Year
CAT 2025
Section
Data
Topic
DI Tables
Difficulty
Hard
Question
Slot-2
Passage:
The following charts depict details of research papers written by four authors, Arman, Brajen, Chintan, and Devon. The papers were of four types, single-author, two-author, three-author, and four-author, that is, written by one, two, three, or all four of these authors, respectively. No other authors were involved in writing these papers.

The following additional facts are known.
- Each of the authors wrote at least one of each of the four types of papers.
- The four authors wrote different numbers of single-author papers.
- Both Chintan and Devon wrote more three-author papers than Brajen.
- The number of single-author and two-author papers written by Brajen were the same.
Question 1
What was the total number of two-author and three-author papers written by Brajen?
Question 2
Which of the following statements is/are NECESSARILY true? i. Chintan wrote exactly three two-author papers. ii. Chintan wrote more single-author papers than Devon.
Neither i nor ii
Only ii
Both i and ii
Only i
Question 3
Which of the following statements is/are NECESSARILY true? i. Arman wrote three-author papers only with Chintan and Devon. ii. Brajen wrote three-author papers only with Chintan and Devon.
Neither i or ii
Only ii
Only i
Both i and ii
Question 4
If Devon wrote more than one two-author papers, then how many two-author papers did Chintan write?
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