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1. There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option
1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

Sentence: This reality is putting stress on employees who have to pay for transport, desk lunches, more
childcare, clothing and that after-work socialisation - costs they haven’t incurred for nearly two years.

Paragraph: ___(1)___. Prices are rising at their fastest rate in 40 years; consequently, return-to-office-related
costs have shot up - think petrol and food, for instance.___(2)___. Yet wages haven’t kept up with inflation -
even despite the salary growth many workers have enjoyed during a favourable pandemic labour market.
___(3)___.This is especially jarring for workers who were able to save during remote work, when these
expenditures weren’t a factor. ___(4)___. In April 2022, Umus, a London university lecturer, told BBC Worklife
that they were spending nearly a quarter of what they made every day on return-to-work costs.

A Option 4

B Option 3

C Option 2

D Option 1

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Instructions [2 - 5 ]

The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for
each question.

Fears of artificial intelligence (AI) have haunted humanity since the very beginning of the computer age.
Hitherto, these fears focused on machines using physical means to kill, enslave or replace people. But over the
past couple of years, new AI tools have emerged that threaten the survival of human civilisation from an
unexpected direction. AI has gained some remarkable abilities to manipulate and generate language, whether
with words, sounds or images. AI has thereby hacked the operating system of our civilisation.

Language is the stuff almost all human culture is made of. Human rights, for example, aren’t inscribed in our
DNA. Rather, they are cultural artefacts we created by telling stories and writing laws. Gods aren’t physical
realities. Rather, they are cultural artefacts we created by inventing myths and writing scriptures….What would
happen once a non-human intelligence becomes better than the average human at telling stories, composing
melodies, drawing images, and writing laws and scriptures? When people think about Chatgpt and other new AI
tools, they are often drawn to examples like schoolchildren using AI to write their essays. What will happen to

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the school system when kids do that? But this kind of question misses the big picture. Forget about school
essays. Think of the next American presidential race in 2024, and try to imagine the impact of AI tools that can
be made to mass-produce political content, fake news stories and scriptures for new cults…

Through its mastery of language, AI could even form intimate relationships with people, and use the power of
intimacy to change our opinions and worldviews. Although there is no indication that AI has any consciousness
or feelings of its own, to foster fake intimacy with humans, it is enough if the AI can make them feel emotionally
attached to it….

What will happen to the course of history when AI takes over culture, and begins producing stories, melodies,
laws and religions? Previous tools like the printing press and radio helped spread the cultural ideas of humans,
but they never created new cultural ideas of their own. AI is fundamentally different. AI can create completely
new ideas, completely new culture….Of course, the new power of AI could be used for good purposes as well. I
won’t dwell on this because the people who develop AI talk about it enough….

We can still regulate the new AI tools, but we must act quickly. Whereas nukes cannot invent more powerful
nukes, AI can make exponentially more powerful AI.… Unregulated AI deployments would create social chaos,
which would benefit autocrats and ruin democracies. Democracy is a conversation, and conversations rely on
language. When AI hacks language, it could destroy our ability to have meaningful conversations, thereby
destroying democracy …. And the first regulation I would suggest is to make it mandatory for AI to disclose that
it is an AI. If I am having a conversation with someone, and I cannot tell whether it is a human or an AI—that’s
the end of democracy. This text has been generated by a human. Or has it?
2. The author identifies all of the following as dire outcomes of the capture of language by AI EXCEPT that it
could

A spawn a completely new culture through its ability to create new ideas and opinions.

out-strip human creativity and endeavours in the spheres such as art and music and,in the formulation
B
of laws.

eventually subvert democratic processes through the mass creation and spread offake political content
C
and news.

apply its mastery of language to create strong emotional ties which could exacerbate the polarization of
D
political views.

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3. The author terms language “the operating system of our civilization” for all the following reasons EXCEPT
that it

A can influence political views and opinions as it engenders close emotional ties among people.

B is the basis of AI tools like ChatGPT which can be used to generate academic content and opinion.

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 C is fundamental to the articulation and spread of human values and culture in our society.

D has laid the foundation for the creation of cultural artefacts through writing and telling of stories.

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4. We can infer that the author is most likely to agree with which of the following statements?

A People’s fears of the dangers of students using ChatGPT and other new AI tools are unfounded.

B The commonly expressed fear that future AI developments will fatally harm humans is unfounded.

Apart from its drawbacks, AI tools have been beneficial in boosting technological and industrial advance
C
worldwide.

D One of the biggest casualties from the spread of unregulated AI is likely to be the democratic process.

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5. The tone of the passage could best be described as

cautionary, because the author lays out some adverse effects of the proliferation of unregulated AI
A
tools.

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 prescient, as the author analyses the future impact of the use of new AI tools on crucial areas of our
B
society and culture.

alarmist, because the passage discusses scenarios of the influence of new AI tools on language and
C
human emotions.

quizzical, as the passage poses several questions, concluding with the question of whether or not the
D
passage content has been generated by AI.

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6. There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option
1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

Sentence: Many have had to leave their homes behind, with more than 1.3 million people being displaced
due to the drought.

Passage: Somalia has been dealing with an enormous humanitarian catastrophe, driven by the longest and
most severe drought the country has experienced in at least 40 years. ___(1)___. Five consecutive rainy
seasons have failed, causing more than 8 million people - almost half of the country’s population - to
experience acute food insecurity. ___(2)___. More than 43,000 people are believed to have lost their lives, with
half of the lives lost likely being children under five. The damage the drought has caused is far-reaching.
___(3)___. Farmers have lost all their agricultural income, while pastoralists have lost more than 3 million
livestock, impoverishing entire communities, and leaving them on the brink of famine. ___(4)___. Some, like
the pastoralists, may never be able to go back as their livelihoods have been irreversibly wiped out.

A Option 4

B Option 2

C Option 3

D Option 1

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7. Five jumbled-up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be
put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that
sentence as your answer.

1. Part of the appeal of forecasting is not just that it seems to work, but that you don’t seem to need
specialized expertise to succeed at it.

2. The tight connection between forecasting and building a model of the world helps explain why so much of
the early interest in the idea came from the intelligence community.

3. This was true even though the latter had access to classified intelligence.

4. One frequently cited study found that accurate forecasters’ predictions of geopolitical events, when
aggregated using standard scientific methods, were more accurate than the forecasts of members of the US
intelligence community who answered the same questions in a confidential prediction market.

5. The aggregated opinions of non-experts doing forecasting have proven to be a better guide to the future
than the aggregated opinions of experts.

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The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for
each question.

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Moutai has been the global booze sensation of the decade. A bottle of its Flying Fairy, which sold in the 1980s
for the equivalent of a dollar, now retails for $400. Moutai’s listed shares have soared by almost 600% in the
past five years, outpacing the likes of Amazon ...

It does this while disregarding every Western marketing mantra. It is not global, has meagre digital sales and
does not appeal to millennials. It scores pitifully on environmental, social and government measures. In the Boy
Scout world of Western business, it would leave a bad taste in more ways than one.

Moutai owes its intoxicating success to three factors—not all of them easy to emulate. First, it profits from
Chinese nationalism. Moutai is known as the “national liquor”. It was used to raise spirits and disinfect wounds
in Mao’s Long March. It was Premier Zhou Enlai’s favourite tipple, shared with Richard Nixon in 1972. Its
centuries-old craftsmanship—it is distilled eight times and stored for years in earthenware jars—is a source of
national pride. It also claims to be hangover-proof, which would make it an invention to rival gunpowder ...

Second, it chose to serve China’s super-rich rather than its middle class. Markets are littered with the corpses of
firms that could not compete in the cut-throat battle for Chinese middle-class wallets. And the country’s
premium market is massive—at 73m-strong, bigger than the population of France, notes Euan McLeish of
Bernstein, an investment firm, and still less crowded with prestige brands than advanced economies. Moutai is
to these well-heeled drinkers what vintage champagne is to the rest of the world ...

Third, Moutai looks beyond affluent millennials and digital natives. The elderly and the middle-aged, it found,
can be just as lucrative. Its biggest market now is (male) drinkers in their mid-30s. Many have no siblings,
thanks to four decades of China’s one-child policy—which also means their elderly parents can splash out on
weddings and banquets. Moutai is often a guest of honour.

Moutai has succeeded thanks to nationalism, elitism and ageism, in other words—not in spite of this unholy
trinity. But it faces risks. The government is its largest shareholder—and a meddlesome one. It appears to want
prices to remain stable. Exorbitantly priced booze is at odds with its professed socialist ideals. Yet minority
investors—including many foreign funds—lament that Moutai’s wholesale price is a third of what it sells for in
shops. Raising it could boost the company’s profits further. Instead, in what some see as a travesty of
corporate governance, its majority owner has plans to set up its own sales channel ...

In the long run, its biggest risk may be millennials. As they grow older, health concerns, work-life balance and
the desire for more wholesome pursuits than binge-drinking may curb the“Ganbei!” toasting culture [heavy
drinking] on which so much of the demand for Moutai rests. For the time being, though, the party goes on.
8. The phrase “would make it an invention to rival gunpowder” has been used in the passage in a sense that is

A literal

B substantive

C metaphorical

D synonymical

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9. Which one of the following is both a reason for Moutai’s success as well as a possible threat to that
success?

A Chinese love of liquor filled celebration.

B Government involvement in its business.

C Its appeal to the rich.

D Its appeal to the older age group.

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10. In the context of the passage, it is most likely that the author refers to Moutai’s marketing strategy as “the
unholy trinity” because

A there is nothing holy about marketing techniques for liquor.

B it profits from Chinese nationalist feelings.

C it contradicts the Western strategy of marketing.

D it exposes the firm to long term risks.

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11. In the context of the passage, we can infer that to succeed in the liquor industry in China, a marketing firm
must consider all of the following factors affecting the Chinese liquor market EXCEPT that

A there is money to be made from marketing to the middle class.

B the government may control the pricing of products.

C there are few competitors to meet the demands of high end liquor consumers.

D the competition for winning over the middle class is very stiff.

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12. There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where
(option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

Sentence: Taken outside the village of Trang Bang on June 8, 1972, the picture captured the trauma and
indiscriminate violence of a conflict that claimed, by some estimates, a million or more civilian lives.

Paragraph: The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack has become a defining
image not only of the Vietnam War but the 20th century. ___(1)___. Dark smoke billowing behind them, the
young subjects’ faces are painted with a mixture of terror, pain and confusion. ___(2)___. Soldiers from the
South Vietnamese Army’s 25th Division follow helplessly behind. ___(3)___. The picture was officially titled
“The Terror of War,” but the photo is better known by the nickname given to the naked 9-year-old at its
centre: “Napalm Girl”. ___(4)___.

A Option 4

B Option 1

C Option 3

D Option 2

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The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for
each question.

Languages become endangered and die out for many reasons. Sadly, the physical annihilation of communities
of native speakers of a language is all too often the cause of language extinction. In North America, European
colonists brought death and destruction to many Native American communities. This was followed by US
federal policies restricting the use of indigenous languages, including the removal of native children from their
communities to federal boarding schools where native languages and cultural practices were prohibited. As
many as 75 percent of the languages spoken in the territories that became the United States have gone extinct,
with slightly better language survival rates in Central and South America ...

Even without physical annihilation and prohibitions against language use, the language of the "dominant"
cultures may drive other languages into extinction; young people see education, jobs, culture and technology
associated with the dominant language and focus their attention on that language. The largest language
"killers" are English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Hindi, and Chinese, all of which have privileged
status as dominant languages threatening minority languages.

When we lose a language, we lose the worldview, culture and knowledge of the people who spoke it,
constituting a loss to all humanity. People around the world live in direct contact with their native environment,
their habitat. When the language they speak goes extinct, the rest of humanity loses their knowledge of that
environment, their wisdom about the relationship between local plants and illness, their philosophical and
religious beliefs, as well as their native cultural expression (in music, visual art and poetry) that has enriched
both the speakers of that language and others who would have encountered that culture ...

As educators deeply immersed in the liberal arts, we believe that educating students broadly in all facets of
language and culture ... yields immense rewards. Some individuals educated in the liberal arts tradition will
pursue advanced study in linguistics and become actively engaged in language preservation, setting out for the
Amazon, for example, with video recording equipment to interview the last surviving elders in a community to
record and document a language spoken by no children.

Certainly, though, the vast majority of students will not pursue this kind of activity. For these students, a liberal
arts education is absolutely critical from the twin perspectives of language extinction and global citizenship.
When students study languages other than their own, they are sensitized to the existence of different cultural
perspectives and practices. With such an education, students are more likely to be able to articulate insights
into their own cultural biases, be more empathetic to individuals of other cultures, communicate successfully
across linguistic and cultural differences, consider and resolve questions in a way that reflects multiple cultural
perspectives, and, ultimately extend support to people, programs, practices, and policies that support the
preservation of endangered languages.

There is ample evidence that such preservation can work in languages spiraling toward extinction. For example,
Navajo, Cree, and Inuit communities have established schools in which these languages are the language of
instruction, and the number of speakers of each has increased.

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13. In the context of the passage, which one of the following hypothetical scenarios, if true, is NOT an example
of the kind of loss that occurs when a language becomes extinct?

The Nicobarese language describes 20 different moods of the ocean. By the time the last speaker is
A
educated in a Central Board school, they will have forgotten their language.

The Lamkangs of Manipur have only 3 remaining native speakers of the language. When they die, we will
B
lose one more group from the government list of indigenous tribes.

The Andamanese language has a word to describe someone who has lost a step-sister. When the
C
language dies, we will lose the concept of the word and the emotions it evokes.

The Inuits of Alaska have 35 different words to describe the texture of snow. When the language
D
becomes extinct, we will lose that understanding of nature.

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14. Which one of the following hypothetical scenarios, if true, would most strongly undermine the central ideas
of the passage?

Most liberal arts students will pursue jobs in publishing and human resource management rather than
A
doctorates in linguistics.

A liberal arts education requires that, in addition to being fluent in English, students gain fluency in two
B
of the top five most spoken languages globally.

C Schools that teach endangered languages can preserve the language only for a generation.

Recording a dying language that has only a few remaining speakers freezes it in time: it stops evolving
D
further.

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15. It can be inferred from the passage that it is likely South America had a slightly better language survival rate
than North America for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A European colonists allowed children of native speakers to stay at home with their families.

