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Q4. A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He Q10. One part of a hostel’s monthly expenses is fixed,
did not want anybody to know about him. One day, his and the other part is proportional to the number of its
wife asked, “how many gold coins do we have?” After boarders. The hostel collects Rs 1600 per month from
pausing a moment, he replied. “Well! if I divided the each boarder. When the number of boarders is 50, the
coins in to two unequal numbers, then 48 times the profit of the hostel is Rs 200 per boarder, and when the
difference between the two numbers equal the number of boarders is 75, the profit of the hostel is Rs
difference between the squares of the two numbers.” 250 per boarder. When the number of boarders is 80,
The wife looked puzzled. Can you help the merchant’s the total profit of the hostel, in INR, will be
wife by finding out how many gold coins the merchant a. 20200 b. 20500 c. 20000 d. 20800
has? [CAT – 2002]
a. 96 b. 53 c. 43 d. None of these Q11. 50 cows can graze a field for 40 days and 40 cows
can graze the same field for 80 days. Some grass is
Q5. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 7. If already at the field and the grass grows at a constant
its unit's digit is 3 less than its ten's digit, then what is rate.
the number?
a. 25 b. 52 c. 61 d. 74 11 (A) For how many days can 60 cows graze the same
field?
Q6. A three-digit number is eleven times the two-digit a. 30 days b. 25 days c. 20 days d. None of these
number formed by using the hundred’s and the unit’s
digit of the three-digit number respectively, in the ten’s 11 (B) What is the maximum number of cows that can
and unit’s place of the two-digit number. If the graze the same field for an infinite time?
difference between the digit in ten’s place and the digit a. 30 b. 25 c. 20 d. Infinite
in hundred’s place is 1, then what is the digit in the
unit’s place? [CAT – 2014] Q12. In a colony, the expenses for yoga classes are
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 1 partly fixed and partly vary directly with the number of
members. If there are 50 members, each member has
Q7. The cost of 3 tables and 4 chairs is Rs 2500. The cost to pay Rs 110 per month. If there are 30 more member,
of 4 tables and 3 chairs is Rs 2400. Find the sum of cost each member has to pay Rs 80 per month. How many
of each table and each chair. members are there if the share of each member is Rs
a. 700 b. 800 c. 600 d. 900 130 per month?
a. 40 b. 32 c. 35 d. 25
Q8. In a showroom, there are only two types of
vehicles, three-wheeler autorickshaws and four- Q13. An airline has a certain free luggage allowance
wheeler cars. If we count the total number of wheels, and charges for excess luggage at a fixed rate per kg.
there are 550 wheels but 160 vehicles to show. Find the two passenger, Ram and Pragya have 60 kg of luggage
number of auto-rickshaws in the showroom. between them, and are charged Rs 1200 and Rs 2400
a. 70 b. 100 c. 90 d. 80 respectively for excess luggage. Had the entire luggage
belonged to one of them, the excess luggage charge
Q9. Total expenses of a boarding house are partly fixed would have been Rs 5400
and varying linearly with the number of boarders. The
average expense per border is Rs 700 when there are 13 (A) What is the weight of Pragya’s luggage?
25 boarders and Rs 600 when there are 50 boarders.a. 25 kg b. 30 kg c. 35 kg d. 40 kg
What is the average expense per boarder when there
are 100 boarders? 13 (B) What is the free luggage allowance?
a. 550 b. 580 c. 540 d. 570 a. 10 kg b. 15 kg c. 20 kg d. 25 kg
Q14. The telephone bill consists of a fixed monthly rent Q19. Mohan has a few notes of 10 rupees, 20 rupees
and a variable part that varies with the number of units and 50 rupees. Total number of notes he has is 100 and
of calls made per month. The monthly rents charged for the total amount with him is Rs.2310. If the number of
a telephone connection in Lucknow and Meerut are in 20 rupees notes and 10 rupees notes are interchanged,
the ratio 5 : 3. The bill amounts corresponding to 100 the total amount with him decreases by Rs. 80. How
calls made from a phone in Meerut and 300 calls made many 50 rupees notes does he have?
from a phone in Lucknow are respectively Rs 500 and a. 35 b. 25 c. 22 d. 27
Rs 1100. What is the difference in the fixed monthly
rent of a telephone connection in Lucknow and one in Q20. Three boys have a certain number of marbles with
Meerut, if call rate per unit is same in both cities? them. The first boy gives to the second 1/3rd of what
a. Rs 200 b. Rs 100 c. Rs 500 d. Rs 300 the second boy has and the first boy also gives to the
third, 1/3rd of what the third boy has i.e., he gave to
Q15. A merchant decides to sell off 100 articles a week each of the others 1/3rd of what they had. Then the
at a selling price of Rs 150 each. For each 4% rise in the second and third boys in that order do the same. Now
selling price, he sell 3 less articles a week. If the selling at the end if there are 336, 60 and 333 marbles
price of each article is Rs s, then which of the below respectively with them, what is the initial number of
expression represents the number of articles sold by the marbles with the first boy?
