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This section includes 653 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Arithmetic Ability knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 501. |
Some carpenters promised to do a job in 15 days but 3 of them were absent and remaining did the job in 20 days. What was the original number of carpenters? |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 12 |
| D. | 14 |
| Answer» D. 14 | |
| 502. |
Some girls can do a piece of work in 18 days. In how much time (in days) two times the number of such girls will complete thrice of the work?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 12 |
| B. | 27 |
| C. | 21 |
| D. | 24 |
| Answer» C. 21 | |
| 503. |
Some masons promised to do a work in 10 days but 8 of them were absent and remaining did the work in 18 days. What was the original number of masons?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 21 |
| C. | 15 |
| D. | 18 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 504. |
Sunny and Paula can complete a piece of work together in 12 hours. While Paula takes 18 hours to complete the work alone, another individual, Jane, takes 45 hours to complete the same piece of work alone. How many hours would it take Sunny and Jane to complete the same work together?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 18 |
| B. | 16 |
| C. | 15 |
| D. | 20 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 505. |
Sumit is 28% less efficient than Amit. If Amit can make a wall in 54 days, then Sumit can complete the same work in how many days?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 75 |
| B. | 70 |
| C. | 72 |
| D. | 76 |
| Answer» B. 70 | |
| 506. |
Ten women can do a work in six days. Six men can complete the same work in five days. What is the ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman? |
| A. | 0.043055555555556 |
| B. | 0.084027777777778 |
| C. | 0.085416666666667 |
| D. | 0.12638888888889 |
| Answer» C. 0.085416666666667 | |
| 507. |
Surya works 3 times as fast as Ramya and is able to complete a work in 40 days less than the number of days taken by Ramya. Find the time in which they can complete the work together. |
| A. | 20 days |
| B. | 15 days |
| C. | 25 days |
| D. | 30 days |
| Answer» C. 25 days | |
| 508. |
The efficiency of work of P and Q are in the ratio 5:7. What will be the ratio of number of days taken by them to finish the work? |
| A. | 0.29513888888889 |
| B. | 0.12777777777778 |
| C. | 0.16875 |
| D. | 0.21319444444444 |
| Answer» B. 0.12777777777778 | |
| 509. |
The labourers A, B, C were given a contract of Rs. 750 for doing a certain piece of work. All the three together can finish the work in 8 days. A and C together can do it in 12 day, while A and B together can do it in 13 1/3 days. The money will be divided in the ratio |
| A. | 0.17020833333333 |
| B. | 0.17158564814815 |
| C. | 0.21324074074074 |
| D. | 0.21259259259259 |
| Answer» B. 0.17158564814815 | |
| 510. |
The rate of working of A and B are in the ratio of 2:3. The number of days taken by them to finish the work is in the ratio: |
| A. | 0.085416666666667 |
| B. | 0.17291666666667 |
| C. | 0.12638888888889 |
| D. | 0.37777777777778 |
| Answer» D. 0.37777777777778 | |
| 511. |
The ratio of efficiencies of P, Q and R is 2 : 3 : 4. While P and R work on alternate days and Q work for all days. Now the work completed in total 10 days and the total amount they get is Rs. 1200. Find the amount of each person(respectively). |
| A. | 200, 600, 400 |
| B. | 400, 600, 200 |
| C. | 600, 200, 400 |
| D. | 400, 200, 600 |
| Answer» B. 400, 600, 200 | |
| 512. |
The ratio of efficiency of A is to C is 5:3. The ratio of number of days taken by B is to C is 2:3. A takes 6 days less than C, when A and C completes the work individually. B and C started the work and left after 2 days. The number of days taken by A to finish the remaining work is: |
