CAT 2022 Time and Work Question (Medium)

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Some members of a social service organization in Kolkata decide to prepare 2400 laddoos to gift to children in various orphanages and slums in the city, during Durga puja. The plan is that each of them makes the same number of laddoos. However, on the laddoo-making day, ten members are absent, thus

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Let the originally planned number of members be n. Then each member was supposed to make 2400 n laddoos. On the day, 10 members are absent, so n 10 members make laddoos, and each now makes 2400 n 10 . We are told each remaining member makes 12 more laddoos than earlier planned, so 2400 n 10 2400 n 1

CAT 2022 Time and Work — Previous Year Question

CAT 2022

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Time and Work

Medium

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