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CAT 2023 Quant was dominated by Algebra followed by Arithmetic. In Arithmetic, the questions were dominated by topics like Speed-time-distance, Mixture and Alligations. This year, there was a surprise. The questions from Geometry were relatively on the lower side as compared to the previous years. There were 8 TITA Qs this year. Overall this section was at a medium level of difficulty.

Question 15 : The amount of job that Amal, Sunil and Kamal can individually do in a day, are in harmonic progression. Kamal takes twice as much time as Amal to do the same amount of job. If Amal and Sunil work for 4 days and 9 days, respectively, Kamal needs to work for 16 days to finish the remaining job. Then the number of days Sunil will take to finish the job working alone, is


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“The amount of job that Amal, Sunil and Kamal can individually do in a day, are in harmonic progression.” This implies that the amount of time taken individually by Amal, Sunil and Kamal to finish a job are in A.P.
“Kamal takes twice as much time as Amal to do the same amount of job.” Since the amount of time taken individually by Amal, Sunil and Kamal to finish a job are in A.P, this simply means that Sunil Should take 1.5 times the time as Amal to do the same amount of job.
So, to do the same amount of job individually, the times taken by Amal, Sunil and Kamal will be in the ratio, 1 : 1.5 : 2 or 2 : 3 : 4
Amal, Sunil and Kamal worked for 4, 9 and 16 days respectively to finish the job.
Sunil does in 3 days what Amal does in 2 days.
Therefore, Sunil does in 6 days what Amal does in 4 days.
Sunil does in 3 days what Kamal does in 4 days.
Therefore, Sunil does in 12 days what Kamal does in 16 days.
So, to finish the entire job on his own, Sunil would require, 6 + 9 + 12 = 27 days.


The answer is '27'

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