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CAT 2020 Set-3 | Question: 55
If $x_{1} = \;– 1$ and $x_{m} = x_{m+1} + (m + 1)$ for every positive integer $m, $ then $x_{100}$ equals $ – 5151 $ $ – 5150 $ $ – 5051 $ $ – 5050 $
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CAT 2020 Set-3 | Question: 59
If $\text{a,b,c}$ are non-zero and $14^{a} = 36^{b} = 84^{c},$ then $6b \left( \frac{1}{c} \;– \frac{1}{a} \right)$ is equal to
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CAT 2020 Set-3 | Question: 69
How many pairs $(a,b)$ of positive integers are there such that $a \leq b$ and $ab = 4^{2017} \; ?$ $2017$ $2019$ $2020$ $2018$
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CAT 2020 Set-2 | Question: 56
If $\textsf{x}$ and $\textsf{y}$ are positive real numbers satisfying $\textsf{x+y = 102},$ then the minimum possible value of $\textsf{2601} \left( 1 + \frac{1}{\textsf{x}} \right) \left( 1 + \frac{1}{\textsf{y}} \right)$ is
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CAT 2020 Set-2 | Question: 60
For real $\textsf{x}$ , the maximum possible value of $ \frac{x}{\sqrt{1+x^{4}}}$ is $ \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$ $1$ $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$ $\frac{1}{2}$
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CAT 2020 Set-2 | Question: 71
The number of integers that satisfy the equality $\left( x^{2} – 5x + 7 \right)^{x+1} = 1$ is $2$ $3$ $5$ $4$
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CAT 2020 Set-1 | Question: 57
The number of real$-$valued of the equation $2^{x}+2^{-x}=2-(x-2)^{2}$ is infinite $1$ $0$ $2$
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CAT 2020 Set-1 | Question: 59
How many distinct positive integer-valued solutions exist to the equation $\left ( x^{2}-7x+11 \right )^{(x^{2}-13x+42)} =1$? $6$ $8$ $2$ $4$
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CAT 2020 Set-1 | Question: 67
If $x=\left ( 4096 \right )^{7+4\sqrt{3}}$, then which of the following equals $64$? $\frac{x^{7}}{x^{2\sqrt{3}}}$ $\frac{x^{7}}{x^{4\sqrt{3}}}$ $\frac{x\frac{7}{2}}{x\frac{4}{\sqrt{3}}}$ $\frac{x\frac{7}{2}}{x^{2\sqrt{3}}}$
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CAT 2020 Set-1 | Question: 69
If $a, b$ and $c$ are positive integers such that $ab=432, bc=96$ and $c<9,$ then the smallest possible value of $a+b+c$ is $56$ $59$ $49$ $46$
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CAT 2020 Set-1 | Question: 72
A gentleman decided to treat a few children in the following manner. He gives half of his total stock of toffees and one extra to the first child, and then the half of the remaining stock along with one extra to the second and continues giving ... fashion. His total stock exhausts after he takes care of $5$ children. How many toffees were there in his stock initially?
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CAT 2020 Set-1 | Question: 75
The number of distinct real roots of the equation $\left ( x+\frac{1}{x}\right )^{2}-3\left ( x+\frac{1}{x} \right )+2= 0$ equals
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NIELIT 2016 MAR Scientist D: 71
A certain number when added to $50\%$ of itself is $27$. What is the number? $7$ $9$ $11$ $18$
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NIELIT 2016 MAR Scientist D: 70
Twelve less than $4$ times a number is $20$. What is the number? $2$ $4$ $6$ $8$
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NIELIT 2016 MAR Scientist D: 69
The sum of a number and its double is $69$. What is the number? $46.6$ $34.5$ $23$ $20$
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist D - Section D: 3
A school has $378$ girls and $675$ boys. All the students divided into strictly boys and strictly girls students sections. All the sections in the school has same number of students. What is the number of sections in the school? $27$ $36$ $39$ $23$
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist D - Section D: 26
A dog at point $A$ goes in pursuit of a fox $30$ $m$ away. The dog makes $2$ $m$ and the fox, $1$ m long leaps. If the dog makes two leaps to the fox’s three, at what distance from $A$ will the dog catch up with the fox ? $100$ $m$ $110$ $m$ $105$ $m$ $120$ $m$
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist D - Section D: 27
If $5$ spiders can catch $5$ files in $5$ minutes. How many files can $100$ spiders catch in $100$ minutes : $100$ $1000$ $500$ $2000$
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NIELIT 2016 MAR Scientist C - Section A: 12
The expression $(11.98\times 11.98 + 11.98 \times x +0.02 \times 0.02)$ will be a perfect square for $x$ equal to: $2.02$ $0.17$ $0.04$ $1.4$
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NIELIT 2016 MAR Scientist C - Section A: 15
The value of $\large\frac{(0.96)^3-(0.1)^3}{(0.96)^2+0.096+(0.1)^2}$ is : $0.86$ $0.95$ $0.97$ $1.06$
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist C - Section D: 15
