[Official] Quant Thread for 2015!

Puys what are some of the most important topics for Xat?

Alex has  75 red tokens and 75 blue tokens. There is a booth where Alex can give two red tokens and receive in return a silver token and a blue token, and another booth where Alex can give three blue tokens and receive in return a silver token and a red token. Alex continues to exchange tokens until no more exchanges are possible. How many silver tokens will Alex have at the end? OA 103 

Any approach apart from doing it manually !

Two towns P and Q are 300 km apart. Car 1 and Car 2 start travelling from P and Q towards each other. Their speeds are in the ratio 1 : 2 and they start at 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm, respectively. After meeting at R, they return to their starting point and again start travelling towards each other. In order to meet Car 1 for the second time at R, Car 2 has to wait at R for some time. For how long did Car 2 wait at R in order to meet Car 1?

A   1 hour

B  1.5 hours

C  2 hours

D  3 hours

E  3.5 hours

Can someone explain the process? 


Result Dates of the Season : [ In Order ]

1. CAT Result : Second week of January 2016

2. SNAP Result : January 11, 2016 Monday

3. NMAT Result : January 15, 2016 Friday

4. CMAT Result : January 21, 2016 Thursday

Best Wishes to one and all !!

Ramesh analysed the monthly salary figures of five vice presidents of his company. All the salary figures are integers. The mean and the median salary figures are ` 5 lakh, and the only mode is ` 8 lakh. What is the sum (in ` lakh) of the highest and the lowest salaries?

Answer is 10.

Please explain.


10 diff coloured(red, blue,...) 18 lack balls divided randomly into 10 groups.

all 10 groups will have approximately equal number of red balls

Am i right?

Bhaiyon tum CAT aspirants se ummeed h. Maine kisi aur forum pe post kiya tha. All were opposing me.

  • yes
  • no

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easier xat they said, got owned left right centre. lol, gave haath to K now lol.


What is the CAT percentile Cut-off for

1). NIBM, Pune

2). NIRMA, Ahmedabad 

3). IFMR, Chennai 

4). UBS, Chandigarh 

What's the date for CAT result?

Go to CAT website => Login =>  Ctrl+U => Ctrl+F => Type "Score" => Start panicking! 😛 

A man can complete 3/8 of a work in 24 days. At this rate, how much more time is required to complete the work?  approach please

An army of 7300 troops is formed into 4 battalions, so that 1/2 of the first , 2/3 of the second, 3/4 of the third and 4/5 of the fourth are all composed of the same number of men. How many men are there in each battalion ?

Question number 79 how to approach this question..?

Q73 I got the answer. But didn't get how 44 men leaving day by day should be resolved...?

Plzz can someone explain this question

A vessel contain volume of milk and water in the ratio of 7:3 .A part of mixture is removed and replaced by an equal quantity of pure milk. Now the ratio of milk and water in the vessel is to be 17:2. What proportion of the original volume has been replaced by pure milk.?

  • 20/57th part
  • 37/57th part

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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?

  • 2^2/3
  • 2^1/3
  • 2^1/4

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Can someone explain the question

Q93 plssss

On a 100m track, Hari stars running from one end and Ramesh from the other end. If they meet at 40m from Ramesh's end. Find the speed of Hari, if Ramesh's speed is 30km/hr.