| A. | 4.5 |
| B. | 5 |
| C. | 6 |
| D. | 9.3333333333333 |
| Answer» D. 9.3333333333333 | |
| 513. |
There is sufficient salary to give K for 10 days and L for 15 days. Then how many days will the money last if both has to be given the salary ? |
| A. | 6 days |
| B. | 12 days |
| C. | 4 days |
| D. | 9 days |
| Answer» B. 12 days | |
| 514. |
There are three boats B1, B2 and B3 working together they carry 60 people in each trip. One day an early morning B1 carried 50 people in few trips alone. When it stopped carrying the passengers B2 and B3 started carrying the people together. It took a total of 10 trips to carry 300 people by B1, B2 and B3. It is known that each day on an average 300 people cross the river using only one of the 3 boats B1, B2 and B3. How many trips it would take to B1, to carry 150 passengers alone? |
| A. | 15 |
| B. | 30 |
| C. | 25 |
| D. | 10 |
| Answer» B. 30 | |
| 515. |
The time taken by 4 men to complete a job is double the time taken by 5 children to complete the same job. Each man is twice as fast as a woman. How long will 12 men, 10 children and 8 women take to complete a job, given that a child would finish the job in 20 days. |
| A. | 4 Days |
| B. | 3 Days |
| C. | 2 Days |
| D. | 1 Day |
| Answer» E. | |
| 516. |
Three electronic devices make a beep after every 48 sec, 72 sec and 108 sec respectively. They beeped together at 10 a.m. The time when they will next make a beep together at the earliest is |
| A. | 10:07:12 hrs |
| B. | 10:07:24 hrs |
| C. | 10:07:36 hrs |
| D. | 10:07:48 hrs |
| Answer» B. 10:07:24 hrs | |
| 517. |
Three athletes can complete one round around a circular field in 16, 24 and 36 min respectively. They start running together at same instant then after how much time they will meet to each other for first time ? |
| A. | 2 hrs 24 min |
| B. | 2 hrs 44 min |
| C. | 1 hrs 24 min |
| D. | 1 hrs 24 min |
| Answer» B. 2 hrs 44 min | |
| 518. |
Three men, four women and six children can complete a work in 9 days. A women does double the work a man does and a child does half the work a man does. How many women alone can complete this work in 9 days? |
| A. | 7 |
| B. | 8 |
| C. | 9 |
| D. | 6 |
| Answer» B. 8 | |
| 519. |
Time taken by P alone to finish a work is 50% more than the time taken by P and Q together. Q is thrice as efficient as R. If Q and R together can complete the work in 22.5 days, then how many days will P alone take to complete the work ? |
| A. | 17 days |
| B. | 11 days |
| C. | 15 days |
| D. | 16 days |
| Answer» D. 16 days | |
| 520. |
Three taps P, Q and R can fill a tank in 12 hrs, 15 hrs and 20 hrs respectively. If P is open all the time and Q and R are open for one hour each alternately, starting with Q, then the tank will be full in how many hours ? |
| A. | 9 hrs |
| B. | 7 hrs |
| C. | 13 hrs |
| D. | 11 hrs |
| Answer» C. 13 hrs | |
| 521. |
Tushar takes 6 hours to complete a piece of work, while Amar completes the same work in 10 hours. If both of them work together, then what is the time required to complete the work?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 3 hours |
| B. | 3 hours 15 minutes |
| C. | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| D. | 3 hours 45 minutes |
| Answer» E. | |
| 522. |
To complete a wall, X takes 20% more time than Y. If together they complete the wall in 30 days, then how much time (in days) will Y alone take to complete it?_x005F_x000D_  _x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 55 |
| B. | 52 |
| C. | 44 |
| D. | 58 |
| Answer» B. 52 | |
| 523. |
Twelve children take sixteen days to complete a work which can be completed by 8 adults in 12 days. After working for 3 days, sixteen adults left and six adults and four children joined them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work ? |
| A. | 3 days |
| B. | 2 days |
| C. | 6 days |
| D. | 12 days |
| Answer» D. 12 days | |
| 524. |
