Question : What is the time difference between Indian Standard Time [IST] and Greenwich Mean Time [GMT]?
Option 1: 7 hours and 30 minutes
Option 2: 6 hours and 30 minutes
Option 3: 5 hours and 30 minutes
Option 4: 4 hours and 30 minutes
Correct Answer: 5 hours and 30 minutes
Solution : The correct option is 5 hours and 30 minutes.
Indian Standard Time is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, keeps track of mean solar time, or GMT, starting at midnight. The time zone used in all of India is known as Indian Standard Time (IST), and it was set up on January 1st, 1906, during the British Empire.
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Question : A takes 2 hours 30 minutes more than B to walk 40 km. If A doubles his speed, then he can make it in 1 hour less than B. What is the average time taken by A and B to walk a 40 km distance?
Option 1: 7 hours 15 minutes
Option 2: 5 hours 45 minutes
Option 3: 6 hours
Option 4: 5 hours 15 minutes
Question : Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 12 hours and 18 hours, respectively. Both pipes are opened simultaneously. In how much time will the empty tank be filled completely?
Option 1: 9 hours 30 minutes
Option 2: 8 hours
Option 3: 7 hours 12 minutes
Option 4: 10 hours 24 minutes
Question : Pipes A and B can fill a tank in 18 minutes and $22 \frac{1}{2}$ minutes, respectively while pipe C can empty the full tank in 12 minutes. A and B are opened together for 6 minutes and then closed. Now C is opened. C alone will empty the tank in ____.
Option 1: $5$ minutes
Option 2: $8 \frac{2}{5}$ minutes
Option 3: $7 \frac{1}{5}$ minutes
Option 4: $6$ minutes
Question : X can do a work in 3 days, Y can do three times the same work in 8 days, and Z can do five times the same work in 12 days. If they have to work together for 6 hours a day, then how much time will they take to complete the work?
Option 1: 4 hours
Option 2: 5 hours 20 minutes
Option 3: 4 hours 10 minutes
Option 4: 5 hours
Question : The ratio of the fifth and sixth terms of the sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, ..... is:
Option 1: $5:6$
Option 2: $5:7$
Option 3: $7:5$
Option 4: $6:5$
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