58 + Mcqs in T n W Level 1 Page 1 McqOptions

1.	A, B and C can do a piece of work in 12, 18 and 24 days, respectively. They all begin together. A work continuously till it is finished, B leaves the work 2 days before its completion and C leaves the work 4 days before its completion. In whatapproximatetime is the work finished?
A.	4 days
B.	7 days
C.	5 days
D.	9 days
E.	None of these.
Answer» C. 5 days

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2.	A can do a piece of work in 18 days, B can do it in 24 days and C can do it in 60 days. Efficiency of D is twice the efficiency of C. If A worked for 2 days, B worked for 4 days and C worked for 6 days. How many dayswillD take to complete the remaining work alone?
A.	28 2 days 3
B.	28 3 days 4
C.	18 2 days 3
D.	18 3 days 4
E.	None of these
Answer» D. 18 3 days 4

Discussion

3.	5 Men can do a piece of work in 6 days. 6 Women can do 40% of same work in 4 days and 3 Children can do 75% of same work in 6 days. If 2 Men, 3 Women and 1 Child start work alternately, then who will be the last to complete the work?
A.	Men
B.	Women
C.	Child
D.	Can't be determined
E.	None of these
Answer» B. Women

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4.	Rohan takes twice the time taken by Sohan to complete a piece of work and half of the time taken by Mohan to complete the work. If all of them working together can complete the work in 12 days, in how many days Rohan and Sohan working together can complete that work?
A.	12 days
B.	14 days
C.	21 days
D.	25 days
E.	None of these.
Answer» C. 21 days

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5.	Two persons Aman and Bhanu can dig a pit in 20 days and 25 days respectively and a third person Cheenu can fill that pit in 50 days. All of the three persons start their work and after sometime Cheenu leaves the work. If total time taken to dig the pit from the beginning is 13 days, find after how many days Cheenu left his work?
A.	8.5 days
B.	7.5 days
C.	9.5 days
D.	8 days
E.	None of these
Answer» B. 7.5 days

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6.	20 women can complete a work in 14 days and 10 children take 14 days to complete the work. How many days will 5 women and 10 children take to complete the work?
A.	42 5
B.	56 5
C.	62 5
D.	34 5
E.	None of these
Answer» C. 62 5

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7.	If A can do 1/4 of a work in 3 days and B can do 1/6 of the same work in 4 days, how much will A get if both work together and are paid Rs.180 in all?
A.	Rs. 60
B.	Rs. 120
C.	Rs. 90
D.	Rs. 180
E.	None of these
Answer» C. Rs. 90

Discussion

8.	100 Men were employed to finish a work in 180 days. After 60 days it was found that only 1/5 of the work was done. How many more men must be employed to finish the work in the stipulated time ?
A.	100
B.	200
C.	300
D.	150
E.	None of these
Answer» B. 200

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9.	Mahesh can complete a job in 5 days. Mahesh is twice as fast as Akhilesh while Akhilesh is thrice as fast as Nimesh. If all of them work together, in how many days would the job get completed?
A.	5 days
B.	9 days
C.	12 days
D.	3 days
E.	None of these
Answer» E. None of these

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10.	12 men and 15 women can do a piece of work in 24 days. In how many days can the work be done by 10 men and 12 women working together?
A.	12
B.	16
C.	18
D.	Can't be determined
E.	None of these
Answer» E. None of these

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11.	A, B and C can do a piece of work in 4, 7 and 8 days respectively. They undertook to finish the work together for Rs. 53650. Find the difference (in Rs.) between the share of A and that of B.
A.	10100
B.	11100
C.	11650
D.	12560
E.	None of these
Answer» C. 11650

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12.	Working alone, Typewriters A, B, C can do a certain typing job, consisting of a large number of pages, in 12, 15 and 18 hours, respectively. What is the ratio of the time it takes Typewriter A to do the job, working alone at its rate, to the time it takes Type writer B and C to do the job, working together at their individual rate?
A.	4 11
B.	1 2
C.	15 22
D.	22 15
Answer» E.