B the colonial government was unable to mainstream the locals.

C not many native speakers were killed by European colonists.

D locals were provided job opportunities in the colonial administration.

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16. The author believes that a liberal arts education combined with participation in language preservation
empower students in all of the following ways EXCEPT that they will

A overcome cultural barriers to communication.

B learn different languages.

C establish schools to preserve languages spiralling towards extinction.

D develop a better understanding of their own culture.

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17. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures
the essence of the passage.

When the tradwife puts on that georgic, pinstriped dress, she is not just admiring the visual cues of a
fantastical past. She takes these dreams of storybook bliss literally, tracing them backward in time until she
reaches a logical conclusion that satisfies her. And by doing so, she ends up delivering an unhappy
reminder of just how much our lives consist of artifice and playacting. The tradwife outrages people
because of her deliberately regressive ideals. And yet her behaviour is, on some level, indistinguishable
from the non-tradwife’s. The tradwife’s trollish genius is to beat us at our own dress-up game. By insisting
that the idyllic cottage daydream should be real, right down to the primitive gender roles, she leaves others
feeling hollow, cheated. The hullabaloo and headaches she causes may be the price we pay for taking too
many things at face value: our just deserts, served Instagram-perfect by a manicured hand on a gorgeous
ceramic dish, with fat, mouthwatering maraschino cherries on top.

The tradwife’s commitment to outdated gender roles and retro fashion critiques the superficiality of
A
today's societal ideals.

By promoting an idealized past, the tradwife exposes the artifice of contemporary values and mocks
B
societal norms.

The tradwife, with her vintage dress and traditional roles, highlights the superficiality of modern life and
C
challenges current societal norms.

The tradwife’s vintage dress and adherence to traditional roles reveal the artificial nature of modern life
D
and its superficial values.

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18. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures
the essence of the passage.

Lyric poetry is a genre of private meditation rather than public commitment. The impulse in Marxism toward
changing a society deemed unacceptable in its basic design would seem to place demands on lyric poetry
that such poetry, with its tendency toward the personal, the small scale, and the idiosyncratic, could never
answer. There is within Marxism, however, also a strand of thought that would locate in lyric poetry
alternative modes of perception and description that call forth a vision of worlds at odds with a repressive
reality or that draw attention to the workings of ideology within the hegemonic culture. The poetic
imagination may indeed deflect larger social concerns, but it may also be implicitly critical and utopian.

The focus of lyric poetry is largely personal while that of Marxism is bringing change in society. Unless
A
the difference is resolved, poetry will remain largely utopian.

Marxism has internal contradictions due to which one strand of Marxism sees no merit in lyric poetry
B
while another appreciates the alternative modes of perception in poetry.

The focus of lyric poetry as personal may not seem compatible with Marxism. However, it is possible to
C
envisage lyric poetry as a symbol of resistance against an oppressive culture.

Marxism makes unreasonable demands on lyric poetry. However, lyric poetry has its own merits that are
D
largely ignored by Marxism due to its personal nature.

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19. Five jumbled-up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) related to a topic are given below. Four of them can
be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that
sentence as your answer.

1. To create a synapse, the neuron has specialized structures, often seen as tiny swellings, at its terminal
end of the axon where it stores the chemicals that are emitted to transmit a signal to the next neuron.

2. This fetal warm-up act—the soldering of neural connections before the eyes actually function—is crucial
to the performance of the visual system.

3. The reasons for this paring back of synapses is a mystery, but synaptic pruning is thought to sharpen and
reinforce the “correct” synapses, while removing the weak and unnecessary ones.

4. Neural connections between the eyes and the brain are formed long before birth, establishing the wiring
and the circuitry that allow a child to begin visualizing the world the minute she emerges from the womb.

5. During this rehearsal period, synapses—points of chemical connection—between nerve cells are
generated in great excess, only to be pruned back during later development.

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20. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures
the essence of the passage.

Humans have managed to tweak the underlying biology of various plants and animals to produce high-tech
crops and microbes. But regulating these entities is complicated, as the framework of policies and
procedures are outdated and not flexible enough to adapt to emerging technology. The question is whether
regulation will ever be able to keep up with human innovation, to regulate living things, which are apt to be
unpredictable and unique; to capture all the potential risks when new biological entities are introduced, or
when they pass on variations of their genes?

The mercurial nature of biological entities calls for scientists to shape the regulations governing
A
emerging technology, with regular calibration to handle variations in the field.

A new framework of rules and procedures for regulating the most recent research emerging from
B
biotechnology is urgently needed, to keep up with this rapidly changing discipline.

Current regulation of biotechnology is outdated, but it is debatable if we can create a framework,

C
imaginative and flexible, to cover all contingencies in this fast-changing area.

The problem with formulating regulation for innovation in the scientific arena it that it is impossible to
D
imagine the outcomes or risks related to the outcomes of all the research.

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The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for
each question.

There is a group in the space community who view the solar system not as an opportunity to expand human
potential but as a nature preserve, forever the provenance of an elite group of scientists and their sanitary
robotic probes. These planetary protection advocates [call] for avoiding “harmful contamination” of celestial
bodies. Under this regime, NASA incurs great expense sterilizing robotic probes in order to prevent the
contamination of entirely theoretical biospheres ...

Transporting bacteria would matter if Mars were the vital world once imagined by astronomers who mistook
optical illusions for canals. Nobody wants to expose Martians to measles, but sadly, robotic exploration reveals
a bleak, rusted landscape, lacking oxygen and flooded with radiation ready to sterilize any Earthly microbes.
Simple life might exist underground, or down at the bottom of a deep canyon, but it has been very hard to find
with robots. . . . The upsides from human exploration and development of Mars clearly outweigh the welfare of
purely speculative Martian fungi ...

The other likely targets of human exploration, development, and settlement, our moon and the asteroids, exist
in a desiccated, radiation-soaked realm of hard vacuum and extreme temperature variations that would kill
nearly anything. It’s also important to note that many international competitors will ignore the demands of
these protection extremists in any case. For example, China recently sent a terrarium to the moon and
germinated a plant seed—with, unsurprisingly, no protest from its own scientific community. In contrast, when it
was recently revealed that a researcher had surreptitiously smuggled super-resilient microscopic tardigrades
aboard the ill-fated Israeli Beresheet lunar probe, a firestorm was unleashed within the space community ...

NASA’s previous human exploration efforts made no serious attempt at sterility, with little notice. As the Mars
expert Robert Zubrin noted in the National Review, U.S. lunar landings did not leave the campsites cleaner than
they found it. Apollo’s bacteria-infested litter included bags of feces. Forcing NASA’s proposed Mars exploration
to do better, scrubbing everything and hauling out all the trash, would destroy NASA’s human exploration budget
and encroach on the agency’s other directorates, too. Getting future astronauts off Mars is enough of a
challenge, without trying to tote weeks of waste along as well.

A reasonable compromise is to continue on the course laid out by the U.S. government and the National
Research Council, which proposed a system of zones on Mars, some for science only, some for habitation, and
some for resource exploitation. This approach minimizes contamination, maximizes scientific exploration ...
Mars presents a stark choice of diverging human futures. We can turn inward, pursuing ever more limited
futures while we await whichever natural or manmade disaster will eradicate our species and life on Earth.
Alternatively, we can choose to propel our biosphere further into the solar system, simultaneously protecting
our home planet and providing a backup plan for the only life we know exists in the universe. Are the lives on
Earth worth less than some hypothetical microbe lurking under Martian rocks?

21. The author is unlikely to disagree with any of the following EXCEPT:

A the proposal for a zonal segregation of the Martian landscape into regions for different purposes.

that while NASA’s earlier missions were not ideal in their approach to space contamination, they likely
B
did no grave damage.

space contamination should be minimised until the possibility of life on the astronomical body being
C
explored is ruled out.

D the exorbitant costs of continuing to keep the space environment pristine may be unsustainable.

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22. The author mentions all of the following reasons to dismiss concerns about contaminating Mars EXCEPT:

the lack of evidence of living organisms on Mars makes possible contamination from earthly microbes a
A
moot point.

efforts to contain contamination on Mars are likely to be derailed as competitor countries may not
B
follow similar restrictions.

the use of similar probes on astronomical bodies like the moon have had little effect on the
C
environment.

D earlier explorations have already contaminated pristine space environments.

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23. The author’s overall tone in the first paragraph can be described as

A sceptical about the excessive efforts to sanitise planets where life has not yet been proven to exist.

B equivocal about the reasons extended by the group of scientists seeking to limit space exploration.

C indifferent to the elitism of a few scientists aiming to corner space exploration.

D approving of the amount of money NASA spends to restrict the spread of contamination in space.

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24. The contrasting reactions to the Chinese and Israeli “contaminations” of lunar space

are valid as the contamination of the lunar environment from animal sources is far greater than from
A
plants.

B are evidence of China’s reasonable approach towards space contamination.

C indicate that national scientists may have different sensitivities to issues of biosphere protection.

D reveal global biases prevalent in attitudes towards different countries.

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The figure below shows a network with three parallel roads represented by horizontal lines R-A, R-B, and R-C
and another three parallel roads represented by vertical lines V1, V2, and V3. The figure also shows the distance
(in km) between two adjacent intersections.Six ATMs are placed at six of the nine road intersections. Each ATM
has a distinct integer cash requirement (in Rs. Lakhs), and the numbers at the end of each line in the figure
indicate the total cash requirements of all ATMs placed on the corresponding road. For example, the total cash
requirement of the ATM(s) placed on road R-A is Rs. 22 Lakhs.

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The following additional information is known.
1. The ATMs with the minimum and maximum cash requirements of Rs. 7 Lakhs and Rs. 15 Lakhs are placed
on the same road.
2. The road distance between the ATM with the second highest cash requirement and the ATM located at the
intersection of R-C and V3 is 12 km.

25. Which of the following statements is correct?

A There is no ATM placed at the (R-C, V2) intersection.

B The ATM placed at the (R-C, V2) intersection has a cash requirement of Rs. 9 Lakhs.

C The ATM placed at the (R-C, V2) intersection has a cash requirement of Rs. 8 Lakhs.

D The cash requirement of the ATM placed at the (R-C, V2) intersection cannot be uniquely determined.

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26. How many ATMs have cash requirements of Rs. 10 Lakhs or more?

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27. Which of the following two statements is/are DEFINITELY true?

Statement A: Each of R-A, R-B, and R-C has two ATMs.
Statement B: Each of V1, V2, and V3 has two ATMs.

A Only Statement A

B Neither Statement A nor Statement B

C Only Statement B

D Both Statement A and Statement B

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28. What best can be said about the road distance (in km) between the ATMs having the second highest and
the second lowest cash requirements?

A 4 km

B 7 km

C 5 km

D Either 4 km or 7 km

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29. What is the number of ATMs whose locations and cash requirements can both be uniquely determined?

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The table given below shows the amount, in grams, of carbohydrate, protein, fat and all other nutrients, per 100
grams of nutrients in seven food grains. The first column shows the food grain category and the second
column its codename. The table has some missing values.

The following additional facts are known.

1. Both the pseudo-cereals had higher amounts of carbohydrate as well as higher amounts of protein than any
millet.
2. Both the cereals had higher amounts of carbohydrate than any pseudo-cereal.
3. All the missing values of carbohydrate amounts (in grams) for all the food grains are non-zero multiples of 5.

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4. All the missing values of protein, fat and other nutrients amounts (in grams) for all the food grains are non-
zero multiples of 4.
5. P1 contained double the amount of protein that M3 contains.
30. How many foodgrains had a higher amount of carbohydrate per 100 grams ofnutrients than M1?

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31. How many grams of protein were there in 100 grams of nutrients in M2?

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32. How many grams of other nutrients were there in 100 grams of nutrients in M3?

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33. What is the median of the number of grams of protein in 100 grams of nutrients among these food grains?

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Comprehension:
Over the top (OTT) subscribers of a platform are segregated into three categories: i) Kid, ii)Elder, and iii) Others.
Some of the subscribers used one app and the others used multiple apps to access the platform. The figure
below shows the percentage of the total number of subscribers in 2023 and 2024 who belong to the ‘Kid’ and
‘Elder’ categories.

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The following additional facts are known about the numbers of subscribers.
1. The total number of subscribers increased by 10% from 2023 to 2024.
2. In 2024, 1/2 of the subscribers from the ‘Kid’ category and 2/3 of the subscribers from the ‘Elder’ category
subscribers use one app.
3. In 2023, the number of subscribers from the ‘Kid’ category who used multiple apps was the same as the
number of subscribers from the ‘Elder’ category who used one app.
4. 10,000 subscribers from the ‘Kid’ category used one app and 15,000 subscribers from the ‘Elder’ category
used multiple apps in 2023.
34. How many subscribers belonged to the ‘Others’ category in 2024?

A Cannot be determined

B 65000

C 55000

D 45000

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35. What percentage of subscribers in the ‘Kid’ category used multiple apps in 2023?

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 A 33.33%

B 5.00%

C 25.50%

D 50.00%

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36. What was the percentage increase in the number of subscribers in the ‘Elder’ categoryfrom 2023 to 2024?

A 60%

B 50%

C 65%

D 40%

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37. What could be the minimum percentage of subscribers who used multiple apps in 2024?

A 16.5%

B 20.0%

C 10.0%

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 D 22.00%

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Instructions [38 - 41 ]

Out of 10 countries -- Country 1 through Country 10 -- Country 9 has the highest gross domestic product (GDP),
and Country 10 has the highest GDP per capita. GDP per capita is the GDP of a country divided by its
population. The table below provides the following data about Country 1 through Country 8 for the year 2024.
• Column 1 gives the country's identity.
• Column 2 gives the country’s GDP as a fraction of the GDP of Country 9.
• Column 3 gives the country’s GDP per capita as a fraction of the GDP per capita of Country10.
• Column 4 gives the country’s annual GDP growth rate.
• Column 5 gives the country’s annual population growth rate.

Assume that the GDP growth rates and population growth rates of the countries will remain constant for the
next three years.

38. Which one among the countries 1 through 8, has the smallest population in 2024?

A Country 8

B Country 3

C Country 7

D Country 5

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39. The ratio of Country 4’s GDP to Country 5’s GDP in 2026 will be closest to

A 1.195

B 0.963

C 1.314

D 1.032

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40. Which one among the countries 1, 4, 5, and 7 will have the largest population in 2027?

