CAT (QA) PYQs

A tank has an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe. If the outlet pipe is closed then the inlet pipe fills the empty tank in $8$ hours. If the outlet pipe is open then the inlet pipe fills the empty tank in $10$ hours. If only the outlet pipe is open then in how many hours the full tank becomes half-full?

One day, Rahul started a work at $9$ AM and Gautam joined him two hours later. They then worked together and completed the work at $5$ PM the same day. If both had started at $9$ AM and worked together, the work would have been completed $30$ minutes earlier. Working alone, the time Rahul would have taken, in hours, to complete the work is

Renu would take 15 days working 4 hours per day to complete a certain task whereas Seema would take 8 days working 5 hours per day to complete the same task. They decide to work together to complete this task. Seema agrees to work for double the number of hours per day as Renu, while Renu agrees to work for double the number of days as Seema. If Renu works 2 hours per day, then the number of days Seema will work, is