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Year

CAT 2022

Section

Data

Topic

Caselets

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-3

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 0,1,20,1,2 or 3.

The following facts are also known:

  1. There was at least one new case in every neighbourhood on Day 1.
  2. On each of the five days, there were more new cases in Kitmisto than in Pesmisto.
  3. 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.
  4. The maximum number of new cases in a day in Pesmisto was 2, and this happened only once during the fiveday period.
  5. Kitmisto is the only place to have 3 new cases on Day 2.
  6. The total numbers of new cases in Levmisto, Tyhrmisto, Pesmisto and Kitmisto over the five-day period were 12,12,512,12,5 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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