Amar, Akbar and Anthony are working on a project. Working together Amar and Akbar can complete the project in $1$ year, Akbar and Anthony can complete in $16$ months, Anthony and Amar can complete in $2$ years. If the person who is neither the fastest nor the slowest works alone, the time in months he will take to complete the project is

A tank is emptied everyday at a fixed time point. Immediately thereafter, either pump $A$ or pump $B$ or both start working until the tank is full. On Monday, $A$ alone completed filling the tank at $8 \mathrm{pm}$. On Tuesday, B alone completed filling the tank at $6 \mathrm{pm}$. On Wednesday, $A$ alone worked till $5 \mathrm{pm}$, and then B worked alone from $5 \mathrm{pm}$ to $7 \mathrm{pm}$, to fill the tank. At what time was the tank filled on Thursday if both pumps were used simultaneously all along?

Sam can complete a job in 20 days when working alone. Mohit is twice as fast as Sam and thrice as fast as Ayna is the same job. The undertake a job with an arrangement where Sam and Mohit work together on the first day, Sam and Ayna on the second day, Mohit and Ayna on the third day, and this three-day pattern is repeated till the work gets completed. Then, the fraction of total work done by Sam is

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

John takes twice as much time as Jack to finish a job. Jack and Jim together take one-thirds of the time to finish the job than John takes working alone. Moreover, in order to finish the job, John takes three days more than that taken by three of them working together. In how many days will Jim finish the job working alone?

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?

Anu, Vinu and Manu can complete a work alone in 15 days, 12 days and 20 days, respectively. Vinu works everyday. Anu works only on alternate days starting from the first day while Manu works only on alternate days starting from the second day. Then, the number of days needed to complete the work is