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13.	4 boys and 3 women can do a piece of work in 6 days while 2 boys and 4 women can do the same piece of work in 9 days. How much time will be taken by 7 boys and 9 women to do the same piece of work?
A.	3 days
B.	7 days
C.	8 days
D.	12 days
E.	None of these
Answer» B. 7 days

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14.	A can do piece of work in 8 days which B can destroy in 3 days. A has worked for 6 days, during the last 2 days of which B has been destroying. How many days must A now work alone to complete the work?
A.	7 day
B.	7 2 days 3
C.	7 1 days 3
D.	8 days
E.	None of these
Answer» D. 8 days

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15.	A takes three times as long as B and C together to do a job. B takes four times as long as A and C together to do the same work, If all three, working together can complete the job in 24 days, then the number of days, A alone will take to finish the job is:
A.	100
B.	96
C.	95
D.	90
E.	None of these
Answer» C. 95

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16.	A person takes 8 minutes to type a page. If from 1 : 00 pm to 2 : 00 pm, 1710 pages are to be typed, how many persons should be employed for this job?
A.	207
B.	221
C.	249
D.	None of these
Answer» E.

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17.	Cost of 24 bats and 32 sticks is Rs. 5,600. What is the price of 3 bats and 4 sticks
A.	Rs. 1,400
B.	Rs. 2,800
C.	Rs. 700
D.	Data inadequate
Answer» D. Data inadequate

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18.	If 16 men or 20 women can do a piece of work in 25 days, in what time will 28 men and 15 women do it ?
A.	14 2 days 7
B.	33 1 days 3
C.	18 3 days 4
D.	10 days
Answer» E.

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19.	If 25 pumps can raise 2500 tonnes of water in 20 days, working 5 hours a day; in how many days will 20 pumps raise 1200 tonnes of water, working 8 hours a day?
A.	6 days
B.	3/2 days
C.	15/2 days
D.	7/2 days
Answer» D. 7/2 days

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20.	20 labourers, working 7 hours a day can finish a piece of work in 30 days. If the labourers work 5 hours a day, then the number of labourers to finish the same piece of work in 40 days, will be :
A.	15
B.	21
C.	22
D.	25
Answer» C. 22

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21.	If 8 boys or 12 girls can do a piece of work in 28 days, then in how many days will 4 boys and 8 girls do the same work?
A.	12
B.	24
C.	28
D.	32
Answer» C. 28

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22.	12 boys, working 3 hours a day can complete a work in 20 days. How many hours a day must 18 boys work to complete the same work in 10 days?
A.	4 hrs
B.	18 hrs
C.	10 hrs
D.	12 hrs
Answer» B. 18 hrs

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23.	30 men can complete a piece of work in 15 days. In how many days will 25 men complete the same piece of work?
A.	12 days
B.	18 days
C.	22 days
D.	24 days
Answer» C. 22 days

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24.	A computer can perform 30 identical tasks in 6 hour. At that rate, what is the minimum number of computers that should be assigned to complete 80 of the tasks within 3 hours?
A.	12
B.	7
C.	6
D.	16
Answer» D. 16

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25.	A 12 m long road can be dug by 18 men in 20 days. What is length of road can be dug by 12 men in 15 days?
A.	9 m
B.	8 m
C.	6 m
D.	7 m
Answer» D. 7 m

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26.	If 12 men or 18 women can reap a field in 14 days, then working at the same rate, 8 men and 16 women can reap the same field in:
A.	9 days
B.	5 days
C.	7 days
D.	8 days
Answer» B. 5 days

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27.	50 persons can do a work in 12 days, working 6 hours/day. 60 persons can do the same work in 8 days, working x hours per day. The value of x is
A.	15
B.	7 1 2
C.	5 2 3
D.	5
Answer» C. 5 2 3

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28.	A, B and C can do a job in 6 days, 12 days and 15 days respectively. After 1/8 of the work is completed, C leaves the job. Rest of the work is done by A and B together. Time taken to finish the rest of the work is.
A.	5 5 days 6
B.	5 1 days 4
C.	3 1 days 2
D.	3 3 days 4
Answer» D. 3 3 days 4

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29.	A completes a piece of work in 4 days and B completes it in 6 days. If they both work on it together, then the number of days required to complete the same work is
A.	3 5 days 2
B.	2 3 days 5
C.	2 2 days 5
D.	3 2 days 5
Answer» D. 3 2 days 5

