download Mastguru Android App

Question Detail

Worker A takes 8 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 10 hours to do a job. How long should it take both A and B, working together to do same job.

  • \begin{aligned} \frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 2\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 3\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 4\frac{4}{9} \end{aligned}
Similar Questions :

1. A does half as much work as B in three-fourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to complete the work, how much time shall B take to do it

  • 40 days
  • 35 days
  • 30 days
  • 25 days

2. A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do same work in half the time taken by A. then working together, what part of same work they can finish in a day

  • 1\5
  • 1\6
  • 1\7
  • 1\8

3. A can do a piece of work in 4 hours . A and C together can do it in just 2 hours, while B and C together need 3 hours to finish the same work. In how many hours B can complete the work ?

  • 10 hours
  • 12 hours
  • 16 hours
  • 18 hours

4. A and B can together complete a piece of work in 4 days. If A alone can complete the same work in 12 days, in how many days can B alone complete that work ?

  • 4 days
  • 5 days
  • 6 days
  • 7 days

5. A can do a piece of work in 15 days and B alone can do it in 10 days. B works at it for 5 days and then leaves. A alone can finish the remaining work in

  • 5 days
  • 6 days
  • 7.5 days
  • 8.5 days
Read more from - Time and Work Questions Answers
Post a comment

  • Dixit Nayak 9 years ago

    Two workers undertake to do a job. 2nd worker
    started two hours after the 1st. 5 hours after the 2nd worker
    started the work, only 11/20 work was done. In how
    many hours they can complete the work independently, if it is known that 1st
    worker did 60% of the total work and 2nd worker did the rest???

  • Shubham sanware 9 years ago

    How 1 hour work is 1/8 ?

  • Awais 12 years ago

    where is came from?? means 40/9?? and how is it done 4/4/9

    mastguru 12 years ago replied

    Hello Awais,

    as we calculated that work done by A and B in 1 hour is 9/40 hour

    It means both will finish work in 40/9 hour, here denominator becomes numerator and numerator become denominator.

    or say if You can finish a task in 8 days, it means you will finish 1/8 in 1 day, right.

    Also if you can finish 1/8 in 1 day then it means you will finish it in 8 days. so it is inverse of that.

    In same way we got 40/9 from 9/40

    also 4(4/9) = 40/9,

    As options were given in this format so we had to break it in this form.

    In this type of form,

    we calculate as,

    (4*denominator+numerator)/denominator,

    i.e. (4*9+4)/9 = 40/9

    Hope it helps.