A Country 1

B Country 5

C Country 7

D Country 4

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41. For how many countries among Country 1 through Country 8 will the GDP per capita in 2027 be lower than
that in 2024?

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The air-conditioner (AC) in a large room can be operated either in REGULAR mode or in POWER mode to reduce
the temperature.
If the AC operates in REGULAR mode, then it brings down the temperature inside the room(called inside
temperature) at a constant rate to the set temperature in 1 hour. If it operates in POWER mode, then this is
achieved in 30 minutes.
If the AC is switched off, then the inside temperature rises at a constant rate so as to reach the temperature
outside at the time of switching off in 1 hour.
The temperature outside has been falling at a constant rate from 7 pm onward until 3 am on a particular night.
The following graph shows the inside temperature between 11 pm (23:00)and 2 am (2:00) that night.

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The following facts are known about the AC operation that night.
• The AC was turned on for the first time that night at 11 pm (23:00).
• The AC setting was changed (including turning it on/off, and/or setting different temperatures) only at the
beginning of the hour or at 30 minutes after the hour.
• The AC was used in POWER mode for longer duration than in REGULAR mode during this 3-hour period.
42. How many times the AC must have been turned off between 11:01 pm and 1:59 am?

A cannot be determined

B 2

C 0

D 1

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43. What was the temperature outside, in degree Celsius, at 1 am?

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44. What was the temperature outside, in degree Celsius, at 9 pm?

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45. What best can be concluded about the number of times the AC must have either been turned on or the AC
temperature setting been altered between 11:01 pm and 1:59 am?

A More than 3

B Either 2 or 3

C Exactly 2

D Exactly 3

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46. What was the maximum difference between temperature outside and inside temperature, in degree Celsius,
between 11:01 pm and 1:59 am?

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47. In a group of 250 students, the percentage of girls was at least 44% and at most 60%.The rest of the
students were boys. Each student opted for either swimming or running or both. If 50% of the boys and 80%
of the girls opted for swimming while 70%of the boys and 60% of the girls opted for running, then the
minimum and maximum possible number of students who opted for both swimming and running, are

A 72 and 88, respectively

B 75 and 96, respectively

C 72 and 80, respectively

D 75 and 90, respectively

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CAT Previous Papers

48. If (a +b 3) 2
​ = 52 + 30 3, where a and b are natural numbers, then a + b equals
​

A 7

B 8

C 9

D 10

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49. The average of three distinct real numbers is 28. If the smallest number is increased by 7 and the largest
number is reduced by 10, the order of the numbers remains unchanged, and the new arithmetic mean
becomes 2 more than the middle number, while the difference between the largest and the smallest
numbers becomes 64.Then, the largest number in the original set of three numbers is

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50. If 1068 is divided by 13, the remainder is

A 5

B 8

C 9

D 4

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51. Sam can complete a job in 20 days when working alone. Mohit is twice as fast as Sam and thrice as fast as
Ayna in the same job. They undertake a job with an arrangement where Sam and Mohit work together on
the first day, Sam and Ayna on the second day, Mohit and Ayna on the third day, and this three-day pattern is
repeated till the work gets completed. Then, the fraction of total work done by Sam is

1
A
20
​

3
B
10
​

1
C
5
​

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 3
D
20
​

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52. A circular plot of land is divided into two regions by a chord of length 10 3 meters such that the chord
​

subtends an angle of 120° at the center. Then, the area, in square meters, of the smaller region is

20 (
4π
A + 3)
3
​ ​

25 (
4π
B + 3)
3
​ ​

20 (
4π
C − 3)
3
​ ​

25 (
4π
D − 3)
3
​ ​

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= 1, t2 = −1 and tn = ( ) tn−2 for n ≥ 3. Then, the value of the sum

53. n−3
Consider the sequence t1
n−1
​ ​ ​ ​ ​

1 1 1 1 1
+ + + ....... + + , is
t2 t4 t6 t2022 t2024
​ ​ ​ ​ ​

​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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 A -1024144

B -1022121

C -1023132

D -1026169

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54. The number of distinct real values of x, satisfying the equation max {x, 2} − min {x, 2} =∣ x + 2 ∣
− ∣ x − 2 ∣, is

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55. Aman invests Rs 4000 in a bank at a certain rate of interest, compounded annually. If the ratio of the value
of the investment after 3 years to the value of the investment after 5 years is 25 : 36, then the minimum
number of years required for the value of the investment to exceed Rs 20000 is

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56. 4 81
The sum of all distinct real values of x that satisfy the equation 10
x
+ = , is
10x 2
​ ​

A 2 log10 2 ​

B 4 log10 2 ​

C log10 2
​

D 3 log10 2 ​

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57. A train travelled a certain distance at a uniform speed. Had the speed been 6 km per hour more, it would
have needed 4 hours less. Had the speed been 6 km per hour less, it would have needed 6 hours more. The
distance, in km, travelled by the train is

A 720

B 800

C 780

D 640

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58. If 3a = 4, 4b = 5, 5c = 6, 6d = 7, 7e = 8 and 8f = 9, then the value of the product abcdef is

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59. Gopi marks a price on a product in order to make 20% profit. Ravi gets 10% discount on this marked price,
and thus saves Rs 15. Then, the profit, in rupees, made by Gopi by selling the product to Ravi, is

A 10

B 25

C 15

D 20

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60. A certain amount of water was poured into a 300 litre container and the remaining portion of the container
was filled with milk. Then an amount of this solution was taken out from the container which was twice the
volume of water that was earlier poured into it, and water was poured to refill the container again. If the
resulting solution contains 72% milk, then the amount of water, in litres, that was initially poured into the
container was

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61. A regular octagon ABCDEFGH has sides of length 6 cm each. Then the area, in sq. cm, of the square ACEG
is

A 72(2 + 2) ​

B 36(1 + 2)​

C 72(1 + 2) ​

D 36(2 + 2)​

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62. The number of distinct integer solutions (x, y) of the equation ∣ x + y ∣ + ∣ x − y ∣= 2, is

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+ 2f ( ) = 3x. Then, the sum of all possible values of x for

63. 1
For any non-zero real number x, let f (x)
x
which f (x) = 3, is

A 3

B -2

C -3

D 2

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64. For some constant real numbers p, k and a, consider the following system of linear equations in x and y:
px - 4y = 2
3x + ky= a
A necessary condition for the system to have no solution for (x, y ), is

A ap + 6 = 0

B 2a + k =
0​

C ap − 6 = 0

D kp + 12 =
0 ​

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65. Rajesh and Vimal own 20 hectares and 30 hectares of agricultural land, respectively, which are entirely
covered by wheat and mustard crops. The cultivation area of wheat and mustard in the land owned by
Vimal are in the ratio of 5 : 3. If the total cultivation area of wheat and mustard are in the ratio 11 : 9, then
the ratio of cultivation area of wheat and mustard in the land owned by Rajesh is

A 4:3

B 7:9

C 3:7

D 1:1

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66. The midpoints of sides AB, BC, and AC in ΔABC are M, N, and P, respectively. The medians drawn from A, B,
and C intersect the line segments MP, MN and NP at X, Y, and Z, respectively. If the area of ΔABC is 1440 sq
cm, then the area, in sq cm, of △XY Z is

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67. The number of all positive integers up to 500 with non-repeating digits is

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68. After two successive increments, Gopal's salary became 187.5% of his initial salary. If the percentage of
salary increase in the second increment was twice of that in the first increment, then the percentage of
salary increase in the first increment was

A 30

B 27.5

C 25

D 20

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Answers
VARC

1.B 2.D 3.B 4.D 5.A 6.A 7.2 8.C

9.D 10.C 11.A 12.C 13.B 14.B 15.D 16.C
17.C 18.C 19.1 20.C 21.C 22.C 23.A 24.C

LRDI

25.B 26.3 27.A 28.D 29.3 30.5 31.12 32.24

33.12 34.C 35.A 36.C 37.B 38.A 39.A 40.A
41.0 42.B 43.34 44.42 45.D 46.10

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47.C 48.B 49.70 50.C 51.B 52.D 53.A 54.2

55.9 56.A 57.A 58.2 59.A 60.30 61.D 62.8
63.C 64.B 65.B 66.90 67.378 68.C

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Explanations
VARC
1. B
The given sentence focuses on the impact of these rising costs on employees - an idea that hasn’t yet been
introduced here. Placing this in Blank 1 would prematurely shift the focus from a general economic observation
to the employee-specific consequences, disrupting the logical flow. Similarly, Blank 2 would be a poor choice
since it would interrupt the argument about wages not keeping pace with inflation. The broader context of
inflation and wages needs to be fully established before narrowing the discussion to employee struggles.

Blank 3 could be a good fit. We observe that the preceding sentence sets up the problem: wages are lagging
behind rising costs. The subsequent sentence emphasises the stark contrast between remote work savings
and current financial stress; the anecdote from the London University lecturer is further linked to this. Therefore,
Blank 4 is also unsuitable. By placing the given sentence in Blank 3, we bridge the two ideas presented above by
specifying how these rising costs and stagnant wages directly impact employees. It introduces the tangible
pressures employees face, which makes the subsequent sentence about savings during remote work even
more impactful.

Hence, Option B is the correct choice.

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2. D
Let us evaluate the given choices -

Option A: The creation of new culture and ideas is a central theme of the passage, highlighted as a potential
outcome of AI's linguistic capabilities: [“...AI can create completely new ideas, completely new culture…”]

Option B: The author hints that AI could surpass human creativity in areas like storytelling, composing music,
and drafting laws or scriptures: [“...What would happen once a non-human intelligence becomes better than the
average human at telling stories, composing melodies, drawing images, and writing laws and scriptures?...”]

Option C: The threat to democracy through the mass production of fake news and political content is a major
concern raised by the author: [“...Think of the next American presidential race in 2024, and try to imagine the
impact of AI tools that can be made to mass-produce political content, fake-news stories…”]

Option D: The passage does discuss AI's ability to create emotional connections with individuals: [“...form
intimate relationships with people, and use the power of intimacy to change our opinions and worldviews…”]
However, it does not explicitly connect this capability to ‘exacerbating the polarization’ of political views. The
focus is on fostering fake intimacy to influence opinions, not specifically on worsening political polarization.

Hence, Option D is the correct choice.

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3. B
The author emphasises that language is foundational to human culture and civilisation because it:

articulates and spreads human values and culture (as noted in Option C).
lays the groundwork for creating cultural artefacts through storytelling and laws (as noted in Option D).
influences political views and fosters emotional ties (as noted in Option A).

Option B, however, does not align with the rationale behind the “operating system” metaphor: the author does
not suggest that language is the "operating system" of civilisation because it underpins AI tools. Instead, the
passage treats AI tools like ChatGPT as leveraging language's existing role in civilization.

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4. D
Let us evaluate the choices based on the information in the passage -

Option A: The author does not dismiss fears about students using AI but instead deems such concerns
possibly trivial compared to AI’s larger societal threats.

Option B: The author doesn’t argue that fears of AI harming humans physically are unfounded, but shifts focus
to the linguistic and cultural dangers AI presents. It’s unclear whether he will explicitly support the view
presented here.

Option C: Though the author briefly acknowledges that AI can be used for good, this idea is not a central focus
of the passage; he also does not emphasise technological or industrial benefits. Therefore, it’s unclear whether
the author will support his view.

Option D: The concern stated here has been clearly underlined in the passage. We are informed of the threat AI
poses to democracy through its manipulation of language and ability to generate misinformation, fake intimacy,
and propaganda. The author explicitly states that democracy relies on meaningful human conversations, which
are undermined when AI becomes indistinguishable from humans. Therefore, this option aligns most closely
with the author's argument.

Hence, Option D is the correct choice.

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5. A
The passage clearly highlights the potential risks associated with AI's linguistic capabilities, urging action to
regulate its use. While the passage does present hypothetical scenarios and employs rhetorical questions, its
tone is primarily grounded in a warning, not sensationalism or mere speculation. This points us towards Option
A. The author systematically explains the dangers of unregulated AI tools, particularly their capacity to
manipulate language and influence human culture. The warnings are thoughtful and aim to provoke awareness
and a sense of urgency without excessive dramatisation. The tone is serious and measured, which aligns with a
cautionary style.

The remaining tones do not describe the discussion appropriately. For instance, consider Option B: though the
passage discusses AI's future implications, the focus is less on prediction and more on warning about what
could happen if action is not taken. "Prescient" implies a focus on foresight and vision, but the passage
emphasises immediate concerns and actionable advice. Similarly, the passage is not “alarmist” (Option C), as it
avoids overly exaggerated or emotional claims. It uses logical arguments and examples rather than
fearmongering. Option D is also a poor fit: although the passage concludes with a rhetorical question, this is a
stylistic device rather than a defining characteristic of the tone. The primary goal is to issue a warning, not to
leave the reader in a state of curiosity or wonder, making “quizzical” an incorrect characterisation.

Hence, Option A is the best choice.

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6. A
A useful strategy for determining where the given sentence best fits is to look for places where the flow of
ideas feels awkward or disconnected. When we examine the sentences around Blank 1, we see that they are
well-linked, moving smoothly from the broader issue of the drought to its immediate consequence, food
insecurity. The same logic applies to Blanks 2 and 3 - there are no noticeable disruptions in the flow of ideas
here. The structure remains clear and coherent even without inserting the given sentence into these blanks.

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However, when we look at Blank 4, we notice a discrepancy. The sentence before Blank 4 mentions farmers and
pastoralists, and the sentence following it continues discussing pastoralists, but there’s a slight gap in the
connection. If the sentences were closely linked, the author could have used pronouns or rephrased the second
sentence to refer to pastoralists more naturally. Additionally, there’s a shift in focus: the paragraph moves from
talking about "leaving them on the brink of famine" to "never being able to go back as their livelihoods have
been irreversibly wiped out." This jump in ideas suggests the need for a transitional sentence to bridge the two
concepts - enter the given sentence. Moreover, the "Many... Some..." structure works well here. First, the author
mentions the larger group of farmers and pastoralists and how they were displaced. Then, the sentence
narrows the focus to a smaller portion of this group, highlighting how, even for those who were not displaced,
their livelihoods were so affected that they may never recover. This progression makes the insertion of the
given sentence at Blank 4 both logical and necessary for maintaining coherence.

