BASIC CONCEPTS – 4 (1) 24 days (2) 28 days

Time and Distance, Time and Work (3) 32 days (4) 36 days

1) A and B can do a piece of work in 40 days 8) A and B together can do apiece of work in
while C & A can do it in 60 days. If B is twice twelve days which B and C together can do
as good as C then C alone will do the work in in 16 days. After A has been working at it for
________ days. five days and B for seven days, C finishes it
(1) 120 days (2) 100 days in 13 days. In how many days C alone will
(3) 80 days (4) 24 days do the work?
(1) 16 days (2) 24 days
2) A is thrice as good a workman as B and B is (3) 36 days (4) 48 days
twice as good a workman as C. If they all
finish a piece of work in 12 days, then C 9) Twelve men complete a work in 9 days. After
alone will finish it in ____________days. they have worked for 6 days, 6 more men
(1) 18 days (2) 108 days join them. How many days will they take to
(3) 3 days (4) 154 days complete the remaining work?
(1) 2 days (2) 3 days
3) A can do a work in 15 days & B the same (3) 4 days (4) 5 days
work in 12 days. B started the work and was
joined by A, 5 days before the end of work. 10) A tank, which could be filled in 5 hrs, takes
The work lasted for ____ days. 1 hour more to be filled owing to a leak in its
(1) 8 days (2) 12 days bottom. If the tank is full, the leakage will
(3) 13 days (4) 24 days empty the tank in.
(1) 1hr (2) 11 hrs
4) A can do a piece of work in 40 days and B (3) 13 hrs (4) 30 hrs
can do the same in 30 days. A started alone
but left the work after 10 days, then B 11) Pipe A can fill a tank in 16 min and pipe B
worked at it for 10 days. C finished the can empty it in 24 min. If both are opened,
remaining work in 10 days. How long will C after how many minutes should pipe B be
alone take to do? closed, so that tank is filled in 30 min?
(1) 24 days (2) 30 days (1) 20 (2) 21

(3) 44 days (4) 17

1 days (3) 23 (4) 22
7 12) Two pipes can fill a tank in 18 min and 27
5) 5 men or 6 women or 10 boys can do a work min. A third pipe can empty full tank in 6
in 15 days. How long will it take to complete min. All three are opened when tank was
the work by a group of 5 men, 6 women and 2/3 full. In how many min, will tank become
10 boys. empty?
(1) 5 days (2) 6 days (1) 11 (2) 9
(3) 10 days (4) 45 days (3) 13 (4) 7

6) A can do a piece of work in 90 days, B in 40 13) A, B & C can fill a tank in 12, 24, 48 hrs.
days and C in 12 days. They work for a day They are opened together, but B is closed 3
each in turn, i.e. first day A does it alone, hrs before and C closed 2 hrs before filling
second day B does it alone and third day C of tank. In how many hours, was tank
does it alone. After that the cycle is repeated filled?
till work is completed. They get Rs: 240 for (1) 6 (2) 8
this job. If the wages are divided in (3) 7 (4) 9
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proportion to the work each had done. Find

the amount A will get?
(1) 14 (2) 24
(3) 34 (4) 36
7) Three men with 5 boys can do a piece of
work in 2 days and 4 men and 16 boys can
complete the job in one day. How much time
will it take for one boy together with a
woman who can work twice as fast as the
boy to complete a job that is three times as
time consuming?
14) Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 8
hrs. All the three pipes are opened for 2 hrs
and then C is closed. If A & B fill the
remaining tank in 9 hrs, find the time taken
by C alone to fill the tank?
(1) 12 (2) 18
(3) 24 (4) 36
15) At 10 AM taps A,B and C are turned on. A
can fill the tub in 5 hrs, B can fill it in 10 hrs