Twenty men can do a work in eighteen days. Eighteen women can complete the same work in fifteen days. What is the ratio between the capacity of a woman and a man ? |
| A. | 0.17013888888889 |
| B. | 0.12777777777778 |
| C. | 0.16875 |
| D. | 0.085416666666667 |
| Answer» D. 0.085416666666667 | |
| 525. |
Twenty women can do a work in sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete the same work in fifteen days. The ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman is |
| A. | 0.12777777777778 |
| B. | 0.16875 |
| C. | 0.21041666666667 |
| D. | 0.21319444444444 |
| Answer» C. 0.21041666666667 | |
| 526. |
Two boys and a girl can do a work in 5 days, while a boy and 2 girls can do it in 6 days. If the boy is paid at the rate of 28$ a week, what should be the wages of the girl a week ? |
| A. | 24 $ |
| B. | 22 $ |
| C. | 16 $ |
| D. | 14 $ |
| Answer» D. 14 $ | |
| 527. |
Two labourers A and B are paid a total of Rs. 750 per day. If A is paid 150 percent of what is paid to B, how much (in Rs) is B paid? |
| A. | 450 |
| B. | 250 |
| C. | 300 |
| D. | 500 |
| Answer» D. 500 | |
| 528. |
Two persons K and L can complete a piece of work in 30 days and 45 days respectively. If they work together, what part of the work will be completed in 3 days ? |
| A. | 44348 |
| B. | 44256 |
| C. | 44257 |
| D. | 43101 |
| Answer» B. 44256 | |
| 529. |
Two persons Shyam and Rahim can do a job in 32 days together. Rahim can do the same job in 48 days alone. They started working together and after working 8 days Rahim is replaced by a third person Ram whose efficiency is half that of Rahim. Find in how many days the remaining work will be completed by both Shyam and Ram together? |
| A. | 16 days |
| B. | 72/5 days |
| C. | 15 days |
| D. | 96/5 days |
| Answer» C. 15 days | |
| 530. |
Two typists of varying skills can do a typing jobin6 minutesifthey work together.Ifthe first typist typed alone for 4 minutes and then the second typist typed alone for 6 minutes, they would be left with 1/5 of the whole work.Howmany minutes would it take the slower typist to complete the typing job working alone? |
| A. | 10 minutes |
| B. | 15 minutes |
| C. | 12 minutes |
| D. | 20 minutes |
| Answer» C. 12 minutes | |
| 531. |
Type-1 workers are 2.25 times as efficient as Type-2 workers. 30 Type-1 workers can do a piece of work in 6.4 days. How many days would it have taken 4 Type-1 and 15 Type-2 workers to do the same work?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 18 |
| B. | 19 |
| C. | 17 |
| D. | 20 |
| Answer» B. 19 | |
| 532. |
Type 1 workers can do three times the work of Type 2 workers. Twelve Type 1 workers can complete a task in 10 days. How many days would it have taken 4 Type 1 and 8 Type 2 workers to complete the same task? |
| A. | 16 |
| B. | 17 |
| C. | 20 |
| D. | 18 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 533. |
Type 1 workers are 2.5 times as efficient as type 2 workers. Twelve Type 1 workers can complete a task in 10 days. How many days would it have taken 4 Type 1 and 15 Type 2 workers to do the same work?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 13 |
| B. | 10 |
| C. | 12 |
| D. | 11 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 534. |
U, V and W together can make a chair in 20 minutes. U and V together can make it in 25 minutes. How much time will (in minutes) W alone take to make the chair?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 100_x005F_x000D_ |
| B. | 90 |
| C. | 60 |
| D. | 120 |
| Answer» B. 90 | |
| 535. |
Vijay can do a work in 8 hours. Vijay and Puneet together can do the same work in 6 hours. Puneet and Sachin together can do the same work in 4 hours. Sachin alone can complete the same work in how many hours? |
| A. | 44338 |
| B. | 44344 |
| C. | 44340 |
| D. | 44342 |
| Answer» D. 44342 | |
| 536. |
Vikram and Vivek can finish a work in 50 days. They worked together for 20 days and then left. How much work has been done by them? |