Hence, Option A is the correct choice.

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7. 2
Here, Sentences 1, 4, and 5 discuss the general theme of how non-experts or forecasters without specialized
expertise can make accurate predictions, often outperforming experts. Sentence 3 adds context by highlighting
that this success occurs even when experts have access to classified information.

Contrarily, Sentence 2 shifts the focus to the “intelligence community's interest in forecasting models” rather
than continuing the discussion on the accuracy and success of forecasters versus experts. This makes it
unrelated to the main flow of the paragraph.

Let us examine the points presented in each sentence to further understand how the statements link. Sentence
1 introduces the main idea that forecasting is appealing because it works even without requiring specialized
expertise. Building on this idea, Sentence 5 highlights that non-experts can often outperform experts in
forecasting; this, in a way, relates to the appeal of forecasting introduced in the first sentence. Sentence 4
provides evidence to support the claim made in Sentence 5. It refers to a specific study where non-experts
outperformed experts in predicting geopolitical events, solidifying the argument that non-expert forecasting can
be more reliable. Sentence 3 strengthens the previous claim by highlighting that the experts, despite having
access to classified intelligence, were still outperformed by non-experts. In this manner, the arrangement 1-5-4-
3 renders a coherent paragraph.

Hence, Sentence 2 is the odd one out.

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8. C
The statement in the question draws a comparison between Moutai’s claimed hangover-proof quality and a
groundbreaking historical invention (gunpowder). The use of "would make it" suggests a hypothetical scenario,
and the comparison is meant to emphasise significance, not an actual invention. This indicates that the
comparison is metaphorical/figurative (Option C), conveying the liquor’s potential impact on culture and
society; hence, we can eliminate Option A.

Option B also implies that the comparison is based on actual substance or tangible qualities. Though the claim
about being hangover-proof is substantive, the comparison to gunpowder is not grounded in tangible,
measurable terms but rather in its significance. Similarly, Option D suggests that the phrase equates Moutai
directly with gunpowder, which is incorrect: the phrase does not treat the two as synonyms but draws a
symbolic comparison.

Hence, Option C is the correct choice.

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9. D

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To identify the factor that is both a reason for Moutai’s success and a potential threat, we could consider
aspects that currently drive demand while also holding the potential to hinder it in the future. Looking at the
given choices, Option A may be a contributing factor to Moutai’s success, as cultural practices around drinking
play a role in its popularity. However, the passage does not explicitly frame this as a threat, especially since it is
deeply ingrained in Chinese society, making this option less fitting. Option C is also a significant reason for
Moutai's success, as it targets the super-wealthy, but the passage does not indicate that this would become a
threat in the future. Option B is presented more as a hurdle to Moutai’s success, while the explicit benefits
remain to be discussed.

On the other hand, we can deduce that Option D is both a key reason for Moutai’s success - by tapping into the
spending power of older consumers - and a potential threat, as the younger generations, with different health-
conscious lifestyles, could move away from the heavy drinking culture that has driven Moutai's demand. The
passage specifically highlights this generational shift as a risk to Moutai’s long-term success.

Hence, Option D is the best choice.

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10. C
The author uses the phrase “the unholy trinity” to describe Moutai’s marketing strategy, which relies on three
factors: nationalism, elitism, and ageism. The word “unholy” implies that these factors may be unconventional
or controversial, which could be why they are described as such. The author presents this idea in the context of
Western marketing, suggesting that Moutai might have succeeded due to these factors, even though they seem
to defy conventional Western norms. Thus, the phrase reflects how Moutai’s marketing strategy is in stark
contrast to Western business practices (Option C).

Contrarily, Options A, B, and D either do not address the contrast with Western strategies or misinterpret the
focus of the passage. For instance, Option A is not the best choice because the phrase “unholy trinity” isn’t a
comment on the morality of marketing liquor itself but rather on the controversial nature of Moutai’s specific
strategy. Options B and D focus on tangential aspects that are irrelevant to the question.

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11. A
Let's evaluate the given choices and check if they are consistent with the information in the passage -

Option A: According to the passage, this is not true. The author emphasises that Moutai deliberately avoids
targeting the middle class, as the competition in that market is intense, and instead focuses on the super-rich.
This suggests that marketing to the middle class is not as lucrative or straightforward as it might appear.

Option B: The passage mentions that the Chinese government is Moutai's largest shareholder and potentially
plays a role in controlling the prices of products, which is a key factor for any firm in this market to consider.
Furthermore, the author discusses how the government might further interfere with the operations in this
space: [“... in what some see as a travesty of corporate governance, its majority owner has plans to set up its
own sales channel ...”]

Option C: The author highlights that the premium market in China is still growing and not overcrowded with
luxury brands, indicating a potential opportunity for firms targeting high-end consumers.

Option D: The passage states that many firms have failed in their attempt to cater to the middle class due to
fierce competition. This is a valid consideration for any firm looking to enter the market.

Hence, Option A is the correct choice.

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12. C

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To determine where the given sentence fits best, we must consider the logical flow of ideas between
sentences. The sentence in question provides important historical and contextual information about the
photograph. The author begins by describing the image and ends the paragraph by mentioning the official title
of the photo. While sentences offering historical context are typically placed at the beginning, inserting the
sentence in either Blank 1 or 2 would create a disruption in the flow of the image's description. This suggests
that the sentence must fit in either Blank 3 or 4. Offering contextual information after mentioning the title at the
end seems odd; thus, we can eliminate Blank 4.

When we refocus on Blank 3, we see that by this point in the paragraph, the author has just described the
soldiers from the South Vietnamese Army’s 25th Division following behind the children. This sets up a moment
of helplessness that emphasises the chaos and brutality of the scene. The sentence about the trauma and
violence of the war logically follows the description of the soldiers because it explains the broader implications
of the photo’s content, providing a context for the violence and its far-reaching consequences. After discussing
the soldiers, the sentence connects the personal and immediate suffering in the photograph with the larger
scope of the Vietnam War’s impact, which then leads into the official title of the photograph. The official title,
"The Terror of War," is directly linked to the broader theme of violence and destruction that the sentence
describes. Thus, the given sentence naturally sets the stage for introducing the official title and the iconic
nickname, "Napalm Girl," ensuring a smooth and coherent transition.

Hence, Option C is the correct choice.

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13. B
The question asks us to identify the hypothetical scenario that does not reflect the kind of loss described in the
passage. The passage discusses cultural, ecological, and intellectual losses caused by language extinction,
including the loss of:

Unique cultural expressions (e.g., music, art, and emotions tied to language).
Knowledge about the environment (e.g., relationships between plants and illness).
Worldviews and philosophical insights.

We need to identify a scenario that doesn’t align with these themes. Let us examine the options based on this
understanding -

Option A: This scenario reflects the loss of unique cultural knowledge - in this case, the ability to describe the
“20 different moods of the ocean,” which likely represents detailed ecological and environmental
understanding.

Option B: This scenario focuses on some form of administrative or statistical change in a government list; the
focus is not on the cultural, ecological, or intellectual loss emphasised in the passage. Therefore, the option
does not reflect the deeper, humanity-wide loss described in the passage.

Option C: This scenario aligns with the loss of unique cultural concepts and the emotional depth tied to a word
or phrase. In the author’s perspective, losing this concept would diminish humanity's understanding of the
complexity of human relationships.

Option D: This scenario reflects the loss of ecological knowledge about snow textures, which likely has
practical implications for living in the Arctic environment. This aligns with the passage's discussion of losing
environmental wisdom when languages die.

Hence, Option B is the correct choice.

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14. B
The central idea of the passage is that endangered languages, as carriers of unique cultural perspectives and
human knowledge, must be preserved to benefit humanity. The author argues that liberal arts education plays a
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directly engage in preservation efforts. Liberal arts education, as framed in the passage, sensitises students to
cultural diversity and equips them with the tools to support endangered languages and cultures.

We observe that Option B, however, directly undermines this central idea by redefining the focus of liberal arts
education. Requiring fluency in two of the most widely spoken global languages (e.g., English, Spanish,
Mandarin) would prioritise dominant languages rather than endangered ones. This hypothetical scenario shifts
resources and attention away from the preservation of linguistic diversity, which is central to the passage's
argument. Such a requirement would reinforce the dominance of already powerful languages, the very
phenomenon identified as a major “language killer” in the passage. By institutionalizing the focus on dominant
languages, it would erode the argument that liberal arts education fosters support for endangered languages
and cultural preservation, ultimately weakening the role of liberal arts in addressing language extinction.

In contrast, the remaining choices either align with the discussion or do not serve as strong counterarguments
to the points presented in the passage. For instance, Option A acknowledges that most liberal arts students will
not directly engage in language preservation but does not challenge the broader idea that liberal arts education
fosters empathy and support for endangered languages. Option C limits the long-term success of language
preservation but does not negate its immediate benefits or the potential for renewal in subsequent generations.
Similarly, Option D highlights a limitation of recording dying languages but does not undermine the broader
argument that documentation is a valuable and necessary tool in preservation.

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15. D
The passage highlights the widespread extinction of indigenous languages in North America due to
colonisation, physical annihilation, and assimilation policies while noting slightly better survival rates in Central
and South America. It implies that language survival may be influenced by factors such as social policies,
cultural integration, and the extent of physical and cultural displacement.

Evaluating the choices, we note that Option A is plausible since allowing children to stay with families would
help preserve native languages, unlike the North American policy of removing children to boarding schools, as
discussed in the passage. Option B is also reasonable, as less effective assimilation efforts by colonial
governments could lead to better language retention. Option C also aligns with the passage’s context, as it
discusses physical annihilation as a significant driver of language extinction, but the survival rate being slightly
better in South America could suggest marginally less physical annihilation.

However, Option D is problematic; while providing locals with jobs in the colonial administration might seem like
a factor that supports language retention, this scenario is not consistent with the passage. The passage
emphasises that dominant languages often replace indigenous ones through socio-economic pressures, and
employment in colonial administration would likely reinforce the use of the dominant language rather than
preserve native languages.

Hence, Option D is the best choice.

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16. C
The author discusses how a liberal arts education, combined with participation in language preservation
efforts, empowers students in several significant ways. He highlights that such an education broadens
students' cultural understanding, helps them communicate across linguistic barriers (Option A), and enables
them to gain insights into both their own and others' cultures (Option D). Option B is an implicit aspect of this
discussion. The passage also suggests that some students may even become involved in active language
preservation, though it emphasises that the majority might not pursue this path. Contrarily, Option C is not
explicitly mentioned or understood: while the passage provides examples of communities that have established
such schools, it does not suggest that students themselves will take on this role.

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17. C
Option C is the correct answer. This option best captures the essence of the passage. The tradwife’s embrace
of traditional roles and vintage fashion naturally contrasts with and highlights the superficiality of modern life.
The passage emphasizes that she is not overtly critiquing society but rather embodying a regressive ideal that
challenges contemporary norms. This fits with how the passage describes her actions—her existence itself is a
challenge to modern societal expectations.

Option A:The passage does not suggest that the tradwife is actively critiquing modern society. Instead, the
tradwife embodies a lifestyle and set of ideals that are in contrast to contemporary values. The critique comes
from others' reactions to her behavior, not from her intentions.

Option B: The passage does not show her as actively trying to expose or mock anything. She simply lives in a
way that contrasts with modern expectations. The "mockery" is a reaction from others, not her goal. Therefore,
this option overstates her intentions.

Option D: This focuses on the tradwife's dress and adherence to traditional roles as the means of revealing
modern life’s artificial nature. While the tradwife does embody these traditional values, the passage is more
focused on how her actions highlight societal superficiality rather than "revealing" it. Additionally, the passage
suggests that her behaviour is not an overt revelation but rather something that others react to—making this
option somewhat distorted.

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18. C
The passage contrasts the personal, introspective nature of lyric poetry with Marxism's outward focus on
societal change. At first glance, the characteristics of lyric poetry - being personal, small-scale, and
idiosyncratic - seem incompatible with Marxism's demand for a transformative critique of an unjust society.
However, the passage introduces a nuanced perspective within Marxist thought, which recognises lyric poetry
as having an implicit critical and utopian function. Through its imaginative and alternative modes of perception,
lyric poetry can challenge dominant ideologies and suggest a vision of resistance to oppression. Thus, while
lyric poetry does not directly engage with large-scale social concerns, it can still align with Marxist ideals by
offering subtle forms of critique and hope for change. Option C most effectively captures this idea.

None of the other choices present a valid interpretation of the passage. For instance, Option A oversimplifies
the issue by portraying lyric poetry as merely ‘utopian,” ignoring its critical and resistant potential as described
in the passage. It misses the nuanced compatibility suggested between lyric poetry and Marxism. Option B
inaccurately suggests that Marxism has “internal contradictions,” which is not the focus of the passage.
Similarly, Option D frames Marxism as dismissive of lyric poetry, ignoring the strand of Marxist thought that
finds value in poetry's alternative perspectives; this misrepresentation makes it a weaker summary.

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19. 1
A good starting point here would be to link sentences 5 and 3 based on the idea of “pruning.” Sentence 5 talks
about the synaptic development that occurs during the early period described in sentences 4 and 2. It describes
how synapses are initially overproduced, a concept that sets up the next part of the process: synaptic pruning.
Sentence 3 continues this discussion by offering an explanation for why synapses are pruned: to reinforce the
necessary connections and eliminate the weaker ones. This helps to fine-tune the brain’s wiring, ensuring that
the important pathways are retained while the less useful ones are discarded. Together, 5-3 ties in with the
broader purpose of neural wiring presented in Sentence 2: it emphasises that the creation of neural
connections in the fetus is a preparatory stage and that these connections are essential for the future
performance of the visual system. Sentence 4 sets the context of the paragraph: it mentions the formation of
neural connections before birth, specifically focusing on the connections between the eyes and the brain.

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While Sentence 1 provides a technical description of synapse creation and function, it doesn’t fit the broader
context set by sentences 4, 2, 5, and 3. These sentences focus on brain development (especially related to
vision) and the process of synapse formation and pruning in a developmental context. Sentence 1 focuses on
the structural aspect of synapse formation (the “specialized structures” at the terminal end of an axon), which
is more about how a synapse functions at a microscopic level rather than the larger developmental or
functional role synapses play in early brain development, as discussed in the other sentences.

