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Year

CAT 2021

Section

Quantitative

Topic

Allegations and Mixtures

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-3

If a certain weight of an alloy of silver and copper is mixed with 3 kg of pure silver, the resulting alloy will have 90% silver by weight. If the same weight of the initial alloy is mixed with 2 kg of another alloy which has 90% silver by weight, the resulting alloy will have 84% silver by weight. Then, the weight of the initial alloy, in kg, is

3

2.5

4

3.5

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