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Q1 Arjun and Bheem are standing at point A on a circular track with circumference 300 m. Cherry is standing at point B which is diametrically opposite point A on the track. All three of them start running simultaneously on the track; Arjun and Cherry run in clockwise direction at 3 m/s and 4 m/s respectively while Bheem runs in anticlockwise direction at 5 m/s. After how much time from the start will Cherry be equidistant from Arjun and Bheem for the first time?

Q2 Ashish, Binay and Joseph can do a job in 20, 30 and 40 days respectively. The three started the job together; Ashish left the job 4 days before it was completed and Binay left the job 3 days before it was completed. In how many days was the job completed?

Q3 A and B are the two opposite ends of a swimming pool and the distance between them is 420 metres. Ankur and Manu start swimming towards each other at the same time from A and B, with speeds in the ratio 5 : 9 respectively. As soon as any of them reaches an end, he turns back and starts swimming towards the other end. At what distance (in metres) from A will they meet when Manu is in his 13th round? Note: A to B is considered one round and B to A another round.

Q4 Pia and Ria start running simultaneously from the same point on a circular track of length 4200 m. If they run in opposite directions, they meet for the first time exactly after 2 minutes from the start and they meet at seven distinct points on the track. If they run in the same direction, they meet at three distinct points on the track. How much time (in minutes) does Ria take to complete one round, if she is the slower runner?

Q5 Ajit and Baba are standing at a distance of 120 m from each other. Ajit starts running towards Baba and at the same time Baba starts running away from Ajit. As soon as Ajit catches Baba, Ajit turns back and start running backwards. By the time Ajit reaches the point from where Baba started, Baba has covered a total distance of 120 m. What is the total distance (in metres) that has been covered by Ajit at this point?

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Q6 P and Q are two opposite ends of a straight running track. Ria and Tia start running towards each other simultaneously from P and Q respectively. As soon as any of them reaches an end, she turns back and starts running towards the other end. Their first meeting happens at a point 210 m away from P and the second meeting happens at a point 150 m away from Q. If the speeds (in m/s) of Ria and Tia are x and y respectively, such that 2x > y > x, then what is the distance between P and Q?

Q7 The work done by 4 men in 12 days is equal to the work done by 6 women in 10 days and is also equal to the work done by 8 children in 9 days. A man, a woman and a child working together take 10 days to complete a particular job. In how many days will the same job be completed by 2 women and 5 children working together?

Q8 Aman, Baman and Chaman can finish a job working alone in 15, 20 and 25 days respectively. However, while working with somebody the efficiency of Aman, Baman and Chaman reduces by 30%, 20% and 50% respectively. If none of them is allowed to work for three consecutive days, then what is the maximum possible fraction of the job that they can complete in four days?

Q9 One man and six women working together can do a job in 10 days. The same job is done by two men in p days and by eight women in p+5 days. By what percentage is the efficiency of a man greater than that of a woman?

Q10 The work done by 2 men in a day is equal to the work done by 3 children in a day. The work done by 3 men in a day is equal to the work done by 5 women in a day. It takes 10 days for a man, a woman and a child to complete a job working together. How many days will 2 children working together take to complete the same job?

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Q11 It takes 30 hours for an inlet pipe to fill an empty tank completely. When 5 identical inlet pipes and 4 identical outlet pipes operate together, the same empty tank get filled completely in 10 hours. How much time (in hours) will an outlet pipe take to empty the same tank when its filled upto half its volume?

Q12 A contractor agreed to finish a piece of work in 150 days. He employed 75 men and made them work for 8 hours per day. However, after 90 days, he realized that only of the work was completed. How many more men would he need to employ to complete the work on time if he intended to make everybody work for 10 hours per day henceforth?

Q13 When working alone A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 8, 12 and 30 days respectively. At the most only two people can work on each day and nobody works for more than two consecutive days. What is the minimum number of days that they will take to finish the work?

Q14 Ten workers started a job and worked on it for 10 days. Eleventh day onwards, a new worker joined them every day till the job was finished. It took exactly 20 days to finish the entire job. The same job has to be done starting with the minimum possible number of workers when it is known that a worker will quit the job every day after the first day. How many days will it take to finish the job in such a manner?

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Q15 A tank has four inlet pipes such that each inlet pipe while working independently can fill the tank in 4 hours. The tank also has two outlet pipes such that each outlet pipe while working independently can empty the tank in 3 hours. If all the six pipes are opened simultaneously, then in how much time will the tank get filled completely?

Q16 Saral and Himanshu can do a work in 6 days and 8 days respectively. If Saral, Himanshu and Abhishek together can complete the work in 2 days, then what is the ratio of the earnings of Saral, Himanshu and Abhishek, if they are paid in the ratio of the work done by them?

Q17 A and B are the two opposite ends of a swimming pool and the distance between them is 420 metres. Ankur and Manu start swimming towards each other at the same time from A and B, with speeds in the ratio 5 : 9 respectively. As soon as any of them reaches an end, he turns back and starts swimming towards the other end. At what distance (in metres) from A will they meet when Manu is in his 13th round? Note: A to B is considered one round and B to A another round.

