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An air conditioner (AC) company has four dealers - D1, D2, D3 and D4 in a city. It is evaluating sales performances of these dealers. The company sells two variants of ACs - Window and Split. Both these variants can be either Inverter type or Non-inverter type. It is known that of the total number of ACs sold in the city, 25% were of Window variant, while the rest were of Split variant. Among the Inverter ACs sold, 20% were of Window variant.
The following information is also known:- Every dealer sold at least two window ACs.
- D1 sold 13 inverter ACs, while D3 sold 5 Non-inverter ACs.
- A total of six Window Non-inverter ACs and 36 Split Inverter ACs were sold in the city.
- The number of Split ACs sold by D1 was twice the number of Window ACs sold by it.
- D3 and D4 sold an equal number of Window ACs and this number was one-third of the number of similar ACs sold by D2.
- D2 and D3 were the only ones who sold Window Non-inverter ACs. The number of these ACs sold by D2 was twice the number of these ACs sold by D3.
- D3 and D4 sold an equal number of Split Inverter ACs. This number was half the number of similar ACs sold by D2.
Q1.CAT 2023What percentage of ACs sold were of Non-inverter type?
33.33%
75.00%
25.00%
20.00%
Passage
Each of the bottles mentioned in this question contains 50 ml of liquid. The liquid in any bottle can be 100% pure content (P) or can have certain amount of impurity (I). Visually it is not possible to distinguish between P and I. There is a testing device which detects impurity, as long as the percentage of impurity in the content tested is 10% or more.
For example, suppose bottle 1 contains only P, and bottle 2 contains 80% P and 20% I. If content from bottle 1 is tested, it will be found out that it contains only P. If content of bottle 2 is tested, the test will reveal that it contains some amount of I. If 10 ml of content from bottle 1 is mixed with 20 ml content from bottle 2, the test will show that the mixture has impurity, and hence we can conclude that at least one of the two bottles has I. However, if 10 ml of content from bottle 1 is mixed with 5 ml of content from bottle 2. the test will not detect any impurity in the resultant mixture.
Q2.CAT 20215 ml of content from bottle A is mixed with 5 ml of content from bottle B. The resultant mixture, when tested, detects the presence of I. If it is known that bottle A contains only P, what BEST can be concluded about the volume of I in bottle B?
1 ml
Less than 1 ml
10 ml
10 ml or more
- Q3.CAT 2021
There are four bottles. It is known that three of these bottles contain only P, while the remaining one contains 80% P and 20% I. What is the minimum number of tests required to definitely identify the bottle containing some amount of I?
Answer: 2
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Ravi works in an online food-delivery company. After each delivery, customers rate Ravi on each of four parameters - Behaviour, Packaging, Hygiene, and Timeliness, on a scale from 1 to 9. If the total of the four rating points is 25 or more, then Ravi gets a bonus of ₹20 for that delivery. Additionally, a customer may or may not give Ravi a tip. If the customer gives a tip, it is either ₹30 or ₹50.
One day, Ravi made four deliveries - one to each of Atal, Bihari, Chirag, and Deepak, and received a total of ₹120 in bonus and tips. He did not get both a bonus and a tip from the same customer.
The following additional facts are also known.
- In Timeliness, Ravi received a total of 21 points, and three of the customers gave him the same rating points in this parameter. Atal gave higher rating points than Bihari and Chirag in this parameter.
- Ravi received distinct rating points in Packaging from the four customers adding up to 29 points. Similarly, Ravi received distinct rating points in Hygiene from the four customers adding up to 26 points.
- Chirag gave the same rating points for Packaging and Hygiene.
- Among the four customers, Bihari gave the highest rating points in Packaging, and Chirag gave the highest rating points in Hygiene.
- Everyone rated Ravi between 5 and 7 in Behaviour. Unique maximum and minimum ratings in this parameter were given by Atal and Deepak respectively.
- If the customers are ranked based on ratings given by them in individual parameters, then Atal’s rank based on Packaging is the same as that based on Hygiene. This is also true for Deepak.
Q4.CAT 2021What was the minimum rating that Ravi received from any customer in any parameter?
Answer: 5
- Q5.CAT 2021
What rating did Atal give on Timeliness?
Answer: 6
- Q6.CAT 2021
In which parameter did Atal give the maximum rating points to Ravi?
