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Time and Work 1 CUET QA – 11.0

1. A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on it together for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is
a) 7 b) 6 c) 5 d) 8/15
2. A can lay railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B can do the same job in 12 days. With help of C, they did
the job in 4 days only. Then, C alone can do the job in:
a) 4 days b) 5 days c ) 9 3/5 days d ) 10 days
3. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by
B and C on every third day?
a) 10 days b ) 15 days c ) 20 days d ) 30 days
4. A is thrice as good as workman as B and therefore is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. Working together, they can do
it in
a) 40 days b) 22 ½ days c ) 30 days d )15 days
5. A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it for Rs. 3200. With the help of C,
they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C?
a) Rs.500 b ) Rs. 400 c ) Rs.750 d ) Rs. 800
6. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days, the time taken by
15 men and 20 boys in doing the same type of work will be:
a) 4 days b ) 5 days c ) 8 days d ) 10 days
7. A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C together can do it in 3 hours, while A and C together can do it in 2 hours. How
long will B alone take to do it?
a) 15 days b ) 20 days c ) 12 days d ) 16 days
8. A can do a certain work in the same time in which B and C together can do it. If A and B together could do it in 10 days and C
alone in 50 days, then B alone could do it in:
a) 30 days b ) 15 days c ) 25 days d ) 40 days
9. A does 80% of a work in 20 days. He then calls in B and they together finish the remaining work in 3 days. How long B alone
would take to do the whole work?
a) 40 days b ) 50 days c ) 37 ½ days d ) 42 days
10. A machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours, machine Q can print the same number of books in 10 hours while machine R
can print them in 12 hours. All the machines are started at 9 A.M. while machine P is closed at 11 A.M. and the remaining two
machines complete work. Approximately at what time will the work (to print one lakh books) be finished ?
a) 12 : 00 PM b ) 2 : 00 PM c ) 4 :00 PM d ) 1:00 PM
11. A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do the same work in 15 days. B worked for 10 days and left the job. In how many
days, A alone can finish the remaining work?
a) 4 b)5 c) 6 d) 9
12. 4 men and 6 women can complete a work in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women can complete it in 10 days. In how many days
will 10 women complete it?
a) 50 b ) 40 c ) 60 d ) 70

13. A and B can together finish a work 30 days. They worked together for 20 days and then B left. After another 20 days, A
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 finished the remaining work. In how many days A alone can finish the work?
a) 70 b ) 50 c ) 40 d ) 60
14. P can complete a work in 12 days working 8 hours a day. Q can complete the same work in 8 days working 10 hours a day. If
both P and Q work together, working 8 hours a day, in how many days can they complete the work?
a) 5 5/11 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8
15. 10 women can complete a work in 7 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) 5 b) 4 c) 7 d) 9
16. X and Y can do a piece of work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. X started the work alone and then after 4 days Y joined
him till the completion of the work. How long did the work last?
a) 15 days b ) 10 days c ) 20 days d ) 30 days
17. A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working together, take to complete a job which A alone could have
done in 23 days?
a) 15 days b ) 13 days c ) 17 days d ) 20 days
18. Ravi and Kumar are working on an assignment. Ravi takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while Kumar takes 5 hours
to type 40 pages. How much time will they take, working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110
pages?
a) 4 hours b ) 5 hours c ) 8 hours 15 min d ) 6 hours
19. A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 24, 6 and 12 days respectively. Working together, they will complete the same
work in:
a) 7 b ) 11 c ) 3 3/7 days d) 9
20. Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days. Tanya is 25% more efficient than Sakshi. The number of days taken by Tanya to do
the same piece of work is:
a) 20 b ) 16 c ) 30 d ) 40
21. A takes twice as much time as B or thrice as much time as C 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 b) 6 c ) 10 d) 6
22. A and B can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started doing the work together but after 2 days B had
to leave and A alone completed the remaining work. The whole work was completed in :
a) 13 days b ) 15 days c ) 12 days d ) 16 days
23. A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days, while B and C can do the same work in 24 days and C and A in 20 days. They all
work together for 10 days when B and C leave. How many days more will A take to finish the work?
a) 18 days b ) 14 days c ) 13 days d ) 18 days
24. A works twice as fast as B. If B can complete a work in 12 days independently, the number of days in which A and B can
together finish the work in :
a) 4 days b ) 5 days c ) 7 days d ) 9 days
25. Twenty women can do a work in sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete the same work in fifteen days. What is the ratio
between the capacity of a man and a woman?
a) 3 : 6 b) 4:3 c)5:6 d ) 8 :7

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