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30.	Ashokan is thrice as good a workman as Nitin and is therefore able to finish a piece of work in 40 days less than Nitin. Find the time in which they can do it working together.
A.	15 days
B.	7 days
C.	16 days
D.	13 days
Answer» B. 7 days

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31.	‘A’ can do a piece of work in 20 days and ‘B’ can do the same work in 15 days. How long will they take to finish the work, if both work together?
A.	15 days
B.	10 days
C.	8 4 days 7
D.	20 days
Answer» D. 20 days

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32.	A works alone, he would take 4 days more to complete the job than if both A and B worked together. If B worked alone, he would take 16 days more to complete the job than if both A and B work together. How many days would they take to complete the work if both of them worked together?
A.	10 days
B.	12 days
C.	6 days
D.	8 days
Answer» E.

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33.	A and B together can complete a piece of work in 12 days, B and C can do it in 20 days and C and A can do it in 15 days. A, B and C together can complete it in
A.	12 days
B.	6 days
C.	8 days
D.	10 days
Answer» E.

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34.	A mason can build a tank in 12 h. After working for 6 h, he took the help of a boy and finished the work in another 5 h. The time that the boys will take alone to complete the work is
A.	30 h
B.	45 h
C.	60 h
D.	64 h
Answer» D. 64 h

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35.	A can do a piece of work in ‘x’ days and B can do the same work 3x days. To finish the work together they take 12 days. What is the value of ‘x’?
A.	8
B.	10
C.	12
D.	16
Answer» E.

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36.	A, B and C can do a piece of work individually in 8, 10 and 15 days, respectively. A and B start working but A quits after working for 2 days. After this, C joins B till the completion of work. In how many days will work be completed?
A.	53 days 9
B.	34 days 7
C.	85 days 13
D.	53 days 10
Answer» E.

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37.	A can do a piece of work in 20 days and B can do the same piece of work in 30 days. Find in how many days both can do the work?
A.	28
B.	20
C.	34
D.	12
Answer» E.

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38.	A is thrice as good a work man as B and takes 60 days less than B for doing a job. The time in which they can do it together is:
A.	15 days
B.	60 days
C.	22 1 days 2
D.	28 days
Answer» D. 28 days

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39.	‘A’ can complete a piece of work in 12 days ‘A’ and ‘B’ together can complete the same piece of work in 8 days. In how many days can ‘B’ alone complete the same piece of work?
A.	15 days
B.	18 days
C.	24 days
D.	28 days
Answer» D. 28 days

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40.	A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 12, 24 and 36 days respectively. In how many days will they together complete the same work?
A.	5 6 days 11
B.	4 days
C.	6 6 days 11
D.	6 days
Answer» D. 6 days

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41.	A girl can do a job in 10 days, Her mother takes 25 days and her sister finishes it in 20 days. How long will they take to complete the job if they all together?
A.	Less than 5 days
B.	Exactly 5 days
C.	Approximately 5.3 days
D.	More than 6 days
Answer» D. More than 6 days

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42.	A, B and C together earn Rs. 300 per day, while A and C together earn Rs. 188 and B and C together earn Rs. 152. The daily earning of C is:
A.	Rs. 40
B.	Rs. 68
C.	Rs. 112
D.	Rs. 150
Answer» B. Rs. 68

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43.	Nitin and Nirdosh together can complete a piece of work in 6 days. If Nitin alone can complete the same work in 24 days; in how many days can Nirdosh alone complete that work?
A.	8
B.	12
C.	14
D.	15
Answer» B. 12

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44.	A and B together can finish a work in 9 days. A alone can finish the work in 12 days. In how many days will B alone finish the work?
A.	24
B.	28
C.	32
D.	36
E.	None of these
Answer» E. None of these

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45.	Salim taken 8 days to finish a piece of work. Manoj takes 12 days to finish the same piece of work. Raj works twice as fast as Salim. How many days will all three of them together take to finish the same piece of work?
A.	2 3 11
B.	3 8 13
C.	3 9 13
D.	2 9 13
E.	2 2 11
Answer» F.

