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A and B completed a work together in 5 days. Had A worked at twice the speed and B at half the speed, it would have taken them four days to complete the job. How much time would it take for A alone to do the work? 

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Two typists of varying skills can do a job in 6minutes if they work together. If the first typist typed alone for 4 minutes and then the second typist typed alone for 6minutes, they would be left with 1/5 of the whole work. How many minutes would it take the slower typist to complete the typing job working alone? 

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Three cooks have to make 80idlis. They are known to make 20pieces every minute working together. The first cook began working alone and made 20pieces having worked for some time more than three minutes. The remaining part of the work was done by the second and the third cook working together. It took a total of 8minutes to complete the 80idlis. How many minutes would it take the first cook alone to cook 160idlis for a marriage party the next day? 

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It takes six days for three women and two men working together to complete a work. Three men would do the same work five days sooner than nine women. How many times does the output of a man exceed that of a woman?
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Each of A, B and C need a certain unique time to do certain work. C needs 1 hour less than A to complete the work. Working together, they require 30 minutes to complete 50% of the job. The work also gets completed if A and B start working together and A leaves after 1 hour and B works for a further 3 hours. How much work does C do per hour?
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Mini and Vinay are quiz masters preparing for a quiz. In x minutes, Mini makes y questions more than Vinay. If it were possible to reduce the time needed by each to make a question by two minutes, then in x minutes Mini would make 2y questions more than Vinay. How many questions does Mini make in x minutes?

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A tank of 3600 cu m capacity is being filled with water. The delivery of the pump discharging the tank is 20% more than the delivery of the pump filling the same tank. As a result, twelve minutes more time is needed to fill the tank than to discharge it. Determine the delivery of the pump discharging the tank.
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. Two pipes A and B can fill up a half full tank in 1.2 hours. The tank was initially empty. Pipe B was kept open for half the time required by pipe A to fill the tank by itself. Then, pipe A was kept open for as much time as was required by pipe B to fill up 1/3 of the tank by itself. It was then found that the tank was 5/6 full. The least time in which any of the pipes can fill the tank fully is
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. A tank of 425 litres capacity has been filled with water through two pipes, the first pipe having been opened five hours longer than the second. If the first pipe were open as long as the second, and the second pipe was open as long as the first pipe was open, then the first pipe would deliver half the amount of water delivered by the second pipe; if the two pipes were open simultaneously, the tank would be filled up in 17 hours. How long was the second pipe open?