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CAT 2001 | Question: 138
Answer the below question based on the following instructions: A group of three or four has to be selected from seven persons. Among are two women: Fiza and Kavita, and five men: Ram, Shyam, David, Peter and Rahim. Ram would not like to be in the group ... group of four? Ram, Peter, Fiza, Rahim Shyam, Rahim, Kavita, David Shyam, Rahim, Fiza, David Fiza, David, Ram, Peter

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CAT 2001 | Question: 150
Answer the below question based on the following information: $\text{A}$ and $\text{B}$ are two sets $\text{(e.g. A =}$ mothers, $\text{B =}$ women). The elements that could belong to both the sets (e.g. women who are mothers) is given by the ... of the following is true? Pluto and Alsatians are dogs. Pluto is an Alsatian. Pluto is not an Alsatian. $\text{D}$ is a null set.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 24, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 149
Answer the below question based on the following information: $\text{A}$ and $\text{B}$ are two sets $\text{(e.g. A =}$ mothers, $\text{B =}$ ... $\text{Z}$ implies any dog or mammal. $\text{Z}$ implies Pluto or any dog that is a mammal. $\text{Z}$ is a null set.

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CAT 2001 | Question: 148
Answer the below question based on the following information: $\text{A}$ and $\text{B}$ are two sets $\text{(e.g. A =}$ mothers, $\text{B =}$ women). The elements that could belong to both the sets (e.g. women who are mothers) is given by ... is not a null set, it implies that All fish are vertebrates All dogs are vertebrates Some fish are dogs None of the above

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 24, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 147
Answer the below question based on the following information: $\text{A}$ and $\text{B}$ are two sets $\text{(e.g. A =}$ mothers, $\text{B =}$ women). The elements that could belong to both the sets (e.g. women who are mothers) is given by the set ... $\text{X} = \phi$ All mammals are dogs.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 146
A king has unflinching loyalty from eight of his ministers $\text{M1}$ to $\text{M8},$ but he has to select only four to make a cabinet committee. He decides to choose these four such that each selected person shares a liking with at least one of the other three selected. The selected ... $\text{M3, M4, M5, M6}$ $\text{M4, M5, M6, M8}$ $\text{M1, M2, M4, M7}$

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 145
In a "keep-fit" gymnasium class there are fifteen females enrolled in a weight-loss program. They all have been grouped in any one of the five weight-groups $\text{W1, W2, W3, W4, or W5.}$ One instructor is assigned to one weight-group ... with membership sizes $5, 4, 3, 2$ and $1,$ respectively. Who is the instructor of Radha? Babita Elina Chandrika Deepika

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 144
Four friends Ashok, Bashir, Chirag and Deepak are out shopping. Ashok has less money than three times the amount that Bashir has. Chirag has more money than Bashir. Deepak has an amount equal to the difference of amounts with Bashir and Chirag. Ashok has ... three shirts. What is the costliest item that Deepak could buy with his own money? A shirt A shawl A sweater A jacket

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 143
I have a total of Rs. $1,000,$ Item A costs Rs. $110,$ item B costs Rs. $90,$ item C costs Rs. $70,$ item D costs Rs. $40$ and item E costs Rs. $45.$ For every item D that I purchase, I must also buy two of item B. For every item A ... . My objective is to maximise the points I earn. What is the number of items that I must purchase to maximise my points? $13$ $14$ $15$ $16$

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 142
In a family gathering there are two males who are grandfathers and four males who are fathers. In the same gathering there are two females who are grandmothers and four females who are mothers. There is at least one grandson or a granddaughter present in this ... or granddaughter present. What is the minimum number of people present in this gathering? $10$ $12$ $14$ $16$

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CAT 2001 | Question: 141
Eight people carrying food baskets are going for a picnic on motorcycles. Their names $\text{A, B, C, D, E, F, G,}$ and $\text{H}.$ They have four motorcycles, $\text{M1, M2, M3}$ and $\text{M4}$ among them. They also have four food baskets $\text{O, P, Q}$ and ... $\text{R}.$ Who is travelling with $\text{H}?$ $\text{A}$ $\text{B}$ $\text{C}$ $\text{D}$

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 140
On her walk through the park, Hansa collected $50$ coloured leaves, all either maple or oak. She sorted them by category when she got home, and found the following: The number of red oak leaves with spots is even and positive. The number of red oak leaves without ... $22$ maple leaves that are neither spotted nor red. How many oak leaves did she collect? $22$ $17$ $25$ $18$

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CAT 2001 | Question: 137
Answer the below question based on the following instructions: A group of three or four has to be selected from seven persons. Among are two women: Fiza and Kavita, and five men: Ram, Shyam, David, Peter and Rahim. Ram would not like to be in the ... of the following is a feasible group of three? David, Ram, Rahim Peter, Shyam, Rahim Kavita, David, Shyam Fiza, David, Ram

