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301.

A mother can do a certain job in x hours. Her daughter takes twice as long to do the job. Working together, they can do the job in 6 hours. How many hours does the mother take to do the job ?

A. 3
B. 6
C. 9
D. 12
Answer» D. 12
Discussion
302.

A  field  can  be  reaped  by  12  men  or  18  women  in  14  days.  In  how  many  days  can  8  men  and  16 women reap it?

A. 26 days
B. 24 days
C. 9 days
D. 8 days
Answer» D. 8 days
Discussion
303.

A new topic named Problem Solving was also introduced and it was decided that 10% time of all topics except Arithmetic will be devoted to it. What will be the central angle (in degrees) made by Problem Solving in the new pie chart?

A. 17.28
B. 18
C. 19.44
D. 36
Answer» D. 36
Discussion
304.

A painter can paint a fence in 24 hours. After 6 hours he takes a break. What fraction of the fence is yet to be painted?

A. 0.6
B. 0.2
C. 0.75
D. 0.8
Answer» D. 0.8
Discussion
305.

A shopkeeper has a job to print certain number of documents and there are three machines P, Q and R for this job. P can complete the job in 3 days, Q can complete the job in 4 days and R can complete the job in 6 days. How many days the shopkeeper will it take to complete the job if all the machines are used simultaneously ?

A. 4/3 days
B. 2 days
C. 3/2 days
D. 4 days
Answer» B. 2 days
Discussion
306.

A piece of work can be done by 16 men in 8 days working 12 hours a day. How many men are needed to complete another work, which is three times the first one, in 24 days working 8 hours a day?

A. 24 men
B. 22 men
C. 23 men
D. 25 men
Answer» B. 22 men
Discussion
307.

A school has 8 periods of 45 minutes each, every day. How long will each period be if the school has to have 9 periods everyday, assuming the working hours to be the same?

A. 40 min
B. 35 min
C. 30 min
D. 45 min
Answer» B. 35 min
Discussion
308.

A piece of work was finished by A, B and C together. A and B together finished 60% of the work and B and C together finished 70% of the work. Who among the three is most efficient?

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. None
Answer» D. None
Discussion
309.

A single reservoir supplies the petrol to the whole city, while the reservoir is fed by a single pipeline filling the reservoir with the stream of uniform volume. When the reservoir is full and if 40,000 liters of petrol is used daily, the suply fails in 90 days.If 32,000 liters of petrol is used daily, it fails in 60 days. How much petrol can be used daily with out the supply ever failing?

A. 64000 liters
B. 56000 liters
C. 78000 liters
D. 60000 liters
Answer» C. 78000 liters
Discussion
310.

A take twice as much time as B or thrice as much time to finish a piece of work. Working together, they can finish the work in 2 days. B can do the work alone in ?

A. 3 hrs
B. 6 hrs
C. 7 hrs
D. 5 hrs
Answer» C. 7 hrs
Discussion
311.

A take twice as much time as B or thrice as much time to finish a piece of work. Working together, they can finish the work in 2 days. B can do the work alone in  ?

A. 8 hrs
B. 12 hrs
C. 6 hrs
D. 4 hrs
Answer» D. 4 hrs
Discussion
312.

A takes 24 day in completing a work alone. Time taken by A in completing 1/3rd of the work is equal to the time taken by B in completing half of the work. How many days will be taken in completing the work if both A & B start working together?

A. 21/3 days
B. 48 days
C. 40 days
D. 48/5 days
Answer» E.
Discussion
313.

A tank has an inlet and outlet pipe. The inlet pipe fills the tank completely in 2 hours when the outlet pipe is plugged. The outlet pipe empties the tank completely in 6 hours when the inlet pipe is pluggeed._x005F_x000D_ If there is a lekage also which is capable of draining out the liquid from the tank at half of the  rate of outet pipe,them what is the time taken to fill the emty tank when both the pipes are opened?

A. 3 hours
B. 4 hours
C. 5 hours
D. None of these
Answer» C. 5 hours
Discussion
314.

A television show lasted for 4 2/3 hrs. If 1/5 th of the total time was spent on advertisements, what was the actual duration of the television show?

A. 14/15 hrs
B. 37/15 hrs
C. 4/5 hrs
D. 56/15 hrs
Answer» E.
Discussion
315.

A town having teenagers(boys & girls) of 5000 requires 150 litre of water per head. It has a tank measuring 20 m × 15 m × 5 m. The water of this tank will sufficient for ____ days.

