Practice Time and work Questions and Answers

• 20 men or 40 women can complete a piece of work in 24 days. A man and a woman together complete the work and receive a total wage of Rs. 12,000. Find the d...
• 10 men or 50 women can complete a piece of work in 40 days. A man and a woman together complete the work and receive a total wage of Rs. 6,000. Find the di...
• 30 men can complete a work in 12 days. After 9 days, 15 more men joined them. How many days will they now take to complete the remaining work?
• A can finish a work in 25 days and B can complete the same work in 10 days. B worked for 5 days and left the job. In how many days can A alone finish the r...
• 15 men can do a work in 30 days. After 18 days of work, 5 more men were engaged to finish the work. The number of days required to complete the remaining w...
• Rahul can complete a work in 12 days and Ayush in 15 days. If they work together for 3 days, then the fraction of work that will be left is:
• A man takes 200 days to finish a work alone. If he started working alone and joined by one more man having same efficiency as of him every day from 2nd day...
• . If 3 goats or 5 sheep can graze a field in 56 days, then in how many days can 6 goats and 10 sheep graze the same field?
• Mira is 40% more efficient than Priya, and Neha is 10% more efficient than Mira. If Neha and Mira together can do a piece of work in 15 days, in how many d...
• "Amit" and "Bhanu" have respective completion times of 20 and 30 days for a task. They began working together on the project, but after a few days, "Amit" ...
• 'Q' is 20% less efficient than 'P' and 'R' is 60% more efficient than 'P'. If 'Q' takes 20 more days than 'R' to complete the same work, then find the time...
• 'C' can complete a work in 18 days whereas 'D' can do the same work in 30 days.They started working together but 'C' worked with 60% of his efficiency whil...
• Anil, Anshika and Anamika can do a certain piece of work in 64 days, 72 days and 96 days, respectively. All of them started working together but after ___ ...
• 15 men can do a piece of work in 10 days working 12 hours a day. How many men can do double the work in 25 days working 8 hours a day?
• Sufficient food-supply was arranged to last for 30 days for 250 soldiers. If 50 soldiers did not attend the camp, for how many extra days will the food-sup...
• P, Q and R take 18, 15 and 10 days respectively to complete a job. Compare their efficiencies as a ratio.
• With P starting the work, working on alternate days, P and Q can finish a work in 17 days. If Q works on the first day and Q and P work alternately, the wo...
• P, Q and R can do some work in 11 days, 20 days and 55 days respectively. In how many days can the work be done, if P gets the assistance of Q and R on alt...
• 30 typists working 7 hours per day can complete a typing job in 15 days. ____ typists working _____ hours per day can complete (2/3)rd part of the work in ...
• 35 typists working 9 hours per day can complete a typing job in 14 days. ____ typists working _____ hours per day can complete (3/4)th part of the work in ...
• P and Q can do a work in 10 days. Q and R can do it in 12 days. All three together can finish in 8 days. In how many days can P and R can complete the work...
• P, Q, R and S can do a piece of work in 20 days. If P and Q together can do it in 50 days, and R alone in 60 days, then in how many days can S alone do it?
• ‘P’ and ‘Q’ can complete a project in 45 days and 60 days respectively while ‘P’, ‘Q’ and ‘R’ together can complete the same project in...
• ‘R’ and ‘S’ can complete an assignment in 72 days and 90 days respectively while ‘R’, ‘S’ and ‘T’ together can complete the same assign...
• Nikhil and Rohit together can complete a job in 105 days 8 minutes, while Rohit and Suresh together can finish the same job in 70 days 5 minutes. If Suresh...
• Ravi and Sita together can complete a piece of work in 150 days and 3 minutes, while Sita and Ramesh together can complete the same work in 90 days and 2.5...
• Ankit and Priya together can complete a piece of work in 200 days and 10 minutes, while Priya and Vikas together can complete the same work in 130 days and...
• 'Sita' can complete some work alone in 20 days. 'Geeta' is twice as efficient as 'Reeta' and three times as efficient as 'Sita'. If 'Sita' and 'Reeta' star...
• 'Manoj' can complete some work alone in 40 days. 'Sohan' is twice as efficient as 'Rohan' and five times as efficient as 'Manoj'. If 'Manoj' and 'Rohan' st...
• A and B can complete a job together in 30 days; B and C can complete the same job together in 25 days, while C and A can complete the same job together in ...
• P, Q, and R can complete a work in 12 days. 15 days and 30 days, respectively, working alone. How soon can the work be completed if Q is assisted by P and ...
• 'A' and 'B' can complete a piece of work in 10 days, 'B' and 'C' can complete the work in 16 days, and 'A' and 'C' can complete the work in 20 days. Find t...
• If 3/5 of the work is done by 35 workers in 6 days, then how many more workers would be required to complete the remaining work in next 2 days?
• 'Andy' and 'Ben' together can finish some work in 27 days. If 'Andy' alone can finish it in 45 days, then find the time taken by 'Ben' to finish the work a...
• 40 men take 15 days to finish some work. If the work is to be finished in 8 days, then how many additional men should be hired?
• "'Mahesh' is 40% less efficient than 'Neeraj.' 'Neeraj' takes 30 days fewer than 'Mahesh' to finish the same work. Find the time taken by 'Neeraj' to finis...
• X can work as fast as Y and Z together. X and Y together can finish the same task 3 times as fast as Z. If all three working together can finish the task i...
• 15 people can paint a house in 5 days using 15 paintbrushes. In how many days can 10 people paint the same house using p paintbrushes?
• 18 skilled workers can complete a task in 12 days while 24 semi-skilled workers need 15 days to complete the same task. 12 skilled workers started the task...
• Rahul, Sameer, and Dinesh can complete a task in 24 days, 36 days, and 18 days, respectively. They started working together, but Rahul left after 3 days. H...