QQAD, Practice Test 1: CAT 2008

Instructions:
1) The duration of this test is 50 minutes and the test is meant to be taken in one-go
without any break(s).
2) This test has 25 questions. Each question carries +4 marks on answering
correctly.
3) Each wrong answer attracts penalty of negative 1 mark.
4) Use of slide rule, log tables and calculators is not permitted.
5) Use the blank space in the question paper for the rough work.

(1) Sarah and Neha start running simultaneously from the diametrically opposite ends of
a circular track towards each other at 15km/h and 25km/h respectively. After every 10
minutes their speed reduces to half of their current speeds. If the length of the circular
track is 1500 m, how many times will Sarah and Neha meet on the track?
(A) 6

(B) 9

(C) 11

(D) 7

(E) 8

(2) A cone of radius 1 unit and height 2 units just fits inside a cylinder with their axis
perpendicular. The radius of the cylinder in unit is
(A) 1

(B) 1.25

(C) 1.5

(D) 2

(E) more than 2

(3) There are a certain facts about the software engineers working with an IT firm. Total
number of software engineers is 70 out of which 30 are females. 30 people are married.
24 software engineers are above 25 years of age. Out of all married software engineers,
19 are above 25 years, of which 7 are males. 12 males are above 25 years and overall 15
males are married. How many unmarried females are there which are above 25?
(A) 12

(B) 8

(C) 7

(D) 0

(E) 11

DIRECTIONS for Questions 4 and 5: Each question is followed by two statements X

and Y. Answer each question using the following instructions:
Choose A
Choose B
Choose C
Choose D
Choose E

if the question can be answered by X only

if the question can be answered by Y only
if the question can be answered by either X or Y
if the question can be answered by both X and Y
if the question can be answered by neither X and Y

(4) Let p(x) = x^2 + 40. Then for any two positive integers i and j where i > j, is p(i) +
p(j) a composite number?
(X) p(i) p(j) is not a composite number
(Y) p(2i) + p(2j) is a composite number
(5) What is the length of the side AB of triangle ABC?
(X) AB <= AC = 2, and area of triangle ABC is 2
(Y) Exactly two sides have integer length

(6) The numerical value of f(1/10) + f(2/10) + . + f(9/10), where f(x) = 9^x/(3+9^x) is
(A) 10/3

(B) 4

(C) 10

(D) 5

(E) 9/2

(7) A blackboard bears a half-erased mathematical calculation exercise:

2 3 ? 5 ?
+
1 ? 6 4 2
------------4 2 4 2 3
In which number system was this calculation performed?
(A) 4

(B) 9

(C) 8

(D) 5

(E) 7

(8) Given points P1, P2, P3, , P7 on a straight line, in the order stated (not necessarily
evenly spaced). Let P be an arbitrary point selected on the line and let s be the sum of
undirected lengths PP1, PP2, PP3, , PP7. Then s is smallest if and only if the point P is
(A) midway between P1 and P7
(B) midway between P2 and P6
(C) midway between P3 and P5
(D) at P4
(E) at P1

(9) A 33 rpm record which normally plays for 30 minutes was inadvertently started at 45
rpm, then switched to 33 rpm when mistake was realized. Altogether the record played
for 26 minutes. For how many minutes was it playing at 45 rpm?

(A) 9

(B) 10

(C) 11

(D) 8

(E) 12

(10) Let S be a 6 element set. Then the number of pairings (3 pairs) of S is

(A) 9

(B) 12

(C) 15

(D) 20

(E) 27

Directions for questions 11 to 12 :

The cost of 1 kg of sugar is Rs 20 while the cost of 1 litre of pure milk is Rs 15. Sweetened
milk is prepared by adding a fixed amount of sugar in a litre of milk.
(11) If the cost of sweetened milk is Rs 15 per kg, then it can be concluded that the
weight of x litre pure milk is y kg more than a litre of sweetened milk where (x, y) is
(A) (4, 5)

(B) (4, 3)

(C) (5, 3)

(D) (2, 1)

(E) (3, 2)

(12) If the cost of 1 litre of sweetened milk is Rs 16 and its weight is 1.25 kg, then the
weight of 1 litre of pure milk is
(A) 1.05 kg

(B) 1.04 kg

(C) 1.10 kg

(D) 1 kg

(E) none of these

Directions for questions 13 to 14 :

A point X is taken on a circle having its centre at O and a chord is drawn at an angle 50
to OX clockwise to cut the circle at Y. Again a chord is drawn at an angle 50 to OY
clockwise and this process continues until a chord in subsequent process intersects the
circle at X.
(13) After how many revolution(s) of the circle, the process is completed?
(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 4

