When a 192 meters long rod is cut down into small pieces of length 3·2 meters each. Then how many pieces are available?

12 men ? 18 women
? 1 man ? 18/12 women ? 3/2 women
? 8 men ? (3/2) x 8 = 12 women
? 8 men + 16 women = 12 women + 16 women = 28 women
? 18 women can do the work in 14 days .
? 1 woman can do the same work in (14 x 18) days.
? 28 women will do the same work in (14 x 18)/28 days.
? Required number of days = (14 x 18)/28 = 9 days

Let 15 men work for m days.
Work done in 1 days = m/20
Remaining work = (1 - m/20)
25 men's 1 days work = 1/20
1 man's 1 days work = (1/20) x (1/25) = 1/500
10 men's 1 days work = 10/500 = 1/50
10 men's 75/2 days work = (1/50) x (75/2) = 75/100 = 3/4
? (1 - m/20) = 3/4
? m/20 = 1/4
? m = (1/4) x 20 = 5
Clearly, 15 men leave after 5 days.

Let man's 1 day's work = 1/m
and boy's 1 day's work = 1/n
1 day's work man and boy = 1/24
Man's 6 day's work = 6/m
Now, for 20 days, both man and boy do the work and for last 6 days, only man does the work.
According to the question,
1/m + 1/n = 1/24
? 20(1/m + 1/n) + 6/m = 1
? 20 x (1/24) + 6/m = 1
? 6/m = (1 - 20/24) = 4/24 = 1/6
? 1/n = 1/36
Now from eq. (i)
1/m + 1/n = 1/24
1/36 + 1/n = 1/24
? 1/n = (1/24) - (1/36) = 1/72
Hence, the boy alone can do the work in 72 days.

Let us assume that each soldier eats one unit of food per day. Thus, total units of food at the beginning will be 1000 x 30 = 30000.
After 10 days 1000 soldiers would have eaten 1000 x 10 = 10000 units of food. Thus food left after 10 days equals 20000 units. Now, there are total of 2000 soldiers who eat one unit of food every day. So, the number of days that 20000 units of food will serve 2000 soldiers is 20000/2000 = 10

According to question ,
3 pumps working in 2 days = 8 × 2 = 16 hours
It means that they can empty a tank in 16 hours .
3 pumps 1 hour work = 1/16
1 pumps 1 hour work = 1/( 3 × 16 )
4 pumps 1 hour work =4 × 1/( 3 × 16 ) = 1 / 12
Hence , they will empty the tank in 12 hours .