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CAT 2022 Number System — Previous Year Question

Year

CAT 2022

Section

Quantitative

Topic

Number System

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-1

Wilma, Xavier, Yaska and Zakir are four young friends, who have a passion for integers. One day, each of them selects one integer and writes it on a wall. The writing on the wall shows that Xavier and Zakir picked positive integers, Yaska picked a negative one, while Wilma’s integer is either negative, zero or positive. If their integers are denoted by the first letters of their respective names, the following is true: W4+X3+Y2+Z4W^4 + X^3 + Y^2 + Z \le 4 X3+Z2X^3 + Z \ge 2 W4+Y22W^4 + Y^2 \le 2 Y2+Z3Y^2 + Z \ge 3 Given the above, which of these can W2+X2+Y2+Z2W^2 + X^2 + Y^2 + Z^2 possibly evaluate to?

9

0

4

6

1

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