6.

TIME AND WORK (PIPES AND CISTERNS)

1. 15 men take 21 days of 8 hrs each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hrs. Each
would it take for 21 women, if 3 women do as much work as 2 men? (a) 30 (b) 20 (c) 19 (d) 29
2. It was calculated that 75 men could complete a piece of work in 20 days. When work was
scheduled to commence, it was found necessary to send 25 men to another project. How much
longer will it take to complete the work? (Crack me)
3. A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days while Mr.Black
would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr.Brown goes on vacation and Mr. Black
begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it take Mr.Blue to complete the
contract?
A. 7 B. 8 C. 11 D. 12
4. If a light flashes every 6 seconds, how many times will it flash in (3/4) of an hour?
A. 451 B. 420 C. 424 D. 430 (Crack Me)
5.A bucket was placed under a dripping tap which was dripping at a uniform rate. At what time
was the bucket full? The bucket was put in place at 2pm. The bucket was half full at 6pm and
three-quarters full at 8pm. (Crack Me)
6.There are 200 questions in a 3 hr examination. Among these 50 questions are types A
problems, which requires twice as much as time be spent than the rest of the type B problems.
How many minutes should be spent on type A problems?
7. 5 men or 8 women do equal amount of work in a day. A job requires 3 men and 5 women to
finish that job in 10 days, how many woman are required to finish the same job in 14 days.
a) 10 b) 7 c) 6 d) 12
8.Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 36 min. and 45 min. respectively. A water pipe C can
empty the tank in 30 min. First A and B are opened. After 7 minutes, C is also opened. In how
much time, the tank is full? (Crack me)
9.A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate of 850 g per head.
At the end of 7 days, reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions can last for 17
days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the strength of the reinforcement?
(a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700.
10. In a normal 5-day work week, each of 12 employees produces 300 items per day-last week,
1/3 of the employees were absent from work for 2/5 of the days in the week. how many total
items were produced last week? a) 18000 b) 14400 c) 6000 d) 15600 e) 16,200
(Crack me)
11.Two out of five employees are capable of doing a certain task. Sixty percent of the five
employees, including the two who are capable, are assigned to a project involving this task. what
percentage of employees assigned to the project are not capable?(Crack me)
12. The number of times a bucket of capacity 4 liters to be used to fill up a tank is less than
number of ties another bucket of capacity 3 liters used for the same purpose, exceeds by 4. What
is the capacity of the tank? a)360 liters b)256 c)48 d)525 (Crack me)
13. Sixteen men can complete a work in twelve days. Twenty-four children can complete the
same work in eighteen days. Twelve men and eight children started working and after eight days
three more children joined them. How many days will they now take to complete the remaining
work? 1. 5 days 2. 4 days 3. 10 days 4. 9 days 1man's 1day
14.A cistern can be filled by two pipes A and B in 7 1/2 h. Both of them are open for 2 1/2 h and
then B is closed. A alone now require 6 2/3 h more to fill cistern. How long would A take to fill
the cistern working alone? [A] 8 h [C] 9 h [B] 7 h [D] 10 h (Crack me)