The simplified form of $\left[ \left ( \left( \dfrac{a+1}{a-1}\right)^2+3 \right)\div \left( \left( \dfrac{a-1}{a+1}\right)^2+3\right) \right] \div \left [\left( \dfrac{a^{3}+1}{a^{3}-1}\right)-\dfrac{2a}{a-1} \right]$ is: $a-1$ $1-a$ $-1$ $1$
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist C - Section D: 23
Rs.$6500$ were divided among a certain number of persons. If there had been $15$ more persons, each would have got $Rs.30$ less. Find the original number of persons. $50$ $60$ $45$ $55$
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist C - Section D: 30
A charitable trust donates $28$ different books of Maths, $16$ different books of science and $12$ different books of social science to poor students. Each student is given maximum number of books of only one subject of their interest and each student got equal number of books. Find the total number of students who got books. $14$ $10$ $12$ $15$
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist C - Section C: 3
The factors of $(x^{2}+4y^{2}+4y-4xy-2x-8)$ are: $(x-2y-4)(x-2y+2)$ $(x-y+2)(x-4y-4)$ $(x+2y-4)(x+2y+2)$ None of these
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NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist C - Section C: 19
If $a^{x}=b, b^{y}=c$ and $c^{z}=a$, then $xyz$ equals: $abc$ $\dfrac{1}{abc}$ $1$ None
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CAT 2019 Set-2 | Question: 86
What is the largest positive integer $n$ such that $\frac{n^{2}+7n+12}{n^{2}-n-12}$ is also a positive integer? $8$ $12$ $16$ $6$
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CAT 2019 Set-2 | Question: 97
If $5^{x}-3^{y}=13438$ and $5^{x-1}+3^{y+1}=9686$, then $x+y$ equals _______
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CAT 2018 Set-1 | Question: 69
Given that $x^{2018}y^{2017}=1/2$ and $x^{2016}y^{2019}=8$, the value of $x^2+y^3$ is $35/4$ $37/4$ $31/4$ $33/4$
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CAT 2018 Set-1 | Question: 77
If $u^2+(u-2v-1)^2=-4v(u+v)$, then what is the value of $u+3v$ ? $1/4$ $0$ $1/2$ $-1/4$
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CAT 2017 Set-2 | Question: 94
How many different pairs $(a,b)$ of positive integers are there such that $a\leq b$ and $1/a+1/b=1/9$ None of these $2$ $0$ $1$
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CAT 2017 Set-2 | Question: 91
If $9^{\left ( x-1/2 \right )}-2^{\left ( 2x-2 \right )}=4^{x}-3^{\left (2x-3 \right )}$, then $x$ is $3/2$ $2/5$ $3/4$ $4/9$
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CAT 2017 Set-1 | Question: 90
If $9^{2x-1}-81^{x-1}= 1944$ then $x$ is $3$ $9/4$ $4/9$ $1/3$
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CAT 2017 Set-1 | Question: 88
If $x+1= x^{2}$ and $x> 0$, then $2x^{4}$ is $6+4\sqrt{5}$ $3+5\sqrt{5}$ $5+3\sqrt{5}$ $7+3\sqrt{5}$
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CAT 2017 Set-1 | Question: 94
If $a, b, c$ and $d$ are integers such that $a+b+c+d=30$ , then the minimum possible value of $( a-b )^{2}+( a-c )^{2}+( a-d)^{2}$ is $1$ $2$ $5$ $6$
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CAT 2016 | Question: 100
If three positive real numbers $x,y,z$ satisfy $y–x=z–y$ and $xyz = 4$, then what is the minimum possible value of $y$? $2^{(1/3)}$ $2^{(2/3)}$ $2^{(1/4)}$ $2^{(3/4)}$
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CAT 2015 | Question: 92
Let $x<0,\:0<y<1,\:z>1$. Which of the following may be false? $\left (x ^{2} -z^{2}\right )$ has to be positive. $yz$ can be less than one. $xy$ can never be zero. $\left (y ^{2} -z^{2}\right )$ is always negative.
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CAT 2019 Set-1 | Question: 83
If $(5.55)^{x}=(0.555)^{y}=1000$, then the value of $\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{y}$ is $3$ $1$ $\frac{1}{3}$ $\frac{2}{3}$
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CAT 2011 | Question: 51
Given $\text{a}$ and $\text{b = a-b; a}$ and $\text{b}$ but $\text{c=a+c-b; a}$ or $\text{b=b-a; a}$ but not $\text{b= a+b}$; find $1$ or $(2$ but not $(3$ or $(4$ and $5$ but $(6$ but not $(7$ and $(8$ or $9) ) ) ) ) ).$ $9$ $-8$ $-11$ $17$
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CAT 2011 | Question: 53
Consider the following operators defined below
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$: gives the positive difference of $x$ and $y.$ $x\$y$: gives the sum of squares of $x$ and $y.$ $x₤y$: gives the positive difference of the squares of $x$ and $y.$ $x\&y$:gives the product of $ ... $ will be equal to $x₤y$ $x\$y$ $(x₤y)(
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CAT 2011 | Question: 52
Consider the following operators defined below
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$: gives the positive difference of $x$ and $y.$ $x\$y$: gives the sum of squares of $x$ and $y.$ $x₤y$: gives the positive difference of the squares of $x$ and $y.$ $x\&y$:gives the product of $x$ and $ ... $, then find $(x\$y)+(x₤y)$. $2x^2$ $2y^2$ $2(x^2+y^2)$ Cannot be determined
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