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Questions : A can do $1/3$ rd of a work in 5 days and B can do $2/5$th of this work in 10 days. Both A and B, together can do the work in

(a) 8$4/5$ days

(b) 7$3/8$ days

(c) 10 days

(d) 9$3/8$ days

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

A does $1/3$ rd part of work in 5 days.

A will do 1 work in 5 × 3 = 15 days.

B does $2/5$ th of work in 10 days.

B will do 1 work in ${10 × 5}/2$ = 25 days.

(A + B)’s 1 day’s work

= $1/15 + 1/25 = {5 + 3}/75 = 8/75$

∴ Required time

= $75/8 = 9{3}/8$ days

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Question : 1

A can complete $2/3$ of a work in 4 days and B can complete $3/5$ of the work in 6 days. In how many days can both A and B together complete the work ?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 2$7/8$

d) 3$3/4$

Answer: (d)

Using basics of Rule 2,

Time taken by A to complete the work

= ${4 × 3}/2$ = 6 days

Time taken by B to complete the work

= ${6 × 5}/3$ = 10 days

(A + B)’s 1 day’s work

= $1/6 + 1/10 = {5 + 3}/30 = 8/30 = 4/15$

A and B together will complete the work in

$15/4 = 3{3}/4$ days.

Question : 2

A, B and C are employed to do a piece of work for Rs. 5,290. A and B together are supposed to do $19/23$ of the work and B and C together $8/23$ of the work. Then A should be paid

a) Rs.3,450

b) Rs.4,250

c) Rs.2,290

d) Rs.1,950

Answer: (a)

Part of work done by A and B = $19/23$

Part of work done by C = $1 - 19/23 = 4/23$

Part of work done by B and C = $8/23$

Part of work done by B

= $8/23 - 4/23 = 4/23$

Part of work done by A

= $19/23 - 4/23 = 15/23$

Ratio of the shares of wages of A, B and C

= $15/23 : 4/23 : 4/23$ = 15 : 4 : 4

A’s share = $15/23$ × 5290 = Rs.3450

Question : 3

A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they together work on it for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is:

a) $7/15$

b) $8/15$

c) $1/10$

d) $1/4$

Answer: (b)

Using Rule 2
If A completes a piece of work in 'x' days, and B completes the same work in 'y' days, then,
Work done by A in 1 day = $1/x$, Work done by B in 1 day = $1/y$
Work done by A and B in 1 day = $1/x + 1/y = {x + y}/{xy}$
Total time taken to complete the work by A and B both = $({xy}/{x + y})$

A’s work per day = $1/15$

B’s work per day = $1/20$

(A+ B)’s work per day

= $1/15 + 1/20 = {4 + 3}/60 = 7/60$

(A + B)’s work in 4 days

= $4 × 7/60 = 7/15$

Left work = $1 - 7/15 = {15 - 7}/15 = 8/15$

Question : 4

A can do in one day three times the work done by B in one day. They together finish $2/5$ of the work in 9 days. The number of days by which B can do the work alone is :

a) 120 days

b) 90 days

c) 30 days

d) 100 days

Answer: (b)

Let time taken by A alone in doing work be x days.

Time taken by B alone = 3x days

A and B together finish $2/5$ work in 9 days.

TIme taken by A and B in doing whole work

= ${9 × 5}/2 = 45/2$ days

$1/x + 1/{3x} = 2/45$

${3 + 1}/{3x} = 2/45$

$4/{3x} = 2/45$ ⇒ 2 × 3x = 4 × 45

$x = {4 × 45}/{2 × 3}$ = 30 days

Time taken by B = 3x days = 3 × 30 = 90 days

Using Rule 22
The efficiency of A to work is 'n' times more than that of B, Both start to work together and finish it in 'D' days. Then, A and B will separately complete, the work in $({n + 1}/n)$D and (n + 1)D days respectively.

Here, n = 3 and D = ${9 × 5}/2 = 45/2$ days

(Time taken to finish whole work)

Time taken by B = (n + 1)D

= (3 + 1) × $45/2$ = 90 days

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