SAGAR GROUP OF INSTITUTION’S

PRACTICE SHEET –TIME AND WORK

8.If 8 boys and 12 women can do a piece of work
1..Raju can do 25% of a piece of work in 5 days. in 25 days, in how many days can the work be
How many days will he take to complete the work done by 6 boys and 11 women working together?
ten times? (a) 15 days (b) 10 dayss (c) 12 days(d) Cannot be
determined
(a) 150 days (b) 250 days (c) 200 days (d) 180
days 9.Acan do a piece of work in 10 days and B can do
the same work in 20 days. With the help of C they
2.6 men can do a piece of work in 12 days. How finish the work in 5 days. How long will it take for C
many men are needed to do the work in 18 days. alone to finish the work?

(a) 3 men (b) 6 men (c) 4 men (d) 2 men (a) 20 days (b) 10 days(c) 35 days(d) 15 days

3.Acan do a piece of work in 20 days and Bcan do 10.A can do a piece of work in 20 days. He works
it in 15 days. How long will they take if both work at it for 5 days and then B finishes it in 10 more
together? days. In how many days will Aand B together
finish the work?
(a) 8 days (b) 10 days (c) 12 days(d) 6 days
6 4 3 4
(a) 8( )days (b) 8( )days (c) 9( )days (d)9 days.
7 7 7 7 11.Apurva can do a piece of work in 12 days.
Apurva and Amit complete the work together and
4 In question 3 if C who can finish the same work were paid 54 and 81 respectively. How many days
in 25 days, joins them, then how long will they take
must they have taken to complete the work
to complete the work? together?
18
(a) 4 days (b) 4.5 days(c) 4.8 days(d) 5 days
(a) 6(47)days (b) 12 days
8 6
(c) 2(11)days (d) 47 (18)days 12.Raju is twice as good as Vijay. Together, they
finish the work in 14 days. In how many days can
Vijay alone do the same work?
5.Nishu and Archana can do a piece of work in 10 (a) 16 days (b) 21 days(c) 32 days(d) 42 days
days and Nishu alone can do it in 12 days. In
how many days can Archana do it alone? 13.In a company XYZ Ltd. a certain number of
(a) 60 days (b) 30 days(c) 50 days(d) 45 days engineers can develop a design in 40 days. If there
were 5 more engineers, it could be finished in 10
6.Baba alone can do a piece of work in 10 days. days less. How many engineers were there in
Anshu alone can do it in 15 days. If the total wages the beginning?
for the work is 50. How much should Baba be paid
if they work together for the entire duration (a) 18 (b) 20(c) 25(d) 15
of the work?
14.If 12 men and 16 boys can do a piece of work in
(a)30 (b)20 (c)50 (d)40 5 days and 13 men and 24 boys can do it in 4
days, compare the daily work done by a man with
7.4 men and 3 women finish a job in 6 days, and 5 that done by a boy?
men (a) 1 : 2 (b) 1 : 3(c) 2 : 1(d) 3 : 1
and 7 women can do the same job in 4 days.
How long will 1 man and 1 woman take to do the 15.A can do a work in 10 days and B can do the
work? same work in 20 days. They work together for 5
days and then
2 1
(a) 22(7)days (b) 25(2)days A goes away. In how many more days will
1 7 B finish the work?
(c) 5(7)days (d) 12 (22)days
(a) 5 days (b) 6.5 days(c) 10 days(d) 8days
16. 30 men working 5 h a day can do a work in 16
days. In how many days will 20 men working 6 h a 24.Ashok and Mohan can do a piece of work in 12
day do the same work? days. Mohan and Binod together do it in 15 days.
(a) 22 day(b) 20 days(c) 21 days(d) None of these If Ashok is twice as good a workman as Binod. In
how much time will Mohan alone can do the
17. Ajay and Vijay undertake to do a piece of work work?
for 200. Ajay alone can do it in 24 days while Vijay
alone can do it in 30 days. With the help of (a) 15 days (b) 20 days(c) 25 days(d) 35 day
Pradeep, they finish the work in 12 days. How
much should Pradeep get for his work? 25.Ajay and Vijay together can do a piece of work
in 6 days. Ajay alone does it in 10 days. What
(a)20 (b)100(c)180(d)50 time does Vijay require to do it alone?
(a) 20 days (b) 15 days(c) 25 days(d) 30 days
18.15 men could finish a piece of work in 210 days.
But at the end of 100 days, 15 additional men 26.A cistern is normally filled in 5 hours. However,
are employed. In how many more days will the it takes 6 hours when there is leak in its bottom.If
work be complete? the cistern is full, in what time shall the leak empty
(a) 80 days (b) 60 days(c) 55 days(d) 50 days it?

19.Ajay, Vijay and Sanjay are employed to do a (a) 6 h(b) 5 h(c) 30 h(d) 15 h
piece 27.Pipe A and B running together can fill a cistern
of work for 529. Ajay and Vijay together are in 6 minutes. If B takes 5 minutes more than A to
supposed to do 19/23 of the work and Vijay and fill the cistern, then the time in which A
Sanjay together 8/23 of the work. How much and B will fill the cistern separately will be
should Ajay be paid? respectively?
(a) 15 min, 20 min (b) 15 min, 10 min
(a) 245 (b)295 (c)300 (d)345 (c) 10 min, 15 min (d) 25 min, 20 min

20.Anmol is thrice as good a workman as Vinay 28.A can do a work in 18 days, B in 9 days and
and therefore is able to finish the job in 60 days Cin 6 days. A and B start working together and
less after 2 days C
than Vinay. In how many days will they finish the joins them. In how many days will the job be
job working together? completed?
1 3
(a) 222 days (b) 112 days (c) 15 days (d) 20 days (a) 4.33 days(b) 4 days(c) 4.66 days(d) 5 days

29. 24 men working 8 h a day can finish a work in

10 days. Working at a rate of 10 h a day, the
21.In a fort there was sufficient food for 200
number of men required to finish the work in 6 days
soldiers for 31 days. After 27 days 120 soldiers left
is
the
(a) 30(b) 32(c) 34(d) 36
fort. For how many extra days will the rest of the
food last for the remaining soldiers?
30. A certain job was assigned to a group of men
to do it in 20 days. But 12 men did not turn up for
(a) 12 days(b) 10 days(c) 8 days(d) 6 days
the job and the remaining men did the job in 32
days. The original number of men in group was
22.Anju, Manju and Sanju together can reap a field
(a) 32(b) 34(c) 36(d) 40
in 6 days. If Anju can do it alone in 10 days and
ANSWER KEY
Manju in 24 days. In how many days will Sanju
1. (c) 2. (c)3. (b)4. (a)5. (a)6. (a)
alone be able to reap the field?
7. (a)8. (d)9. (a)10. (a)
11. (c)12. (d)13. (d)14. (c)15. (a)16. (b)17. (a)18.
(a) 40 days(b) 36 days(c) 35 days(d) 32 days
(c)19. (d)20. (a)21. (d)
22. (a)23. (a)24. (b)25. (b)26. (c)27. (c)28. (b)29.
23.Ajay and Vijay can do a piece of work in 28
(b)30. (a)
days. With the help of Manoj, they can finish it in
21
days. How long will Manoj take to finish the work
all alone?
(a) 84 days(b) 80 days(c) 75 days(d) 70 days