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46.	6 women can complete a piece of work in 10 days, whereas 10 children alone take 15 days to complete the same piece of work. How many days will 6 women and 10 children together take to complete the piece of work?
A.	7
B.	8
C.	6
D.	4
E.	None of thesse
Answer» D. 4

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47.	A and B together can complete a particular task in 4 days. If A alone can complete the same task in 12 days. How many days will B take to complete the task if he works alone?
A.	9 days
B.	7 days
C.	5 days
D.	3 days
E.	None of these
Answer» F.

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48.	P is thrice as good a workman as Q and together they finish a piece of work in 24 days. The number of days taken by P alone to finish the work is:
A.	25 days
B.	22 days
C.	32 days
D.	34 days
E.	None of these
Answer» D. 34 days

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49.	A group of men decided to do a job in 4 days, but 20 men dropped out everyday. Find the number of men who initially decided to do the job, if job was completed in 7 days?
A.	70
B.	110
C.	140
D.	120
E.	None of these
Answer» D. 120

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50.	Rashmi and Pallavi can make a carpet in 3 days and 12 days more than the time taken if both of them worked together. Find the time in which Rashmi can make the carpet alone.
A.	9 days
B.	6 days
C.	12 days
D.	8 days
E.	None of these
Answer» B. 6 days

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Explore topic-wise MCQs in Arithmetic.

A, B and C can do a piece of work in 12, 18 and 24 days, respectively. They all begin together. A work continuously till it is finished, B leaves the work 2 days before its completion and C leaves the work 4 days before its completion. In whatapproximatetime is the work finished?

A can do a piece of work in 18 days, B can do it in 24 days and C can do it in 60 days. Efficiency of D is twice the efficiency of C. If A worked for 2 days, B worked for 4 days and C worked for 6 days. How many dayswillD take to complete the remaining work alone?

5 Men can do a piece of work in 6 days. 6 Women can do 40% of same work in 4 days and 3 Children can do 75% of same work in 6 days. If 2 Men, 3 Women and 1 Child start work alternately, then who will be the last to complete the work?

Rohan takes twice the time taken by Sohan to complete a piece of work and half of the time taken by Mohan to complete the work. If all of them working together can complete the work in 12 days, in how many days Rohan and Sohan working together can complete that work?

20 women can complete a work in 14 days and 10 children take 14 days to complete the work. How many days will 5 women and 10 children take to complete the work?

If A can do 1/4 of a work in 3 days and B can do 1/6 of the same work in 4 days, how much will A get if both work together and are paid Rs.180 in all?

100 Men were employed to finish a work in 180 days. After 60 days it was found that only 1/5 of the work was done. How many more men must be employed to finish the work in the stipulated time ?

Mahesh can complete a job in 5 days. Mahesh is twice as fast as Akhilesh while Akhilesh is thrice as fast as Nimesh. If all of them work together, in how many days would the job get completed?

12 men and 15 women can do a piece of work in 24 days. In how many days can the work be done by 10 men and 12 women working together?

A, B and C can do a piece of work in 4, 7 and 8 days respectively. They undertook to finish the work together for Rs. 53650. Find the difference (in Rs.) between the share of A and that of B.

4 boys and 3 women can do a piece of work in 6 days while 2 boys and 4 women can do the same piece of work in 9 days. How much time will be taken by 7 boys and 9 women to do the same piece of work?

A can do piece of work in 8 days which B can destroy in 3 days. A has worked for 6 days, during the last 2 days of which B has been destroying. How many days must A now work alone to complete the work?

A takes three times as long as B and C together to do a job. B takes four times as long as A and C together to do the same work, If all three, working together can complete the job in 24 days, then the number of days, A alone will take to finish the job is:

A person takes 8 minutes to type a page. If from 1 : 00 pm to 2 : 00 pm, 1710 pages are to be typed, how many persons should be employed for this job?

Cost of 24 bats and 32 sticks is Rs. 5,600. What is the price of 3 bats and 4 sticks

If 16 men or 20 women can do a piece of work in 25 days, in what time will 28 men and 15 women do it ?

If 25 pumps can raise 2500 tonnes of water in 20 days, working 5 hours a day; in how many days will 20 pumps raise 1200 tonnes of water, working 8 hours a day?

