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Year

CAT 2019

Section

Data

Topic

Caselets

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-1

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

The figure below shows the street map for a certain region with the street intersections marked from a through I. A person standing at an intersection can see along straight lines to other intersections that are in her line of sight and all other people standing at these intersections. For example, a person standing at intersection g can see all people standing at intersections b,c,e,f,h\mathrm{b}, \mathrm{c}, \mathrm{e}, \mathrm{f}, \mathrm{h}, and k . In particular, the person standing at intersection g can see the person standing at intersection e irrespective of whether there is a person standing at intersection ff.

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Six people U, V, W, X, Y, and Z, are standing at different intersections. No two people are standing at the same intersection. The following additional facts are known.

  1. X,U\mathrm{X}, \mathrm{U}, and Z are standing at the three corners of a triangle formed by three street segments.

  2. XX can see only UU and ZZ.

  3. YY can see only UU and WW.

  4. U sees V standing in the next intersection behind Z .

  5. W cannot see V or Z.

  6. No one among the six is standing at intersection dd.

Question 1

Who is standing at intersection a?

W

Y

No one

V

Question 2

Who can V see?

Z only

U, W and Z only

U and Z only

U only

Question 3

What is the minimum number of street segments that XX must cross to reach YY ?

1

4

2

3

Question 4

Should a new person stand at intersection dd, who among the six would she see?

W and X only

U and W only

U and Z only

V and X only

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