15.Two filling pipes can fill a cistern in 10 and 12 min. respectively and when the waste pipe is
open, they can together fill it in 15 min. The waste pipe can empty the full cistern in?
[A] 8 min [C] 8 4/7 min [B] 7 min [D] 7 1/2 min (Crack Me)
16.There is a leak in the bottom of a cistern. When the cistern is in through repair, it would be
filled in 4 1/2 hours. if now takes half an hour longer. if the cistern is null, how would long the
leak take to empty the cistern? [A] 40 h [C] 12 h [B] 36 h [D] 34 h
17. 6 men and 4 women finish a job in 15 days, while 3 men and 5 women finish it in 10 days. 15
women working alone will finish it in. [A] 5 days [C] 6 days [B] 10 days [D] 3
days (Crack Me)
18.A does half as much work as B in one third of the time. if together they take 20 days to
complete a work, how much time shall B take to do it?
[A] 40 days [C] 50 days [B] 36 days [D] 34 days
19. If 25 binders bind 25 books in 25 days. How many binders can bind 10 books in 10 days.
(a) 25 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 20
20.10 workers can make 15 boxes in 6 days, how many boxes will 12 workers make in 3 days.
(a) 10 (b) 9 (c) 6 (d) 8 (Crack me)
21.One man or two women or three boys can do a work in 44 days then one man, one women
and one boy together (Crack me)
22. If a certain computer is capable of printing 4900 monthly credit card bills per hour, while a
new model is capable of printing at a rate of 6600 per hour, the old model will take
approximately how much longer than the new model to print 10000 bills?
23.To finish a piece of work,P takes Five times as Q and six times as R. Working together, they
can finish the work in 4 days. Q can do the work alone in:
24.Two identical taps fill 2/5 of a tank in 20 minutes. When one of the taps goes dry in how
many minutes will the remaining one tap fill the rest of the tank? (Crack me)
25.Two men, 3 women working full time and 3 part times can complete a job in 20 days. Four
men and 9 women working full time can complete the same job in 10 days. Find the ratio of the
times taken by a woman (full-timer) and a part timer to complete the job.
26.Manu working alone on a job takes 12 days more than what he would have taken if Bhanu
had worked along with him while Bhanu working alone on the same job takes 27 days more than
what he would have taken if Manu had worked along with him. Find the time that both of them
working together would take to do the job. A. 10 B. 12 C. 16 D. 18
27.The work done by men in 3 days is equal to the work done by four boys in 2 days. How many
men are needed to do a piece of work in 48 days which 72 boys can do in 16 days?(Crack Me)
28.Spanish Language Broadcast records last 90 min on each of two sides. If it takes 3 hours to
translate one hour of broadcast, how long will it take to translate 16 full records?
29.4 male and 6 female can cultivate a field in 8 days, 7 male and 3 female can cultivate a field
in 10 days. then how many days will take to cultivate a field if 10 female works?
30.A can write 32 pages in 6 hours and B can write 40 pages in 5 hours. If they write together, in
how many hours they can write 110 pages?9 (Crack me)
31. George can do 3/5 of work in 9days.He then calls in Paul and they completed the work in
4days.How long paul would take long to complete the work?
a)32 b)28 c)35 d)30
32.George and Mark can paint 720 boxes in 20 days. Mark and Harry in 24 days and Harry and
George in 15 days. George works for 4 days, Mark for 8 days and Harry for 8 days. The total
number of boxes painted by them is.
33.If a pipe can fill the tank within 6hrs.But due to leak it takes 30 min more. Now the tank is
full then how much time will it take to empty the tank through the leak.? a)78 b)56 c)66 d)59

