Logic

Grading System 1. a 2. d 3. b 4. c Incomeand Expenditure 1. c 2. d 3. d 4. a Visitors to homepage 1. a 2. c 3. a 4. b Nayapurana Mixture Grinder 1. b 2. b 3. d 4. a Employeesof different countries 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. d HighestScorer 1. c 2. a 3. b 4. b HealthSummit 1. d 2. c 3. c 4. d HockeyWorld Cup 1. d 2. b 3. d 4. d

(CAT 2004) The year was 2006. All six teams in Pool A of World Cup hockey, play each other exactly once. Each win earns a team three points, a draw earns one point and a loss earns zero points. The two teams with the highest points qualify for the semifinals. In case of a tie, the team with the highest goal difference (Goal For - Goals Against) qualifies. In the opening match, Spain lost to Germany. After the second round (after each team played two matches), the pool table looked as shown below. In the third round, Spain played Pakistan, Argentina played Germany, and New Zealand played South Africa. All the third round matches were drawn. The following are some results from the fourth and fifth round matches (a) Spain won both the fourth and fifth round matches. (b) Both Argentina and Germany won their fifth round matches by 3 goals to 0. (c) Pakistan won both the fourth and fifth round matches by 1 goal to 0. 1. Which one of the following statements is t...

(CAT 2004) Twenty one participants from four continents (Africa, America, Australasia, and Europe) attended a United Nations conference. Each participant was an expert in one of four fields, labour, health, population studies, and refugee relocation. The following five facts about the participants are given. (a) The number of labour experts in the camp was exactly half the number of experts in each of the other three categories. (b) Africa did not send any labour expert. Otherwise, every continent, including Africa, sent at least one expert for each category. (c) None of the continents sent more than three experts in any category. (d) If there had been one less Australasian expert, then the Americas would have had twice as many experts as each of the other continents. (e) Mike and Alfanso are leading experts of population studies who attended the conference. They are from Australasia. 1. Which of the following combinations is NOT possible? a. 2 experts in popu...

(CAT 2004) Coach John sat with the score cards of Indian players from the 3 games in a one-day cricket tournament where the same set of players played for India and all the major batsmen got out. John summarized the batting performance through three diagrams, one for each game. In each diagram, the three outer triangles communicate the number of runs scored by the three top scores from India, where K, R, S, V, and Y represent Kaif, Rahul, Saurav, Virender, and Yuvraj respectively. The middle triangle in each diagram denotes the percentage of the total score that was scored by the top three Indian scorers in that game. No two players score the same number of runs in the same game. John also calculated two batting indices for each player based on his scores in the tournaments; the R-index of a batsman is the difference between his highest and lowest scores in the 3 games while the M-index is the middle number, if his scores are arranged in a non-increasing order. 1. For...

(CAT 2004) A study was conduced to ascertain the relative importance that employees in five different countries assigned to five different traits in their Chief Executive Officers. The traits were compassion (C), decisiveness (D), negotiation skills (N), public visibility (P), and vision (V). The level of dissimilarity between two countries is the maximum difference in the ranks allotted by the two countries to any of the five traits. The following table indicates the rank order of the five traits for each country. 1. Which of the following pairs of countries are most dissimilar? a. China and Japan b. India and China c. Malaysia and Japan d. Thailand and Japan 2. Which of the following countries is least dissimilar to India? a. China b. Japan c. Malaysia d. Thailand 3. Which amongst the following countries is most dissimilar to India? a. China b. Japan c. Malaysia d. Thailand 4. Three of the following four pairs of countries have iden...

(CAT 2004) Purana and Naya are two brands of kitchen mixer-grinders available in the local market. Purana is an old brand that was introduced in 1990, while Naya was introduced in 1997. For both these brands, 20% of the mixer-grinders bought in a particular year are disposed off as junk exactly two years later. It is known that 10 Purana mixer-grinders were disposed off in 1997. The following figures show the number of Purana and Naya mixer-grinders in operation from 1995 to 2000, as at the end of the year. 1. How many Naya mixer-grinders were purchased in 1999? a. 44 b. 50 c. 55 d. 64 2. How many Naya mixer-grinders were disposed off by the end of 2000? a. 10 b. 16 c. 22 d. Cannot be determined from the data 3. How many Purana mixer-grinders were disposed off in 2000? a. 0 b. 5 c. 6 d. Cannot be determined from the data 4. How many Purana mixer-grinders were purchased in 1999? a. 20 b. 23 c. 50 d. Cannot be determined from...

(CAT 2004) Prof. Singh has been tracking the number of visitors to his homepage. His service provider has provided him with the following data on the country of origin of the visitors and the university they belong to: 1. To which country does University 5 belong? a. India or Netherlands but not USA b. India or USA but not Netherlands c. Netherlands or USA but not India d. India or USA but not UK 2. University 1 can belong to a. UK b. Canada c. Netherlands d. USA 3. Which among the listed countries can possibly host three of the eight listed universities? a. None b. Only UK c. Only India d. Both India and UK 4. Visitors from how many universities from UK visited Prof. Singh's homepage in the three days? a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 For answers  click here .

(CAT 2004) The data points in the figure below represent monthly income and expenditure data of individual members of the Ahuja family (■ ), the Bose family (□ ), the Coomar family (○ ), and the Dubey family (● ). For these questions, savings is defined as 1. Which family has the lowest average income? a. Ahuja b. Bose c. Coomar d. Dubey 2. Which family has the highest average expenditure? a. Ahuja b. Bose c. Coomar d. Dubey 3. Which family has the lowest average savings? a. Ahuja b. Bose c. Coomar d. Dubey 4. The highest amount of savings accrues to a member of which family? a. Ahuja b. Bose c. Coomar d. Dubey For answers  click here .

(CAT 2004) The Dean's office recently scanned student results into the central computer system. When their character reading software cannot read something, it leaves the space blank. The scanner output reads as follows: In the grading system, A, B, C, D, and F grades fetch 6, 4, 3, 2, and 0 grade points respectively. The Grade Point Average (GPA) is the arithmetic mean of the grade points obtained in the five subjects. For example Nisha's GPA is (6 + 2 + 4 + 6 + 0) / 5 = 3.6. Some additional facts are also known about the students' grades. These are (a) Vipul obtained the same grade in Marketing as Aparna obtained in Finance and Strategy. (b) Fazal obtained the same grade in Strategy as Utkarsh did in Marketing. (c) Tara received the same grade in exactly three courses. 1. What grade did Preeti obtain in Statistics? a. A b. B c. C d. D 2. In operations, Tara could have received the same grade as a. Ismet b. Hari c. Jagdeep d....