Year
CAT 2022
Section
Data
Topic
Caselets
Difficulty
Hard
Question
Slot-3
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
Read the passage and answer the questions below.
Passage:
There are only four neighbourhoods in a city - Levmisto, Tyhrmisto, Pesmisto and Kitmisto.During the onset of a pandemic, the number of new cases of a disease in each of these neighbourhoods was recorded over a period of five days. On each day, the number of newcases recorded in any of the neighbourhoods was either or 3.
The following facts are also known:
- There was at least one new case in every neighbourhood on Day 1.
- On each of the five days, there were more new cases in Kitmisto than in Pesmisto.
- The number of new cases in the city in a day kept increasing during the five-day period. The number of new cases on Day 3 was exactly one more than that on Day 2.
- The maximum number of new cases in a day in Pesmisto was 2, and this happened only once during the fiveday period.
- Kitmisto is the only place to have 3 new cases on Day 2.
- The total numbers of new cases in Levmisto, Tyhrmisto, Pesmisto and Kitmisto over the five-day period were and 14 respectively.
Question 1
What BEST can be concluded about the total number of new cases in the city on Day2?
Either 7 or 8
Exactly 7
Either 6 or 7
Exactly 8
Question 2
What BEST can be concluded about the number of new cases in Levmisto on Day 3?
Either 2 or 3
Exactly 2
Exactly 3
Either 0 or 1
Question 3
On which day(s) did Pesmisto not have any new case?
Only Day 3
Only Day 2
Both Day 2 and Day 3
Both Day 2 and Day 4
Question 4
Which of the two statements below is/are necessarily false?
Statement A: There were 2 new cases in Tyhrmisto on Day 3.
Statement B: There were no new cases in Pesmisto on Day 2.
Statement A only
Neither Statement A nor Statement B
Statement B only
Both Statement A and Statement B
Question 5
On how many days did Levmisto and Tyhrmisto have the same number of new cases?
2
3
4
5
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