34.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? (Crack Me)
35.Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 3712 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. Both pipes
are opened. The cistern will be filled in just half an hour, if pipe B is turned off after:
A. 5 min B. 9 min C. 10 min D. 15 min
36.An engineer undertakes a project to build a 15 km road in 300 days and employees 45 men
for this. After 100 days he finds that only 2.5 km road has been completed. Find number of extra
men he must employ to finish work in time?
a. 43 b. 45 c. 55 d. 68
37. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time.
Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will
it take to fill the tank completely?
38.We have an equal arms two pan balance and need to weigh objects with integral weights in
the range 1to 40 kilo grams. We have a set of standard weights and can place the weights in any
pan. (i.e) some weights can be in a pan with objects and some weights can be in the other pan.
The minimum number of standard weights required is:
39.Roja and Edward were working in a courier company. Roja takes 6 hours to pack 32 parcels
while Edward takes 5 hours to pack 40 parcels. How long they will take to pack 330 parcels
working together?(Crack Me)
40.A is 20 percent more efficient then b. if the two person can complete a piece of work in 60
days.in how many days. A working alone can complete the work
a) 80 b) 90 c) 100 d) 110
41.Consider there is an elevator and you are at the upside and coming down using elevator. You
walk 20 steps and then you stop, then you reach to the ground in 10 minutes. If you walk 10
steps and then stop, then you reach to the ground in 20 minutes. What is the speed of the elevator
and how many steps are there??
42.There are two tanks A and B. A drains water with 6L/m and A drains water with 8L/m. A
starts drain water at 9:00 and after 2 minute, b starts draining of water. At what time, both will
have same level. a. 9:12 b. 9:10 c. 9:08 d. 9:04
43.20 men can do a piece of work in 30 days. After how many days should 5 men leave so that
the work is completed in 35days?
44.A man has a job, which requires him to work 8 straight days and rest on the ninth day. If he
started work on Monday, find the day of the week on which he gets his 12th rest day.
Wednesday.
45.An army camp has provision for 52 days.17 days later,300 new recruits join the camp and
remaining provisions will last only for 21 days. How many recruits are there in camp?
46.It takes 52 days to complete an agreement deal by a certain number of men. After 17 days,300
men are added and 21 days are reduced. How many men were working initially?
47.Hanuman can complete a bridge in 10 days and Ravanan can complete the same bridge in 20
days. Now they are working together and they are completing the bridge in 20 days. What is the
contribution of Ravanan in constructing the bridge?
(a) Half the work (b) One-third of the work (c) Two-fourth of the bridge
(d) Destructing the bridge
48.A group of men decided to do a job in 8 days. But since 10 men dropped out every day, the
job got completed at the end of the 12th day. How many men were there at the beginning?
(Crack Me)
49.A bread making machine can be make bread of 50kg dough in 3 minutes. How many such
machines are required to make breads of 300kg dough in 6 minutes
a.6 b.3 c.4 d.5
50.Printer A prints 8192 character per min and printer B prints 13862 character per min four
character are equal to one word. Printer A starts at 7:15 am while Printer B starts at 7:29 am then
that time both will have same no of words printed
51.A printer started its work at 8.15 a.m and ended its work at 9.20 p.m. It was interrupted twice
for the time duration of 42 min. It can print 100 instructions per hour. Approximate how many
instructions it can print?
52.if 40 people eat in 40 days,30 people in 60 days,then 20 people eat in how many days?
53.Four skilled workers do a job in 5 days, and five semi-skilled workers do the same job in 6
days. How many days will it take for two skilled and one semi-skilled worker to do that job?