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 134
While Balbir had his back turned, a dog ran into his butcher shop, snatched a piece of meat off the counter and ran out. Balbir was mad when he realised what had happened. He asked three other shopkeepers, who had seen the dog, to describe it. The shopkeepers ... and a collar. The dog had black hair, long tail and a collar. The dog had black hair, long tail and no collar.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 133
The Banerjees, the Sharmas, and the Pattabhiramans each have a tradition of eating Sunday lunch as a family. Each family serves a special meal at a certain time of day. Each family has a particular set of chinaware used only for this meal. Use ... served in white chinaware, the Sharmas eat fried brinjal at $12$ o'clock and the Pattabhiramans eat sambar from red chinaware.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 7, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 132
Mrs. Ranga has three children and has difficulty remembering their ages and the months of their birth. The clues below may help her remember. The boy, who was born in June, is $7$ years old. One of the children is $4$ years old, but it is not ... . Supriya is the oldest who was born in April, followed by Vaibhav who was born in June, and Anshuman who was born in September.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 6, 2016

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CAT 2001 | Question: 131
At a village mela, the following six nautankis (plays) are scheduled as shown in the table below. You wish to see all the six nautankis. Further, you wish to ensure that you get a lunch break from $12:30$ p.m. to $1:30$ p.m. In ... and Joru ka Ghulam is viewed fourth. Veer-Abhimanyu is viewed third; Reshma aur Shera is viewed fourth and Jhansi ki Rani is viewed fifth.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Apr 6, 2016

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CAT 2000 | Question: 125
Eighty kilograms (kg) of store material is to be transported to a location $10$ km away. Any number of couriers can be used to transport the material can be packed in any number of units of $10, 20$ or $40$ kg. Courier charges are Rs. $10$ per hour. Couriers ... cost at which $80$ kg of store material can be transported will be Rs. $180$ Rs. $160$ Rs. $140$ Rs. $120$

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Mar 30, 2016

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CAT 2000 | Question: 124
There are ten animals-two each of lion, panther, bison, bear, and deer in a zoo. The enclosures in the zoo are named X, Y, Z, P and Q and each enclosure is allotted to one of the following attendants Jack, Mohan, Shalini, Suman and Rita. ... the same pair of animals. The animals attended by Shalini are bear & bison bison & deer bear & lion bear & panther

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CAT 2000 | Question: 123
Five persons with names P, M, U, T and X live separately in any one of the following: a palace, a hut, a fort, a house or a hotel. Each one likes two different colours from among the following blue, black, red, yellow and green. U likes red and blue. ... not like black or blue. P likes blue and red. M likes yellow. X lives in a hotel. M lives in a hut palace fort house

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CAT 2000 | Question: 122
My bag can carry no more than ten books. I must carry at least one book each of management, mathematics, physics and fiction. Also, for every management book I carry I must carry two or more fiction books, and for every mathematics book I carry I must carry ... the most appropriate combination of books in my bag. The maximum points that I can earn are $20$ $21$ $22$ $23$

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CAT 2000 | Question: 121
Persons X, Y, Z and Q live in red, green, yellow or blue coloured houses placed in a sequence on a street. Z lives in a yellow house. The green house is adjacent to the blue house. X does not live adjacent to Z. The yellow house is in between the green and red houses. The colour of the house X lives in is blue green red not possible to determine

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CAT 2000 | Question: 120
The theory of games is suggested to some extent by parlour games such as chess and bridge. Friedman illustrates two distinct features of these games. First, in a parlour game played for money, if one wins the other (others) loses ( ... Kashmir. Oil Exporters' Union deciding on world oil prices, completely disregarding the countries which have at most minimal oil production.

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CAT 2000 | Question: 119
The Shveta-chattra, the White Umbrella, was a symbol of sovereign political authority placed over the monarch's head at the time of the coronation. The ruler so inaugurated was regarded not as a temporal autocrat but as the instrument of ... . The varied use of the umbrella symbolised the common basis of the non-theocratic nature of states in the Indian tradition.

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CAT 2000 | Question: 118
Although in the limited sense of freedom regarding appointments and internal working, the independence of the Central Bank is unequivocally ensured, the same cannot be said of its right to pursue monetary policy without coordination with the central ... nod for replacing soiled currency notes. The inability to remove coin shortage was a major shortcoming of this government.

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CAT 2000 | Question: 117
The problem of traffic congestion in Athens has been testing the ingenuity of politicians and town planners for years. But the measures adopted to date have not succeeded in decreasing the number of cars on the road in the city centre. In $1980,$ an odds ... cars and buy clean' cars from the open market, even if it meant forgoing the import tax subsidy. All of the above.

