Official Quant thread for CAT 2013

@jashholmes said:
The average age of 5 men today is the same as that it was 7 years ago, with one man being replaced bu much a younger man. What is the difference between the ages of the man replaced and the new man???
Bhai 35 hai kya iska?
@pakkapagal Ha!!!
If attendance at a conference fell by 20 percent from last year, the attendance at the conference would have been 2112. If the attendance at the conference had instead risen by 25 percent, how many more people would have attended the conference this year?
@jashholmes said:
A cricketer had played a certain number of innings during the year. He finds that if he had not played the last game when he made 20 runs, or if he had played an extra innings and made 56 runs, he would have increased his average by 1. What was his average?
let x1+x2+...xn/n=A,
(x1+x2+...xn)-20/n-1=A+1,
so An-20=(A+1)(n-1)
similarly An+56=(A+1)(n+1)
solving A=37......sahi hai kya?

Ram decreased his cigarette consumption by 11.11% but inspite of this decrease,his expenditure on cigarette increased by 33% Find % change in price of cigarette?

@prateek987 said:
If attendance at a conference fell by 20 percent from last year, the attendance at the conference would have been 2112. If the attendance at the conference had instead risen by 25 percent, how many more people would have attended the conference this year?
3300?
@maroof10 said:
Ram decreased his cigarette consumption by 11.11% but inspite of this decrease,his expenditure on cigarette increased by 33% Find % change in price of cigarette?
50%?
@pakkapagal wrong
@audiq7 explain plz
@pakkapagal galat hai bhai
@prateek987 said:
@pakkapagal wrong
660 :/
@maroof10 said:
Ram decreased his cigarette consumption by 11.11% but inspite of this decrease,his expenditure on cigarette increased by 33% Find % change in price of cigarette?
cost*consumption = expenditure
so x*y = e---------> x = e/y
x1*88.89/100*y = 133/100*e--------> 133/88.89y*e

% change = (133/88.89y*e - e/y)/e/y*100 = 133 - 88.89/88.89*100 = 49.6% = 50% ?

@maroof10 said:
@audiq7 explain plz
suppose pehle 9 cig. pita tha 90rs mein. 10rs/cigg
ab 8 pi raha hai 120 mein. 15rs/cigg
50% rise.

mehangai bahut badh rahi hai!!
@mailtoankit said:
cost*consumption = expenditureso x*y = e---------> x = e/yx1*88.89/100*y = 133/100*e--------> 133/88.89y*e% change = (133/88.89y*e - e/y)/e/y*100 = 133 - 88.89/88.89*100 = 49.6% = 50% ?
haha mai laga raha tha exp* consumption=cost 😛 silly me
@audiq7 said:
suppose pehle 9 cig. pita tha 90rs mein. 10rs/ciggab 8 pi raha hai 120 mein. 15rs/cigg50% rise.mehangai bahut badh rahi hai!!
Jab apni life pe aa jaye question to kitni jaldi solve ho jata hai na :D
@pakkapagal said:
660 :/
prateek bhai ye sahi he kya?????aaj sab galat ho raha hai :(

Ram buys a house for Rs 10,000 and gives it in rent.He puts 12.5% of each month's rent for maintenance and pays Rs 328 in taxes every year.If he receives 5.5% of net profit on his investment,Find the monthly rent?

@pakkapagal mere bhai..pareshan kyun hote ho..?

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@maroof10 said:
Ram buys a house for Rs 10,000 and gives it in rent.He puts 12.5% of each month's rent for maintenance and pays Rs 328 in taxes every year.If he receives 5.5% of net profit on his investment,Find the monthly rent?
983.xx
nt sure.... too lazy to use pen paper
The sum of the cubes of any 3 consecutive nos is always divisible by:
18
27
9
none