7. TIME, SPEED AND DISTANCE

Formulae :
Distance = time * speed
Conversion of units :
X km/hr = X * ( 5/18) m/s
Average speed = 2 s1 s2/ (s1+s2)
AVERAGE SPEED, RELATIVE SPEED
1. A person starts with the speed of u/1 kmph and returns with the speed of u/2 kmph, what is his
average speed?
2. Two persons start at the same point, walk in opposite directions with 5 km/hr and 5.5 km/hr
respectively. What is the distance separated after 2 and half hrs? (Crack Me)
3. A square is of side 1 km. A man travels first 2 sides with the 30 mph and third side with 60
kmph. What is the speed that man has to travel the fourth side if the average speed is 60 kmph
4. Akilan and Ramesh are good friends. On a Friday, they went to a restaurant near their college.
After the dinner, both of them hired a bicycle each and left to their places in opposite directions.
Akilan started cycling towards north at 10 kmph & Ramesh started cycling at 8 kmph towards
south. It was 8 pm when they started. If their residences are 45 kms apart, by what time both
would have reached their homes?
PROBLEMS ON WALKING
5. A person starts walking at a speed of 5km/hr through half the distance, rest of the distance he
covers with aspeed 4km/hr. Total time of travel is 9 hours. What is the maximum distance he can
cover? a.50km b.40km c.70km d.60km
6. If a person walks at 30 kmph he is 10 min late to his office. If he travels at 40 kmph then he
reaches to his office 5 min early. Find the distance to his office.
7. Two men start walking from the same place in opposite directions such that one go towards
east at 10 meters per minute and other goes towards west at 20 meters per minute. At what time
will they be 7.2 km apart?
8. A & B two places. C & D are two people. C started from A and D started from B. When they
meet each other in the way C traveled 18 m more than D. Then C takes 13 and half a minute and
D takes 24 minutes to reach the other end. What was the distance between A & B.?
9. A man is 20 mins late to the office if he walks at 20 kmph, and 15 mins earlier if he walks at
30 kmph. How much time will he be early/late if he walks at 25 kmph?(Crack Me)
a. 2 min b. 1 min c.9 min d.10 min
10. Let X and Y are two ends of a long road of length 2 km. If John and her sister start at the
same time from X and Y respectively and if they run in opposite directions they meet after 10
minutes. Instead of running in opposite direction, in case if they had started running in same
direction John would have met her sister after 30 minutes. Then the speed of John is:
a)4km/hr b)10km/hr c)8km/hr d)3km/hr
11.A software engineer returns from America. As he is fat he decided to have evening walk.....he
started at 3pm. he walks along the road at 4km/hr for some time then he climbs a upward slope
area at 3km/hr then downwards at the rate of 6km/hr. then back to the home through the road at
4km/hr. what is the distance he covered in one way if he reaches back home at 9pm. (Crack Me)
12.A man covers a distance of 1200 km in 70 days resting 9 hours a day, if he rests 10 hours a
day and walks with speed 1 times of the previous in how many days will he cover 750 km?
1: 30 2: 31.25 3: 31 4: 33
13.A man walks from 9.15 to 5.15 from Monday to Friday and 9.00 to 12.00 on Saturday. Each
day 0.45 min lunch. How much time he walks in a week...
14.An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the
bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps
are visible when the escalator is not operating?
15.A car travels the first one -third of a certain distance with a speed of 10km/hr, the next one -third
distance with a speed of 20km/hr, the last one-third distance with a speed of 60km/hr. The average speed
of the car for the whole journey is: (Crack Me)
16.A cycled from P to Q at 10 kmph and returned at the rate of 9 kmph. B cycled both ways at 12 kmph.
In the whole journey B took 10 minutes less than A. Find the distance between P and Q.

a.3.75km b.4.75km c.5.75km d.6km

17.A man rides a bike with speed V for a distance X km. After completing 1/2 of his journey he slows
down to 1/2 of his initial speed and completes his ride half an hour late than planned time. What will be
the ratio of the distance to the speed? a.1:2 b.2:1 c.1:1 d.2:3

18.Two buses are travelling at 36 kmph and are 120 km apart. There is a fly in one bus which starts to fly
at 40 kmph when the bus is started. It flies between two buses until the buses meet each other. Find the
distance travelled by the fly. a)66.6 km b)76.8 km c)56.5 km d)87.5 km

19.A taxi starts travel from P at morning 8 am to Q which is at a distance of 50 km from P. There is a taxi
for every 30 minutes from P and each taxi travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Two men A and B starts at 2 pm
from Q at a speed of 12.5 km/hr and 10 km/hr respectively. During their journey,find the number of taxi's
B encounter more than A.(Crack Me)

20.A car averages 55 mph for the first 4 hours of a trip and averages 70 mph for each additional
hour. The average speed for the entire trip was 60 mph. How many hours long is the trip?
a) 6 b) 8 c) 11 d) 12 e) 14
21.There are 2 toy cars facing each other at a distance of 500 cm from each other. Each car
moves forward by 100 cm at a speed of 50 cm/s and then moves backward by 50 cm at a speed
of 25 cm/s. How long will it take for the cars to collide?
a) 12s b) 14s c) 16s d) 13s
22.Shiva decided to drive through the city and on the first day he drove for only 7 miles. On the
last day he drove for 51 miles, increasing his journey 4 miles each day. Calculate the number of
days he traveled and how far did he travel?
A) 335 miles in 10 days B) 348 miles in 12 days
C) 338 miles in 15 days D) 358 miles in 12 days (Crack Me)
CIRCULAR FIELD