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 and C can empty it in 7½hrs. At what time, 23) Increasing his speed by 2 mph a person
working together will the tank be filled covers a certain distance 1 hr early. Had he
(1) 4 AM (2) 6 AM decreased his speed by 2 mph, he would
(3) 4 PM (4) 6 PM have taken 1 ½ hrs late. Find the distance
traveled by that person?
16) A leaves a station at 8 mph and after 5 (1) 30 miles (2) 40 miles
hours B leaves the same station and travels (3) 48 miles (4) 60 miles
in the same direction as A at 12 mph. After
how much time B overtakes A? 24) Navin is travelling on his bike and has
(1) 6 hrs (2) 8 hrs calculated to reach point A at 2 pm if he
(3) 10 hrs (4) 12 hrs travels at 40 kmph, he will reach there at
12 noon if he travels at 60 kmph. At what
17) Two cars P and Q start at the same time speed must he travel to reach A at 1 pm?
from A and B which are 120 km apart. If (1) 50 km/h (2) 45 km/h
the two cars travel in opposite directions, (3) 58 km/h (4) 48 km/h
they meet after one hour and if they travel
in same direction (from A towards B), then 25) A thief is noticed by a policeman from a
P meets Q after 6 hrs. What is the speed of distance of 300 m. The thief starts running
the car P? and the policeman chases him. The thief
(1) 60 km/h (2) 70 km/h and the police man run at the rate of 10
(3) 80 km/h (4) 40 km/h kmph and 11 kmph respectively. What is
the distance between them after 6 minutes?
18) A, B and C are the three persons run on the (1) 200 m (2) 150 m
circular path at the speed of 20 m/sec, 30 (3) 100 m (4) 190 m
m/sec and 50 m/sec respectively in the
same direction. The circumference of the 26) A train, 180m long crossed 120m long
track is 600 meters. When will they be platforms in 20s and another train at same
together again for the first time at the speed crossed a pole in 10s. In what time
starting point? can they cross each other, when they travel
(1) 45 Sec (2) 60 sec in opposite directions?
(3) 35 sec (4) 55 sec (1) 11s (2) 13s
(3) 12s (4) 14s
19) The ratio of the distance from x to y to the
distance from y to z is 5 : 4.A man travels 27) Two trains pass each other on parallel
from x to y at 50 mph and y to z at 40 lines. Each train is 100 meters long. When
mph. Find his average speed for the entire they are going in the same direction, the
journey? faster one takes 60 seconds to pass the
a) 25 mph (2) 35 mph other completely. If they are going in
(3) 45 mph (4) 50 mph opposite directions they pass each other
completely in 10 seconds. Find the speed of
20) The speed of a bus without stoppages is 50 the slower train? (in km/h)
mph and with stoppage is 35 mph. How (1) 30 (2) 42
many minutes per hour does the bus stop? (3) 48 (4) 60
(1) 15 min (2) 18 min
(3) 20 min (4) 24 min 28) In a stream that is running at 2 km/h, a
man goes 10 km upstream and comes back
21) ) A man covers 1/3rd of the distance at 60 to the starting point in 55 minutes. Find the
mph and remaining distance at the rate of speed of the man in still water.
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80 mph. Find his average speed for the (1) 20 km/h (2) 22 km/h
entire journey? (3) 24 km/h (4) 28 km/h
(1) 36 mph (2) 45 mph
(3) 60 mph (4) 72 mph 29) A boat travels 12km downstream in 48 min,
if the speed of stream is 2kmph, then speed
22) A train leaves point A at 6.00 a.m. and of boat in still water is
reaches point B at 10.00 a.m. Another train (1) 13kmph (2) 15kmph
leaves point B at 8.00 a.m. and reaches (3) 17kmph (4) None
point A at 12 noon. When do the two trains
meet? 30) A boat covers 55 km down stream and 25
(1) 9.00 a.m. (2) 10.00 a.m. km up stream in 10 hrs while it covers 44
(3) 11.00 a.m. (4) 1.00 p.m.

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km down stream and 35 km up stream in
11 hrs. The velocity of the current is?
(1) 2 km/h (2) 3 km/h
(3) 4 km/h (4) 5 km/h

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