Year
CAT 2023
Section
Data
Topic
Caselets
Difficulty
Hard
Question
Slot-1
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
Passage:
The schematic diagram below shows 12 rectangular houses in a housing complex. House numbers are mentioned in the rectangles representing the houses. The houses are located in six columns - Column-A through Column-F, and two rows - Row-1 and Row-2. The houses are divided into two blocks - Block XX and Block YY. The diagram also shows two roads, one passing in front of the houses in Row-2 and another between the two blocks.

Some of the houses are occupied. The remaining ones are vacant and are the only ones available for sale.
The road adjacency value of a house is the number of its sides adjacent to a road. For example, the road adjacency values of , and are 2,1 , and 0 , respectively. The neighbour count of a house is the number of sides of that house adjacent to occupied houses in the same block. For example, E1 and C1 can have the maximum possible neighbour counts of 3 and 2 , respectively.
The base price of a vacant house is Rs. 10 lakhs if the house does not have a parking space, and Rs. 12 lakhs if it does. The quoted price (in lakhs of Rs.) of a vacant house is calculated as (base price) (road adjacency value) (neighbour count).
The following information is also known.
- The maximum quoted price of a house in Block is Rs. 24 lakhs. The minimum quoted price of a house in block YY is Rs. 15 lakhs, and one such house is in Column-E.
- Row-1 has two occupied houses, one in each block.
- Both houses in Column-E are vacant. Each of Column-D and Column-F has at least one occupied house.
- There is only one house with parking space in Block YY.
Question 1
How many houses are vacant in Block XX?
Question 2
Which of the following houses is definitely occupied?
F2 and A2
D2 and B2
D2 and B1
A1 and D2
Question 3
Which of the following options best describes the number of vacant houses in Row-2?
Exactly 3
Either 3 or 4
Exactly 2
Either 2 or 3
Question 4
What is the maximum possible quoted price (in lakhs of Rs.) for a vacant house in Column-E?
Question 5
Which house in Block YY has parking space?
E1
F2
E2
F1
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