CAT 2020 Question Paper With Answers & Explanation
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Question Numbers (27 to 30): Answer the questions
on the basis of the information given below.
1000 patients currently suffering from a disease were
selected to study the effectiveness of treatment of four
types of medicines — A, B, C and D. These patients
were first randomly assigned into two groups of equal
size, called treatment group and control group. The
patients in the control group were not treated with any of
these medicines; instead they were given a dummy
medicine, called placebo, containing only sugar and
starch. The following information is known about the
patients in the treatment group.
a. A total of 250 patients were treated with type A
medicine and a total of 210 patients were treated
with type C medicine.
b. 25 patients were treated with type A medicine only.
20 patients were treated with type C medicine only.
10 patients were treated with type D medicine only.
c. 35 patients were treated with type A and type D
medicines only. 20 patients were treated with type A
and type B medicines only. 30 patients were treated
with type A and type C medicines only. 20 patients
were treated with type C and type D medicines only.
d. 100 patients were treated with exactly three types of
medicines.
e. 40 patients were treated with medicines of types A,
B and C, but not with medicines of type D. 20 patients
were treated with medicines of types A, C and D, but
not with medicines of type B.
f. 50 patients were given all the four types of medicines.
75 patients were treated with exactly one type of
medicine.
Q. 1 How many patients were treated with medicine type
B?
Question Numbers (31 to 36): Answer the questions
on the basis of the information given below.
In a certain board examination, students were to appear
for examination in five subjects: English, Hindi,
Mathematics, Science and Social Science. Due to a
certain emergency situation, a few of the examinations
could not be conducted for some students. Hence, some
students missed one examination and some others
missed two examinations. Nobody missed more than
two examinations.
The board adopted the following policy for awarding marks
to students. If a student appeared in all five examinations,
then the marks awarded in each of the examinations
were on the basis of the scores obtained by them in
those examinations.
If a student missed only one examination, then the marks
awarded in that examination was the average of the best
three among the four scores in the examinations they
appeared for.
If a student missed two examinations, then the marks
awarded in each of these examinations was the average
of the best two among the three scores in the
examinations they appeared for.
The marks obtained by six students in the examination
are given in the table below. Each of them missed either
one or two examinations.
The following facts are also known.
I. Four of these students appeared in each of the
English, Hindi, Science, and Social Science
examinations.
II. The student who missed the Mathematics
examination did not miss any other examination.
Ill. One of the students who missed the Hindi
examination did not miss any other examination.
The other student who missed the Hindi examination
also missed the Science examination.
Q. 5 Who among the following did not appear for the
Mathematics examination?
Question Numbers (37 to 42): Answer the questions
on the basis of the information given below.
Four institutes, A, B, C, and D, had contracts with four
vendors W, X, Y, and Z during the ten calendar years
from 2010 to 2019. The contracts were either multi-year
contracts running for several consecutive years or singleyear
contracts. No institute had more than one contract
with the same vendor. However, in a calendar year, an
institute may have had contracts with multiple vendors,
and a vendor may have had contracts with multiple
institutes. It is known that over the decade, the institutes
each got into two contracts with two of these vendors,
and each vendor got into two contracts with two of these
institutes.
The following facts are also known about these contracts.
I. Vendor Z had at least one contract in every year.
II. Vendor X had one or more contracts in every year up
to 2015, but no contract in any year after that.
III. Vendor Y had contracts in 2010 and 2019. Vendor
W had contracts only in 2012.
IV. There were five contracts in 2012.
V. There were exactly four multi-year contracts. Institute
B had a 7-year contract, D had a 4-year contract,
and A and C had one 3-year contract each. The other
four contracts were single-year contracts.
VI. Institute C had one or more contracts in 2012 but did
not have any contract in 2011.
VII. Institutes B and D each had exactly one contract in
2012. Institute D did not have any contract in 2010.
Q. 11 In which of the following years were there two or more
contracts?
Question Numbers (43 to 46): Answer the questions
on the basis of the information given below.
Ten musicians (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J) are
experts in at least one of the following three percussion
instruments: tabla, mridangam, and ghatam. Among
them, three are experts in tabla but not in mridangam or
ghatam, another three are experts in mridangam but not
in tabla or ghatam, and one is an expert in ghatam but
not in tabla or mridangam. Further, two are experts in
tabla and mridangam but not in ghatam, and one is an
expert in tabla and ghatam but not in mridangam.
The following facts are known about these ten musicians.
1.
Both A and B are experts in mridangam, but only one of them is also an expert in tabla.
2.
D is an expert in both tabla and ghatam.
3.
Both F and G are experts in tabla, but only one of them is also an expert in mridangam.
4.
Neither I nor J is an expert in tabla.
5.
Neither H nor I is an expert in mridangam, but only one of them is an expert in ghatam.
Q. 17 Who among the following is DEFINITELY an expert
in tabla but not in either mridangam or ghatam?
Question Numbers (47 to 50): Answer the questions
on the basis of the information given below.
The local office of the APP-CAB company evaluates the
performance of five cab drivers, Arun, Barun, Chandan,
Damodaran, and Eman for their monthly payment based
on ratings in five different parameters (P1 to P5) as given
below:
P1: timely arrival
P2: behaviour
P3: comfortable ride
P4: driver's familiarity with the route
P5: value for money
Based on feedback from the customers, the office
assigns a rating from 1 to 5 in each of these parameters.
Each rating is an integer from a low value of 1 to a high
value of 5. The final rating of a driver is the average of his
ratings in these five parameters. The monthly payment
of the drivers has two parts – a fixed payment and final
rating-based bonus. If a driver gets a rating of 1 in any of
the parameters, he is not eligible to get bonus. To be
eligible for bonus a driver also needs to get a rating of
five in at least one of the parameters.
The partial information related to the ratings of the drivers
in different parameters and the monthly payment
structure (in rupees) is given in the table below:
The following additional facts are known.
1. Arun and Barun have got a rating of 5 in exactly one
of the parameters. Chandan has got a rating of 5 in
exactly two parameters.
2. None of drivers has got the same rating in three
parameters.
Q. 21 If Damodaran does not get a bonus, what is the
maximum possible value of his final rating?
If Damodaran does not get a bonus, it implies that Damodaran must have got a rating of 1 in one of the five
parameters. Since, none of drivers has got the same rating in three parameters, means they can have same
rating in at most two parameters. Therefore, in order to maximize the final rating of Damodaran, we can assume
that the rating in five parameters could be 1, 3, 4, 5, and 5.
The average rating = (1 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 5)/5 = 3.6.
Q. 22 If Eman gets a bonus, what is the minimum possible
value of his final rating?
If Eman gets a bonus, it implies that Eman must have got a rating of 5 in atleast one of the five parameters.
Since, none of drivers has got the same rating in three parameters, means they can have same rating in at most
two parameters. Therefore, in order to minimize the final rating of Eman, we can assume that the rating in five
parameters could be 2, 3, 3, 5, and 2.
The average rating = (2 + 3 + 3 + 5 + 2)/5 = 3.
Q. 23 If all five drivers get bonus, what is the minimum
possible value of the monthly payment (in rupees)
that a driver gets?