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CAT 2025 Time, Speed and Distance — Previous Year Question

Year

CAT 2025

Section

Quantitative

Topic

Time, Speed and Distance

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-1

There are five dustbins along a circular path at different places. Ramesh takes multiple rounds of the path every morning, always at the same speed. He noticed that it took him a different number of steps to walk between any two consecutive dustbins. Ramesh also noticed that, starting from any of the dustbins, it took a minimum of 800800 steps to reach every second dustbin, and a maximum of 12601260 steps to reach every third dustbin. If Ramesh's step size is 0.770.77 meter, and the width of the path is negligible, which of the following can be the radius of the circular path?

230 meters

240 meters

260 meters

250 meters

220 meters

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