A. 8
B. 6
C. 4
D. 2
Answer» E.
Discussion
316.

A work can be completed by 18 boys in 24 days. If 6 boys leave after working for 12 days, then how many days will be needed to complete the remaining work?_x005F_x000D_

A. 12
B. 15
C. 18
D. 24
Answer» D. 24
Discussion
317.

A work can be completed by 28 women in 36 days. If 4 women leave after working for 18 days, then how many days will be needed to complete the remaining work?

A. 24
B. 21
C. 27
D. 25
Answer» C. 27
Discussion
318.

A work which could be finished in 11 days was finished 4 days earlier after 4 more men joined. The number of men employed was ?

A. 7
B. 8
C. 9
D. 10
Answer» B. 8
Discussion
319.

A works twice as fast as B.If  B can complete a work in 18 days independently,the number of days  in which A and B can together finish the work is:

A. 4 days
B. 6 days
C. 8 days
D. 10 days
Answer» C. 8 days
Discussion
320.

Aadi can do a piece of work in 12 days alone, Bunny can do the same work in 16 days alone. After Aadi has been working for 5 days and Bunny for 7 days, Charan finishes it in 14 days. In how many days will Charan alone be able to do the work?

A. 96 days
B. 48 days
C. 24 days
D. 12 days
Answer» B. 48 days
Discussion
321.

Abhinav is 2 times as good a workman as Balwant and therefore is able to finish a job in 36 days less than Balwant. Working together, they can do it in

A. 12 days
B. 6 days
C. 18 days
D. 24 days
Answer» E.
Discussion
322.

Adam and Smith are working on a project. Adam takes 6 hrs to type 36 pages on a computer, while Smith takes 5 hrs to type 40 pages. How much time will they take, working together on two different computers to type a project of 120 pages?

A. 8 hrs 45 min
B. 8 hrs 42 min
C. 8 hrs
D. 8 hrs 34 min
Answer» E.
Discussion
323.

After working for 8 days, Hari Ram finds that only 1/3 rd of the work has been done. He employs Satya who is 60% as efficient as Hari Ram. How many days more would Satya take to complete the work ?

A. 24 1/2 days
B. 25 3/2 days
C. 24 2/3 days
D. 26 2/3 days
Answer» E.
Discussion
324.

Ajay can do a painting in 12 days. Amit is 70% more efficient than Ajay. What is the number of days Amit would need to finish the same painting?_x005F_x000D_

A. 6415
B. 5113
C. 335
D. 7117
Answer» E.
Discussion
325.

Akash is 3 times as good a workman as Baldev and therefore is able to finish a job in 40 days less than Baldev. Working together, they can finish it in _____.

A. 15 days
B. 60 days
C. 20 days
D. 10 days
Answer» B. 60 days
Discussion
326.

Akhilesh is two times as good a workman as Bansi and therefore is able to finish a job in 39 days less than Bansi. Working together, they can do it in

A. 13 days
B. 24 days
C. 26 days
D. 12 days
Answer» D. 12 days
Discussion
327.

Ajit is two times as good a workman as Badrinath and therefore is able to finish a job in 30 days less than Badrinath. Working together, they can do it in

A. 10 days
B. 30 days
C. 15 days
D. 20 days
Answer» E.
Discussion
328.

Akka can bake 100 cakes in 20 hours, Akka and Tai together can bake 75 cakes in 10 hours. How many cakes Tai can bake in 20 hours?

A. 25
B. 50
C. 30
D. 75
Answer» C. 30
Discussion
329.

Amar can do a piece of work in 10 days. He works at it for 4 days and then Arun finishes it in 9 days. In how many days can Amar and Arun together finish the work ?

A. 4 days
B. 8 days
C. 3 days
D. 6 days
Answer» E.
Discussion
330.

Amar can complete a work in 30 days and Raman can complete the same work in 15 days. If both of them work together, then in 4 days what percent of the total work will be completed?

A. 15
B. 37
C. 40
D. 45
Answer» D. 45
Discussion
331.

Amar is 2 times as good a workman as Badal and therefore is able to finish a job in 15 days less than Badal. In how many days can they together complete the job?

A. 30 days
B. 40 days
C. 10 days
D. 20 days
Answer» D. 20 days
Discussion
332.

Amit can complete a work in 25 days and Punit can complete the same work in 20 days. Punit alone worked at it for 10 days and then left the work. In how many days will Amit alone complete the remaining work?

A. 10.5
B. 11.5
C. 12.5
D. 13.5
Answer» D. 13.5
Discussion
333.

Amal is 5 times as good a workman as Bhairav and therefore is able to finish a job in 48 days less than Bhairav. Working together, they can do it in

A. 20 days
B. 5 days
C. 25 days
D. 10 days
Answer» E.
Discussion
334.

An air conditioner can cool the hall in 40 miutes while another takes 45 minutes to cool under similar conditions. If both air conditioners are switched on at same instance then how long will it take to cool the room approximately ?