Therefore, Sentence 1 is the odd one out.

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20. C
The passage discusses the challenges of regulating innovations in biotechnology. It highlights two key issues:
(i) current regulations are outdated and insufficient for new biological advancements, and (ii) the unpredictable
nature of living entities and rapid technological changes make it difficult to design a regulatory framework that
anticipates all risks and contingencies. The core question is whether regulation can ever keep pace with the
unpredictable and unique outcomes of biotechnology. Option C correctly touches upon these ideas.

The other options are either too narrow or miss the essence. Option A focuses on calibration and scientists'
roles, which is not the central concern of the passage. Similarly, Option B highlights the urgency for new rules
but omits the skepticism about achieving comprehensive regulation. Option D overemphasises the
impossibility of imagining all risks without addressing the need for flexibility in regulations.

Hence, Option C is the best choice.

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21. C
The phrase “unlikely to disagree + EXCEPT” can seem tricky to interpret. In simple terms, the question requires
us to find a statement the author will disagree with. Let us inspect the choices -

Option A: The author supports the proposal for zonal segregation as a reasonable compromise, balancing
scientific exploration with human settlement.

Option B: The author agrees that NASA’s earlier missions did not prioritise contamination but implies they
caused no significant harm.

Option C: This viewpoint reflects a cautious approach to space exploration. The author dismisses concerns
about hypothetical extraterrestrial life as speculative and prioritises human exploration and development over
minimising contamination. Therefore, he’s likely to disagree with this position.

Option D: In the passage, the author argues that the costs of maintaining strict planetary protection measures
are excessive and could undermine future exploration efforts. This is consistent with his stance.

Hence, Option C is the best choice.

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22. C
The passage discusses the debate surrounding planetary protection policies, particularly the concerns about
contaminating Mars with Earth-based microbes. The author argues against these concerns, citing several
reasons why the risk of contamination should not hinder human exploration and development of Mars. These
reasons include:

the lack of evidence for life on Mars (describes Mars as a “bleak, rusted landscape” with no confirmed life)
[Option A]
the disregard for such protocols by international competitors (China’s lenient approach to planetary
protection) [Option B]

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 the historical precedent of contamination from earlier human missions (Apollo missions left waste on the
Moon) [Option D]

On the other hand, Option C is not presented as a valid reason. The author does not specifically argue that
probes have had “little effect” on the Moon's environment but instead focuses on human waste and
contamination from earlier human missions, not robotic probes.

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23. A
The first paragraph critiques the stringent planetary protection policies advocated by a group of scientists who
aim to prevent biological contamination of celestial bodies. The author portrays these efforts as excessive,
particularly given the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life, and highlights the significant financial burden
these measures place on space agencies like NASA. Option A accurately reflects this scepticism, as the author
questions the need to sterilize planets where life has not been proven to exist.

Option B is incorrect because the author is not equivocal (i.e., ambiguous or undecided); instead, he expresses
a clear stance against these strict protocols. Option C is also inaccurate, as the author is not indifferent to
elitism but rather critiques the scientists’ restrictive approach. Similarly, Option D can be eliminated because
the author does not approve of NASA's spending on sterilization but views it as an unnecessary expense.

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24. C
The passage highlights contrasting reactions to two instances of potential contamination of the lunar
environment: China’s germination of a plant seed on the Moon, which elicited little controversy, and Israel’s
accidental release of tardigrades aboard the Beresheet probe, which sparked significant backlash within the
space community. This contrast underscores differences in how national or regional scientific communities
respond to issues of planetary protection. Option C most closely reflects this idea.

The passage does not suggest that contamination from animals is inherently more harmful than from plants, as
suggested in Option A. Similarly, Option B inaccurately implies that the passage endorses China’s approach as
inherently “reasonable,” which it does not. Option D diverges a bit from the discussion by emphasising global
biases against specific countries, but the passage provides no evidence of such biases, focusing instead on
scientific reactions.

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25. B
This is the figure that has been given to us,

We are given the information that, out of the 9 intersections in the figure, 6 of them have ATMs. That means, 3
of these intersections are empty.
We are also told that, the ATMs with the highest and lowest capacity are on the same road, highest capacity

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being 15L and lowest being 7L.
This information not only gives us clues about the location of these two ATMs but also, now we know the upper
and lower bounds for cash in the six ATMs with distinct cash.
Next piece of information that is given is that, road distance between the ATM with the second highest
cashrequirement and the ATM located at the intersection of R-C and V3 is12 km. Since we can only traverse on
the roads, from (RC, V3) we have to either traverse the 5km road or the 7km road. The only way it can add up to
12 is 5+7. That means, ATM with the second highest capacity is at (RB, V2).

Now, let us start arranging the ATM's.

We are told that 15 and 7 are on the same road. Since we are given the total capacities on the roads, we need to
identify the roads with capacity higher or equal to 22.
There are only two possible choice, either RA or V3.
Looking at V3, we see that 15L ATM cannot come at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3) since the RB and RC capacity is 20,
and the minimum ATM limit is 7L, if a 15L ATM is on a road with total capacity 20L, this is a situation that is not
possible since there cannot be an ATM with 5L capacity.
The same is the case with the intersection (RA, V2). So, we can narrow down the fact that the 15L ATM has to
either be at (RA, V1) or (RA, V3)

Case 1: 15L ATM is on the intersection (RA, V3)

We see that, for V3 to add upto 26, there has to be an ATM with cash of 11L, there cannot be two ATM's since
the minimum capacity is 7L.
We can place the 11L ATM at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3), if we place them at either of these intersections, the
remaining ATM has to have a capacity of 9L for the same reason. 9L cannot be at (RC, V1) or (RB, V1) since the
total capacity of V1 is 15L and there cannot be an ATM with 6L. And it also cannot be at (RB, V2) since there is
already an ATM with 11L that means the ATM with the second highest capacity cannot be 9. So that means 9L
has to be at (RC, V2). And then filling in the rest of the numbers we get the final arrangement for Case-1.

Case 2: When 15L is at (RA, V1)

There can be no other ATM on V1 in this scenario, 7L ATM which is on RA cannot be on (RA, V2) considering
the sum of the numbers on V2 is 21, and there cannot be 7+7 or a 14L ATM since the capacity of both RB and

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RC is 20. So, 7L has to be on V3, and since there cannot be a single ATM of 19L on V3, there has to be two other
ATMs on V3 adding up to 19. Rearranging the numbers, we get the scenario for the second case.

Using the two cases, we can answer the given questions.

The only statement that is correct considering both the cases is Option B
"The ATM placed at the (R-C, V2) intersection has a cash requirement of Rs. 9 Lakhs."

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26. 3
This is the figure that has been given to us,

We are given the information that, out of the 9 intersections in the figure, 6 of them have ATMs. That means, 3
of these intersections are empty.
We are also told that, the ATMs with the highest and lowest capacity are on the same road, highest capacity
being 15L and lowest being 7L.
This information not only gives us clues about the location of these two ATMs but also, now we know the upper
and lower bounds for cash in the six ATMs with distinct cash.
Next piece of information that is given is that, road distance between the ATM with the second highest
cashrequirement and the ATM located at the intersection of R-C and V3 is12 km. Since we can only traverse on
the roads, from (RC, V3) we have to either traverse the 5km road or the 7km road. The only way it can add up to
12 is 5+7. That means, ATM with the second highest capacity is at (RB, V2).

Now, let us start arranging the ATM's.

We are told that 15 and 7 are on the same road. Since we are given the total capacities on the roads, we need to
identify the roads with capacity higher or equal to 22.
There are only two possible choice, either RA or V3.

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Looking at V3, we see that 15L ATM cannot come at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3) since the RB and RC capacity is 20,
and the minimum ATM limit is 7L, if a 15L ATM is on a road with total capacity 20L, this is a situation that is not
possible since there cannot be an ATM with 5L capacity.
The same is the case with the intersection (RA, V2). So, we can narrow down the fact that the 15L ATM has to
either be at (RA, V1) or (RA, V3)

Case 1: 15L ATM is on the intersection (RA, V3)

We see that, for V3 to add upto 26, there has to be an ATM with cash of 11L, there cannot be two ATM's since
the minimum capacity is 7L.
We can place the 11L ATM at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3), if we place them at either of these intersections, the
remaining ATM has to have a capacity of 9L for the same reason. 9L cannot be at (RC, V1) or (RB, V1) since the
total capacity of V1 is 15L and there cannot be an ATM with 6L. And it also cannot be at (RB, V2) since there is
already an ATM with 11L that means the ATM with the second highest capacity cannot be 9. So that means 9L
has to be at (RC, V2). And then filling in the rest of the numbers we get the final arrangement for Case-1.

Case 2: When 15L is at (RA, V1)

There can be no other ATM on V1 in this scenario, 7L ATM which is on RA cannot be on (RA, V2) considering
the sum of the numbers on V2 is 21, and there cannot be 7+7 or a 14L ATM since the capacity of both RB and
RC is 20. So, 7L has to be on V3, and since there cannot be a single ATM of 19L on V3, there has to be two other
ATMs on V3 adding up to 19. Rearranging the numbers, we get the scenario for the second case.

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Using the two cases, we can answer the given questions.

Three ATM's with 10L or more: 15L, 12L and 11L. Answer is 3.

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27. A
This is the figure that has been given to us,

We are given the information that, out of the 9 intersections in the figure, 6 of them have ATMs. That means, 3
of these intersections are empty.
We are also told that, the ATMs with the highest and lowest capacity are on the same road, highest capacity
being 15L and lowest being 7L.
This information not only gives us clues about the location of these two ATMs but also, now we know the upper
and lower bounds for cash in the six ATMs with distinct cash.
Next piece of information that is given is that, road distance between the ATM with the second highest
cashrequirement and the ATM located at the intersection of R-C and V3 is12 km. Since we can only traverse on
the roads, from (RC, V3) we have to either traverse the 5km road or the 7km road. The only way it can add up to
12 is 5+7. That means, ATM with the second highest capacity is at (RB, V2).

Now, let us start arranging the ATM's.

We are told that 15 and 7 are on the same road. Since we are given the total capacities on the roads, we need to
identify the roads with capacity higher or equal to 22.
There are only two possible choice, either RA or V3.
Looking at V3, we see that 15L ATM cannot come at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3) since the RB and RC capacity is 20,
and the minimum ATM limit is 7L, if a 15L ATM is on a road with total capacity 20L, this is a situation that is not
possible since there cannot be an ATM with 5L capacity.
The same is the case with the intersection (RA, V2). So, we can narrow down the fact that the 15L ATM has to
either be at (RA, V1) or (RA, V3)

Case 1: 15L ATM is on the intersection (RA, V3)

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We see that, for V3 to add upto 26, there has to be an ATM with cash of 11L, there cannot be two ATM's since
the minimum capacity is 7L.
We can place the 11L ATM at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3), if we place them at either of these intersections, the
remaining ATM has to have a capacity of 9L for the same reason. 9L cannot be at (RC, V1) or (RB, V1) since the
total capacity of V1 is 15L and there cannot be an ATM with 6L. And it also cannot be at (RB, V2) since there is
already an ATM with 11L that means the ATM with the second highest capacity cannot be 9. So that means 9L
has to be at (RC, V2). And then filling in the rest of the numbers we get the final arrangement for Case-1.

Case 2: When 15L is at (RA, V1)

There can be no other ATM on V1 in this scenario, 7L ATM which is on RA cannot be on (RA, V2) considering
the sum of the numbers on V2 is 21, and there cannot be 7+7 or a 14L ATM since the capacity of both RB and
RC is 20. So, 7L has to be on V3, and since there cannot be a single ATM of 19L on V3, there has to be two other
ATMs on V3 adding up to 19. Rearranging the numbers, we get the scenario for the second case.

Using the two cases, we can answer the given questions.

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We see that in both cases, RA RB and RC have two ATMs
Only in the first case V1 V2 and V3 have two ATM's, in the second case V3 has 3 ATMs and V1 has 1.

Hence only Statement A is correct.

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28. D
This is the figure that has been given to us,

We are given the information that, out of the 9 intersections in the figure, 6 of them have ATMs. That means, 3
of these intersections are empty.
We are also told that, the ATMs with the highest and lowest capacity are on the same road, highest capacity
being 15L and lowest being 7L.
This information not only gives us clues about the location of these two ATMs but also, now we know the upper
and lower bounds for cash in the six ATMs with distinct cash.
Next piece of information that is given is that, road distance between the ATM with the second highest
cashrequirement and the ATM located at the intersection of R-C and V3 is12 km. Since we can only traverse on
the roads, from (RC, V3) we have to either traverse the 5km road or the 7km road. The only way it can add up to
12 is 5+7. That means, ATM with the second highest capacity is at (RB, V2).

Now, let us start arranging the ATM's.

We are told that 15 and 7 are on the same road. Since we are given the total capacities on the roads, we need to
identify the roads with capacity higher or equal to 22.
There are only two possible choice, either RA or V3.
Looking at V3, we see that 15L ATM cannot come at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3) since the RB and RC capacity is 20,
and the minimum ATM limit is 7L, if a 15L ATM is on a road with total capacity 20L, this is a situation that is not
possible since there cannot be an ATM with 5L capacity.
The same is the case with the intersection (RA, V2). So, we can narrow down the fact that the 15L ATM has to
either be at (RA, V1) or (RA, V3)

Case 1: 15L ATM is on the intersection (RA, V3)

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We see that, for V3 to add upto 26, there has to be an ATM with cash of 11L, there cannot be two ATM's since
the minimum capacity is 7L.
We can place the 11L ATM at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3), if we place them at either of these intersections, the
remaining ATM has to have a capacity of 9L for the same reason. 9L cannot be at (RC, V1) or (RB, V1) since the
total capacity of V1 is 15L and there cannot be an ATM with 6L. And it also cannot be at (RB, V2) since there is
already an ATM with 11L that means the ATM with the second highest capacity cannot be 9. So that means 9L
has to be at (RC, V2). And then filling in the rest of the numbers we get the final arrangement for Case-1.

Case 2: When 15L is at (RA, V1)

There can be no other ATM on V1 in this scenario, 7L ATM which is on RA cannot be on (RA, V2) considering
the sum of the numbers on V2 is 21, and there cannot be 7+7 or a 14L ATM since the capacity of both RB and
RC is 20. So, 7L has to be on V3, and since there cannot be a single ATM of 19L on V3, there has to be two other
ATMs on V3 adding up to 19. Rearranging the numbers, we get the scenario for the second case.