| A. | 44319 |
| B. | 44256 |
| C. | 44228 |
| D. | 44318 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 537. |
When A, B and C are deployed for a task , A and B together do 70% of the work and B and C together do 50% of the work. who is most efficient? |
| A. | A |
| B. | B |
| C. | C |
| D. | can't be determined |
| Answer» B. B | |
| 538. |
Working 10 hours a day, Aman can complete a piece of work in 18 days. How many hours a day should he work so as to finish the work in 15 days? |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 12 |
| C. | 16 |
| D. | 18 |
| Answer» C. 16 | |
| 539. |
Working 7 hours in a day, 4 men can do a piece of work in 8 days. Working 8 hours in a day, the required number of men to perform the same work in 4Â days will be |
| A. | 8 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 7 |
| D. | 9 |
| Answer» D. 9 | |
| 540. |
Working 5 hours a day, Shivam can read a book in 24 days. How many hours a day should he work so as to finish the same work in 8 days? |
| A. | 12 |
| B. | 18 |
| C. | 15 |
| D. | 21 |
| Answer» D. 21 | |
| 541. |
Working 9 hours a day, Manish can read a book in 16 days. How many hours a day should he work so as to finish the same work in 24 days?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 7 |
| C. | 8 |
| D. | 6 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 542. |
Working alone A can do the task in 27 hours and B can do it in 54 hours. Find C's share (in Rs) if A, B and C get paid Rs 4,320 for completing a task in 12Â hours on which they worked together. |
| A. | 1440 |
| B. | 960 |
| C. | 1920 |
| D. | 1280 |
| Answer» B. 960 | |
| 543. |
Working together A and B can do a job in 40 days, B and C in 36 days and all three together in 24 days. In how many days can B alone do the job? |
| A. | 60 |
| B. | 90 |
| C. | 72 |
| D. | 120 |
| Answer» C. 72 | |
| 544. |
Working together A, B and C can complete a task in 12 days. A and B can do the task in 55 days and 66 days respectively if they worked alone. In how many days can C do the task if he worked alone? |
| A. | 22 |
| B. | 44 |
| C. | 20 |
| D. | 40 |
| Answer» D. 40 | |
| 545. |
Working together P, Q and R reap a field in 6 days. If P can do it alone in 10 days and Q in 24 days, in how many days will R alone be able to reap the field? |
| A. | 32 days |
| B. | 40 days |
| C. | 45 days |
| D. | 60 days |
| Answer» C. 45 days | |
| 546. |
(x-2) men can do a piece of work in x days and (x+7) men can do 75% of the same work in (x-10)days. Then in how many days can (x+10) men finish the work? |
| A. | 27 days |
| B. | 12 days |
| C. | 25 days |
| D. | 18 days |
| Answer» C. 25 days | |
| 547. |
X alone can do a piece of work in 12 days and Y alone can do the same work in 6 days. In how many days will both together complete the same work? |
| A. | 3 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 5 |
| D. | 2 |
| Answer» C. 5 | |
| 548. |
X and Y can complete a work in 5 days. Y and Z can complete the same work in 6 days. Z and X can complete the same work in 15/2 days. In how many days will X, Y and Z together complete the work?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 2_x005F_x000D_ |
| B. | 4_x005F_x000D_ |
| C. | 3_x005F_x000D_ |
| D. | 44318 |
| Answer» C. 3_x005F_x000D_ | |
| 549. |
X and Y can do a piece of work in 10 days, Y and Z in 12 days and Z and X in 15 days. In how many days can Z alone do the work?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 40 |
| B. | 24 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 36 |
| Answer» B. 24 | |
| 550. |
X and Y together can do a piece of work in 30 days. Y and Z together can do the work in 20 days. X starts the work and works for 15 days then Y takes that work and works for 27 days. Finally Z finishes the remaining work in 9 days. In how many days Y alone can complete the entire work?_x005F_x000D_ |
| A. | 60 |
| B. | 45 |
| C. | 50 |
| D. | 65 |
| Answer» B. 45 | |