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In a company XYZ Ltd. a certain number of engineers can develop a design in 40 days. If there were 5 more engineers, it could be finished in 10 days less. How many engineers were there in the beginning?
 

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Ajay and Vijay undertake to do a piece of work for200. Ajay alone can do it in 24 days while Vijay alone can do it in 30 days. With the help of Pradeep,they finish the work in 12 days. How much should Pradeep get for his work?
 
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15 Men could finish a piece of work in 210 days. But at the end of 100 days, 15 additional men are employed. In how many more days will the work be complete?
 
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If three taps are open together, a tank is filled in 10 h. One of the taps can fill in 5 h and another in 10 h. At what rate does the 3rd pipe work?
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There are three Taps A, B and C in a tank. They can fill the tank in 10 hrs, 20 hrs and 25 hrs respectively. At first, all of them are opened simultaneously. Then after 2 hours, tap C is closed and A and B are kept running. After the 4th hour, tap B is also closed. The remaining work is done by Tap A alone. Find the percentage of the work done by Tap A by itself. 
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Two taps are running continuously to fill a tank. The 1st tap could have filled it in 5 hours by itself and the second one by itself could have filled it in 20 hours. But the operator failed to realise that there was a leak in the tank from the beginning which caused a delay of one hour in the filling of the tank. Find the time in which the leak would empty a filled tank.
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5 women can paint a building in 30 working hours. After 16 hours of work, 2 women decided to leave. How many hours will it take for the work to be finished?
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According to a plan, a drilling team had to drill to a depth of 270 metres below the ground level. For the first three days, the team drilled as per the plan. However, subsequently finding that their resources were getting underutilised according to the plan, it started to drill 8 metres more than the plan every day. Therefore, a day before the planned date they had drilled to a depth of 280 metres. How many metres of drilling was the plan for each day?
 
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Two pipes can fill a cistern in 14and 16hours respectively. The pipes are opened simultaneously and it is found that due to leakage in the bottom of the cistern, it takes 32minutes extra for the cistern to be filled up. When the cistern is full, at what time will the leak empty it?