Official Quant thread for CAT 2013

In a survey conducted among 60 managers, it was found that 25 read Business India, 30 read Business World and 24 read Business Today; 10 read Business India and Business World, 9 read Business India and Business Today and 12 read Business World and Business Today. If 5 read all three, how many read only one publication?

1. 25

2. 35

3. 32

4. 42

5. 24

Easy !

A pentagon with area 40 has equal sides but not necessarily equal angles. The sum of the five distances from a point inside the pentagon to the sides of the pentagon is 16. The side-length of the pentagon is :

a)5/2

b)5/4

c)5

d)impossible to determine

If f(x) = x2 + 12x + 30, then the value of x satisfying f(f(f(f(f(x))))) = 0 is.......

dileep bhai yeh lijiye attachment minimum max wale venn diagram ke liye

Directions for question:

The result of an exam is given below. Out of 1,000 students who appeared

i) 658 failed in Physics

ii) 166 failed in Physics and Chemistry

iii) 372 failed in Chemistry, 434 failed in Physics and Mathsiv) 590 failed in Maths, 126 failed in Maths and Chemistry.Find the number of people who failed in Chemistry but not Physics.

1. 318

2. 198

3. 213

4. 206

5. None of these

Q 23. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:

The .....and hypnotically soothing voice chanting from Vedas ......over a flood of old memories


  • Euphonious …glided
  • Melodious…wafted
  • Tuneful…drifted
  • Dulcet…floated

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(5^x)*[rt(32)^{x/(x+3)}]=50
find the value of x ?

This is seriously adsurd !! I am posting a question from a CL mock and then I find someone flagging my post !! Why ?? Are you guys trying to say that CAT papers are taking questions from CL mocks!! Seriously ?? Are u shitting me or what ?? puys admin please look thoruoughly before even flagging any post!!! what you want proof !! I have attached the pdf of CL mock!! see question number 3 !! you dumb idiots!!

Square ABCD has sides of length 10 units. Isosceles triangle EBC has base BC, and the area common to triangle EBC and square ABCD is 80 square units. Find the length of the altitude to BC in ∆EBC .


OPTIONS

1)15

2)20

3)25
4)None of the above

no OA.i'm getting 25..

The college auditorium is to be painted. But due to the lack of funds it couldn't be done. So a sincere student took the initiative and decided to paint the audi. Seeing his enthusiasm other students joined him. He is the only person doing the job on the first day. On the second day 2 more boys join him. On the third day 3 more boys join the group of the previous day and so on.....In this manner, the job is finished in exactly 25 days. How many days would 15 workers take to do the same job, given that one man is twice as efficient as a boy.

(1) 142

(2) 143

(3) 145

(4) 147

number of digits in 0.2^30 after decimal??

The function f is defined on the set of integers and satisfies


f(n)=n-4 if n>=2008

f(n)= f(f(n+6) n


find f(95)??


i think ans is 2004.....

According to a survey, at least 70% of people like apples, at least 75% like bananas and

at least 80% like cherries. What is the minimum percentage of people who like all three?

For each real number x, let f(x) be the minimum of the numbers 4x + 1, x+2, and –2x + 4. Then the maximum value of f(x) is


plz post the approach.


Directions for the Questions: Each question is followed by two statements I and II. Mark the answer. Three consecutive integers X, Y and Z are not necessarily in that order. Which is the highest number?
I The average of X and Y is Z
II X is greater than Y

  • 1&2
  • 1
  • either 1 0r 2
  • Both are NOT sufficeint
  • 2

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x+y+z = 16. How many solutions ?
x,y,z are the numbers on dice...so means x,y,z >0 and

Hey guys..can someone pls advice me on the level of questions that are being asked from Trigonometry in cat..coz i just know some basic formulas would that suffice..do advice pls..lookroundlookround

I am going off the topic.

But do help me with this.

Is there any CAT exam on November 10th?

A biologist catches a random sample of 60 fish from a lake,tags them and releases them.Six months later she catches a random sample of 70 fish and finds 3 are tagged.She assumes 25% of the fish in the lake on the earlier date have died or moved away and that 40% of the fish on the later date have arrived (or been born) since.What does she estimate as the no of fish in the lake on the earlier date?

If i write 32^32 as 3k+1 .. then value of k will be odd or even??
Approach ??