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Year

CAT 2020

Section

Data

Topic

Linear Arrangements

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-2

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

The Humanities department of a college is planning to organize eight seminars, one for each of the eight doctoral students - A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. Four of them are from Economics, three from Sociology and one from Anthropology department. Each student is guided by one among P,Q,R,S\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}, \mathrm{R}, \mathrm{S} and T . Two students are guided by each of P,RP, R and TT, while one student is guided by each of QQ and SS. Each student is guided by a guide belonging to their department. Each seminar is to be scheduled in one of four consecutive 30-minute slots starting at 9:00 am, 9:30 am, 10:00 am and 10:30 am on the same day. More than one seminars can be scheduled in a slot, provided the guide is free. Only three rooms are available and hence at the most three seminars can be scheduled in a slot. Students who are guided by the same guide must be scheduled in consecutive slots.

The following additional facts are also known.

  1. Seminars by students from Economics are scheduled in each of the four slots.
  2. A's is the only seminar that is scheduled at 10:00 am. A is guided by R.
  3. FF is an Anthropology student whose seminar is scheduled at 10:30 am.
  4. The seminar of a Sociology student is scheduled at 9:00 am.
  5. BB and GG are both Sociology students, whose seminars are scheduled in the same slot. The seminar of an Economics student, who is guided by T , is also scheduled in the same slot.
  6. P , who is guiding both B and C , has students scheduled in the first two slots.
  7. AA and GG are scheduled in two consecutive slots.

Question 1

Which one of the following statements is true?

Two seminars are scheduled in the first slot.

Only one seminar is scheduled in the second slot.

Three seminars are scheduled in the first slot.

Three seminars are scheduled in the last slot.

Question 2

Who all are NOT guiding any Economics students?

Q, R and S

P, Q and R

P,RP, R and SS

P, Q and S

Question 3

Which of the following statements is necessarily true?

Q is guiding G .

HH is an Economics student.

S{S} is guiding F .

BB is scheduled in the first slot.

Question 4

If DD is scheduled in a slot later than QQ 's, then which of the following two statement(s) is(are) true?

(i) E and H are guided by T .

(ii) G is guided by Q .

Only (ii)

Neither (i) nor (ii)

Only (i)

Both (i) and (ii)

Question 5

If E and Q are both scheduled in the same slot, then which of the following statements BEST describes the relationship between D,HD, H, and TT ?

Exactly one of D and H is guided by T .

Both D and H are guided by T .

At least one of D and H is guided by T .

Neither D nor H is guided by T .

Question 6

If DD is scheduled in the slot immediately before Q's, then which of the following is NOT necessarily true?

G is guided by Q .

E is guided by R.

F is guided by S .

D is guided by T.

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