Using the two cases, we can answer the given questions.

Second highest is 12L and second lowest is 8L

In Case 1 the distance between 12L and 8L ATM is 4km and in Case 2 the distance between 12L and 8L ATM is
7km.
Hence the answer is either 4km or 7km.

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29. 3
This is the figure that has been given to us,

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We are given the information that, out of the 9 intersections in the figure, 6 of them have ATMs. That means, 3
of these intersections are empty.
We are also told that, the ATMs with the highest and lowest capacity are on the same road, highest capacity
being 15L and lowest being 7L.
This information not only gives us clues about the location of these two ATMs but also, now we know the upper
and lower bounds for cash in the six ATMs with distinct cash.
Next piece of information that is given is that, road distance between the ATM with the second highest
cashrequirement and the ATM located at the intersection of R-C and V3 is12 km. Since we can only traverse on
the roads, from (RC, V3) we have to either traverse the 5km road or the 7km road. The only way it can add up to
12 is 5+7. That means, ATM with the second highest capacity is at (RB, V2).

Now, let us start arranging the ATM's.

We are told that 15 and 7 are on the same road. Since we are given the total capacities on the roads, we need to
identify the roads with capacity higher or equal to 22.
There are only two possible choice, either RA or V3.
Looking at V3, we see that 15L ATM cannot come at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3) since the RB and RC capacity is 20,
and the minimum ATM limit is 7L, if a 15L ATM is on a road with total capacity 20L, this is a situation that is not
possible since there cannot be an ATM with 5L capacity.
The same is the case with the intersection (RA, V2). So, we can narrow down the fact that the 15L ATM has to
either be at (RA, V1) or (RA, V3)

Case 1: 15L ATM is on the intersection (RA, V3)

We see that, for V3 to add upto 26, there has to be an ATM with cash of 11L, there cannot be two ATM's since
the minimum capacity is 7L.
We can place the 11L ATM at (RB, V3) or (RC, V3), if we place them at either of these intersections, the
remaining ATM has to have a capacity of 9L for the same reason. 9L cannot be at (RC, V1) or (RB, V1) since the
total capacity of V1 is 15L and there cannot be an ATM with 6L. And it also cannot be at (RB, V2) since there is
already an ATM with 11L that means the ATM with the second highest capacity cannot be 9. So that means 9L
has to be at (RC, V2). And then filling in the rest of the numbers we get the final arrangement for Case-1.

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Case 2: When 15L is at (RA, V1)
There can be no other ATM on V1 in this scenario, 7L ATM which is on RA cannot be on (RA, V2) considering
the sum of the numbers on V2 is 21, and there cannot be 7+7 or a 14L ATM since the capacity of both RB and
RC is 20. So, 7L has to be on V3, and since there cannot be a single ATM of 19L on V3, there has to be two other
ATMs on V3 adding up to 19. Rearranging the numbers, we get the scenario for the second case.

Using the two cases, we can answer the given questions.

ATMs that can be uniquely determines are the ATMs with cash 9L, 11L and 12L. Hence the answer is 3.

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30. 5
The set's starting point is that the sum of each row must be 100

Clue 3 tells us that all the missing elements in the Carbs column are multiple of 5. Similarly, clue 4 tells us that
the missing elements of the other three columns are multiples of 4.

Note that we look at clue 1, which says that the carbs in C1 and C2 must be more than any carbs in any pseudo
cereal.
We have the reference point of P1 at 66

Trying to fill in for C1:

The possible values are 75, 80, 85, 90, 95
Since 12 grams is of other nutrients, we can eliminate 90 and 95.
If we take 85, 85+12 = 97, which would leave 3 grams of protein, but from clue 4, we know this has to be a
multiple of 4.

Taking 75, 75+12 = 87 would leave 13 grams of protein, which, too, is eliminated.
Leaving only 80 grams of carb in C1 and 8 grams of protein.

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Similar logic is to be applied for C2; we have 13 grams already present, so the values of 90 and 95 are
eliminated.
Taking 85 carbs would give 2 grams of protein, which can be eliminated.
80 and 70 would also not work for the same reason.
Leavin has only 75 grams of carbs, leaving 12 grams of protein.

Using clues 1 and 2 together, we can determine that the carbs in P2 must be less than 75 but at least greater
than 62.
The only possible values are 65 and 70
Putting 65 grams of carbs in P2 gives us 100-65-14-8 = 13 grams of protein, which is invalid.

Putting 70 grams of carbs in P2 gives 100-70-14-8 = 8 grams of protein.

Clue 1 gives us that the protein in M2 should be less than that present in either of the pseudo-cereals, which we
right now have a baseline of 14.
So the protein in M2 (and M3) can be 12, 8, 4, 0

The protein and carbs in M2 should add up to 100-7-16 = 77

This is only possible if the protein count is 12, giving carbs as 65

The protein in M3 can be 0, 4, 8 or 12

We are given in clue five that the protein in P1 is double that in M3.
The protein in P1 thus can be 0, 8, 16 or 24
Since this P1 protein also has to be more than M1 and M2 protein, it can not be 0 or 8
Leaving only 16 or 24 as the valid values.

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The protein and fats in P1 must add up to 100-66-10 = 24
If P1 had 24 grams of protein, then it would have 0 grams of fat, but in clue 4, we are given that all missing fats
are non-zero multiples of 4
Hence, the only possible protein value in P1 is 16, with 8 grams of fats. Giving 8 grams of protein in M3 and 24
grams of others in M3.

We can see that all other foodgrains except M3 had more carbohydrates than M1.
Therefore, 5 is the correct answer.

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31. 12
The set's starting point is that the sum of each row must be 100

Clue 3 tells us that all the missing elements in the Carbs column are multiple of 5. Similarly, clue 4 tells us that
the missing elements of the other three columns are multiples of 4.

Note that we look at clue 1, which says that the carbs in C1 and C2 must be more than any carbs in any pseudo
cereal.
We have the reference point of P1 at 66

Trying to fill in for C1:

The possible values are 75, 80, 85, 90, 95
Since 12 grams is of other nutrients, we can eliminate 90 and 95.
If we take 85, 85+12 = 97, which would leave 3 grams of protein, but from clue 4, we know this has to be a
multiple of 4.

Taking 75, 75+12 = 87 would leave 13 grams of protein, which, too, is eliminated.
Leaving only 80 grams of carb in C1 and 8 grams of protein.

Similar logic is to be applied for C2; we have 13 grams already present, so the values of 90 and 95 are
eliminated.
Taking 85 carbs would give 2 grams of protein, which can be eliminated.
80 and 70 would also not work for the same reason.
Leavin has only 75 grams of carbs, leaving 12 grams of protein.

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Using clues 1 and 2 together, we can determine that the carbs in P2 must be less than 75 but at least greater
than 62.
The only possible values are 65 and 70
Putting 65 grams of carbs in P2 gives us 100-65-14-8 = 13 grams of protein, which is invalid.

Putting 70 grams of carbs in P2 gives 100-70-14-8 = 8 grams of protein.

Clue 1 gives us that the protein in M2 should be less than that present in either of the pseudo-cereals, which we
right now have a baseline of 14.
So the protein in M2 (and M3) can be 12, 8, 4, 0

The protein and carbs in M2 should add up to 100-7-16 = 77

This is only possible if the protein count is 12, giving carbs as 65

The protein in M3 can be 0, 4, 8 or 12

We are given in clue five that the protein in P1 is double that in M3.
The protein in P1 thus can be 0, 8, 16 or 24
Since this P1 protein also has to be more than M1 and M2 protein, it can not be 0 or 8
Leaving only 16 or 24 as the valid values.

The protein and fats in P1 must add up to 100-66-10 = 24

If P1 had 24 grams of protein, then it would have 0 grams of fat, but in clue 4, we are given that all missing fats
are non-zero multiples of 4
Hence, the only possible protein value in P1 is 16, with 8 grams of fats. Giving 8 grams of protein in M3 and 24
grams of others in M3.

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We can see that there were 12 grams of protein in M2.

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32. 24
The set's starting point is that the sum of each row must be 100

Clue 3 tells us that all the missing elements in the Carbs column are multiple of 5. Similarly, clue 4 tells us that
the missing elements of the other three columns are multiples of 4.

Note that we look at clue 1, which says that the carbs in C1 and C2 must be more than any carbs in any pseudo
cereal.
We have the reference point of P1 at 66

Trying to fill in for C1:

The possible values are 75, 80, 85, 90, 95
Since 12 grams is of other nutrients, we can eliminate 90 and 95.
If we take 85, 85+12 = 97, which would leave 3 grams of protein, but from clue 4, we know this has to be a
multiple of 4.

Taking 75, 75+12 = 87 would leave 13 grams of protein, which, too, is eliminated.
Leaving only 80 grams of carb in C1 and 8 grams of protein.

Similar logic is to be applied for C2; we have 13 grams already present, so the values of 90 and 95 are
eliminated.
Taking 85 carbs would give 2 grams of protein, which can be eliminated.
80 and 70 would also not work for the same reason.
Leavin has only 75 grams of carbs, leaving 12 grams of protein.

Using clues 1 and 2 together, we can determine that the carbs in P2 must be less than 75 but at least greater
than 62.
The only possible values are 65 and 70
Putting 65 grams of carbs in P2 gives us 100-65-14-8 = 13 grams of protein, which is invalid.

Putting 70 grams of carbs in P2 gives 100-70-14-8 = 8 grams of protein.

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Clue 1 gives us that the protein in M2 should be less than that present in either of the pseudo-cereals, which we
right now have a baseline of 14.
So the protein in M2 (and M3) can be 12, 8, 4, 0

The protein and carbs in M2 should add up to 100-7-16 = 77

This is only possible if the protein count is 12, giving carbs as 65

The protein in M3 can be 0, 4, 8 or 12

We are given in clue five that the protein in P1 is double that in M3.
The protein in P1 thus can be 0, 8, 16 or 24
Since this P1 protein also has to be more than M1 and M2 protein, it can not be 0 or 8
Leaving only 16 or 24 as the valid values.

The protein and fats in P1 must add up to 100-66-10 = 24

If P1 had 24 grams of protein, then it would have 0 grams of fat, but in clue 4, we are given that all missing fats
are non-zero multiples of 4
Hence, the only possible protein value in P1 is 16, with 8 grams of fats. Giving 8 grams of protein in M3 and 24
grams of others in M3.

There were 24 grams of other nutrients in M3.

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33. 12

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The set's starting point is that the sum of each row must be 100

Clue 3 tells us that all the missing elements in the Carbs column are multiple of 5. Similarly, clue 4 tells us that
the missing elements of the other three columns are multiples of 4.

Note that we look at clue 1, which says that the carbs in C1 and C2 must be more than any carbs in any pseudo
cereal.
We have the reference point of P1 at 66

Trying to fill in for C1:

The possible values are 75, 80, 85, 90, 95
Since 12 grams is of other nutrients, we can eliminate 90 and 95.
If we take 85, 85+12 = 97, which would leave 3 grams of protein, but from clue 4, we know this has to be a
multiple of 4.

Taking 75, 75+12 = 87 would leave 13 grams of protein, which, too, is eliminated.
Leaving only 80 grams of carb in C1 and 8 grams of protein.

Similar logic is to be applied for C2; we have 13 grams already present, so the values of 90 and 95 are
eliminated.
Taking 85 carbs would give 2 grams of protein, which can be eliminated.
80 and 70 would also not work for the same reason.
Leavin has only 75 grams of carbs, leaving 12 grams of protein.

Using clues 1 and 2 together, we can determine that the carbs in P2 must be less than 75 but at least greater
than 62.
The only possible values are 65 and 70
Putting 65 grams of carbs in P2 gives us 100-65-14-8 = 13 grams of protein, which is invalid.

Putting 70 grams of carbs in P2 gives 100-70-14-8 = 8 grams of protein.

Clue 1 gives us that the protein in M2 should be less than that present in either of the pseudo-cereals, which we
right now have a baseline of 14.
So the protein in M2 (and M3) can be 12, 8, 4, 0

The protein and carbs in M2 should add up to 100-7-16 = 77

This is only possible if the protein count is 12, giving carbs as 65

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The protein in M3 can be 0, 4, 8 or 12

We are given in clue five that the protein in P1 is double that in M3.
The protein in P1 thus can be 0, 8, 16 or 24
Since this P1 protein also has to be more than M1 and M2 protein, it can not be 0 or 8
Leaving only 16 or 24 as the valid values.

The protein and fats in P1 must add up to 100-66-10 = 24

If P1 had 24 grams of protein, then it would have 0 grams of fat, but in clue 4, we are given that all missing fats
are non-zero multiples of 4
Hence, the only possible protein value in P1 is 16, with 8 grams of fats. Giving 8 grams of protein in M3 and 24
grams of others in M3.

The proteins in the foodgrains, when arranged in ascending order, are: 8, 8, 10, 12, 12,14, 16
Giving the median as 12.

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Explanation [34 - 37]:

Reading the bar graphs, we can find the distribution of the subscribers as:

Taking clue one into consideration, let's take the total number of subscribers in 2023 as 100x and in 2204 as
110x
This would give the split of subscribers as follows:

34. C

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Clue 2 says that half of 22x, which is 11x and 2/3 of 33x, which is 22x, used one app, given that in 2024, out of
55x, 33x used one app.

Clues 3 and 4 are to be used with each other.

Clue 4 says that out of 15x kids, 10,000 used one app, and out of 20x Elders, 15,000 used multiple apps.
Clue 3 says that the kids who used multiple apps (15x - 10000) were the same as Elders who used one app (20x
- 15000)

Equating these two we get:

15x- 10000 = 20x - 15000
5x = 5000
x = 1000

The first question asks about the number of others in 2024, which is 55x, or simply 55,000

Therefore, Option C is the correct answer.

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35. A
Clue 2 says that half of 22x, which is 11x and 2/3 of 33x, which is 22x, used one app, given that in 2024, out of
55x, 33x used one app.

Clues 3 and 4 are to be used with each other.