23.P and Q walk around a circular jogging field at a speed of 2 rounds per hour and 3 rounds per hour.
They start in the opposite direction from the same point. How many times will they cross each other
within 1 and half hours?
24.Aravindan and Balasubramanian run in opposite directions at their respective constant speeds from a
point labelled STARTING POINT on a circle. Aravindan runs in clockwise direction. They meet for the
first time at Z, a distance of 1800 m in clockwise direction from STARTING POINT and for the second
time at Y, a distance of 1600 m in anticlockwise direction from STARTING POINT. If Balasubramanian
is yet to complete one complete round, find out the circumference of the circle

25.A, B, C are running in the same direction around a circular track. The track is marked with
numbers from 1 to 12, like the dial of a clock. The 12 numbers are uniformly spaced along the
track. A overtakes B once at 5 and then the next time again at 9. A overtakes C once at 2 and then
the next time again at 4. What is the ratio of B's speed to C's speed? (Crack Me)
A. 7:4 B. 2:1 C. 3:2 D. 5:4

PROBLEMS ON TRAIN:

If two trains travel in same direction then the relative speed =( L1+L2)/( s1-s2)

If two trains travel in opposite direction then the relative speed = (L1+L2)/(s1+s2)

Case 1 : Train crosses a stationary object, which has no length = L (T)= V(t) * T

Case 2 : Train crosses a stationary object with length L (object) = L(T)+L(O) = V(t) * T

Case 3 : Train crosses a moving object, which has no length

Same direction : L (train)= (V(t)- V(o)) * (T)

Opposite direction : L(train)= (V(t)+V(o))* (T)

Case 4 : Train crosses a moving object with length L(object)

