CAT (QA) PYQs

A gentleman decided to treat a few children in the following manner. He gives half of his total stock of toffees and one extra to the first child, and then the half of the remaining stock along with one extra to the second and continues giving away in this fashion. His total stock exhausts after he takes care of $5$ children. How many toffees were there in his stock initially?

Let $A, B$ and $C$ be three positive integers such that the sum of $A$ and the mean of $B$ and $C$ is $5.$ In addition, the sum of $B$ and the mean of $A$ and $C$ is $7.$ Then the sum of $A$ and $B$ is

John gets Rs $57$ per hour of regular work and Rs $114$ per hour of overtime work. He works altogether $172$ hours and his income from overtime hours is $15\%$ of his income from regular hours. Then, for how many hours did he work overtime?