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Year

CAT 2024

Section

Data

Topic

Line & Bar Graphs

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-2

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

An online e-commerce firm receives daily integer product ratings from 1 through 5 given by buyers. The daily average is the average of the ratings given on that day. The cumulative average is the average of all ratings given on or before that day. The rating system began on Day 1, and the cumulative averages were 3 and 3.1 at the end of Day 1 and Day 2, respectively. The distribution of ratings on Day 2 is given in the figure below.

Distribution of Rating on Day 2

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The following information is known about ratings on Day 3.

  1. 100 buyers gave product ratings on Day 3.
  2. The modes of the product ratings were 4 and 5.
  3. The numbers of buyers giving each product rating are non-zero multiples of 10.
  4. The same number of buyers gave product ratings of 1 and 2 , and that number is half the number of buyers who gave a rating of 3 .

Question 1

How many buyers gave ratings on Day 1?

Question 2

What is the daily average rating of Day 3?

3.6

3.0

3.2

3.5

Question 3

What is the median of all ratings given on Day 3?

Question 4

Which of the following is true about the cumulative average ratings of Day 2 and Day 3?

The cumulative average of Day 3 increased by less than 5%5 \% from Day 2.

The cumulative average of Day 3 decreased from Day 2.

The cumulative average of Day 3 increased by a percentage between 5%5 \% and 8%8 \% from Day 2 .

The cumulative average of Day 3 increased by more than 8% from Day 2.

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