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CAT 2025Slot 2QAAll Questions

All 22 QA questions with detailed solutions and explanations.

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Q1
Number SystemsMedium
The number of divisors of $(2^{6}\times 3^{5}\times 5^{3}\times 7^{2})$, which are of the form $(3r+1)$, where r is a non-negative integer, is
Q2
ArithmeticMedium
A certain amount of money was divided among Pinu, Meena, Rinu and Seema. Pinu received 20% of the total amount and Meena received 40% of the remaining amount. If Seema received 20% less than Pinu, the ratio of the amounts received by Pinu and Rinu is
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Q3
ArithmeticEasy
The average number of copies of a book sold per day by a shopkeeper is 60 in the initial seven days and 63 in the initial eight days, after the book launch. On the ninth day, she sells 11 copies less than the eighth day, and the average number of copies sold per day from second day to ninth day becomes 66. The number of copies sold on the first day of the book launch is
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Q4
ArithmeticHard
An item with a cost price of Rs. 1650 is sold at a certain discount on a fixed marked price to earn a profit of 20% on the cost price. If the discount was doubled, the profit would have been Rs. 110. The rate of discount, in percentage, at which the profit percentage would be equal to the rate of discount, is nearest to
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Q5
AlgebraMedium
If $\log_{64}{x^{2}+\log_{8}{\sqrt{y}+3\log_{512}{(\sqrt{y}z)}}}=4$, where $x$, $y$ and $z$ are positive real numbers, then the minimum possible value of $(x+y+z)$ is
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Q6
ArithmeticHard
Rita and Sneha can row a boat at 5 km/h and 6 km/h in still water, respectively. In a river flowing with a constant velocity, Sneha takes 48 minutes more to row 14 km upstream than to row the same distance downstream. If Rita starts from a certain location in the river, and returns downstream to the same location, taking a total of 100 minutes, then the total distance, in km, Rita will cover is
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Q7
GeometryMedium
Let ABCDEF be a regular hexagon and P and Q be the midpoints of AB and CD, respectively. Then, the ratio of the areas of trapezium PBCQ and hexagon ABCDEF is
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Q8
ArithmeticMedium
A mixture of coffee and cocoa, 16% of which is coffee, costs Rs 240 per kg. Another mixture of coffee and cocoa, of which 36% is coffee, costs Rs 320 per kg. If a new mixture of coffee and cocoa costs Rs 376 per kg, then the quantity, in kg, of coffee in 10 kg of this new mixture is
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Q9
AlgebraMedium
Let $f(x)=\frac{x}{(2x-1)}$ and $g(x)=\frac{x}{(x-1)}$. Then the domain of the funtion $h(x)=f(g(x))+g(f(x))$ is all real numbers except
Q10
ArithmeticMedium
Ankita is twice as efficient as Bipin, while Bipin is twice as efficient as Chandan. All three of them start together on a job, and Bipin leaves the job after 20 days. If the job got completed in 60 days, the number of days needed by Chandan to complete the job alone, is
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Q11
AlgebraHard
The set of all real values of x for which $(x^{2}-\mid x+9\mid+x)>0$, is
Q12
AlgebraHard
If m and n are integers such that $(m+2n)(2m+n)=27$, then the maximum possible value of $2m-3n$ is
Q13
AlgebraMedium
The equations $3x^{2}-5x+p=0$ and $2x^{2}-2x+q=0$ have one common root. The sum of the other roots of this equations is
Q14
AlgebraMedium
If a,b,c and d are integers such that their sum is 46, then the minimum possible value of $(a-b)^{2}+(a-c)^{2}+(a-d)^{2}$ is
Q15
Number SystemsMedium
Let $a_{n}$ be the $n^{th}$ term of a decreasing infinite geometric progression. If $a_{1}+a_{2}+a_{3}=52$ and $a_{1}a_{2}+a_{2}a_{3}+a_{3}a_{1}=624$, then the sum of this geometric progression is
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Q16
Number SystemsHard
Suppose a,b,c are three distinct natural numbers, such that $3ac=8(a+b)$. Then, the smallest possible value of $3a+2b+c$ is
Q17
AlgebraEasy
If $9^{x^{2}+2x-3}-4(3^{x^{2}+2x-2})+27=0$ then the product of all possible values of x is
Q18
ArithmeticMedium
A loan of Rs 1000 is fully repaid by two installments of Rs 530 and Rs 594, paid at the end of first and second year, respectively. If the interest is compounded annually, then the rate of interest, in percentage, is
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Q19
ArithmeticMedium
The ratio of expenditures of Lakshmi and Meenakshi is 2 : 3, and the ratio of income of Lakshmi to expenditure of Meenakshi is 6 : 7. If excess of income over expenditure is saved by Lakshmi and Meenakshi, and the ratio of their savings is 4 : 9, then the ratio of their incomes is
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Q20
Number SystemsMedium
The sum of digits of the number $(625)^{65} \times (128)^{36}$ is
Q21
GeometryHard
Two tangents drawn from a point p and a circle with center O at point Q and R. Point A and B lie on PQ and PR, repectively, Such that AB is also a tangent to the same circle. Ir $\angle A0B=50^{0}$, then $\angle APB$, in degrees equals
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Q22
GeometryHard
In $\triangle ABC$, points D and E are on the sides BC and AC, respectively. BE and AD intrested at point T such that AD:AT=4:3, and BE:BT=5:4. Point F lies on AC such that DF is parallel to BE. Then, BD:CD is
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