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Year

CAT 2023

Section

Data

Topic

Network Flow Diagrams

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-3

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

Comprehension:

A,B,C,D,E\mathrm{A}, \mathrm{B}, \mathrm{C}, \mathrm{D}, \mathrm{E} and F are the six police stations in an area, which are connected by streets as shown below. Four teams - Team 1, Team 2, Team 3 and Team 4 - patrol these streets continuously between 09:00 hrs. and 12:00 hrs. each day. image

The teams need 30 minutes to cross a street connecting one police station to another. All four teams start from Station A at 09:00 hrs. and must return to Station A by 12:00 hrs. They can also pass via Station A at any point on their journeys.

The following facts are known.

  1. None of the streets has more than one team traveling along it in any direction at any point in time.
  2. Teams 2 and 3 are the only ones in stations EE and DD respectively at 10:00 hrs.
  3. Teams 1 and 3 are the only ones in station EE at 10:30 hrs.
  4. Teams 1 and 4 are the only ones in stations B and E respectively at 11:30 hrs.
  5. Team 1 and Team 4 are the only teams that patrol the street connecting stations AA and EE.
  6. Team 4 never passes through Stations B, D or F.

Question 1

Which one among the following stations is visited the largest number of times?

Station C

Station E

Station D

Station F

Question 2

How many times do the teams pass through Station B in a day?

Question 3

Which team patrols the street connecting Stations D and E at 10:15hrs10: 15 \mathrm{hrs} ?

Team 4

Team 1

Team 2

Team 3

Question 4

How many times does Team 4 pass through Station E in a day?

Question 5

How many teams pass through Station C in a day?

4

3

1

2

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