Venn Diagram based OptimizationCAT Previous-Year Questions

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Venn Diagram based Optimization · CAT PYQs

CAT 2022 Slot 2 · DILR
Passage / Data

Answer the next 5 questions based on the information given below:

A speciality supermarket sells 320 products. Each of these products was either a cosmetic product or a nutrition product. Each of these products was also either a foreign product or a domestic product. Each of these products had at least one of the two approvals – FDA or EU.

The following facts are also known:

1. There were equal numbers of domestic and foreign products.
2. Half of the domestic products were FDA approved cosmetic products.
3. None of the foreign products had both the approvals, while 60 domestic products had both the approvals.
4. There were 140 nutrition products, half of them were foreign products.
5. There were 200 FDA approved products. 70 of them were foreign products and 120 of them were cosmetic products.

Q1.

Which among the following options best represents the number of domestic cosmetic products that had both the approvals?    

CAT 2018 Slot 1 · DILR
Passage / Data

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

1600 satellites were sent up by a country for several purposes. The purposes are classified as broadcasting (B), communication (C), surveillance (S), and others (O). A satellite can serve multiple purposes; however a satellite serving either B, or C, or S does not serve O.

The following facts are known about the satellites:

  1. The numbers of satellites serving B, C, and S (though may be not exclusively) are in the ratio 2 : 1 : 1.
  2. The number of satellites serving all three of B, C, and S is 100.
  3. The number of satellites exclusively serving C is the same as the number of satellites exclusively serving S. This number is 30% of the number of satellites exclusively serving B.
  4. The number of satellites serving O is the same as the number of satellites serving both Cand S but not B.
Q2.

What best can be said about the number of satellites serving C?

CAT 2018 Slot 1 · DILR
Passage / Data

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

1600 satellites were sent up by a country for several purposes. The purposes are classified as broadcasting (B), communication (C), surveillance (S), and others (O). A satellite can serve multiple purposes; however a satellite serving either B, or C, or S does not serve O.

The following facts are known about the satellites:

  1. The numbers of satellites serving B, C, and S (though may be not exclusively) are in the ratio 2 : 1 : 1.
  2. The number of satellites serving all three of B, C, and S is 100.
  3. The number of satellites exclusively serving C is the same as the number of satellites exclusively serving S. This number is 30% of the number of satellites exclusively serving B.
  4. The number of satellites serving O is the same as the number of satellites serving both Cand S but not B.
Q3.

What is the minimum possible number of satellites serving B exclusively?

CAT 2018 Slot 1 · DILR
Passage / Data

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

1600 satellites were sent up by a country for several purposes. The purposes are classified as broadcasting (B), communication (C), surveillance (S), and others (O). A satellite can serve multiple purposes; however a satellite serving either B, or C, or S does not serve O.

The following facts are known about the satellites:

  1. The numbers of satellites serving B, C, and S (though may be not exclusively) are in the ratio 2 : 1 : 1.
  2. The number of satellites serving all three of B, C, and S is 100.
  3. The number of satellites exclusively serving C is the same as the number of satellites exclusively serving S. This number is 30% of the number of satellites exclusively serving B.
  4. The number of satellites serving O is the same as the number of satellites serving both Cand S but not B.
Q4.

If at least 100 of the 1600 satellites were serving O, what can be said about the number of satellites serving S?

CAT 2018 Slot 1 · DILR
Passage / Data

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

1600 satellites were sent up by a country for several purposes. The purposes are classified as broadcasting (B), communication (C), surveillance (S), and others (O). A satellite can serve multiple purposes; however a satellite serving either B, or C, or S does not serve O.

The following facts are known about the satellites:

  1. The numbers of satellites serving B, C, and S (though may be not exclusively) are in the ratio 2 : 1 : 1.
  2. The number of satellites serving all three of B, C, and S is 100.
  3. The number of satellites exclusively serving C is the same as the number of satellites exclusively serving S. This number is 30% of the number of satellites exclusively serving B.
  4. The number of satellites serving O is the same as the number of satellites serving both Cand S but not B.
Q5.

If the number of satellites serving at least two among B, C, and S is 1200, which of the following MUST be FALSE?

CAT 2018 Slot 2 · DILR
Passage / Data

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

Fun Sports (FS) provides training in three sports – Gilli-danda (G), Kho-Kho (K), and Ludo (L). Currently it has an enrollment of 39 students each of whom is enrolled in at least one of the three sports. The following details are known:

  1. The number of students enrolled only in L is double the number of students enrolled in all the three sports.
  2. There are a total of 17 students enrolled in G.
  3. The number of students enrolled only in G is one less than the number of students enrolled only in L.
  4. The number of students enrolled only in K is equal to the number of students who are enrolled in both K and L.
  5. The maximum student enrollment is in L.
  6. Ten students enrolled in G are also enrolled in at least one more sport.
Q6.

What is the minimum number of students enrolled in both G and L but not in K?

CAT 2005 · DILR
Passage / Data

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

Help Distress (HD) is an NGO involved in providing assistance to people suffering from natural disasters. Currently, it has 37 volunteers. They are involved in three projects: Tsunami Relief (TR) in Tamil Nadu, FloodRelief (FR) in Maharashtra, and Earthquake Relief (ER) in Gujarat. Each volunteer working with Help Distress has to be involved in at least one relief work project. 

  • A Maximum number of volunteers are involved in the FR project. Among them, the number of volunteers involved in FR project alone is equal to the volunteers having additional involvement in the ER project.
  • The number of volunteers involved in the ER project alone is double the number of volunteers involved in all the three projects.
  • 17 volunteers are involved in the TR project.
  • The number of volunteers involved in the TR project alone is one less than the number of volunteers involved in ER Project alone.
  • Ten volunteers involved in the TR project are also involved in at least one more project. 
Q7.

Based on the information given above, the minimum number of volunteers involved in both FR and TR projects, but  not in the ER project is:

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · DILR
Passage / Data

Choose 1, if the question can be answered by using statement A alone but not by using B alone.

Choose 2, if the question can be answered by using statement B alone but not by using A alone.

Choose 3, if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.

Choose 4, if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but not by either statement.

Q8.

70 percent of the employees in a multinational corporation have VCD players, 75 percent have microwave ovens, 80 percent have ACs and 85 percent have washing machines. At least what percentage of employees has all four gadgets?