CAT 2025 Slot 3 DILR — questions with answer key

Directions for questions 1 to 5: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Three countries – Pumpland (P), Xiland (X) and Cheeseland (C) – trade among themselves and with the (other countries in) Rest of World (ROW). All trade volumes are given in IC (international currency). The following terminology is used:

• Trade balance = Exports - Imports

• Total trade = Exports + Imports

• Normalized trade balance = Trade balance / Total trade, expressed in percentage terms The following information is known.

1. The normalized trade balances of P, X and C are 0%, 10%, and -20%, respectively.

2. 40% of exports of X are to P. 22% of imports of P are from X.

3. 90% of exports of C are to P; 4% are to ROW.

4. 12% of exports of ROW are to X, 40% are to P.

5. The export volumes of P, in IC, to X and C are 600 and 1200, respectively. P is the only country that exports to C.

Directions for questions 6 to 9: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Seven children, Aarav, Bina, Chirag, Diya, Eshan, Farhan, and Gaurav, are sitting in a circle facing inside (not necessarily in the same order) and playing a game of 'Passing the Buck'.

The game is played over 10 rounds. In each round, the child holding the Buck must pass it directly to a child sitting in one of the following positions:

• Immediately to the left;

• Immediate to the right;

• Second to the left; or

• Second to the right.

The game starts with Bina passing the Buck and ends with Chirag receiving the Buck. The table below provides some information about the pass types and the child receiving the Buck. Some information is missing and labelled as '?'.

Directions for questions 10 to 13: Anu, Bijay, Chetan, Deepak, Eshan, and Faruq are six friends. Each of them uses a mobile number from exactly one of the two mobile operators - Xitel and Yocel. During the last month, the six friends made several calls to each other. Each call was made by one of these six friends to another. The table below summarizes the number of minutes of calls that each of the six made to (outgoing minutes) and received from (incoming minutes) these friends, grouped by the operators. Some of the entries are missing.

It is known that the duration of calls from Faruq to Eshan was 200 minutes.

Also, there were no calls from:

i. Bijay to Eshan,

ii. Chetan to Anu and Chetan to Deepak,

iii. Deepak to Bijay and Deepak to Faruq,

iv. Eshan to Chetan and Eshan to Deepak.

Directions for questions 14 to 17: Anirbid, Chandranath, Koushik, and Suranjan participated in a puzzle solving competition. The competition comprised 10 puzzles that had to be solved in the same sequence, i.e., a competitor got access to a puzzle as soon as they solved the previous puzzle. Some of the puzzles were visual puzzles and the others were number-based puzzles. The winner of the competition was the one who solved all puzzles in the least time.

The following charts describe their progress in the competition. The chart on the left shows the number of puzzles solved by each competitor at a given time (in minutes) after the start of the competition. The chart on the right shows the number of visual puzzles solved by each competitor at a given time (in minutes) after the start of the competition.

Directions for questions 18 to 22: Aurevia, Brelosia, Cyrenia and Zerathania are four countries with their currencies being Aurels, Brins, Crowns, and Zentars, respectively. The currencies have different exchange values. Crown's currency exchange rate with Zentars = 0.5, i.e., 1 Crown is worth 0.5 Zentars.

Three travelers, Jano, Kira, and Lian set out from Zerathania visiting exactly two of the countries. Each country is visited by exactly two travelers. Each traveler has a unique Flight Cost, which represents the total cost of airfare in traveling to both the countries and back to Zerathania. The Flight Cost of Jano was 4000 Zentars, while that of the other two travelers were 5000 and 6000 Zentars, not necessarily in that order. When visiting a country, a traveler spent either 1000, 2000 or 3000 in the country's local currency. Each traveler had different spends (in the country's local currency) in the two countries he/she visited. Across all the visits, there were exactly two spends of 1000 and exactly one spend of 3000 (in the country's local currency).

The total "Travel Cost" for a traveler is the sum of his/her Flight Cost and the money spent in the countries visited.

The citizens of the four countries with knowledge of these travels made a few observations, with spends measured in their respective local currencies:

i. Aurevia citizen: Jano and Kira visited our country, and their Travel Costs were 3500 and 8000, respectively.

ii. Brelosia citizen: Kira and Lian visited our country, spending 2000 and 3000, respectively. Kira's Travel Cost was 4000.

iii. Cyrenia citizen: Lian visited our country and her Travel Cost was 36000.