Hygiene
Behaviour
Timeliness
Packaging
Passage
Ganga, Kaveri, and Narmada are three women who buy four raw materials (Mango, Apple, Banana and Milk) and sell five finished products (Mango smoothie, Apple smoothie, Banana smoothie, Mixed fruit smoothie and Fruit salad). Table-1 gives information about the raw materials required to produce the five finished products. One unit of a finished product requires one unit of each of the raw materials mentioned in the second column of the table.
Table-1
Finished product Raw materials required Mango smoothie Mango, Milk Apple smoothie Apple, Milk Banana smoothie Banana, Milk Mixed fruit smoothie Mango, Apple, Banana, Milk Fruit salad Mango, Apple, Banana One unit of milk, mango, apple, and banana cost ₹5, ₹3, ₹2, and ₹1 respectively. Each unit of a finished product is sold for a profit equal to two times the number of raw materials used to make that product. For example, apple smoothie is made with two raw materials (apple and milk) and will be sold for a profit of ₹4 per unit. Leftover raw materials are sold during the last business hour of the day for a loss of ₹1 per unit.
The amount, in rupees, received from sales (revenue) for each woman in each of the four business hours of the day is given in Table-2.
Table-2
Business Hour Ganga Kaveri Narmada Hour 1 23 19 31 Hour 2 21 22 21 Hour 3 29 30 23 Hour 4 (last hour) 30 27 22 The following additional facts are known.
- No one except possibly Ganga sold any Mango smoothie.
- Each woman sold either zero or one unit of any single finished product in any hour.
- Each woman had exactly one unit each of two different raw materials as leftovers.
- No one had any banana leftover.
Q7.CAT 2021What BEST can be concluded about the number of units of fruit salad sold in the first hour?
Either 1 or 2.
Either 0 or 1 or 2.
Exactly 2.
Exactly 1.
- Q8.CAT 2021
What BEST can be concluded about the total number of units of milk the three women had in the beginning?
Either 19 or 20 units.
Either 18 or 19 or 20 units.
Either 18 or 19 units.
Either 17 or 18 or 19 units.
Passage
The local office of the APP-CAB company evaluates the performance of five cab drivers, Arun, Barun, Chandan, Damodaran, and Eman for their monthly payment based on ratings in five different parameters (P1 to P5) as given below:
P1: timely arrival
P2: behaviour
P3: comfortable ride
P4: driver's familiarity with the route
P5: value for money
Based on feedback from the customers, the office assigns a rating from 1 to 5 in each of these parameters. Each rating is an integer from a low value of 1 to a high value of 5. The final rating of a driver is the average of his ratings in these five parameters. The monthly payment of the drivers has two parts - a fixed payment and final rating-based bonus. If a driver gets a rating of 1 in any of the parameters, he is not eligible to get bonus. To be eligible for bonus a driver also needs to get a rating of five in at least one of the parameters. The partial information related to the ratings of the drivers in different parameters and the monthly payment structure (in rupees) is given in the table below:P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Fixed Payment Bonus Arun 4 Rs.1000 Rs.250× Final Rating Barun 3 Rs.1200 Rs.200× Final Rating Chandan 2 Rs.1400 Rs.100× Final Rating Damodaran 3 Rs.1300 Rs.150× Final Rating Eman 2 Rs.1100 Rs.200× Final Rating The following additional facts are known.
- Arun and Barun have got a rating of 5 in exactly one of the parameters. Chandan has got a rating of 5 in exactly two parameters.
- None of drivers has got the same rating in three parameters.
Q9.CAT 2020If Damodaran does not get a bonus, what is the maximum possible value of his final rating?
3.4
3.2
3.6
3.8
- Q10.CAT 2020
If all five drivers get bonus, what is the minimum possible value of the monthly payment (in rupees) that a driver gets?
1750
1600
1740
1700
Passage
A new game show on TV has 100 boxes numbered 1, 2, . . . , 100 in a row, each containing a mystery prize. The prizes are items of different types, a, b, c, . . . , in decreasing order of value. The most expensive item is of type a, a diamond ring, and there is exactly one of these. You are told that the number of items at least doubles as you move to the next type. For example, there would be at least twice as many items of type b as of type a, at least twice as many items of type c as of type b and so on. There is no particular order in which the prizes are placed in the boxes.
Q11.CAT 2019What is the minimum possible number of different types of prizes?
Answer: 2
- Q12.CAT 2019
Which of the following is not possible?
There are exactly 75 items of type e.
There are exactly 30 items of type b.
There are exactly 45 items of type c.
There are exactly 60 items of type d.
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