Clue 4 says that out of 15x kids, 10,000 used one app, and out of 20x Elders, 15,000 used multiple apps.
Clue 3 says that the kids who used multiple apps (15x - 10000) were the same as Elders who used one app (20x
- 15000)

Equating these two, we get:

15x- 10000 = 20x - 15000
5x = 5000
x = 1000

There are 15x, that is, 15,000 kids in 2023, of which we are given that 10,000 use one app.
So, 5,000 use multiple apps.
5000 100
The percentage of kids using multiple apps in 2023 would hence be 15000 ​ × 100 = 3 ​ = 33.33%
Therefore, Option A is the correct answer.

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36. C
Clue 2 says that half of 22x, which is 11x and 2/3 of 33x, which is 22x, used one app, given that in 2024, out of
55x, 33x used one app.

Clues 3 and 4 are to be used with each other.

Clue 4 says that out of 15x kids, 10,000 used one app, and out of 20x Elders, 15,000 used multiple apps.
Clue 3 says that the kids who used multiple apps (15x - 10000) were the same as Elders who used one app (20x
- 15000)

Equating these two, we get:

15x- 10000 = 20x - 15000
5x = 5000
x = 1000

In 2023, there were 20,000 elders; in 2024, there were 33,000 elders.
33000−20000
The increase in percentage would be 20000 ​× 100 = 13 20 × 100
​ = 65%
Therefore, Option C is the correct answer.

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37. B
Clue 2 says that half of 22x, which is 11x and 2/3 of 33x, which is 22x, used one app, given that in 2024, out of
55x, 33x used one app.

Clues 3 and 4 are to be used with each other.

Clue 4 says that out of 15x kids, 10,000 used one app, and out of 20x Elders, 15,000 used multiple apps.
Clue 3 says that the kids who used multiple apps (15x - 10000) were the same as Elders who used one app (20x
- 15000)

Equating these two, we get:

15x- 10000 = 20x - 15000
5x = 5000
x = 1000

In clue 2, we were given that 33000 kids and elders out of 55000 kids and elders use one app, showing that
22000 use multiple apps. To minimize the total usage of multiple apps, we can assume that all 55000 other
subscribers use one app.
22,000 100
Giving the percentage of multiple app users as: 110,000 ​ × 100 = 5 ​ = 20%
Therefore, Option B is the correct answer.

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Explanation [38 - 41]:

We are given the following table,

This table compares the GDP, GDP per capita, and population of eight countries, all of which are referenced
using a consistent set of units.
Specifically, the GDP values are all given with the same country as the reference point (The reference point
being Country 9)
Similarly, the GDP per capita among the eight countries in the table is given using the same reference point (The
reference point being Country 10)
As a result, when comparing two countries from the list in terms of GDP, GDP per capita, or population, we can
directly use the values presented in the table, since they are all based on a uniform reference point.

38. A
GDP
We can compare the population of two countries using the formula, P opulation = ​

GDP P er Capita
For example, to compare the GDP of Country A and Country B, we can simply use the values listed under "GDP"
in the table, as both are referenced using the same country throughout. This eliminates the need for additional
conversions or adjustments.

In this question we are asked to find which of the countries among the four options has the least population in
2024 (The current year)
Option A: Country 8

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GDP=0.07 and GDP Per Capita=0.41
7
Population=0.07/0.41 or 41 ​

Option B: Country 3
GDP=0.13 and GDP Per Capita=0.02
13
Population=0.13/0.02 or 2 ​

Option C: Country 7
GDP=0.08 and GDP Per Capita=0.3
8
Population=0.08/0.3 or 30 ​

Option D: Country 5
GDP=0.1 and GDP Per Capita=0.36
10
Population=0.1/0.36 or 36 ​

Comparing the four values, we are looking for the smallest values among the four,
7 13 8 10
41 , 2 , 30 , 36
​ ​ ​ ​

7
41 is the smallest value among the four, hence Option A or Country 8 is the answer.
​

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39. A
GDP
We can compare the population of two countries using the formula, P opulation = ​

GDP P er Capita
For example, to compare the GDP of Country A and Country B, we can simply use the values listed under "GDP"
in the table, as both are referenced using the same country throughout. This eliminates the need for additional
conversions or adjustments.

We are given the GDP growth rate and we are told it is constant over the next three years,
Country 4 GDP: 0.12 and the given growth rate is 0.5%
2
GDP of Country 4 in 2026 will be 0.12 × (1.005) this equals 0.121203

Country 4 GDP: 0.1 and the given growth rate is 3.2

2
GDP of Country 5 in 2026 will be 0.1 × (1.007) this equals 0.1014049
0.121203
Ratio will be, this equals 1.19523
0.1065024
​

Hence, the answer is Option A

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40. A
GDP
We can compare the population of two countries using the formula, P opulation = ​

GDP P er Capita
For example, to compare the GDP of Country A and Country B, we can simply use the values listed under "GDP"
in the table, as both are referenced using the same country throughout. This eliminates the need for additional
conversions or adjustments.

The given question asks us to compare the population of countries between 1, 4, 5, and 7 in the year 2027

Country 1: Population in 2024 will be 0.15/0.41 or 15/41 and the population is decreasing at the rate 0.12%

Country 4: Population in 2024 will be 0.12/0.38 or 12/38 and the population is increasing at the rate of 0.49%

Country 5: Population in 2024 will be 0.1/0.36 or 10/36 and the population is increasing at the rate 0.31%

Country 7: Population in 2024 will be 0.08/0.3 or 8/30 and the population is decreasing at the rate 0.11%
15 6 5 4
Simplifying and comparing the four fractions in order, 41 , 19 , 18 , 15
​ ​ ​ ​

The decimal values of the following are: 0.36586, 0.315789, 0.2777, 0.2666

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Right away we can eliminate Country 7 since the population is not only the least, but it is decreasing, so there is
no chance it will have the highest population in three years time.
For the other three countries,
3
Country 1: (0.36585) × (0.9988) this equals 0.36453
3
Country 4: (0.315789) × (1.0049) this equals 0.32045
3
Country 7: (0.2777) × (1.0031) this equals 0.2803612

Hence, Country 1 will have the largest population among these four countries.

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41. 0
GDP
We can compare the population of two countries using the formula, P opulation = ​

GDP P er Capita
For example, to compare the GDP of Country A and Country B, we can simply use the values listed under "GDP"
in the table, as both are referenced using the same country throughout. This eliminates the need for additional
conversions or adjustments.

We are asked to find the number of countries where the GDP per capita is lower in 2027 than it was in 2024.

For the GDP per capita to be lower in the consequent years, the population growth rate has to exceed the GDP
growth rate, since GDP per capita is nothing but GDP divided by the population. That means if the population
growth rate is lesser than that of the GDP growth rate, the GDP per capita will only increase.

We can clearly see that none of the following countries fall in the scenario where GDP growth rate is lesser than
that of the population growth rate. Countries 1, 2 and 7 have actually decreasing population rates thereby
definitely increasing the GDP per capita.
The rest of the countries have GDP growth rates larger than the population growth rates.

Hence, we can conclude that, none of the countries will have a smaller GDP per capita in 2027 when compared
to 2024.

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42. B
The set's starting point is the conclusion that the temperature rises only when the AC is turned off.
When the AC is turned off, the temperature rises linearly, reaching the temperature at the time it was turned off
in one hour.

The temperature rises in two instances,

From 0:00 to 0:30, it rises from 26 to 31, so by 1:00, it would have reached 36 degrees, meaning that the
temperature at 0:00 would have been 36 degrees Celsius.

From 1:00 to 1:30, it rises from 26 to 30, so by 2:00, it would have reached 34 degrees, meaning the temperature
at 1:00 would have been 34 degrees Celcius.

Calculating either of these would have been enough as we have the starting temperature at 23:00 at 38 degree
celsius. Since the temperature decreases linearly, we can find the temperature at every instance using another
data point.

Drawing out the temperature outside, we get:

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From this alone, we can answer the first question:
The AC was turned off for only two instances between 11:01 pm and 1:59 am:
Once at 0:00 and once at 1:00

Therefore, Option B is the correct answer.

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43. 34
The set's starting point is the conclusion that the temperature rises only when the AC is turned off.
When the AC is turned off, the temperature rises linearly, reaching the temperature at the time it was turned off
in one hour.

The temperature rises in two instances,

From 0:00 to 0:30, it rises from 26 to 31, so by 1:00, it would have reached 36 degrees, meaning that the
temperature at 0:00 would have been 36 degrees Celsius.

From 1:00 to 1:30, it rises from 26 to 30, so by 2:00, it would have reached 34 degrees, meaning the temperature
at 1:00 would have been 34 degrees Celcius.

Calculating either of these would have been enough as we have the starting temperature at 23:00 at 38 degrees
Celsius. Since the temperature decreases linearly, we can find the temperature at every instance using another
data point.

Drawing out the temperature outside, we get:

From the table, we can determine that the temperature outside at 1 am was 34 degrees Celsius.
Therefore, 34 is the correct answer.

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44. 42
The set's starting point is the conclusion that the temperature rises only when the AC is turned off.
When the AC is turned off, the temperature rises linearly, reaching the temperature at the time it was turned off
in one hour.

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The temperature rises in two instances,
From 0:00 to 0:30, it rises from 26 to 31, so by 1:00, it would have reached 36 degrees, meaning that the
temperature at 0:00 would have been 36 degrees Celsius.

From 1:00 to 1:30, it rises from 26 to 30, so by 2:00, it would have reached 34 degrees, meaning the temperature
at 1:00 would have been 34 degrees Celcius.

Calculating either of these would have been enough as we have the starting temperature at 23:00 at 38 degree
celsius. Since the temperature decreases linearly, we can find the temperature at every instance using another
data point.

Drawing out the temperature outside, we get:

Extrapolating this linear chain of temperature drop (2 degrees drop every hour), we can see that the
temperature at 22:00 would be 40 degrees Celsius, and the temperature at 21:00 or 9 pm would be 42 degrees
Celsius.

Therefore, 42 is the correct answer.

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45. D
The set's starting point is the conclusion that the temperature rises only when the AC is turned off.
When the AC is turned off, the temperature rises linearly, reaching the temperature at the time it was turned off
in one hour.

The temperature rises in two instances,

From 0:00 to 0:30, it rises from 26 to 31, so by 1:00, it would have reached 36 degrees, meaning that the
temperature at 0:00 would have been 36 degrees Celsius.

From 1:00 to 1:30, it rises from 26 to 30, so by 2:00, it would have reached 34 degrees, meaning the temperature
at 1:00 would have been 34 degrees Celcius.

Calculating either of these would have been enough as we have the starting temperature at 23:00 at 38 degree
celsius. Since the temperature decreases linearly, we can find the temperature at every instance using another
data point.

Drawing out the temperature outside, we get:

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We can see that the AC was turned on at 0:30, 1:30 and 23:00.
We do not know about the status at 23:30

We are to count the times after 11:01 pm; hence, turning on the AC at 23:00 does not count.

Hence, the answer should be 2 or 3.

But in the final clue, we are given that POWER mode was used longer than REGULAR mode.
Since there are 4 periods of 30 minutes each, the combinations possible are POWER-3, REGULAR-1, and
POWER-4, REGULAR-0

If the AC were on REGULAR mode at 23:00, it would have functioned for 1 hour, and the power mode would
have also functioned for 1 hour (total), which would go against the final clue.

The following would be the cases.

But there were three instances of activation between 11:01 and 1:59

Hence, Option D would be the correct answer.

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46. 10
The set's starting point is the conclusion that the temperature rises only when the AC is turned off.
When the AC is turned off, the temperature rises linearly, reaching the temperature at the time it was turned off
in one hour.

The temperature rises in two instances,

From 0:00 to 0:30, it rises from 26 to 31, so by 1:00, it would have reached 36 degrees, meaning that the
temperature at 0:00 would have been 36 degrees Celsius.

From 1:00 to 1:30, it rises from 26 to 30, so by 2:00, it would have reached 34 degrees, meaning the temperature
at 1:00 would have been 34 degrees Celcius.

Calculating either of these would have been enough as we have the starting temperature at 23:00 at 38 degree
celsius. Since the temperature decreases linearly, we can find the temperature at every instance using another
data point.

Drawing out the temperature outside, we get:

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(Side note: We cannot consider the temperatures outside and inside at 23:00 and 2:00 since the time limit does
not include those.)

The maximum difference between the elements of the outside and inside is maximum at 0:00 when the outside
temperature is 36, and the inside temperature is 26.

Giving the maximum difference as 10

Therefore,10 is the correct answer.

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47. C
Total number of students is 250, and we are told that, The percentage of girls was at least 44% and at most
60%.

So the number of girls range from, 0.44 (250) ≤ Girls ≤ 0.6 (250)
110 ≤ Girls ≤ 150
Statement 1:
If 50% of the boys and 80% of the girls opted for swimming, that means if the total number of Boys is B, Girls is
G where B+G=250.
Swimming is: 0.5B+0.8G

Statement 2:
If 70%of the boys and 60% of the girls opted for running, that means
Running is 0.7B+0.6G

Total number of enrolments for swimming and running together will be

(0.7B+0.6G)+(0.5B+0.8G)=1.2B+1.4G

Using the overlapping principle, where I represents people who have enrolled only for one activity and II
represents number of people who have enrolled for two activities.
+ II = 250 = B + G
We know that, I
I + 2II = 1.2B + 1.4G
Subtracting the two equations,
II = 0.2B + 0.4G
II = 0.2 (B + 2G)
Using B+G=250
II = 0.2 (250 + G)
G can at-most be 150 and at least 110.

So maximum value of II will be 0.2 (250 + 150) = 80

Minimum value of II will be 0.2 (250 + 110) = 72

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48. B
Opening the square on the left-hand side, we get a2 + 3b2 + 2ab 3 ​

2 2
Comparing the rational part on both side,s we get: a + 3b = 52
And comparing the irrational par,t we get: 2ab 3 = 30 3 ​ ​

ab = 15, Since we are given that a and b are natural numbers, the possible values of a and b are (1,15), (3, 5),
(5, 3), or (15,1)

Putting these values in the first relation we got, we see that 15 squared would exceed the required value and
would not be the case.
We need not check if a=5, b=3 or a=3, b=5 since the answer would be the same.

(a=5 and b=3 would satisfy it)

a+b = 5+3 = 8

Therefore, Option B is the correct answer.

