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2 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
Raj invested Rs.10000 in a fund. At the end of first year, he incurred a loss but his balance was more than Rs.5000. This balance, when invested for another year, grew and the percentage of growth in the second year was five times the percentage of loss in the first year. If the gain of Raj from the initial investment over the two period is 35%, then the percentage of loss in the first year is
A. 10
B. 15
C. 5
D. 70
3 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
In a football tournament, a player has played a certain number of matches and 10 more matches are to be played. If he scores a total of one goal over the next 10 matches, his overall average will be 0.15 goals per match. On the other hand, if he scores a total of two goals over the next 10 matches, his overall average will be 0.2 goals per match. The number of matches he has played is
4 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
For a 4-digit number, the sum of its digits in the thousands, hundreds and tens places is 14, the sum of its digits in the hundreds, tens and units places is 15, and the tens place digit is 4 more than the units place digit. Then the highest possible 4-digit number satisfying the above conditions is
6 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
Anil, Bobby and Chintu jointly invest in a business and agree to share the overall profit in proportion to their investments. Anil’s share of investment is 70%. His share of profit decreases by Rs.420 if the overall profit goes down from 18% to 15%. Chintu’s share of profit increase by Rs.80 if the overall profit goes up from 15% to 17%. The amount, in INR, invested by Bobby is
A. 2000
B. 2400
C. 2200
D. 1800
9 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
The number of ways of distributing 15 identical balloons, 6 identical pencils and 3 identical erasers among 3 children, such that each child gets at least four balloons
10 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
Anil can paint a house in 60 days while Bimal can paint it in 84 days. Anil starts painting and after 10 days, Bimal and Charu join him. Together, they complete the painting in 14 days. If they paid a total of Rs.21000 for the job, then the share of Charu, in INR, proportionate to the work done by him, is
A. 9200
B. 9150
C. 9100
D. 9000
13 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
Two pipes A and B are attached to an empty water tank. Pipe A fills the tank while pipe B drains it. If pipe A is opened at 2 pm and pipe B is opened at 3 pm, then the tank becomes full at 10 pm. Instead, if pipe A is opened at 2 pm and pipe B is opened at 4 pm, then the tank becomes full at 6 pm. If pipe B is not opened at all, then the time, in minutes, taken to fill the tank is
A. 264
B. 120
C. 144
D. 140
14 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
A box has 450 balls, each either white or black, there being as many metallic white balls as metallic black balls. If 40% of the white balls and 50% of the black balls are metallic, then the number of non-metallic balls in the box is
15 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
The sides AB and CD of a trapezium ABCD are parallel, with AB being the smaller side. P is the midpoint of CD and ABPD is parallelogram. If the difference between the areas of the parallelogram ABPD and the triangle BPC is 10 sq cm, then the area, in sq cm, of the trapezium ABCD is
A. 20
B. 25
C. 30
D. 40
16 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
Let D and E be the points on the sides AB and AC, respectively, of a triangle ABC, such that AD : BD = 2 : 1 and AE : CE = 2 : 3. If the area of the triangle ADE is 8 sq cm, then the area of the triangle ABC, in sq cm, is
17 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
A. 6 < x < 11
B. 9 < x < 14
C. 10 < x < 15
D. 7 < x < 12
18 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
Three positive integers x, y and z are in arithmetic progression. If y – x > 2 and xyz = 5(x + y + z), then z – x equals
A. 8
B. 10
C. 14
D. 12
19 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
Two trains A and B were moving in opposite directions, their speeds being in the ratio 5 : 3. The front end of A crossed the gear end of B 46 seconds after the front ends of the trains had crossed each other. It took another 69 seconds for the rear ends of the trains to cross each other. The ratio of length of train A to that of train B is
A. 2 : 3
B. 3 : 2
C. 5 : 3
D. 2 : 1
20 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
If a rhombus has area 12 sq cm and side length 5 cm, then the length, in cm, of its longer diagonal is
A.
B.
C.
D.
21 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
From a container filled with milk, 9 litres of milk are drawn and replaces with water. Next, from the same container, 9 litres are drawn and again replaced with water. If the volumes of milk and water in the container are now in the ratio of 16: 9, then the capacity of the container, in litres, is
22 CAT 2021 Slot 2 - Quant
A person buys tea of three different qualities at Rs.800, Rs.500 and Rs.300 per kg, respectively, and the amounts bought are in the proportion 2 : 3 : 5. She mixes all the tea and sells one-sixth of the mixture at Rs.700 per kg. The price, in INR per kg, at which she should sell the remaining tea, to make an overall profit of 50%, is
A. 653
B. 675
C. 688
D. 692