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cat 2024 Complete Paper Solution | Slot 2
Question 1.
The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are placed in ten slots of the following grid based on the conditions below.
1. Numbers in any row appear in an increasing order from left to right.2. Numbers in any column appear in a decreasing order from top to bottom.3. 1 is placed either in the same row or in the same column as 10.4. Neither 2 nor 3 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 10.5. Neither 7 nor 8 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 9.6. 4 and 6 are placed in the same row.
The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are placed in ten slots of the following grid based on the conditions below.
1. Numbers in any row appear in an increasing order from left to right.2. Numbers in any column appear in a decreasing order from top to bottom.3. 1 is placed either in the same row or in the same column as 10.4. Neither 2 nor 3 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 10.5. Neither 7 nor 8 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 9.6. 4 and 6 are placed in the same row.
What is the row number which has the least sum of numbers placed in that row?
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Question 2.
Bina incurs 19% loss when she sells a product at Rs. 4860 to Shyam, who in turn sells this product to Hari. If Bina would have sold this product to Shyam at the purchase price of Hari, she would have obtained 17% profit. Then, the profit, in rupees, made by Shyam is
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Question 3.
For the following questions answer them individually
For the following questions answer them individually
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: Science has officially crowned us superior to our early-rising brethren. Paragraph: My fellow night owls, grab a strong cup of coffee and gather around: I have great news. ___(1)___. For a long time, our kind has been unfairly maligned. Stereotyped as lazy and undisciplined. Told we ought to be morning larks. Advised to go to bed early so we can wake before 5am and run a marathon before breakfast like all high-flyers seem to do. Now, however, we are having the last laugh. ___(2)___. It may be a tad more complicated than that. A study published last week, which you may have already seen while scrolling at 1am, suggests that staying up late could be good for brain power. ___(3)___. Is this study a thinly veiled PR exercise conducted by a caffeine-pill company? Nope, it’s legit. ___(4)___. Research led by academics at Imperial College London studied data on more than 26,000 people and found that “self-declared ‘night owls’ generally tend to have higher cognitive scores”.
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Option 4
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Option 3
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Option 1
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Option 2
Question 4.
The coordinates of the three vertices of a triangle are: (1, 2), (7, 2), and (1, 10). Then the radius of the incircle of the triangle is
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Question 5.
Which of the following statements MUST be true?I. 10 is placed in a slot in Row 1.II. 1 is placed in a slot in Row 4.
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Both I and II
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Neither I nor II
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Only II
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Only I
Question 6.
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture.2. The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn’t mean we should be complacent in the face of sexism.3. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct.4. Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political pushback.5. There’s a political preference for gender to be only a reflection of social factors and so entirely malleable.
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Question 7.
Which of the following statements MUST be true?I. 2 is placed in a slot in Column 2.II. 3 is placed in a slot in Column 3.
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Only I
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Both I and II
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Neither I nor II
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Only II
Question 8.
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: [T]he Europeans did not invent globalization. Paragraph: The first phase of globalization occurred long before the introduction of either steam or electric power…Chinese consumers at all social levels consumed vast quantities of spices, fragrant woods and unusual plants. The peoples of Southeast Asia who lived in forests gave up their traditional livelihoods and completely reoriented their economies to supply Chinese consumers….___(1)___. These exchanges of the year 1000 opened some of the routes through which goods and peoples continued to travel after Columbus traversed the mid- Atlantic. ___(2)___. Yet the world of 1000 differed from that of 1492 in important ways….the travellers who encountered one another in the year 1000 were much closer technologically. ___(3)___. They changed and augmented what was already there since 1000. ___(4)___. If globalization hadn’t yet begun, Europeans wouldn’t have been able to penetrate the markets in so many places as quickly as they did after 1492.
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Option 1
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Option 4
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Option 2
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Option 3
Question 9.
A fruit seller has a stock of mangoes, bananas and apples with at least one fruit of each type. At the beginning of a day, the number of mangoes make up 40% of his stock. That day, he sells half of the mangoes, 96 bananas and 40% of the apples. At the end of the day, he ends up selling 50% of the fruits. The smallest possible total number of fruits in the stock at the beginning of the day is
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Question 10.
If a, b and c are positive real numbers such that and , then the greatest possible integer value of a is
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