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49. 70
We are given that average of three distinct integers is 28, that means the sum of these three integers is
28x3=84

Let us write x + y + z = 84
x, y, z being the three distinct integers in ascending order.

If the smallest number is increased by 7 and the largest number is reduced by 10

(x + 7) + (y) + (z − 10) = 81
81
New arithmetic mean will be 3 = 27 ​

And this is said to be 2 more than the middle number, meaning

27 − 2 = y = 25
x + z = 59
We are given that difference between the largest and the smallest numbers becomes 64,
(z − 10) − (x + 7) = 64
z − x = 81
Adding the two equations we get, 2z = 140
z = 70

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50. C
There are multiple ways of solving such questions involving remainders; one easy way is to look for a power of
numerator that leaves a remainder of 1 or 01 when divided by the denominator.

In this instance, 1000, when divided by 13, leaves a remainder of -1

1066 × 100
We can rewrite the numerator as 13 ​

The remainder would be [

13 ]R
1066
​ ​ × [ 100
13 ]R
​ ​

22
(−1) × 9
9

Therefore, Option C is the correct answer.

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51. B
We are given that Sam completes a piece of work in 20 days. We are also given that Mohit is twice as fast, so
he should take only 10 days. Mohit is thrice as fast as Ayna, so he would take 30 days.

Let's take the total work to be 60 units; this would give the work done per day for Mohit, Sam, and Ayna to be 6,
3 and 2, respectively.

On the first day Sam and Mohit work: doing 9 units

On the second day Sam and Ayan work: doing 5 units
On the third day, Mohit and Ayan work: doing 8 units

Essentially doing 22 units in a 3 days cycle.

After two such cycles, there will be 60-44 = 16 units of work left

On day 7, Sam and Mohit would work 9 units, leaving 7 units

On day 8, Sam and Ayan would work 5 units, leaving 2 units
And on day 9, Ayan and Mohit would complete the remaining work.

So Sam worked for a total of 2+2+2= 6 days and on each day he did 3 units of work, completing 18 units of
work.
18 3
The ratio of work done by Sam would be 60 ​ = 10 ​

Therefore, Option B is the correct answer.

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52. D
This is the situation that is described in the question above, Angle AOB is 120 degrees and the chord AB is of
length 10cm.

Using Cosine rule we can find the length of AO and AB

(r2 +r2 −300)
cos (AOB ) = 2r2 ​

1 (2r2 −300)
−2 =
​

2r2 ​

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3r2 = 300
r = 10
120
Area of the Sector AOB is 360 × π × r 2 ​

1 100 100π
3 × π × 1 which is 3
​ ​ ​

1
Area of triangle AOB is 2 × r 2 × sin (120) ​

1 100 3
2 ​ × 1 ​ × 2
​

75
Area of triangle AOB is
3
​

100π 75
The smaller region will be,
3 ​ − 3
​

Taking 25 common we will get,

25 (
4π
− 3)
3
​ ​

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53. A
1
Finding the terms in the sequence, we see that t3 = 0, t 4 = − , t5 = 0
3
​ ​ ​ ​

We would notice that all the odd terms are 0, and we are also asked the sum of only even terms, so we do not
need to consider those
1
t6 = −
5
​ ​

1 1 1
We see that the even terms are in an HP: −1, − , − , − , ...
3 5 7
​ ​ ​

The sum we are asked is the inverse of these terms, that is: -1, -3, -5, -7, up to 1012 terms

[− (2 × 1) + (1012 − 1) (−2)]
The sum of this AP would be × 1012
2
​

Which is equal to −1012 × 1012 = −1024144

Therefore, Option A is the correct answer.

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54. 2
The expression on the right-hand side will have two critical points: 2 and -2

For any value of x greater than equal to 2, the equation changes to x+2-(x-2) = 4

the value of min{x,2} would be 2, so we would want max{x,2} to be 4+2 = 6

Therefore, x=6 works.

For any value of x less than equal to -2, the equation changes to -(x+2)+(x-2) = -4
the value of max{x,2} would be 2, so we would want min{x,2} to be 6 again; this cannot be the case.
In general, subtracting the smaller (min) of the two values from the bigger (max) can not lead to a negative
number. The max it can lead to is a 0

When x lies between -2 and 2, the equation becomes 2x

The maximum function will give back 2, and the minimum function will give back x, with the right-hand side
giving 2x
Solving this we would get 2-x = 2x which is x=2/3

Therefore, there are two real values of x for which the given equation holds.

Hence, 2 is the correct answer.

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The graph of the function on the right hand side can be visualised as:

Hence, 2 is the correct answer.

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55. 9
Let us assume the amount invested to be P , and the rate of interest to be r .
3
Value of the investment after 3 years will be, P (1 + r )
5
Value of the investment after 5 years will be, P (1 + r )
2
(1 + r) = 36
25 ​

(1 + r)2 = 1.44
r = 0.2
We need to find the value of n for which 4000 (1 + r)n > 20000
n
(1 + r ) > 5
(1.2)n > 5
We see that,
1.28 = 4.2999
1.29 = 5.15
Hence it takes 9 years to grow to over 20,000.

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56. A

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Taking 10x =a
4 81
we get a + a = 2
​ ​

This would give the quadratic equation: 2a2 − 81a + 8 = 0

We want to find the sum of possible values of x, let the value of x be x1 and x2

these would correspond to log a1, and log a2

The sum of log a1 + log a2 would be log (a1 x a2)

From the quadratic equation we got above, we can see that the product of the possible values of a would-be
8/2 = 4

Threfore, the sum of values of x would be log (4) which would be 2 log10 2
​

Therefore, Option A is the correct answer.

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57. A
Let us assume that the distance is D, speed of the train is S and time taken by the train is t.
D
t is nothing but S ​

Statement 1: Had the speed been 6 km per hour more, it would have needed 4 hours less

S+6 = t − 4
D ​

D
S+6 ​ = D
S ​ −4

4= D
S ​ − D
S+6 ​

4
S+6−S
S (S+6) ​ = D ​

6 4
S (S+6) ​ = D ​

2S (S+6)
D= 3
​

Statement 2: Had the speed been 6 km per hour less, it would have needed 6 hours more

S−6 = t + 6
D
​

1
D [ S−6 − S1 ] = 6 ​ ​

S−S+6
S (S−6) ​ =6

D = S ( S − 6)
Equating the two equations for distance,
S (S − 6) = 2S (S+6
3
)
​

3S − 18 = 2S + 12

S = 30
Hence the speed is 30 kmph

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58. 2

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Taking a log for each of the expressions, we get the following:

log3 4 = a, log4 5 = b, log5 6 = c, log6 7 = d, log7 8 = e, log8 9 = f

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

The expression abcef would then be: log3 4 ​

× log4 5 × log5 6 × log6 7 × log7 8 × log8 9
​ ​ ​ ​ ​

log a
Next, we can use this property of log: logb c = logc a
​

​ ​

b ​

Using this, we get:

log 4 log 5 log 6 log 7 log 8 log 9
log 3 ​ × log 4 ​ × log 5 ​ × log 6 ​ × log 7 ​ × log 8 ​

log 9
All the terms will cancel out except:
log 3 ​
= log3 9 = 2 ​

Therefore, 2 is the correct answer.

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59. A
Let us say the cost price of an item is X
It is said that it is marked to make a profit of 20%.
That means it is marked at 1.2X

Ravi gets a 10% discount on the marked price,

0.9 (1.2X ) = 1.08X
Saves 15 rupees, so 1.2X-1.08X
0.12X=15
X=125

Profit made by Gopi is 0.08(125)=10 rupees.

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60. 30
Let us assume the amount of Milk in the container to be X and the amount of water in the container to be Y.
We are told that X+Y=300.

Now, an operation is given where "an amount of this solution was taken out from the container which was twice
the volume of water that was earlier poured into it, and water was poured to refill the container again"
Volume of the water initially is Y. If twice that amount is taken out, the percentage of the solution that is taken
2Y
out will be, X+Y ​

2Y
That means the quantity of milk that will remain in the solution will be, X (1 − X+Y ) ​

This value is given to be 72%, 72% of 300 will be 216

2Y
X (1 − X+Y ) = 216 ​

X+Y −2Y
X ( X+Y ) = 216 ​

Writing X = 300 − Y
(300 − Y ) (300 − 2Y ) = 64800
Expanding this we have,
2
2Y − 900Y + 25200 = 0
Factorising this equation we have,
2 (Y − 30) (Y − 420) = 0
Y is either 30 or 420.

Given that the capacity of the container itself is 300, Y has to be 30.

Hence the amount of water initially is 30 Litres.

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61. D
This is the figure in the question,

We are given that each side is 6cm long,

To find the side AC, we can use cosine rule, since we know each interior angle of the octagon(which is 135
degrees)

(AB 2 + BC 2 − AC 2 )
cos (∠ABC ) =
2 (AB ) (AC )
​

(36 + 36 − AC 2 )
cos (135) =
2 (36)
​

1 (72 − AC 2 )
− =
2 72
​ ​

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AC 2 = 72 + 36 2 ​

AC 2 = 36 (2 + 2) ​

Since AC is the side of the square, and the area of a square is square of the side.

Answer is 36 (2 + 2)
​

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62. 8
The moduli will give out only non-negative outputs, and since we are to consider only integer values of x and y,
this drastically reduces the possible cases.

We can get 2 from either 2+0 or 1+1

We get a 2+0 form when either the first term or the second term is 0
The second term is 0; this is when x=y, in this case,|2x|=2, where x can be 1 or -1; therefore, the two cases are
(1,1) and (-1,-1)
The first term is 0; this is the case when x = -y, in this case, |x- (-x)|=2, giving x=1 or -1 yet again, here the two
cases are (1,-1) and (-1,1)

The other way we can get 2 is through 1+1

This is possible when one of the terms is 0; if y=0, |x|+|x|=2, where x can be 1 or -1, giving two cases (1,0) and
(-1,0)
Similarly,y for x=0, we get two cases, (0,1) and (0,-1)

Therefore, there are 8 pairs of (x,y) that satisfy the given equation.

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63. C

+ 2f ( ) = 3x
1
We are given, f (x)
x
1
Substituting x ​ f or x
1 3
f ( ) + 2f (x) =
​ ​

x x
Multiplying the second equation by 2 we will have

1 6
2f ( ) + 4f (x) = ​ ​

x x
Subtracting the first equation from the second equation we have,
6
3f (x) = x
​
− 3x
2
f ( x) = x −x ​

We want the sum of values when this function equals 3,

2
x −x=3
​

x2 + 3x − 2 = 0
Since the discriminant is greater than zero, both values of x will be real, and we can directly take the sum of
values of x to be,
− 31 ​

Answer is -3.

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64. B
Arranging the equation, we know that there are no solutions when the lines are parallel:
4
p
= a2
for that the condition had to 3 = − k  ​ ​ ​

Checking through options:

Option A: using the first and last terms in our relation, we see that ap must not be equal to 6 for the lines to be
parallel. This option puts no conditions on that and thus is not relevant.

Option C: This question is the opposite of what we want; if this is true, the lines can never be parallel.

Option D: Using the first and second terms of the relation, we see that we want kp = -12, or kp-12 = 0. Hence,
this statement is not what we want.

Option B: Using the second and third terms, we see that we do not want k equals to -2a, or we do not want k+2a
to be equal to 0

Therefore, B is a condition that is necessary for the lines to be parallel and have no solution.

Therefore, Option B is the correct answer.

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65. B
We are told that Rajesh manages 20 hectares and Vimal manages 30 hectares

For Vimal, we know the distribution of the land between Wheat and Mustard, 5:3
5
So, wheat area will be, 8 (30) ​

3
Mustard area will be, 8 (30) ​

Similarly, let us assume that the distribution of crops between Wheat and Mustard to be k:1
Wheat will be, k+1 (20)
k
​

1
Mustard will be, k+1 (20) ​

We are told that total area of Wheat and Mustard is in the ratio 11:9

Adding them up we get,

150 20k
( + )
8 k+1 11
​ ​

=
90 20 9
( + )
​ ​

8 k+1
​ ​

15 2k
( + )
8 k+1 11
​ ​

=
9 2 9
( + )
​ ​

8 k+1
​ ​

135 18k 99 22
+ = +
8 k+1 8 k+1
​ ​ ​ ​

36 22 − 18k
=
8 k+1
​ ​

44 − 36k = 9k + 9
45k = 35
7
k=
9
​

7
Hence the ratio of distribution of area between Wheat and Mustard for Rajesh is
9
​

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66. 90
The question describes a figure of the following nature,

We are told that the area of the triangle ABC is 1440.

By proportionality theorem, the area of MPN should be one fourth of that.
(Area △1 ) (side of △1 )2
Since we know that, Area △ =
​ ​

(side of △2 )2
​ ​

2 ​

And since it is given that MPN are midpoints of the respective sides, area of triangle MPN is △ =
ABC
4 ​

1440
4 = 360
​

Now, the medians from each side intersect, MP MN and NP are X Y and Z respectively, since these sides are
proportional to the main triangle, the point of intersection of the medians with these sides will divide the
side MP, MN and NP in half.

Then, Area of Triangle XYZ will be one fourth the area MPN,
△ M P4 N = 360
​

4 = 90
​

The answer is 90.

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67. 378
We need to consider single-digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers

Single digit: There are only nine numbers for a single-digit number (not including zero since we are looking for
positive integers only)

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Double digits: The ten's digit can be chosen in 9 ways (not including 0), and the unit digit can be chosen in 9
ways (including 0 but excluding the digit used in the ten's place). Hence, a total of 81 numbers.

Three-digit: The hundred's digit can be 1, 2, 3 or 4; hence, there are four options for the hundred's digit; for the
ten's digit, there will be 9 options (numbers from 0 to 9 except the one chosen in the hundred's place); for unit's
digit there would be 8 options. Hence,e a total of 288 numbers

Giving the total numbers as 288+81+9 = 378

Therefore, 378 is the correct answer.

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68. C
We are told that there was two successive increments in the salary, with the second increment percentage
twice the first one. Total Increment was 187.5%.

Drawing up the equation

(1 + z ) (1 + 2z ) = 1.875
1 + 3z + 2z 2 = 1.875
2z 2 + 3z − 0.875
(−3± 9+8(0.875))
z=
​

4 ​

z = (−3±4
4)
​

z = 0.25
Answer is 25%.

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