Arithmetic Questions And Answers :: Chain Rule: part5

1.A contractor undertakes to do a piece of work in 40 days. He engages 100 men at the beginning and 100 more after 35 days and completes the work in stipulated time. If he had engaged the additional men, how many days behind schedule would it be finished ?

2.If 3 men or 6 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days will it take to complete a work twice as large with 6 men and 2 boys working together for 8 hours a day ?

3.15 men take 21 days of 8 hours each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hours each would 21 women take, if 3 women do as much work as 2 men ?

4.A contractor undertook to do a certain piece of work in 9 days. He employed certain number of labouters but 6 of them being adsent from the very first day, the rest could finish the work in 15 days. The number of men originally employed were :

5.2 men and 7 boys can do piece of work in 14 days; 3 men and 8 boys can do the same in 11 days. 8 men and 6 boys can do 3 times the amount of this work in :