Q18 A bus covers a journey at an average speed of 90 km/h. If the time for which the bus stops during the journey is excluded, then the average speed for the journey becomes 108 km/h. For how much time, on an average, does the bus stop every hour?

Q19 Sameer and Sumer started running from the same point in opposite directions on a circular track of length 120 m. Their speeds are 20 m/s and 40 m/s respectively. After every second, Sameer increases his speed by 2 m/s whereas Sumer decreases his speed by 2 m/s. How many times would they have met on the track by the time Sumer comes to rest?

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Q20 P and Q are two points 100 km apart. A starts running from P towards Q at 10 km/hr. B starts running from Q at exactly the same time and in the same direction as that of A at 20 km/hr. After an hour, B turns back and changes his speed to 10 km/hr. After another hour, B again turns back and changes his speed to 20 km/hr. He keeps on changing his speed and direction in this manner till the time he meets A. After how much time will A and B meet for the first time?

Q21 Three boys A, B and C start running at constant speeds from the same point P along the circumference of a circular track. The speeds of A, B and C are in the ratio 5:1:1. A and B run clockwise while C runs in the anticlockwise direction. Each time A meets B or C on the track he gives them a card. What is the difference in the number of cards received by B and C if A distributes 33 cards in all?

Q22 The work done by 4 men in 12 days is equal to the work done by 6 women in 10 days and is also equal to the work done by 8 children in 9 days. A man, a woman and a child working together take 10 days to complete a particular job. In how many days will the same job be completed by 2 women and 5 children working together?

Q23 The work done by 2 men in a day is equal to the work done by 3 children in a day. The work done by 3 men in a day is equal to the work done by 5 women in a day. It takes 10 days for a man, a woman and a child to complete a job working together. How many days will 2 children working together take to complete the same job?

Q24 It takes 30 hours for an inlet pipe to fill an empty tank completely. When 5 identical inlet pipes and 4 identical outlet pipes operate together, the same empty tank get filled completely in 10 hours. How much time (in hours) will an outlet pipe take to empty the same tank when its filled upto half its volume?

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Q25 Sixty equally spaced line segments are drawn on a circular clock such that each line segment is a radius of the circle. If the minute hand and the hour hand of the clock overlap with one of these line segments at 12 Noon, then at what time during the next 12 hours will the minute hand overlap with the line segment which is immediately prior to the line segment with which the hour hand overlaps?

26)There are three watches W1, W2 and W3. Once an alarm goes off in W1, it rings continuously for 20 seconds, then pauses, then starts ringing again after 2 minutes, and so on. The respective values for W2 are 50 seconds and 5 minutes, and for W3 are 1 minute and 6 minutes. An alarm is set in each of the three watches for 06:00 am. At what time after 06:00 am will the three alarms go off simultaneously for the first time?

27)A bus covers a journey at an average speed of 90 km/h. If the time for which the bus stops during the journey is excluded, then the average speed for the journey becomes 108 km/h. For how much time, on an average, does the bus stop every hour? Without stoppages, bus travels 108 km in 1 hour With stoppages it travels only 90km It loses the time taken to cover 18km Time it would have normally taken to cover 18km = time given to stoppages = 18/108 hr = 1/6 hr = 10min

28)Two friends Prakash and Arpit started running simultaneously from a point P in the same direction along a straight running track. The ratio of the speeds of Prakash and Arpit was 2 : 5 respectively. Two hours later, Arpit turned back and started running backwards at one-fifth of his original speed. He met Prakash at a distance of 10 km from the point P. What was Prakashs running speed?

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29)Anu and Prem started running simultaneously from diametrically opposite points on a circular track. They ran in opposite directions and met after 12 minutes for the first time. If the distance between them exactly t minutes after they start is equal to a quarter of the length of the track, which of the following is not a possible value of t?

30)A boat travels 60 km upstream and 100 km downstream in 8 hours and then travels 75 km upstream and 175 km downstream in 12 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?

31)Sameer and Sumer started running from the same point in opposite directions on a circular track of length 120 m. Their speeds are 20 m/s and 40 m/s respectively. After every second, Sameer increases his speed by 2 m/s whereas Sumer decreases his speed by 2 m/s. How many times would they have met on the track by the time Sumer comes to rest? Their relative speed remains same = 60kmph Time taken to meet = 120/60 =2sec Sumer comes to rest after 20 sec They meet 20/2 =10times

32)Rohan uses a car to go to his college from his home. If he drives at 50 km/hr, he reaches the college 4 minutes late, whereas, if he drives at 60 km/hr, he reaches the college 1 minute early. What is the distance of the college from his home? S50 :S60 = T50:T60 = 50:60 => Difference in ratio =10 => this difference corresponds to 1/12th hr

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=> 10 1/12 hr => 50 50/12 hr and 60 60/12 =5hrs Distance is inversely prop to time taken:=> actual time travelled at 50kmph= 5hrs => distance =250km or 60*50/12 =250km

