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Year

CAT 2017

Section

Data

Topic

Distribution

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-2

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

A tea taster was assigned to rate teas from six different locations - Munnar, Wayanad, Ooty, Darjeeling, Assam and Himachal: These teas were placed in six cups, numbered 1 to 6 , not necessarily in the same order. The tea taster was asked to rate these teas on the strength of their flavour on a scale of 1 to 10. He gave a unique integer rating to each tea.

Some other information is given below:

  1. Cup 6 contained tea from Himachal.
  2. Tea from Ooty got the highest rating, but it was not in Cup 3.
  3. The rating of tea in Cup 3 was double the rating of the tea in Cup 5.
  4. Only two cups got ratings in even numbers.
  5. Cup 2 got the minimum rating and this rating was an even number.
  6. Tea in Cup 3 got a higher rating than that in Cup 1.
  7. The rating of tea from Wayanad was more than the rating of tea from Munnar, but less than that from Assam.

Question 1

What was the second highest rating given?

Question 2

What was the number of the cup that contained tea from Ooty?

Question 3

If the tea from Munnar did not get the minimum rating, what was the rating of the tea from Wayanad?

3

5

1

6

Question 4

If cups containing teas from Wayanad and Ooty had consecutive numbers, which of the following statements may be true?

Cup 5 contains tea from Assam

Cup 1 contains tea from Darjeeling

Tea from Wayanad has got a rating of 6

Tea from Darjeeling got the minimum rating

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