the merchant in that week? a. 405 b. 324 c. 486 d. 243
𝒙 𝒙 𝒙𝟐
a. 175 - b. + 𝟏𝟓𝟔 c. 350 - d. x = 150
𝟐 𝟑 𝟐
Q21. A tank supplies water for 60 days. Due to a leak in
the tank, 5 liters of water is wasted every day and the
Q16. Every 10 years the Indian government counts all
supply thus lasts for 10 days less. For how many days it
the people living in the country. Suppose that the
last, if 50 liters of water leaks every day.
director of the census has reported the following data
a. 15 days b. 16 days c. 18 days d. 20 days
on two neighboring village chota Hazri and Mota Hazri.
(i) Chota Hazri has 4522 fewer males than Mota Hazri.
Q22. A train half ticket cost 2/5th the full fare and the
(ii) Mota Hazri has 4020 more female than males.
reservation charge on half ticket is same as on full
(iii) Chota Hazri has twice as many females as males.
ticket. One reserved first-class full ticket from Delhi to
(iv) Chota Hazri has 2910 fewer females than Mota
Shimla costs Rs 700 and two full and one half reserved
Hazri.
first class tickets cost Rs 1800. What is the basic first full
What is the total number of males in Chota Hazri?
fare and what is the reservation charge (in Rs)?
a. 11264 b. 14174 c. 5632 d. 10154
a. 200, 200 b. 500, 200 c. 300, 200 d. 300, 500
Q24. Four friends P, Q, R and S have some money Q30. Three candles which can burn for 40, 50 and 60
among them one day they decided to equate the minutes respectively are lit at different times. All three
money, so first P gave Q what Q had initially, then Q candles are burning simultaneously for 20 minutes and
gave R what R had initially. Again R gave S what S had there is a total of 30 minutes in which exactly one of
initially. Thus each of them had equal sum of money of them is burning. The number of minutes in which
Rs 48. Find the initial amount of R exactly two of them is burning is
a. Rs 36 b. Rs 45 c. Rs 45 d. Rs 42 a. 30 b. 40 c. 75 d. 90
Q26. If 𝟑𝒙 + 𝟐|𝒚| + 𝒚 = 𝟕 and 𝒙 + |𝒙| + 𝟑𝒚 = 𝟏, then Q2. Hitesh went to fruit market and bought some
x + 2y is [CAT 2021 shift 3] mangoes and apples for his family. In total, he spent
𝟒
a. − 𝟑 b. 1 c. 0 d. 8/3 less than Rs 2500. Had Hitesh spent the amount he
actually spent on buying mangoes to buy apples and
Q27. The number of real-valued solutions of the vice versa, he would have ended up buying 2 more
equation 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟐−𝒙 = 𝟐 − (𝒙 − 𝟐)𝟐 is fruits in total. What is the maximum number of apples
[CAT 2020 shift I] that Hitesh could have bought if it is known that a
a. Infinite b. 1 c. 0 d. 2 mango and an apple cost Rs 50 and Rs 40 respectively?
a. 25 b. 20 c. 30 d. 21
Q28. Let k be a constant. The equations kx + y = 3 and
4x + ky = 4 have a unique solution if and only if CAT Q3. Pratibha goes to a stationary shop to buy some
2020 shift III scales, pencils and crayons. She decides to buy twice as
a. |k| ≠ 2 b. |k| = 2 many crayons as pencils and at least one pencil more
c. k ≠ 2 d. k = 2 than scales. Pencils are thrice as expensive as scales,
and scales are sold at half the price of crayons. If each
Q29. Amal purchases some pens at Rs 8 each. To sell scales costs Rs 2 and total amount spent is Rs 94, how
these, he hires an employee at a fixed wage. He sells many items did she purchase in all?