(D) 8

(E) 9

(14) At how many points the chords drawn during the process intersect each other
inside the circle?
(A) 12

(B) 6

(C) 7

(D) 8

(E) 9

(15) If is a nonzero integer and is a positive number such that

the median of the set
?

what is

(16) A wooden cube unit on a side is painted red on all six faces and then cut into
unit cubes. Exactly one-fourth of the total number of faces of the unit cubes are red.
What is ?
(A) 4

(B) 3

(C) 2

(D) 6

(E) none of these

(17) Katrina, her brother, her son and her daughter are chess players (all relations by
birth). The worst players twin (who is one of the four players) and the best player are of
opposite sex. The worst player and the best player are of the same age. Who is the worst
player?
(A) Katrina (B) Her brother
be determined

(C) Her son (D) Her daughter (E) Can not

(18) An elastic string laying along the interval [-2, 2] on the x-axis is stretched uniformly
and displaced so that it lays along [3, 9]. What is the new location of the point of the
string which was formerly at x = 1?
(A) 8

(B) 6

(C) 4.5

(D) 4

(E) 7.5

(19) A round table has radius . Six rectangular place mats are placed on the table. Each
place mat has width and length as shown. They are positioned so that each mat has
two corners on the edge of the table, these two corners being end points of the same side
of length . Further, the mats are positioned so that the inner corners each touch an
inner corner of an adjacent mat. What is ?

(20) The number of values of k for which the roots of the equation kx^3 + 2x^2 3x + 1
= 0 are in harmonic progression is
(A) 0

(B) 1

(C) 2

(D) 3

(E) more than 3

(21) Vineet attends an IPL game in Delhi and estimates that there are 50,000 fans in
attendance. Rahul attends an IPL game in Bangalore and estimates that there are
60,000 fans in attendance. A league official who knows the actual numbers attending the
two games note that:
i. The actual attendance in Delhi is within
of Vineet's estimate.
ii. Rahul's estimate is within
of the actual attendance in Bangalore.
To the nearest 1,000, the largest possible difference between the numbers attending the
two games is
(A) 10,000

(B) 11,000

(C) 20,000 (D) 21,000

(E) 22,000

Directions for questions 22 to 25 :

A Latin square of order n is an arrangement of n symbols in n rows and n columns such
that each symbol appears exactly once in each row and each column. For example, two
Latin squares of order three are shown below.
L=

0
1
2

1
2
0

2
0
1

M=

1
2
0

0
1
2

2
0
1

Two Latin squares of order n are said to be orthogonal if, upon superimposition of one
on the other, each of the n possible ordered pairs of symbols appears in exactly one cell.
For example, the Latin squares L and M, as shown above, are orthogonal since
superimposing M on L, we get the structure:
01
12
20

10
21
02

22
00
11

Where in each cell the first entry comes from L and the second entry comes from M.
Note that each of the nine possible ordered pairs 00, 01, 02, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22,
appears exactly once in each cell. This shows that L and M are orthogonal.

(22) The number of distinct Latin squares of order three, with symbols 0, 1, 2 each of
which is orthogonal to both L and M shown above is
(A) 0

(B) 1

(C)

(D)

(E) 6

(23) The numbers of distinct Latin squares of order four, with symbols 0, 1, 2, 3 that can
be formed by completing the following incomplete structure equals
0

2
1
2
3

(A) 0

(B) 1

(C)

(D)

(E) 24

(24) Consider the following two Latin squares of order four:

0
1
2
3

1
0
3
2

2
3
0
1

3
2
1
0

x
q
2
1

y
r
3
0

z
s
1
2

w
t
0
3

Here each of x, y, z, w, q, r, s, t belongs to the set {0, 1, 2, 3}. If the two Latin squares are
orthogonal, then x equals
(A) 0

(B) 1

(C)

(D)

(E) can not be determined

(25) Suppose we have two Latin squares P and Q which are orthogonal. Both P and Q
are of order n(>2) and both of them have the symbols 0, 1, . . . , n 1. Now suppose,
a new square R is formed from Q by replacing the symbols 0, 1, 2 in Q by 1, 2, 0
respectively and keeping the other symbols in Q unchanged. Then the P and R are
orthogonal Latin squares
(A) For no choice of n (> 2)
(C) Only for even n (> 2)
(E) None of the above

(B) Only for odd n (> 2)

(D) For every n (> 2)