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Practice Questions for CAT with Solutions
1. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
Five friends – Ankit, Basant, Charan, David and Eshwar – played a game of dice, in which they throw a regular die and score points equal to the number shown up by the die. The game was played for five rounds and in each round, each player threw the die exactly once. It was observed that no two players scored the same number of points in any round. At the end of five rounds, the players with the top two scores were selected and it was decided that these two players will play the game for another two rounds, i.e., the 6th and the 7th rounds, and their scores in these two rounds will be added to their respective scores in the earlier rounds and the person with the highest total number of points will be declared the winner. It was also decided that the seventh round has to be held only if the player with the second highest number of points after the sixth round has a chance to win, if the seventh round is conducted. Further, it is known that no one scored 6 points in the last round that they played. mThe following table gives partial information about the points scored by the participants in different rounds:
Q1. What is the minimum possible number of total points scored by Charan?
- 4
- 5
- 6
- CBD
Q3. What is the maximum possible difference between the points scored by Eshwar and Charan in the fourth round?
- 0
- 3
- 2
- 1
2. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
The following scatter plot gives the information about the number of innings played and runs scored by ten different batsmen – Ashwin, Dhoni, Gambhir, Harbhajan, Jadega, Kohli, Raina, Sehwag and Yuvraj. The average of a batsman is defined as runs scored per innings played.
For example, the point (10, 150) in the scatter plot represents one of the ten batsmen (the names being intentionally left out) who played 10 innings and scored 150 runs.
Further, it is known that
- Sehwag did not score the highest number of runs and Kohli did not have a higher average than Dhoni had.
- Rohit and Jadeja were the batsmen whose averages were among the lowest two averages and Rohit played more matches than Gambhir did.
- Among all the possible pairs, Dhoni and Gambhir is the pair with the least difference in averages.
- Exactly three batsmen scored more runs than Ashwin did and neither Raina nor Yuvraj scored more runs than Harbhajan did.
Q1. Which of the following statements is definitely false?
- The average of Sehwag is less than 30, if he is not the one who played the least number of matches.
- Yuvraj scored more runs than Rohit did but less runs than Dhoni did.
- The number of runs scored by Harbhajan is more than the number of runs scored by Dhoni.
- The average of Yuvraj is less than that of Dhoni.
Q2. Which of the following statements would help to uniquely determine the average of each of the ten batsmen?
- The average of Yuvraj is less than that of Harbhajan, while the average of Raina is more than that of Harbhajan.
- The average of Sehwag is more than that of Yuvraj and less than that of Raina.
- The average of Raina is more than that of Yuvraj and Shewag, while the average of Sehwag is more than that of Dhoni
- (i) alone
- (ii) alone
- (i) and (iii) together
- (iii) alone
Q3. What is the minimum possible number of players who scored more runs than Sehwag did?
3. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
The table below is the league table at the half-way stage in an Asian football tournament. So far, every team has played every other team in its pool exactly once. The positions in the group have been determined in the sequence: maximum number of points, followed by higher goal difference in case of a tie in points. Every match has 3 possible results: Win, Loss or Tie (Draw). Each win fetches three points while a loss gives no point. In case of a tie, a point is given to both the teams. Some information is missing in the table.
The following additional information is available:-
All teams were on a different number of points.
UAE beat Oman 2-1 in their head-to-head encounter.
Q1. Which team won the match between Japan and UAE?
Q2. How many matches ended in a tie until the halfway stage of the Qualifiers?
Q3. What was the minimum number of combined goals scored by both participating teams in any of the matches played so far?
Q4. What is the maximum possible combined number of goals in the match between South Korea and UAE?
4. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
To study the performance of three strikers – Villa, Torres and Messi – the coach of a football team analysed all the matches played by the team in the last season. The coach found that each of the three strikers played all the games in the last season and every goal scored by the team required the assistance/involvement of at least one of these three strikers. The total number of goals scored by the team in the last season was 37.
From the analysis, the coach obtained the following information about the three strikers.
- Messi was involved in 20 goals scored by the team, which was the maximum number for any striker within the team.
- The number of goals scored, in which Messi was the only striker involved, was equal to the number of goals scored in which Torres was involved such that that Torres was not the only striker involved in the goal scoring.
- The number of goals in which Torres was the only striker involved was double the number of goals in which all the three strikers were involved.
- Villa was involved in the scoring of 17 goals.
- The number of goals in which Villa was the only striker involved was one less than the number of goals in which Torres was the only striker involved.
- The number of goals in which Villa was not the only striker involved in goal scoring was 10.
- If only 1 striker was involved in a particular goal, 3 points were awarded to the striker
- If 2 strikers were involved in a particular goal, 2 points each were awarded to both the strikers.
- If 3 strikers were involved in a particular goal, 1 point was awarded to each striker
Q1. In how many goals was Messi the only striker involved in scoring the goal?
Q2. How many points were awarded to Torres, for the goals in which Villa and Torres were involved in goal scoring?
Q3. In how many goals was Torres not involved?
5. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
Eight teams play against each other exactly once in a Cricket World Cup. The following is also known about the matches that have been completed.
- Each team is awarded 2 points on a win.
- A loss is awarded no points.
- There is no draw in the tournament.
- No team ended with the same points at the end of the tournament.
- It is known that if a team loses a match against an opponent, it also loses the match against those whom the opponent has already lost to.
- The incomplete points table is as shown in the table below where the rows represents the performance of a team w.r.t the other teams.
- H
- D
- F
- Cannot be Determined
Q2. How many points did H score?
