CAT CRACKER #02

ANSWER SHEET

The following table provides information about the number of boys (B), number of girls (G), average weight (in kg) of boys (AB) and
average weight (in kg) of girls (AG) in eight different classes – A to H of a particular school.

The school management decided to reduce the number of classes from eight to three by merging the existing classes. The new classes

were named as Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.

While merging the existing classes, no two students from class A were placed into two different new classes. This holds true for students

of all the other existing classes as well. Each new class had students from at least two existing classes.

Additional Information Given:

I. In Mercury, the average weight of boys is more than 55 kgs and the average weight of girls is more than 40 kgs.

II. In Venus, the total number of girls is not more than 55 and the average weight of girls is not less than 50 kgs

1  What is the average weight of boys in Venus?

1) 95/3

2) 39 

3 ) 97/3 

4) CBD 

2  How many classes were merged to form Jupiter?

1) 2

2) 3

3) 4

4) Either 3 or 4

3 If the number of boys in Mercury is 15 fewer than girls, then the average weight of girls in Mercury is

1) 55.72 kgs

2) 48 kgs

3) 52 kgs

4) Either 48 kg or 55.72 kg

4  ) 

5) In a conference, the ratio of Indians to Germans is same as the ratio of Indians who know Spanish to Germans who do not know Spanish.

The ratio of persons who know Spanish to those who do not is 1:3. If the ratio of Indians who know Spanish to those who do not is 1:4,

then what is the ratio of Indians to Germans in the conference?(Assume that there are only Germans and Indians at the conference.)

1) 11 : 1

2) 12 : 1

3) 10 : 1

4) 9 : 1

Q 6 

Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow.

Eight persons – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H decided to attend a pet show organized in their city. Two persons have a dog each, two persons

have a cat each, two persons have a parrot each and two persons do not have any pet. Given below is some information about the

persons, and who reached when, to attend the pet show.

1. The person having a dog came just before the person having a parrot.

2. G, who does not have a dog reached just after B.

3. D has a dog and E has a parrot.

4. F came before H and met C when he reached the show.

5. E and B have the same type of pet.

6. The persons who reached first as well as the person who reached last have a parrot.

7. H, who has a cat, came just before the person having no pet.

Q 6

Among the given persons, who was the fourth to reach the pet show?

1) C

2) F

3) H

4) Cannot be determined

7 If no person came between the two persons having a cat, then how many persons came between the two persons having a dog?

1) 2

2) 4

3) 3

4) either 3 or 4

8

If F does not have a pet, then which of the given statements are definitely correct?

I. One person having a cat came just after a person having a parrot while the other person having a cat came just after a person having no

pet.

II. C came just after the person having a dog.

III. One of the persons having no pet came just after the person having a dog.

1) Only I and II

2) Only II and III

3) Only I and III

4) I, II and III

9

In the following question, there are five sentences. The sentence labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D

and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the most appropriate

option.

A. Many linguists, including leading thinkers Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, view language in the technical, cognitive sense as

consisting of basic elements.

B. She also has a rule of morphology that tells her the plural is 'hats' and a rule of syntax that says when there's an adjective, put it first:

'red hat,' not 'hat red'.

C. There are words (the lexicon) and then there are mental rules for building words or combining them into sentences (the grammar).

D. And she has certain genetic – not learned – cognitive structures such as the knowledge that nouns and adjectives are different parts of

speech and that one modifies the other, which allow her to understand that 'red' describes a type of 'hat', but 'hat' does not describe a

type of 'red'.

E. An English speaker, for example, has in her mental dictionary the word 'hat', which is simply an arbitrary string of sounds she has

learned to associate with an object one wears on one's head.

1) CEBD

2) ECBD

3) EDBC

4) CBDE

10 

In the following question, there are five sentences. The sentence labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D

and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the most appropriate

option.

A. The Earth orbits around the Sun, returning to the same position relative to the distant stars once every year.

B. Likewise, Venus moves around the Sun 1.63 times every time Earth orbits just once.

C. That kind of statement is extremely meaningful – without recourse to the concept of a 'year', we can say that Earth moves around the

Sun 1.88 times every time Mars orbits just once.

D. By itself, that's not so meaningful – it's just the definition of a 'year'.

E. But Mars, as it turns out, returns to the same position once every 1.88 years.