CMAT Pipes and Cisterns Practice Questions With Solutions

Amit can do 50% more work than Bhushan in same time. Bhushan alone can do a piece of work in 30 hours. Bhushan starts working and had already worked for 12 hours when Amit joins him. How many hours should Bhushan and Amit work together to complete the remaining work?

3 men and 18 women together take 2 days to complete a piece of work. How many days will 9 women alone take to complete the piece of work; if 6 men alone can complete the piece of work in 3 days?

Given below are two statements :

Statement II :
If 6 persons working 8 hours a day earn ₹8,400 per week, then 9 person working 6 hours a day will earn ₹9,450 per week.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Three pipes P, Q and R can fill a tank in 6 hours. After working at it together for 2 hours, R is closed and both P and Q can fill the remaining part in 7 hours. The number of hours that will be taken by R alone to fill the tank is

One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as another pipe. If the two pipes together can fill the tank in 36 minutes, then the slower pipe will take how much time to fill the tank alone?

Given: Anuj takes 1 day to complete a job. Bharat takes twice the time as Anuj to complete the same job. Chetan takes twice the time as Bharat to complete that job. Dhiraj takes twice the time as Chetan to complete that job.

Pipe X can fill a tank in 12 hours and pipe Y can empty the tank in 18 hours. Both pipes are opened at 8 am and after some time Y is closed, and the tank is full at 10 pm on the same day. At what time was pipe Y closed?

Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 5 hours and 20 hours respectively. Both pipes together can fill the same tank in:

L and M together can complete a piece of work in 72 days, M and N together can complete it in 120 days, and L and N together in 90 days. In what time can L alone complete the work?

A city has an average demand of water of 33,000 Lts. of water which lasts for 50 days. But if some people enter the city, then the demand increases to 37,000 Lts. of water for which supply will lasts 35 days. Give an estimation of how much minimum water should be used daily so that it could last 50 days ?