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Year

CAT 2024

Section

Data

Topic

Network Flow Diagrams

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-2

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are placed in ten slots of the following grid based on the conditions below.

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  1. Numbers in any row appear in an increasing order from left to right.

  2. Numbers in any column appear in a decreasing order from top to bottom.

  3. 1 is placed either in the same row or in the same column as 10.

  4. Neither 2 nor 3 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 10.

  5. Neither 7 nor 8 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 9.

  6. 4 and 6 are placed in the same row.

Question 1

What is the row number which has the least sum of numbers placed in that row?

Question 2

Which of the following statements MUST be true?

I. 10 is placed in a slot in Row 1.

II. 1 is placed in a slot in Row 4.

Both I and II

Neither I nor II

Only II

Only I

Question 3

Which of the following statements MUST be true? I. 2 is placed in a slot in Column 2. II. 3 is placed in a slot in Column 3.

Only I

Both I and II

Neither I nor II

Only II

Question 4

For how many slots in the grid, placement of numbers CANNOT be determined with certainty?

Question 5

What is the sum of the numbers placed in Column 4?

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