CAT 2018 Ratio, Proportion and Variation — Previous Year Question
Paper
CAT 2018
Section
Quantitative
Topic
Ratio, Proportion and Variation
Difficulty
Hard
Question
CAT 2018
Slot-2
The strength of a salt solution is p% if 100 ml of the solution contains p grams of salt. If three salt solutions A, B, C are mixed in the proportion 1 : 2 : 3, then the resulting solution has strength 20%. If instead the proportion is 3 : 2 : 1, then the resulting solution has strength 30%. A fourth solution, D, is produced by mixing B and C in the ratio 2 : 7. The ratio of the strength of D to that of A is
3 : 10
1 : 3
2 : 5
1 : 4
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