20 labourers, working 7 hours a day can finish a piece of work in 30 days. If the labourers work 5 hours a day, then the number of labourers to finish the same piece of work in 40 days, will be :

If 8 boys or 12 girls can do a piece of work in 28 days, then in how many days will 4 boys and 8 girls do the same work?

12 boys, working 3 hours a day can complete a work in 20 days. How many hours a day must 18 boys work to complete the same work in 10 days?

30 men can complete a piece of work in 15 days. In how many days will 25 men complete the same piece of work?

A computer can perform 30 identical tasks in 6 hour. At that rate, what is the minimum number of computers that should be assigned to complete 80 of the tasks within 3 hours?

A 12 m long road can be dug by 18 men in 20 days. What is length of road can be dug by 12 men in 15 days?

If 12 men or 18 women can reap a field in 14 days, then working at the same rate, 8 men and 16 women can reap the same field in:

50 persons can do a work in 12 days, working 6 hours/day. 60 persons can do the same work in 8 days, working x hours per day. The value of x is

A, B and C can do a job in 6 days, 12 days and 15 days respectively. After 1/8 of the work is completed, C leaves the job. Rest of the work is done by A and B together. Time taken to finish the rest of the work is.

A completes a piece of work in 4 days and B completes it in 6 days. If they both work on it together, then the number of days required to complete the same work is

Ashokan is thrice as good a workman as Nitin and is therefore able to finish a piece of work in 40 days less than Nitin. Find the time in which they can do it working together.

‘A’ can do a piece of work in 20 days and ‘B’ can do the same work in 15 days. How long will they take to finish the work, if both work together?

A works alone, he would take 4 days more to complete the job than if both A and B worked together. If B worked alone, he would take 16 days more to complete the job than if both A and B work together. How many days would they take to complete the work if both of them worked together?

A and B together can complete a piece of work in 12 days, B and C can do it in 20 days and C and A can do it in 15 days. A, B and C together can complete it in

A mason can build a tank in 12 h. After working for 6 h, he took the help of a boy and finished the work in another 5 h. The time that the boys will take alone to complete the work is

A can do a piece of work in ‘x’ days and B can do the same work 3x days. To finish the work together they take 12 days. What is the value of ‘x’?

A, B and C can do a piece of work individually in 8, 10 and 15 days, respectively. A and B start working but A quits after working for 2 days. After this, C joins B till the completion of work. In how many days will work be completed?

A can do a piece of work in 20 days and B can do the same piece of work in 30 days. Find in how many days both can do the work?

A is thrice as good a work man as B and takes 60 days less than B for doing a job. The time in which they can do it together is:

‘A’ can complete a piece of work in 12 days ‘A’ and ‘B’ together can complete the same piece of work in 8 days. In how many days can ‘B’ alone complete the same piece of work?

A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 12, 24 and 36 days respectively. In how many days will they together complete the same work?

A girl can do a job in 10 days, Her mother takes 25 days and her sister finishes it in 20 days. How long will they take to complete the job if they all together?

A, B and C together earn Rs. 300 per day, while A and C together earn Rs. 188 and B and C together earn Rs. 152. The daily earning of C is:

Nitin and Nirdosh together can complete a piece of work in 6 days. If Nitin alone can complete the same work in 24 days; in how many days can Nirdosh alone complete that work?

A and B together can finish a work in 9 days. A alone can finish the work in 12 days. In how many days will B alone finish the work?

Salim taken 8 days to finish a piece of work. Manoj takes 12 days to finish the same piece of work. Raj works twice as fast as Salim. How many days will all three of them together take to finish the same piece of work?

6 women can complete a piece of work in 10 days, whereas 10 children alone take 15 days to complete the same piece of work. How many days will 6 women and 10 children together take to complete the piece of work?

A and B together can complete a particular task in 4 days. If A alone can complete the same task in 12 days. How many days will B take to complete the task if he works alone?

P is thrice as good a workman as Q and together they finish a piece of work in 24 days. The number of days taken by P alone to finish the work is:

A group of men decided to do a job in 4 days, but 20 men dropped out everyday. Find the number of men who initially decided to do the job, if job was completed in 7 days?

Rashmi and Pallavi can make a carpet in 3 days and 12 days more than the time taken if both of them worked together. Find the time in which Rashmi can make the carpet alone.