June 26, 2018

Work and Time Problems with Solutions



Q1. Ajay can do a piece of work in 25 days and Sanjay can finish it in 20 days. They work together for 5 days and then Ajay goes away. In how many days will Sanjay finish the remaining work?

Answer: As we have done in our Previous Example, we consider that Ajay does 25 units of work in 25 days and Sanjay does 20 units of work in 20 days.

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Since efficiency of Sanjay is 5, 
so the remaining work will done in 55/5 = 11 days.

Q2. It is given that 16 men working 18 hours a days can build a wall 36 m long, 4 m broad and 24 m high in 20 days. How many men will be required to build a wall 64 m long, 6 m broad and 18 m high working 12 hour a day in 16 days?

Answer: There is a technique to solve this type of work and time problems quickly. The short trick to solve this problem is


M1D1T1W2 = M2D2T2W1

By applying this rule we get

16*18*20*(64*6*18) = M2*12*16*(36*4*24)


M2 = 60

Q3. P can do a piece of work in 12 days, while Q alone can finish it in 8 days. With the help of R they can finish the work in 4 days. How long will R take to finish the work alone?

Answer: As we have done previously, here also we consider that P does 12 units of work, Q does 8 units of work and P,Q,R all together do 4 units of work. (1 unit/days)

So taking LCM of 12, 8, 4 we get 24 as total units of work. Now,


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So we have seen in the picture that R’s efficiency is 1, i.e. R can do 1 unit of work in one day. As we found that the total work is 24 units,

so to do the whole work alone 


R will take 24/1 = 24 days.



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