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Anirbid, Chandranath, Koushik, and Suranjan participated in a puzzle solving competition. The competition comprised 10 puzzles that had to be solved in the same sequence, i.e., a competitor got access to a puzzle as soon as they solved the previous puzzle. Some of the puzzles were visual puzzles and the others were number-based puzzles. The winner of the competition was the one who solved all puzzles in the least time.
The following charts describe their progress in the competition. The chart on the left shows the number of puzzles solved by each competitor at a given time (in minutes) after the start of the competition. The chart on the right shows the number of visual puzzles solved by each competitor at a given time (in minutes) after the start of the competition.Q1.CAT 2025Who had solved the largest number of puzzles by the 20-th minute from the start of the competition?
Chandranath
Koushik
Suranjan
Anirbid
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Five countries engage in trade with each other. Each country levies import tariffs on the other countries. The import tariff levied by Country X on Country Y is calculated by multiplying the corresponding tariff percentage with the total imports of Country X from Country Y.
The radar chart below depicts different import tariff percentages charged by each of the five countries on the others. For example, US (the blue line in the chart) charges 20%, 40%, 30%, and 30% import tariff percentages on imports from France, India, Japan, and UK, respectively. The bar chart depicts the import tariffs levied by each county on other countries. For example, US charged import tariff of 3 billion USD on UK.
Assume that imports from one country to another equals the exports from the latter to the former.
The trade surplus of Country X with Country Y is defined as follows.
Trade surplus = Exports from Country X to Country Y - Imports to Country X from Country Y.A negative trade surplus is called trade deficit.
Q2.CAT 2025How much is Japan's export to India worth?
8.5 Billion USD
16.0 Billion USD
7.0 Billion USD
1.75 Billion USD
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The chart below shows the price data for seven shares - A, B, C, D, E, F, and G as a candlestick plot for a particular day. The vertical axis shows the price of the share in rupees. A share whose closing price (price at the end of the day) is more than its opening price (price at the start of the day) is called a bullish share; otherwise, it is called a bearish share. All bullish and bearish shares are shown in green and red colour respectively.
Day prices for the seven shares (in rupees) — a red bar is bearish (closing below opening), a green bar is bullish. The thin line marks the day’s high and low; the box marks the opening and closing prices.
Q3.CAT 2024Daily Share Price Variability (SPV) is defined as (Day’s high price - Day’s low price) / (Average of the opening and closing prices during the day). Which among the shares A, C, D and F had the highest SPV on that day?
F
A
D
C
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The two plots below give the following information about six firms A, B, C, D, E, and F for 2019 and 2023.
PAT: The firm’s profits after taxes in Rs. crores,
ES: The firm’s employee strength, that is the number of employees in the firm, and
PRD: The percentage of the firm’s PAT that they spend on Research and Development (R&D).In the plots, the horizontal and vertical coordinates of point representing each firm gives their ES and PAT values respectively. The PRD values of each firm are proportional to the areas around the points representing each firm. The areas are comparable between the two plots, i.e., equal areas in the two plots represent the same PRD values for the two years.
Q4.CAT 2024Assume that the annual rate of growth in PAT over the previous year (ARG) remained constant over the years for each of the six firms. Which among the firms A, B, C, and E had the highest ARG?
Firm A
Firm C
Firm E
Firm B
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The two plots below show data for four companies code-named A, B, C, and D over three years - 2019, 2020, and 2021.
The first plot shows the revenues and costs incurred by the companies during these years. For example, in 2021, company C earned Rs.100 crores in revenue and spent Rs.30 crores. The profit of a company is defined as its revenue minus its costs
The second plot shows the number of employees employed by the company (employee strength) at the start of each of these three years, as well as the number of new employees hired each year (new hires). For example, Company B had 250 employees at the start of 2021, and 30 new employees joined the company during the year.
Q5.CAT 2022Considering all three years, which company had the highest annual profit?
Company A
Company D
Company B
Company C
- Q6.CAT 2022
Profit per employee is the ratio of a company's profit to its employee strength. For this purpose, the employee strength in a year is the average of the employee strength at the beginning of that year and the beginning of the next year. In 2020, which of the four companies had the highest profit per employee?
