Time and Work

Time and Work
Time Time taken to complete an assigned job

Individual time Time needed by single person to complete a job
Work It is the amount of work done actually
In general, there are two methods for approaching time and work
problems. For example; either of
Method 1: Fraction technique
or
Method 2: Efficiency technique
Discussion:
 Efficiency = Total Work/Time (Efficiency Technique)
(Fraction Technique)
If A can do a piece of work in n days, then A’s 1 day’s work = 1/n
Days from Work:
If A’s 1 day’s work = 1/n, then A can finish the work in n days
 If A is thrice as good a workman as B, then:

 Ratio of work done by A and B = 3:1
 Ratio of times taken by A and B to finish a work = 1:3
Ex 1.
If Roger can do a piece of work in 8 days and Antony can complete the same work in 5 days, in how
many days will both of them together complete it ?
Ans.
Fraction Technique:
Roger’s 1 day’s work
Antony’s 1 day’s work
(Roger + Antony)’s one day’s work
Both will complete the work in days.
Efficiency Technique:
Let Total Work be , then
Roger’s Efficiency = Total Work/ Time =
Antony’s Efficiency =
Together Efficiency =
No. of days of together complete the work = Total Work/ Efficiency
Ex 2.
A and B together can complete a piece of work in 15 days and B
alone in 20 days. In how many days can A alone complete the work?
Ans.
(A+B)’s 1 day’s work
B’s 1 day’s work
A’s 1 day’s work
Hence, A alone can complete the work in 60 days.
Ex 3.
A can do a piece of work in 10 days, and B can do the same work in
20 days. With the help of C, they finished the work in 4 days. C can
do the work in how many days, working alone?
Answer:
C alone will take
days are required to complete the work.
Ex 4.
Ram is twice as efficient as Sunita and can finish a piece of work in
25 days less than Sunita. Sunita can finish this work in how many
days?
Work Formula:
Efficiency of Ram: Efficiency of Sunita = 2: 1.
Ram will take 1/2 of time as compared to Sunita.
Say, Sunita takes days and Ram takes days.
Sunita takes days to do the work.

Hint: If R is twice as good a workman as S, then:
 Ratio of work done by R and S = 2:1
 Ratio of times taken by R and S to finish a work = 1:2
Ex 5.
X can do a piece of work in 20 days. He worked at it for 5 days and
then Y finished it in 15 days. In how many days can X and Y together
finish the work?
Ex 6.
A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working
together, take to complete a job which A alone could have done in
23 days?
Ans.
Ratio of times taken by A and B = 100 : 130 = 10 : 13
Suppose B takes x days to do the work.
Then, implies
A's 1 day's work
B's 1 day's work
(A + B)'s 1 day's work
Therefore, A and B together can complete the work in 13
days.
Ex 7.
Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days. Tanya is 25% more efficient
than Sakshi. The number of days taken by Tanya to do the same
piece of work is?
Ans.
Ratio of times taken by Tanya and Sakshi = 100 : 125 = 4 : 5
Suppose Tanya takesdays to do the work
implies days
Hence, Tanya takes 16 days to complete the work.
Ex 8.
A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and
B undertook to do it for Rs. 3200. With the help of C, they completed
the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C?
Ans.
C’s 1 day’s work
A’s wages : B’s wages : C’s wages
C’s share (for 3 days)
Ex 9.
If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men
and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days, the time taken by 15 men
and 20 boys in doing the same type of work will be?
Ans.
Let 1 man's 1 day's work and 1 boy's 1 day's work
Then and implies
(15 men +20 boys)’s 1 days’s work
Therefore, 15 men and 20 boys can do the work in 4 days
Ex 10.
Mr. Ram has a sum of money, which is sufficient to pay Usha's wages
for 30 days and Manika's wages for 60 days. If he employs them
together, the money is sufficient to pay their wages for how many
days?
Ans.
Usha’s one day’s wage bill is of the total money.
Manika’s one day wage bill is of the total money.
That means together their wage bill is of the total money.
Thus, the money is sufficient for their 20 days’ wages
Ex 11.
A takes 5 days more than B to do a certain job and 9 days more than
C; A and B together can do the job in the same time as C. How many
days A would take to do it?
Ex 12.
Three friends, Anne, Bob and Chris work together to do a certain job. The time it
takes them to do the work together is 6 hours less than Anne would have take
alone, 1 hour less than Bob would have taken alone and half the time Chris would
have taken working alone. How long did it take them to complete the job, working
together?
Ans. Let the time taken by the three friends together to do the
work be hours. Then,
Time taken by Anne alone hrs
Time taken by Bob alone hrs
Time taken by Chris alone hrs
Required time hrs mins mins

Ex 13.
A does 20% less work than B. If A can complete a piece of work in
hours, then B can do it in?
Ans.
Ration of times taken by A and B = 100 : 80
= 5:4
Suppose B takes hours to do the work.
hours.
Ex 14.
A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on it
together for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is ?
Ans.
A's 1 day's work
B's 1 day's work
(A+B)'s 1 day's work
(A+B)'s 4 day's work
Remaining work
Ex 15.
A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively.
In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on
every third day?
Ans.
A's 2 day's work
(A + B + C)'s 1 day's work

Work done in 3 days
Now 1/5work is done in 3 days
Whole work will be done in days
17) A and B together can do a piece of work in 30 days. A having worked
for 16 days, B finishes the remaining work alone in 44 days. In how
many days shall B finish the whole work alone?
Answer:
Let A's 1 day's work = x and B's 1 day's work = y.

Then X+Y= 1/30 and 16X+44Y=1
Solving these equations, we get X = 1/60 and Y=1/60
.. B’s 1 day work = 1/60.

Hence B alone do the work in 60 days.
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Time Time taken to complete an assigned job

If A can do a piece of work in n days, then A’s 1 day’s work = 1/n

Days from Work:

 If A is thrice as good a workman as B, then:

Sunita takes days to do the work.

Required time hrs mins mins

(A + B + C)'s 1 day's work

Let A's 1 day's work = x and B's 1 day's work = y.

.. B’s 1 day work = 1/60.

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