, whereas Pipe R can empty the full tank in 54 minutes. P and Q were opened together for 6 minutes and then closed and R was opened. The tank was emptied by R alone in : |
A. | 35 minutes |
B. | 45 minutes |
C. | 30 minutes |
D. | 40 minutes |
Answer» D. 40 minutes | |
12. |
One fill pipe A takes 3 minutes more to fill the cistern than two fill pipes A and B opened together to fill it. Second fill pipe B takes $$ {21{1 over 3}}$$ minutes more to fill cistern than two fill pipes A and B opened together to fill it. When will the cistern be full if both pipes are opened simultaneously? |
A. | 7 minutes |
B. | 16 minutes |
C. | 8 minutes |
D. | 10 minutes |
E. | 12 minutes |
Answer» D. 10 minutes | |
13. |
20 buckets of water fill a tank when the capacity of each bucket is 14.5 litres. How many buckets will be required to fill the same tank if the capacity of each bucket is 10 litres? |
A. | 31 |
B. | 29 |
C. | 32 |
D. | 30 |
Answer» C. 32 | |