Year
CAT 2017
Section
Data
Topic
Line & Bar Graphs
Difficulty
Hard
Question
Slot-2
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
Passage:
At a management school, the oldest M dorms, numbered 1 to 10, need to be repaired urgently. This following diagram represents the estimated repair costs (in Rs. Crores for, the 10 dorms. For any dorm, the estimated repair cost (in Rs. Crores) is an integer. Repairs with estimated cost Rs. 1 or 2 Crores are considered light repairs, repairs with estimated cost Rs. 3 or 4 are considered moderate repairs and repairs with estimated cost Rs. 5 or 6 Crores are considered extensive repairs.
Further, the following information is known.
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Odd-numbered dorms do not need light repair; even-numbered dorms do not need moderate repair and dorms, whose numbers are divisible by 3, do not need extensive repair.
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Dorms 4 to 9 all need different repair costs, with Dorm 7 needing the maximum and Dorm 8 needing the minimum.

Question 1
Which of the following is NOT necessarily true?
Dorm 1 needs a moderate repair
Dorm 5 repair will cost no more than Rs. 4 Crores
Dorm 7 needs an extensive repair
Dorm 10 repair will cost no more than Rs. 4 Crores
Question 2
What is the total cost of repairing the odd-numbered dorms (in Rs. Crores)?
Question 3
Suppose further that:
Question 4
Suppose further that: 1 4 of the 10 dorms needing repair are women's dorms and need a total of Rs. 20 Crores for repair. 2 Only one of Dorms 1 to 5 is a women's dorm. Which of the following is a women's dorm?
Dorm 2
Dorm 5
Dorm 8
Dorm 10
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