CAT 2022Slot 3QAAll Questions

All 14 QA questions with detailed solutions and explanations.
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Q1
AlgebraMedium
The average of all 3-digit terms in the arithmetic progression 38, 55, 72, ..., is
Q2
ArithmeticMedium
Bob can finish a job in 40 days, if he works alone. Alex is twice as fast as Bob and thrice as fast as Cole in the same job. Suppose Alex and Bob work together on the first day, Bob and Cole work together on the second day, Cole and Alex work together on the third day, and then, they continue the work by repeating this three - day roster, with Alex and Bob working together on the fourth day, and so on. Then, the total number of days Alex would have worked when the job gets finished, is
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Q3
ArithmeticMedium
Consider six distinct natural numbers such that the average of the two smallest numbers is 14, and the average of the two largest numbers is 28. Then, the maximum possible value of the average of these six numbers is
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Q4
Number SystemsMedium
A school has less than 5000 students and if the students are divided equally into teams of either 9 or 10 or 12 or 25 each, exactly 4 are always left out. However, if they are divided into teams of 11 each, no one is left out. The maximum number of teams of 12 each that can be formed out of the students in the school is
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Q5
AlgebraMedium
If $(\sqrt{\frac{7}{5}})^{3x-y}=\frac{875}{2401}$ and $(\frac{4a}{b})^{6x-y}=(\frac{2a}{b})^{y-6x}$, for all non-zero real values of a and b, then the value of $x+y$ is
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Q6
ArithmeticEasy
A group of N people worked on a project. They finished 35% of the project by working 7 hours a day for 10 days. Thereafter, 10 people left the group and the remaining people finished the rest of the project in 14 days by working 10 hours a day. Then the value of N is
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Q7
ArithmeticEasy
Two cars travel from different locations at constant speeds. To meet each other after starting at the same time, they take 1.5 hours if they travel towards each other, but 10.5 hours if they travel in the same direction. If the speed of the slower car is 60 km/hr, then the distance traveled, in km, by the slower car when it meets the other car while traveling towards each other, is
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Q8
ArithmeticMedium
In an examination, the average marks of students in sections A and B are 32 and 60, respectively. The number of students in section A is 10 less than that in section B. If the average marks of all the students across both the sections combined is an integer, then the difference between the maximum and minimum possible number of students in section A is
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Q9
AlgebraMedium
Suppose k is any integer such that the equation $2x^{2}+kx+5=0$ has no real roots and the equation $x^{2}+(k-5)x+1=0$ has two distinct real roots for x. Then, the number of possible values of k is
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Q10
AlgebraMedium
If $(3+2\sqrt{2})$ is a root of the equation $ax^{2}+bx+c=0$ and $(4+2\sqrt{3})$ is a root of the equation $ay^{2}+my+n=0$ where a, b, c, m and n are integers, then the value of $(\frac{b}{m}+\frac{c-2b}{n})$ is
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Q11
AlgebraMedium
The minimum possible value of $\frac{x^{2} - 6x + 10}{3-x}$, for $x < 3$, is
Q12
AlgebraMedium
If $c=\frac{16x}{y}+\frac{49y}{x}$ for some non-zero real numbers x and y, then c cannot take the value
Q13
ArithmeticMedium
The arithmetic mean of all the distinct numbers that can be obtained by rearranging the digits in 1421, including itself, is
Q14
AlgebraMedium
A donation box can receive only cheques of ₹100, ₹250, and ₹500. On one good day, the donation box was found to contain exactly 100 cheques amounting to a total sum of ₹15250. Then, the maximum possible number of cheques of ₹500 that the donation box may have contained, is
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