Same direction : L(train)+ L(object)= (V(t)-V(o))* T

Opposite direction : L(train)+ L(object)= (V(t)+V(o))* T

26. Two trains are running in opposite directions with the same speed. If the length of each train
is 120 metres and they cross each other in 12 seconds, then the speed of each train (in km/hr) is
(Crack Me)
27.Two trains, one from Howrah to Patna and the other from Patna to Howrah, start
simultaneously. After they meet, the trains reach their destinations after 9 hours and 16 hours
respectively. The ratio of their speeds is
28. Train A starts from Meerut at 12:00 pm & reach at Delhi on 2:30 pm & train B starts from
Delhi at 12:15pm and reach at Meerut on 2:15pm. So, when both trains crosses each other ?
(Crack Me)
29. Two trains are travelling at 25 kmph, starting at the same time from city 1 and city 2
respectively which are 75 km apart. There is a bee, which can fly at 50 kmph starts from city1 at
the same time the train starts and hits the second train. After hitting the train, takes rest till the
trains meet each other. Find the time taken by the fly to rest ? a)15 min b)30 min c)45 min d)65
min
30. A new type of study about movement of trains was conducted by South Central Railway. Two
trains are standing 2520 metres apart in two adjacent railway lines. Both the trains move for five
seconds at 60 m/sec. They halt for 12 seconds. Then again they start moving for five second at
60 m/sec. The process continues. After how many seconds will the engines of the two trains
cross in the adjacent railway lines?
31. At 10 am 2 trains started travelling towards each other from station 287 miles apart they
passed each other at 1:30 pm the same day .if average speed of the faster train exceeded by 6
miles /hr what is speed of faster train in miles/hr
32. Train A starts from Meerut at 12:00 pm & reach at Delhi on 2:30 pm & train B starts from
Delhi at 12:15pm and reach at Meerut on 2:15pm. So, when both trains crosses each other ?
(Crack Me)
33. Two trains travel toward each other on the same track, beginning 100 miles apart. One train
travels at 40 miles per hour; the other travels at 60 miles an hour. A bird starts flight at the same
location as the faster train, flying at a speed of 90 miles per hour. When it reaches the slower
train, it turns around, flying the other direction at the same speed. When it reaches the faster train
again, it turns around -- and so on. When the trains collide? ( Crack Me)
34. There are two stations Rampur and Kanpur. Distance between them is 273KM. Ist Train
starts from Rampur & Travel with the speed of 51KMPH at 1:00 PM and 2nd Train starts from
Kanpur & Travel with the speed of 60KMPH at 2:00 PM. 2nd Train's Driver note the distance
btw both train after every 1 Minute. Find the no. of times he will get the distance in whole
number. A) 13 B) 7 C) 5 D)30
35. A cow was standing on a bridge, 5m away from middle of the bridge. A train was coming
towards the bridge from the end nearest to the cow. seeing this the cow ran towards the train and
managed to escape when the train was 2m away from the bridge. if it had run in the opposite
direction (i.e away from the train ) it would have been hit by the train 2m before the end of the
bridge , what is the length of the bridge in metres assuming speed of train is 4 times that of the
cow? a. 32 b. 36 c. 40 d. Can't b determine (Crack Me)
36. A person was going through train from Bombay to Pune. After every five minutes he finds a
train coming from opposite direction. Velocity of trains are equal of either direction. If the person
reached Pune in one hour then how many trains he saw in the journey ?
37. A passenger in train `P` travelling at 1 km/min uses his stop watch and finds that another
train `Q` travelling in the opposite direction, completely passed his window in 3 seconds. If the
length of the train `Q` is 87.50 m. Try to find its speed in Km/hr or in any conversion?(Crack
Me)
BOATS AND STREAMS :
Downstream/Upstream:
In water, the direction along the stream is called downstream. And, the direction against the
stream is called upstream.
If the speed of a boat in still water is u km/hr and the speed of the stream is v km/hr, then:
Speed downstream = (u + v) km/hr.
Speed upstream = (u - v) km/hr.
If the speed downstream is a km/hr and the speed upstream is b km/hr, then:
Speed in still water = 1 /2(a + b) km/hr.
Rate of stream = 1 /2(a - b) km/hr.
38. 4. A boat runs at 22 km per hour along the stream and 10 km per hour against the stream.
Find the ratio of speed of the boat in still water to that of the speed of tht stream. a) 2:3 b)
8:3 c) 5:3 d) 7:3 (Crack Me)
39.A river runs at 4 km/hr. if the time taken by a man to row is boat upstream is 3 as the time
taken by him to row it downstream then find the speed of the boat in still water.? (Crack Me)
a.8kmph b.9kmph c.10kmph d.12kmph
40.Johny participated in a swimming competition. He swam in a river at an effective speed of 6
Kilometers/hr. The rate of the stream against Johny is measured to be 3 Kilometers/hr. Now, by
how much percentage his effective speed will increase assuming Johny swims in the direction of
the stream.
a)100% b)66 2/3% c)50% d) 72%
41.On Monday Mayawati rows 42 Km upstream to a spot and returns back. While returning she
overshoots the starting point by 48 km. The overall travel time is 8 hours. On Tuesday Mayawati
rows 70 km upstream to a spot. Now while returning she is careful not to overshoot as on
Monday. However, she again over shooted the origin by 2 km. The overall journey time was 9
hours. What is the speed of Mayawati in still water?
a) 18 km/hour b) 12 km/hour c) 14 km/hour d) 16 km/hour
42.John swims in a river at an effective speed of 8 Kilometers/hr. The velocity of the stream
against John is measured to be 2 Kilometers/hr. Now, how much his effective speed will increase
when he swims in the direction of the stream.
PROBLEMS ON ESCALATOR :
43. An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the
bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps
are visible when the escalator is not operating?
42. In Dubai city there are a number of skyscrapers. Grand Hotel building at Dubai was fitted
with Highrun lifts. On the first day after fitting the lift there appeared a few technical issues.
The lift was moving 8 floors per minute initially and in the next minute it fell down by 3 floors.
This process continued throughout that day. It took 65 minutes for the lift to reach top most floor
for the first time and then it stopped there. How many floors are there in that building. ( Crack
Me)
PROBLEMS ON RACE :
44. A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart.
They ran at the full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of the
horses ran away to some other direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind the
schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles more, then the person would have been only
24 hours late. Find the distance of the destination.