Time and Work

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Time and Work: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Efficiency Method of Solving Time and Work, Methods to Solve Time and Work, The Concept of Efficiency, Work Equivalence Method, Application of Product Constancy in Time and Work, Concept of Man Hours, etc.

Important Questions on Time and Work

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A, B and C together can complete the work in 24 days. A alone complete the whole work is 45 days more than B. C alone complete the whole work in _____ days and the A and B together can complete the work in ______ days.

A) 120, 30

B) 80, 40

C) 100, 50

D) 150, 45

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A and B together can complete the job in 16 days, B and C together can complete the job in 20 days. First A did the job for 6days, B did the job for 9 days and C completed the remaining job in 22 days. Find the number of days in which C alone can complete the job?

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A, B and C can do a work in 12, 15 and 20 days respectively They start working together for sometime after B left after 2 days of work C left then total work complete by A in 4 days. A gets 7000 from whole work. Then find

a) When B left

b) Difference of amount of B and C

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Arul and Ovi together can complete the work in 12 days. Arul and Kavin together can complete a piece of work in 16 days and with the help of Dinesh, they can complete the work in 12 days. The efficiency of Ovi is double of Dinesh. In how many days did Kavin alone complete the work?

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A can complete the 13 work in 4 days, B complete 15 work in 3 days and C works 34 part of work in 15 days alone. At first A and B work for 2 days then A goes to leave B works for one day alone then C join with B. After working two day together B goes. C working alone for one day then A return to work, work for two days together. Then C goes for leave and remaining work done by A alone. In how many days total work will be completed?

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A can do a piece of work in 12 days and B can do it in 15 days. They work together for 2 days, and then B leaves and A work for 2 days then C join with him to finish the work in 4 days. In how many days C can alone complete the work?

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Pipe A and B together can fill the tank in 15 hours. Pipe B and C together can fill the same tank in 20 hours. Pipe B and C started to fill the tank and after 3 hours pipe C is closed and pipe A is opened. After 5 hours from starting, pipe B is closed. Then Pipe A alone opened for 12 hours to fill the tank completely. In how many hours pipe A alone will take to fill the tank?

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6 men can complete a piece of work in 12 days, 8 women can complete the same work in 18 days whereas 18 children can complete the piece of work in 10 days. 4 men, 12 women and 20 children work for 2 days. If only men were to complete the remaining work in 1 day. How many men would be required totally?

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Anurag can do a work in 12 days and the ratio of efficiency of Veer to Ayushi is 8 : 9. Anurag and Ayush together can do 2 units more work in a day as Anurag and Veer together can do in a day and time taken by Veer and Ayush together to do same work is 7217 days. Find the time taken by Anurag and Ayush to complete the same work together?

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8 men and 12 women can complete the work in 10 days, 4 men and 9 women complete the work in 14 days. then find in how many days will 8 men and 5 women can complete the70% of task?

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Amit can complete a piece of work in x + 8 days while Bunty can complete the same work in x + 18' days. If Amit and Bunty together can complete the whole work in x, then find the time taken by Chandan, who is 75% more efficient than Amit and Bunty together to complete 70% of the work?

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In the following question, find the value of three quantities given in the question and find the relation between them.

Quantity I: A, B and C together can complete a work together in 4 days and Efficiency of D and C are in the ratio 1: 2 respectively. The time taken by A and B together to complete the whole work is equal to the time taken by D and C together to complete the whole work. In how many days, D will complete the whole work alone?

Quantity II: X is 25% more efficient than Y and 8313% as efficient as Z. Time taken by X and Y together to do the work is 23 days more than the time taken by persons Y and Z together. What is the time taken by X alone to do the whole work?

Quantity III: 15 days

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P and Q are 20% and 25% respectively more efficient than R who completes a job alone in 30 days. If R starts the work alone and is assisted by P and Q on every third day where Q works with 20% more of his own efficiency, then what is the total time taken by them to complete the whole work?

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In the following questions, find the value of three quantities given in the question and find the relation between them.

There are four friends namely Mukesh, Rahul, Sameer, and Mangesh. Mukesh can complete an assignment in 40 days. With the help of Mangesh, he can complete the assignment in 1609 days. Rahul and Sameer together can complete the assignment in 15 days. The efficiency of Rahul is thrice the efficiency of Sameer. The efficiency of Neelam is equal to the sum of the efficiencies of Mukesh and Rahul and the efficiency of Komal is equal to the sum of the efficiencies of Sameer and Mangesh.

Quantity I: Find the time taken by Neelam and Komal to complete the assignment together.

Quantity II: Rahul started the assignment and left after 5 days. Find the time taken by Sameer to complete the remaining part of the assignment.

Quantity III: Find the time taken by Mukesh, Sameer, and Neelam to complete the assignment together.

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Efficiency of taps A & B is x litres/hour andy litres/hour respectively. If A & B can fill a tank in p hours and q hours respectively and when both interchange their respective number of taken hours with their respective efficiency, then A & B takes p-14 hours and q-7 hours respectively to fill the same tank. If (p-q) = 5 hours, find time taken by both taps to fill the tank together:

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Efficiencies of two workers A and B are in the ratio  7 : 5 respectively and efficiencies of another two workers C and D are in the ratio 5 : 3 respectively. If the ratio of total time taken by A and D to complete the whole work alone is 8 : 7 respectively, then B is approximately what percent efficient than C? 

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Arun, Sunita and Pooja can do a certain piece of work in 64 days, 72 days and 96 days, respectively. All of them started working together but after _________ days, Arun and Sunita left the job and the remaining work is done by Pooja alone in ________ days.

The values given in which of the following options will fill the blanks in the same order in which is it given to make the above statement true:

A. 24, 4B. 11, 53.5C. 18, 27D. 12, 50

MEDIUM
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The ratio of the efficiency of A and B is 5:6 working together they can complete the same work in 10 days. B alone starts the work and leaves after 5 days. then find in how many days A will finish the remaining work?

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Abin and Babita started a work together and completed it in 4 days more than the time taken by Chandan and Deepak together. Chandan who is 80% as efficient as Eshita and can complete the whole work alone in 6  days more than the time taken by Faizal alone. If Abin started work alone and on ninth day Deepak joins him, then the remaining work will be completed in 24 days. Babita, Eshita and Faizal can complete the whole work together in 18 days. Time taken by Abin alone is more than the time taken by Chandan alone.

From the given information in the above question, which of the following can be determined?

a) Time taken by Abin alone

b) Time taken by Chandan alone

c) Time taken by Babita alone

d) Time taken by Deepak alone

EASY
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1) Ram completes a work in 20 days and Shyam completes a work in 18 days. When Ram and Syam work on alternate days starting from Ram then, how much time does it take to complete the work?