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CAT 2000 | Question: 116
Argentina's beef cattle herd has dropped to under $50$ million from $57$ million ten years ago in $1990.$ The animals are worth less, too: prices fell by over a third last year, before recovering slightly. Most local meat ... adequate levels. Animal rights pressure groups have come up rapidly, demanding better and humane treatment of farmyard animals like beef cattle.

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CAT 2000 | Question: 115
About $96\%$ of Scandinavian moths have ears tuned to the ultrasonic pulses that bats, their predators, emit. But the remaining $4\%$ do not have ears and are deaf. However, they have a larger wingspan than the hearing moths, and also ... bat's dinner than hearing moths. The large wingspan enables deaf moths to better receive and sense the pulses of their bat predators.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Mar 30, 2016

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CAT 2000 | Question: 114
The offer of the government to make iodised salt available at a low price of one rupee per kilo is welcome, especially since the government seems to be so concerned about the ill effects of noniodised salt. But it is doubtful whether the ... The government which initiated the earlier effort is in place even today and has more information on the effects of noniodised salt.

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CAT 2000 | Question: 113
The pressure on Italy's $257$ jails has been increasing rapidly. These jails are old and overcrowded. They are supposed to hold up to $43,000$ people - $9,000$ fewer than now. San Vittore in Milan, which has $1,800$ inmates, is ... , appealed for a gesture of clemency'. Shortly before the recommendation was made, 58 prisons reported disturbances in a period of two weeks.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Mar 30, 2016

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CAT 2000 | Question: 112
Szymanski suggests that the problem of racism in football may be present even today. He begins by verifying an earlier hypothesis that clubs' wage bills explain $90\%$ of their performance. Thus, if players' salaries were to ... proportions of black players, had significantly lower wage bills than their counterparts in another region which had predominantly white players.

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CAT 2000 | Question: 111
In a recent report, the gross enrolment ratios at the primary level, that is, the number of children enrolled in classes one to five as a proportion of all children aged $6$ to $10,$ were shown to be very high for most states; in many cases ... show shifts in the population profile which indicate that the number of children in the age group $6$ to $10$ years is declining.

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CAT 2002 | Question: 149
Read the information given below and answer the question that follow. A causes B or C, but not both. F occurs only if B occurs D occurs if B or C occurs E occurs only if C occurs J occurs only if E and F occurs. D causes G or H or both H occurs if E occurs G ... occurs, which may occur? F and G E and H D I only II only III only Either $1$ and III or II and III, but not both

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Mar 3, 2016

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CAT 2002 | Question: 140
Answer (1) if the statement can be solved by anyone of the statements but not the other one. Answer (2) if question can be solved by using either of the two statements. Answer (3) if the question can be solved by using both the statements ... received $2/9$ of what Punit and Girish together received. Punit received $3/11$ of what Jagdish and Girish together received.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Mar 3, 2016

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CAT 2002 | Question: 139
Answer (1) if the statement can be solved by anyone of the statements but not the other one. Answer (2) if question can be solved by using either of the two statements. Answer (3) if the question can be solved by using both the statements together and ... the number of members who speak both French and Russian is $196.$ The number of members who speak only Russian is $58.$

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CAT 2002 | Question: 138
Answer (1) if the statement can be solved by anyone of the statements but not the other one. Answer (2) if question can be solved by using either of the two statements. Answer (3) if the question can be solved by using both the statements together and not by any one of them. ... help of given data and more data is required. Is $|x-2| < 1?$ $|x| > 1$ $|x-1| <2$

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CAT 2002 | Question: 137
Answer (1) if the statement can be solved by anyone of the statements but not the other one. Answer (2) if question can be solved by using either of the two statements. Answer (3) if the question can be solved by using both the statements together and not by ... $500$ and half of the people score below $500.$ The highest GMAT score is $800$ and the lowest score is $200.$

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CAT 2002 | Question: 136
Answer (1) if the statement can be solved by anyone of the statements but not the other one. Answer (2) if question can be solved by using either of the two statements. Answer (3) if the question can be solved by using both the statements together and not by ... listed price by $10\%$ the dress was sold for a met profit of $10$ dollars. The dress was sold for $50$ dollars.

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CAT 2002 | Question: 135
Answer (1) if the statement can be solved by anyone of the statements but not the other one. Answer (2) if question can be solved by using either of the two statements. Answer (3) if the question can be solved by using both the statements together and not by any one of them. Answer (4) if the ... Is $x=y?$ $(x+y) (\frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{y}) = 4$ $(x-50)^2 = (y-50)^2$

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CAT 2002 | Question: 134
Answer (1) if the statement can be solved by anyone of the statements but not the other one. Answer (2) if question can be solved by using either of the two statements. Answer (3) if the question can be solved by using both the statements together ... put everyone in teams of $8$ without any leftovers. The number of students in the class is currently not divisible by $8.$

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