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A supplier receives orders from 5 different buyers. Each buyer places their order only on a Monday. The first buyer places the order after every 2 weeks, the second buyer, after every 6 weeks, the third buyer, after every 8 weeks, the fourth buyer, every 4 weeks, and the fifth buyer, after every 3 weeks. It is known that on January 1st, which was a Monday, each of these five buyers placed an order with the supplier.On how many occasions, in the same year, will these buyers place their orders together excluding the order placed on January 1st?
Text Explanation:
The supplier receives his orders from the five buyers once every 2 weeks, once every 6 weeks, once every 8 weeks, once every 4 weeks, and once every 3 weeks.
The number of occasions where all the five buyers place the order on the same day is :
The LCM of the 5-time frames during which the 5 buyers place their orders :
Hence the LCM is :
(2, 6, 8, 4, 3).
= 24 weeks.
Once every 24 weeks, all five of them place the order simultaneously.
A year has 53 weeks in total :
Hence all five of them place the orders after 24 weeks, 48 weeks.
Ramesh and Reena are playing with triangle ABC. Ramesh draws a line that bisects $\angle BAC$; this line cuts BC at D. Reena then extends AD to a point P. In response, Ramesh joins B and P. Reena then announces that BD bisects $\angle PBA$, hat a surprise! Together, Ramesh and Reena find that BD= 6 cm, AC= 9 cm, DC= 5 cm, BP=8 cm, and DP = 5 cm.How long is AP?
Given:
BD= 6 cm, AC= 9 cm, DC= 5 cm, BP=8 cm, and DP = 5 cm.
Since AD is the angular bisector applying the angular bisector theorem we have :
$\frac{AB}{BD}=\ \frac{AC}{CD}$
Hence : Considering AB = x cm.
$\frac{9}{5}=\ \frac{x}{6}$
x = 10.8 cm.
Now since BD is the angular bisector for angle PBA we have :
Applying the internal angle bisector theorem :
$\frac{PB}{PD}=\ \frac{BA}{AD}$
Considering AD = y cm.
$\frac{8}{5}\ =\ \frac{10.8}{y}$
y = 6.75 cm.
AP = AD + DP.
= 6.75 + 5 = 11.75 cm
A tall tower has its base at point K. Three points A, B and C are located at distances of 4 metres, 8 metres and 16 metres respectively from K. The angles of elevation of the top of the tower from A and C are complementary.What is the angle of elevation (in degrees) of the tower’s top from B?
Given the distances are :
AE = 4 meters , EB = 8 meters and EC = 16 meters.
Considering the length of ED = K.
Given the angles DAE and angle DCE are complementary.
Hence the angles are A and 90 - A.
Tan(90-A) = Cot A
$\ \tan\ DAE\ =\frac{k}{4}$ and $\ \tan\ DCE\ =\frac{1}{\tan\ DAE}=\ \frac{k}{16}$
Hence $\frac{k}{16}=\ \frac{4}{k}$
k = 8 meters.
The angle DBE is given by
$Tan\ DBE\ =\ \frac{k}{8}=\ 1$
Hence the angle is equal to 45 degrees.
Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.The enrolment of students (in 1000s) at each of the five universities named — MPU, JSU, LTU, PKU and TRU — during each of the eight years from 2014 to 2021 is represented in the following chart. The names of these universities are not shown in the chart, instead they are labelled Univ 1, Univ 2, Univ 3, Univ 4 and Univ 5.However, these four pieces of information are available: W: The magnitudes of TRU's and MPU's net change in enrolment between 2014 and 2021 are the closest among any two universities. X: LTU had the same enrolment in consecutive years at least twice between 2014 and 2021. Y: The increase in JSU's enrolment from 2015 to 2019 is about 50% of TRU's total enrolment in 2020. Z: The enrolment in one of LTU and PKU had a steady decline between 2014 and 2021, while the enrolment in the other had no decline between any two consecutive years in the same period.
Which of the five universities can Univ 4 possibly be?
Using condition W :
The magnitudes of the net change in enrollment between 2014 and 2021 is closest among any two universities for TRU and MPU.
Going by the color of the lines the net change for different universities is:
Univ 1: 0.7
Univ 2: 4.4
Univ 3: 0.1
Univ 4: 0.2
Univ 5: 3.3
The closest among these are: Univ 3 and Univ 4. They can possibly be : (TRU/MPU)
Using condition X :
The university LTU must have the same enrollment in consecutive years at least twice :
LTU can either be Univ 3 or Univ 1 but since Univ 3 must be among TRU and MPU. LTU is university 1.
Using condition Y :
The increase in the enrollment of JSU between the years 2015 and 2019 is 50 percent of TRU's total enrollment in 2020.
Considering :
TRU = Univ 4
The enrollment is 5.
TRU = Univ 3
The enrollment is 0.7
For TRU as Univ 3, there is no university whose increase in enrollment between 2015 and 2019 is 50 percent of TRU.
Hence TRU = Univ 4.
Since the increase in enrollment for JSU is half of TRU. The increase must be half of 5 = 2.5
The only possible case is JSU = Univ 2.
MPU = Univ 3.
LTU = Univ 1
PKU = Univ 5.