Year
CAT 2024
Section
Data
Topic
Network Flow Diagrams
Difficulty
Hard
Question
Slot-2
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
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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Numbers in any row appear in an increasing order from left to right.
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Numbers in any column appear in a decreasing order from top to bottom.
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1 is placed either in the same row or in the same column as 10.
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Neither 2 nor 3 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 10.
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Neither 7 nor 8 is placed in the same row or in the same column as 9.
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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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