Company D
Company C
Company B
Company A
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A large store has only three departments, Clothing, Produce, and Electronics. The following figure shows the percentages of revenue and cost from the three departments for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. The dotted lines depict percentage levels. So for example, in 2016, 50% of store's revenue came from its Electronics department while 40% of its costs were incurred in the Produce department
In this setup, Profit is computed as (Revenue - Cost) and Percentage Profit as Profit/Cost × 100%.
It is known that- The percentage profit for the store in 2016 was 100%.
- The store’s revenue doubled from 2016 to 2017, and its cost doubled from 2016 to 2018.
- There was no profit from the Electronics department in 2017.
- In 2018, the revenue from the Clothing department was the same as the cost incurred in the Produce department.
Q7.CAT 2019What was the percentage profit of the store in 2018?
Answer: 25
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To compare the rainfall data, India Meteorological Department (IMD) calculated the Long Period Average (LPA) of rainfall during period June-August for each of the 16 states. The figure given below shows the actual rainfall (measured in mm) during June-August, 2019 and the percentage deviations from LPA of respective states in 2018. Each state along with its actual rainfall is presented in the figure.
Q8.CAT 2019If a ‘Heavy Monsoon State’ is defined as a state with actual rainfall from June-August, 2019 of 900 mm or more, then approximately what percentage of ‘Heavy Monsoon States’ have a negative deviation from respective LPAs in 2019?
42.86
75.00
57.14
14.29
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Directions for the next three questions:
Answer the following questions based on the information given below: Telecom operators get revenue from transfer of data and voice. Average revenue received from transfer of each unit of data is known as ARDT. In the diagram below, the revenue received form data transfer as percentage of total revenue received and the ARDT in US Dollars (USD) are given for various countries.
The X axis represents the ARDT values and the Y axis represents the % of revenue from data transfer as a percentage of the total revenue.
Q9.CAT 2008It was found that the volume of data transfer in India is the same as that of Singapore. Then which of the following statements is true?
Total revenue is the same in both countries.
Total revenue in India is about 2 times that of Singapore.
Total revenue in India is about 4 times that of Singapore.
Total revenue in Singapore is about 2 times that of India.
Total revenue in Singapore is about 4 time that of India.
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The table below gives information about four different crops, their different quality, categories and the regions where they are cultivated. Based on the information given in the table answer the questions below.
Type of Crop Quality Region Crop - 1 High R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 Medium R6, R7, R8 Low R9, R10, R11 Crop - 2 High R5, R8, R12 Medium R9, R13 Low R6, R7, R8 Crop - 3 High R2, R6, R7, R13 Medium R3, R9, R11 Low R1, R4 Crop - 4 High R3, R10, R11 Medium R1, R2, R4 Low R5, R9 Q10.CAT 2002Which of the following statements is true?
All medium quality Crop-2 producing regions are also high quality Crop-3 producing regions.
All high quality Crop-1 producing regions are also medium and low Crop-4 producing regions.
There are exactly four Crop-3 producing regions, which also produce Crop-4 but not Crop-2.
Some Crop-3 producing regions produce Crop-1, but not high quality Crop-2.
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Answer these questions based on the following Information:
ABC Ltd. produces widgets for which the demand is unlimited and they can sell all of their production. The graph below describes the monthly variable costs incurred by the company as a function of the quantity produced. In addition, operating the plant for one shift results in a fixed monthly cost of Rs. 800. Fixed monthly costs for second shift operation are estimated at Rs. 1200. Each shift operation provides capacity for producing 30 widgets per month.
Note: Average unit cost, AC = Total monthly costs/monthly production, and Marginal cost MC is the rate of change in total cost for unit change in quantity produced.
Q11.CAT 2000From the data provided it can be inferred that, for production levels in the range of 0 to 60 units,
MC is an increasing function of production quantity.
MC is a decreasing function of production quantity.
initially MC is a decreasing function of production quantity, attains a minimum and then it is an increasing function of production quantity.
none of the above.
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Study the following graph and answer questions that follow. The x-axis denotes the years from 1983 to 1991
Q12.CAT 1991The sum of food and fertilizer production has shown a constant value for how many years?
None of the years
2
4
5
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