A contract is to paint 3 houses. Mr brown takes 6 days to
paint a house. Mr black takes 8 days and Mr blue 12 days. Mr
brown leaves for a vacation after 8 days. Mr black works for
6 days from then.How many days would Mr blue require to
complete the contract?

Answer Posted / m.vinod

11 days
brown completes 1+1/3 house in 8 days
black completes 3/4 house in 6 days
let the work done by blue=x
then
1+1/3+3/4+x=3 total houses to paint
x=11/12
so blue will complete the remaining work in 11 days

Is This Answer Correct ?    9 Yes 0 No



Post New Answer       View All Answers


Please Help Members By Posting Answers For Below Questions

(998-1)(998-2)(998-3).....(998-n)= ? when n>1000

910


There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes. What is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides.

855


Two chords of lengths L1 and L2 are drawn in a circle. Their lengths are inversely proportional to the straight distance joining the centre.Find the radius of circle.

763


Find the nth number in the series is 1, -3, 5, -7.___

750


A 16 stored building has 12000 sq.feet on each floor. Company A rents floors and company B rents 4 floors. What is the number of sq.feet of unrented floor space.

683






an orange galss has orange juice. and white glass has apple juice. Bothe equal volume 50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the apple juice. 50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass. Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of orange juice in the white glass, which one is greater and by how much?

864


Find the Series number: 0,2,3,5,8,10,15,17,24,26,..

703


sir plz send the rrb exam question papers my emailid is abhilasha.bollepalli@gmail.com

2268


i need icet solved papers 2000 to 20010,and also mock papers,mock online

1848


Can someone please send me the question paper for graduate level both tier 1 and tier 2 with detailed solution of maths exam (Tier 2). Please,suggest me the ways and books to prepare for this exam.Please, send this answer on my email Id

1541


For 1:2:4 ratios the weight of cement is 50 kg then how many kg are the weight of sand and aggregate?

791


how 1000000000 can be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing zeros

717


1/8 Is divided by 's' , if 's' is increased by 2 times, what Will be the result.

1318


2 oranges,3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15 . 3 ornages 2 bananas 1 apple costs Rs 10. what is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples

792


In school there are some bicycles and 4 wheeler wagons. One tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?

2287