33)Car A left city C1 for city C2 at 6 a.m. At 9:30 a.m., car B left C1 for C2 and the speed of B was 12 km/hr more than the speed of A. At 4:30 p.m. on the same day, the two cars were 91 km apart. If the cars had travelled continuously without taking any rest, find the speed (in km/hr) of car A. SA =x SB =x+12 10.5x - 7(x+12) =91 3.5x=175 X= 175/3.5 = 50kmph

34)Rohan, Shikhas boyfriend, had to pick her from her home for a live concert on her 23rd birthday. The venue of the concert and Shikhas home were in opposite directions from Rohans office. He got late because of some work at office and realised that if he goes to pick Shikha from her home, which was a 48-minute drive from his office, they would be late for the show by 16 minutes. He asked her to start from her home towards his office in an auto-rickshaw and himself started driving towards her home. Both of them started simultaneously, he picked her as soon as they met and they managed to reach the venue just in time for the concert. If Rohan drives at an average speed of 60 km/hr, find the speed (in km/hr) of the auto-rickshaw. H ______H______________R_________________c HR = 48 min*60kmpg=48km

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Since they would be late by 16 min if rohan has to cover entire distance HR, they have to save 8min either direction, ie from H => Rohan travels only for 40min before meeting her. (NOTE : time taken by rohan to travel 2*HH =16min. This is being saved by meeting her at H) => Distance travelled br Rohan = 2/3*60 =40km => Shikha travels 8km in 40min (since they start at the same time) => Speed of shikha = 12kmph .

35)Rancho first travelled from A to B and then from B to C. The distance between A and B and the distance between B and C were in the ratio 2 : 3. Ranchos average speed between A and B and his average speed between B and C were in the ratio 5 : 4. If Ranchos average speed for the entire journey was 40 km/hr, what was his average speed (in km/hr) between A and B? Formula: - If distances covered are in ration m:n and speed ratio =p:q ; then avg speed = (m+n) pq / pn +mq Here m=2; n=3; p =5x;q=4x (2+3) 20x^2/ 15x +8x = 40 100x^2 / 23x =40 x= 2*23/5 =46/5 kmph 5x =46kmph =Ans ===================================================== OR Avg speed = Total distance / total time Let distances be 2x, 3x and speeds be 5y , 4y Times taken = 2x/5y ; and 3x/4y 2x+3x/ (2x/5y + 3x/4y) =40 100xy / 23x =40 y = 46/5 kmph

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5y =46kmph =Ans

36)A man is running in a railway tunnel. When he has covered exactly twofifth of the length of the tunnel he sees a train approaching the tunnel from behind. He realises that irrespective of the direction in which he runs he will be hit by the train at one of the ends of the tunnel. If the speed of the man is 10 km/hr, find the speed of the train. |t______y_______|____2x_____m________3x_________| Sm :St = 3x / 5x+y = 2x / y y = 10x Sm :St = 2x /10x =1:5 St = 5*10kmph =50kmph

37)A tank has four inlet pipes such that each inlet pipe while working independently can fill the tank in 4 hours. The tank also has two outlet pipes such that each outlet pipe while working independently can empty the tank in 3 hours. If all the six pipes are opened simultaneously, then in how much time will the tank get filled completely? Soln: - total tank cap =12 units Inlet pipes = 3 units/hr Outlet pipes =4 units/hr 4*3 2*4 = 4 units/hr is being filled Time taken = 12/4 =3 hrs

38)A contractor agreed to finish a piece of work in 150 days. He employed 75 men and made them work for 8 hours per day. However, after 90 days,

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he realized that only of the work was completed. How many more men would he need to employ to complete the work on time if he intended to make everybody work for 10 hours per day henceforth? Soln :- 75 * 8* 90 =2T/7 X *10 *60 = 5T/7 X*10 *60 = 5*7 *75*8*90 /7*2 =>X=225 Additional men = 225-75 =150.

39)Six men can complete two-third of a work in 5 days, six women can complete one-fifth of the work in 3 days and five children can complete one-fourth of the work in 6 days. In how many days can a man, a woman and a child working together complete the work? Soln :- 6m = 2/3 w = 5 Or, 6m = 1w =15/2 days Or, 1m = 1w = 45 days Similarly, 1w = 1w = 90days And 1c =1w =120days Tm : Tw :Tc = 45 :90 : 120 Let total work be 360 M : w: c = 8 : 4:3 Time taken when all work = 360 / (m+w+c) = 360 / 15 =24days

40)Arnav can complete one-fourth of a piece of work in five-twelfth of the time taken by Bhavan to complete the entire work. If they together can complete the work in 15 days, then in how many days can Bhavan working alone complete the work? ? Soln: - At = 5/3 Bt => At : Bt = 5:3 => E A : E B = 3 :5 => 3x : 5x

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Total work = 8x*15 =120x Time taken by B = 120x / 5x=24 days Q41Two gun shots are fired at an interval of 24 seconds. A man in a submarine travelling towards the source hears the gunshots at an interval of 22 seconds. Determine the speed of sound in water if the submarine was travelling at 40 m/s.