CAT1996 Related Question Answers
77. In 1994, students seeking jobs in finance earned ___ more than those opting for software (per annum).
78. Each question is followed by two statements, I and II. Mark the answer A tractor travelled a distance 5 m. What is the radius of the rear wheel? I. The front wheel rotates ‘N’ times more than the rear wheel over this distance. II. The circumference of the rear wheel is ‘t’ times that of the front wheel.
79. Each question is followed by two statements, I and II. Mark the answer What is the ratio of the two liquids A and B in the mixture finally, if these two liquids kept in three vessels are mixed together? (The containers are of equal volume.) I. The ratio of liquid A to liquid B in the first and second vessel is 3 : 5, 2 : 3 respectively. II. The ratio of liquid A to liquid B in vessel 3 is 4:3.
80. Each question is followed by two statements, I and II. Mark the answer If a,b and c areintegers,is(a-b+c)>(a+b-c)? I. b is negative. II. c is positive.
81. If α and β are the roots of the equation $$(ax^2+bx+c=0)$$, then what is the value of $$(α^2 +β^2)$$? I.$$α+β=\frac{-b}{a}$$ II.$$2αβ =\frac{c}{a}$$
82. What is the cost price of the article? I. After selling the article, a loss of 25% on cost price is incurred. II. The selling price is three-fourths of the cost price.
83. Each question is followed by two statements, I and II. Mark the answer What is the selling price of the article? I. The profit on sales is 20%. II. The profit on each unit is 25% and the cost price is Rs. 250.
84. How many different triangles can be formed? I. There are 16 coplanar, straight lines. II. No two lines are parallel.
85. What is the total worth of Lakhiram's assets? I. A compound interest at 10% on his assets, followed by a tax of 4% on the interest, fetches him Rs. 1,500 this year. II. The interest is compounded once every four months.
86. How old is Sachin in 1997? I. Sachin is 11 years younger than Anil whose age will be a prime number in 1998. II. Anil's age was a prime number in 1996.
87. What is the number of type-2 widgets produced, if the total number of widgets produced is 20,000? I. If the production of type-1 widgets increases by 10% and that of type-2 decreases by 6%, the total production remains the same. II. The ratio in which type-1 and type-2 widgets are produced is 2 : 1.
88. Arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph. 1. It doesn't take a highly esteemed medical expert to conclude that women handle pain better than men. A. First the men would give birth, and then take six months to recover. B. As for labour pains, the human species would become extinct if men had to give birth. C. They do, however, make life hell for everyone else with their non-stop complaining about how bad they feel. D. The men in my life, including my husband and my father, would not take a Tylenol for pain even if their lives depend on it. 6. And by the time they finish sharing their excruciating experience with their buddies, all reproduction would come to a halt.
89. Arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph. 1. A few years ago, hostility towards Japanese-Americans was so strong that I thought they were going to reopen the detention camps here in Kolkata. A. Today Asians are a success story. B. I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when Jewish people were successful in business.C. But do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with Asia? D. Now, talk about the ‘Arkansas-Asia Connection’ is broadening that hatred to include all Asian- Americans. 6. No, blinded by jealousy, they complain that it is the Asian-Americans who are reaping the wealth.
90. Arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph. 1. Michael Jackson, clearly no admirer of long engagements, got married abruptly for the second time in three years. A. The latest wedding took place in a secret midnight ceremony in Sydney, Australia. B. It is also the second marriage for the new missus, about whom little is known. C. The wedding was attended by the groom's entourage and staff, according to Jackson's publicist. D. The bride, 37-year-old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying Jackson's baby, wore white. 6. All that is known is that she is a nurse for Jackson's dermatologist.
91. Arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph. 1. Liz Taylor isn't just unlucky in love. A. She, and husband Larry Fortensky, will have to pay the tab — $4,32,600 in court costs. B. The duo claimed that a 1993 story about a property dispute damaged their reputations. C. Taylor has just filed a defamation suit against the National Enquirer. D. She is unlucky in law too. 6. Alas, all levels of the California court system disagreed.
92. 1.Hiss was serving as Head of the Endowment on August 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee. A. Chambers, a portly rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a Communist courier but had broken with the party in 1938. B. When Nixon arranged a meeting of the two men in New York, Chambers repeated his charges and Hiss his denials. C. Summoned as a witness, Hiss denied that he had ever been a Communist or had known Chambers. D. He told the Committee that among the members of a secret Communist cell in Washington during the 1930s was Hiss. 6. Then, bizarrely, Hiss asked Chambers to open his mouth.
93. 1.Since its birth, rock has produced a long string of guitar heroes. A. It is a list that would begin with Chuck Berry and continue with Hendrix, Page and Clapton. B. These are musicians celebrated for their sheer instrumental talent, and their flair for expansive, showy and sometimes self-indulgent solos. C. It would also include players of more recent vintage, like Van-Halen and Living Colour's Vemon Reid. D. But with the advent of alternative rock and grunge, guitar heroism became uncool. 6. Guitarists like Peter Buck and Kurt Cobain shy away from exhibitionism.
94. 1.For many scientists, oceans are the cradle of life. A. But all over the world, chemical products and nuclear waste continue to be dumped into them. B. Coral reefs, which are known to be the most beautiful places of the submarine world, are fast disappearing. C. The result is that many species of fish die because of this pollution. D. Of course man is the root cause behind these problems. 6. Man has long since ruined the places he visits — continents and oceans alike.
95. 1.Am I one of the people who are worried that Bill Clinton's second term might be destroyed by the constitutional crisis? A. On the other hands, ordinary citizens have put the campaign behind them. B. In other words, what worries me is that Bill Clinton could exhibit a version of what George Bush used to refer to as Big Mo. C. That is, he might have so much campaign momentum that he may not be able to stop campaigning. D. Well, it's true that I've been wondering whether a President could be impeached for refusing to stop talking about the bridge we need to build to the 21st century. 6. They now prefer to watch their favourite soaps and ads on TV rather than senators.
96. 1. So how big is the potential market? A. But they end up spending thousands more each year on hardware overhaul and software upgradation. B. Analysts say the new machines will appeal primarily to corporate users. C. An individual buyer can pick up a desktop computer for less than $2,000 in America. D. For them, the NCs best-drawing card is its promise of much lower maintenance costs. 6. NCs, which automatically load the latest version of whatever software they need could put an end to all that.
97. 1. Historically, stained glass was almost entirely reserved for ecclesiastical spaces. A. By all counts, he has accomplished that mission with unmistakable style. B. "It is my mission to bring it kicking and screaming out of that milieu," says Clarke. C. The first was the jewel-like windows he designed for a Cistercian Church in Switzerland. D. Two recent projects show his genius in the separate worlds of the sacred and the mundane. 6. The second was a spectacular, huge skylight in a shopping complex in Brazil.
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Directions: In each of the following questions a pair of capitalised words is followed by four pair of words. You are required to mark as the answer the pair of words which have a relationship between them most similar to the relationship between the capitalised pair.Liquid : Gaseousness
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