100 of these pens at Rs 12 each. If the remaining pens a. 23 b. 25 c. 27 d. 29
are sold at Rs11 each, then he makes a net profit of Rs
300, while he makes a net loss of Rs 300 if the Q4. Cost of 1 orange, 2 apple and 3 banana is Rs 120
remaining pens are sold at Rs 9 each. The wage of the and cost of 3 oranges, 2 apples and 1 banana is Rs 180.
employee, in INR, is [CAT How many oranges can be purchased in the amount
2021 Shift I] sufficient to buy 12 apples and 42 bananas?
a. 500 b. 800 c. 1000 d. 1200 a. 20 b. 18 c. 12 d. 10
Q5. Doraemon invited his friends for a party in which Q11. Airtel engages male and female operators for
he prepared N Doracakes for them. Each Doracake uses answering 1000 calls per day. A male can handle 40
A grams of chocolate while B grams of jam. The cost of calls per day whereas a female can handle 50 calls per
chocolate is 4 paise per gram while that of jam is 5 paise day. The male and the female operators get a fixed
per gram. The cost of chocolate and jam to make all the wage of Rs. 250 and Rs. 300 per day respectively. In
doracakes was 2.53 Rs where 1 rupee is equivalent to addition, a male operator gets Rs. 15 per call he
100 paise. If A, B and N are all positive integers where answers and female operator gets Rs. 10 per call she
N > 1, then what is the cost of jam that Doraemon uses answers. To minimize the total cost, how many male
to make the Doracakes? operators should the service provider employ assuming
a. Rs 1.25 b. Rs 1.45 c. Rs 1.50 d. Rs 1.65 he has to employ more than 7 of the 12 female
operators available for the job?
Q6. A salesman gets a commission of Rs 10, Rs 5 and Rs a. 15 b. 14 c. 12 d. 10
2 for each unit of the three products A, B and C Q12. Joy and Ruby have a collection of less than 90
respectively that he sells. On a particular day he sold 3 marbles together. If Ruby gives Joy a certain number of
times as many units of B as those of C and earned a coins, then Joy would have 4 times as many marbles as
total commission of Rs 400. He sold at least one unit of Ruby. Instead, if Joy gives the same number of marbles
each product. What is the maximum number of units of to Ruby, then Joy would have 3 times as many marbles
A that he could have sold? as Ruby. The number of marbles with Joy and Ruby
a. 20 b. 6 c. 40 d. 23 together can be
a. 80 b. 72 c. 35 d. 85
Q7. Mohit bought two varieties of books – A and B.
Each book of variety. A cost Rs 30 and each book of Q13. Spending Rs 422, Ranjit bought 35 pens from
variety B cost Rs 40. He spent a total of Rs 720 for among three varieties of pens – A, B, C. If each pen of
purchasing these books. How many different varieties A, B, and C costs Rs 10, Rs 8, and Rs 15
combinations are possible for his purchase? respectively, and Ranjit bought the maximum possible
a. 4 b. 5 c. 7 d. 6 pens of variety C, find the total number of pens of
varieties A and B that he bought.
Q8. In a test, there are 34 multiple choice question. A a. 23 b. 20 c. 15 d. 19
correct answer fetches + 3 and a wrong answer fetch –
1. There is no penalty for unattempted questions. In Q14. Two different candles are lit. They burn at
how many ways can a student’s achieve 67 marks in different rates and one is 3 cm longer than the other.
this test. The longer one was lit at 5:30 PM and the shorter one
a. 3 b. 2 c. 1 d. 0 at 7 PM. At 9:30 PM they were both the same length.
The longer one, burned out at 11:30 PM and shorter
Q9. A test has 50 questions. A student scores 1 mark for one burned out at 11 PM. How long was each candle
a correct answer, - 1/3 for a wrong answer, and – 1/6 originally (in cm)?
for not attempting a question. If the net score of a a. 21, 24 b. 22, 25 c. 23, 26 d. 24, 27
student is 32, the number of questions answered
wrongly by that student cannot be less than Q15. On a certain day, a book dealer sold some books
a. 6 b. 12 c. 3 d. 9 on art, some books on science and some maths. The
cost of each book on art is Rs 100, the cost of each book
Q10. Mohan bought 2 shirts, 4 trousers and 5 pairs of of science is Rs 120 and the cost of each math book is
shoes for Rs 3600. Had he bought 6 shirts,5 trousers Rs 25. If at the end of the day the total sales are Rs 685,
and 15 pairs of shoes, his total expenditure would have then what is the maximum possible number of books
been Rs 8700. Find the price of each trouser. he could have sold that day, if he had sold at least one
a. 300 b. 250 c. 180 d. 200 of each kind?
a. 15 b. 13 c. 16 d. 12
Q5. Find the number of positive integer solutions of the Q15. What is the number of non-negative integer
𝟐 𝟏𝟓 solutions for the equation x2 – xy + y2 = x + y?
equation 𝒙
+ 𝒚 =𝟓
a. 3 b. 4 c. 1 d. None of these
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3
𝟑 𝟐 𝟏
Q12. x and y are integers such that + = , what is
𝒙 𝒚 𝟏𝟐
the sum of all integer value of y?
a. 576 b. 1152 c. 1024 d. None of these
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