CAT (QA) PYQs

Bob can finish a job in $40$ days, if he works alone. Alex is twice as fast as Bob and thrice as fast as Cole in the same job. Suppose Alex and Bob work together on the first day, Bob and Cole work together on the second day, Cole and Alex work together on the third day, and then, they continue the work by repeating this three- day roster, with Alex and Bob working together on the fourth day, and so on. Then, the total number of days Alex would have worked when the job gets finished, is

Anil alone can do a job in $20$ days while Sunil alone can do it in $40$ days. Anil starts the job, and after $3$ days, Sunil joins him. Again, after a few more days, Bimal joins them and they together finish the job. If Bimal has done $10\%$ of the job, then in how many days was the job done?

Three men and eight machines can finish a job in half the time taken by three machines and eight men to finish the same job. If two machines can finish the job in $13$ days, then how many men can finish the job in $13$ days?