A. 18 minutes
B. 19 minutes
C. 22 minutes
D. 24 minutes
Answer» D. 24 minutes
Discussion
335.

Amit can do a piece of work in 45 days, but Bharath can do the same work in 5 days less, than Amit, when  working alone. Amit and Bharath both started the work together but Bharath  left after some days and Amit finished the remaining work in 56 days with half of his efficiency but he did the work with Bharath with his complete efficiency. For how many days they had worked together?

A. 6
B. 8
C. 9
D. 12
Answer» C. 9
Discussion
336.

An hour-long test has 60 problems. If a student completes 30 problems in 25 minutes, then the required seconds he has taken on average for computing each of the remaining problems is

A. 70 seconds
B. 50 seconds
C. 40 seconds
D. 30 seconds
Answer» B. 50 seconds
Discussion
337.

Anil can do a piece of work in 14 days which Rohit can do in 21 days. They worked together for few days after which Anil left. If Rohit worked alone for 3 days, find the total number of days it took to complete the whole work.

A. 44347
B. 51/5
C. 44337
D. 44329
Answer» C. 44337
Discussion
338.

Arjun and Anurag complete a job in 6 days and 7 days respectively. They worked together and earned a total of Rs. 780. Find Arjun's share in this amount in Rs. ?

A. 490
B. 560
C. 350
D. 420
Answer» E.
Discussion
339.

Arun and Amit can do a piece of work in 9 days and 12 days respectively. If they work for alternate days and Amit starts the work first, then in how many days 35/36 parts of whole work will be completed?

A. 10 days
B. 12 days
C. 5 days
D. 8 days
Answer» B. 12 days
Discussion
340.

Anil is twice as good as workman as Bimal and together they finish a piece of work in 9 days. In how many days will Anil alone finish the work?

A. 12.5
B. 11.5
C. 10.5
D. 13.5
Answer» E.
Discussion
341.

At Arihant Prakasham every book goes hrough 3 phases (or stages) typing, composing and binding. There are 16 typists, 10 composers and 15 binders. A typist can type 8 books in each hour, a composer can compose 12 books in each hour and a binder can bind 12 books in each hour. All of the people at Arihant Prakasham works for 10 hours a day and each person is trained to do only the ob of 1 category.How many books can be prepared in each day?

A. 1500
B. 1200
C. 1440
D. 1380
Answer» C. 1440
Discussion
342.

Azhar is 4 times as good a workman as Balaraj and therefore is able to finish a job in 45 days less than Balaraj. Working together, they can do it in:

A. 6 days
B. 18 days
C. 24 days
D. 12 days
Answer» E.
Discussion
343.

Atul can do a piece of work in 18 days, Aaravya is 50% more efficient than Atul. How much more time does Atul take than Aaravya to do the same piece of work?

A. 12
B. 6
C. 18
D. 10
Answer» C. 18
Discussion
344.

Atul and Binay together complete a piece of work in 5 days. If Binay alone can complete the same work in 8 days, how many days Atul take to complete the same work alone?

A. 40/3 days
B. 20/3 days
C. 9 days
D. 10 days
Answer» B. 20/3 days
Discussion
345.

Badki can bake 45 cakes in 9 hours, Badki and Chutki together can bake 80 cakes in 10 hours. How many cakes Chutki can bake in 40 hours?

A. 125
B. 10
C. 120
D. 20
Answer» D. 20
Discussion
346.

Both A and B together can complete a work in 20 days and B alone can complete the same work in 36 days. In how many days will A alone complete the work?

A. 30
B. 50
C. 45
D. 42
Answer» D. 42
Discussion
347.

B would have taken 10 hours more than what A would have taken to complete a task if each of them worked alone. Working together they can complete the task in 12 hours. How many hours would B take to do 50% of the task?

A. 30
B. 15
C. 20
D. 10
Answer» C. 20
Discussion
348.

B is thrice as efficient as A and C is 0.75 times as efficient as A. What is the ratio of number of days taken by A, B and C when they work individually?

A. 0.16739583333333
B. 0.12574074074074
C. 0.085428240740741
D. 0.20905092592593
Answer» C. 0.085428240740741
Discussion
349.

B does 50% of a work in 20 days. C joins B and they together finish the remaining work in 4 days. C alone can do the whole work in ____ days.

A. 10
B. 8
C. 12
D. 9
Answer» B. 8
Discussion
350.

Chutki can bake 30 cakes in 15 hours. Chutki and Badki together can bake 90 cakes in 30 hours. How many cakes Badki can bake in 10 hours?

A. 75
B. 20
C. 10
D. 60
Answer» D. 60
Discussion