Q3. What is the difference between the final points of B and E?
Q4. How many points have C, F and H scored together?
6. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
Nine participants participated in an inter-school quiz. A total of five rounds were held in this tournament. In any round, the winner got 5 points, the 1st runner up got 3 points and the 2nd runner up got 1 point. In any round the number of participants was five, such that the 1st participant to enter the tournament plays only the first round, the 2nd participant plays the first two rounds, the 3rd participant plays first three rounds and so on till the 5th participant plays all the five rounds. The next participant plays one round less than the previous participant and this continues till Ajinkya, who plays only one round. The 1st participant to enter the tournament was Akshay followed by Amit and so on in the order given in the bar chart below. Ajosh was the only participant to have scored in consecutive rounds. There were no ties for any of the positions in any of the five rounds. The graph below gives the points tally at the end of five stipulated rounds. Ajinkya was not able to score any point in the quiz
- Abhilash
- Ajay
- Amar
- Cannot be Determined
- 2 : 3
- 1 : 3
- 3 : 1
- Cannot be Determined
- Round 2
- Round 3
- Round 4
- Both Rounds 2 and 4
Q4. The winners in round 3, 4 and 5 in some order are
- Ajosh, Amar, Anil
- Ajosh, Anil
- Anil, Abhilasha, Ajay
- Abhilasha, Ajosh, Amar
7. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
- Q won his game against P.
- R won the maximum number of coins, more than any one else.
- U lost only two games, one against S and the other against R.
- T did not lose more than three games.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Either a or b
- Cannot be determined
- T won 5 games
- R won 5 games
- S won 5 games
- No player was undefeated
- None of the above
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 17
- 11
- 4
- 10
- 5
- CBD
9. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
The points table of the English Premier League 2007-08 after 37 games played by each team is given. Each team is yet to play one more match. Three points are awarded for a win, one point for a draw and no points for a loss. In case two or more teams are level on points after the last round of matches, the team with a higher goal difference (GD = GF − GA) is ranked higher
Q1. On the final day Manheader United draw with Arsenail without scoring. Also, Chelski and Heartpool win their matches against Fillham and Overton, 6-1 and 4-0 respectively, then what is the sum of the goal differences of the teams ranked 1 and 4 at the end of the league?
- Arsenail and Chelski
- Arsenail and Heartpool
- Heartpool and Manheader United
- Chelski and Heartpool
Q3. On the final day, Manheader United loses 0-2 against Braxton Villa and Arsenail and Chelski draw against Sunderbans and Wiggle, 4-4 and 2-2 respectively. If Heartpool has conceded three goals in their match against Overton, then what is the minimum number of goals they need to score to become the champions?
- Manheader United win 3-0, Chelski lose 1-0
- Chelski win 2-0, Manheader United draw 2-2
- Heartpool win 2-1, Manheader United win 3-2
- Chelski win 6-5, Manheader United lose 5-0
10. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
- No two persons won the same number of bets and no two persons lost the same number of bets.
- For any person, the stakes of any two bets are different.
- The stake of any bet is an integer amount (in Rs.) and is neither less than Rs.4 nor more than Rs.21.
- Neither the gain of any person who won at least one bet nor the loss of any person who lost at least one bet is less than Rs.20 or more than Rs.40.
- The sums of the stakes (in Rs.) of all the bets placed by each of A, B, C, D and E are 55, 37, 40, 55 and 53 respectively.
- The number of bets won by D is equal to the number of bets lost by A. The number of bets lost by C is more than the number of bets lost by D.
- E won Rs.17 against A and the stake involved in the bet between C and D is Rs.4. The gain of A is equal to the loss of D.
Q2. The stake (in Rs.) in the bet between B and C is
Q3. What is the total loss (in Rs.) of A?
Q4. What is the amount (in Rs.) that A lost to D?
14. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
The following is the table of points drawn at the end of all the matches in a six-nation Hockey tournament, in which each country played with every other country exactly once. The table gives the positions of the countries in terms of their respective total points scored (i.e., in the decreasing order of their total points). Each win was worth three points, each draw one point, and there were no points for a loss. Some information in the table has been intentionally left out. The results of none of the individual matches are known, except that Pakistan beat India and no two teams finished with the same number of points.
- Australia
- Netherlands
- South Korea
- Spain
- India Vs South Korea
- Spain Vs Netherlands
- Netherlands Vs South Korea
- Spain Vs South Korea
16. CAT - DILR Games and Tournaments
In a shooting competition, each player, in his turn, takes three shots at the target. The competition starts with the first player taking three shots, followed by the second player taking three shots, and so on. After the last player has taken his three shots, the turn comes back to the first player who again takes three shots, followed by the second player and so on. For each shot, if a player hits the target, he is awarded 3 points while no point is awarded to or deducted from the scores of each of the other players. If he misses, 1 point is deducted from his score and 1 point is awarded to each of the other competitors. The first player(s) to reach at net score of 100 points or more will be declared the winner(s) of the competition. Once the winner(s) is/are decided, the competition ends. Exactly five players – A, B, C, D and E – participated in the competition, with their turns not necessarily being in the same order. At the end of the competition, D alone won the competition and had the same number of misses as that of A. The net score of C was 74 points and he registered the same number of hits as that of B. The net scores of the players whose turns were third, fourth and the fifth, were in descending order. There were a total of 86 hits and 54 misses.
Q1. What was the number of hits registered by E?
Q2. Who had the second least number of misses?
Q3. The player whose turn was fourth is
Q4. Difference between net score of A and B is ______
Q5. Net score of A is _______
