CLAT LAST MILE

CLAT Quantitative Techniques

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(Application 1).

This is a pre-session sheet.

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Question Set 1
A professor keeps data on students tabulated by performance and sex of the student . The data is kept
on a computer disk, but unfortunately some of it is lost because of a virus. Only the following could
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Performance
Total
Average Good Excellent
Male 10
Female 32
Total 30

Panic buttons were pressed but to no avail. An expert committee was formed, which decided that the
following facts were self evident:
• Half the students were either excellent or good.
• 40% of the students were females.
• One third of the male students were average.

1.1 How many students were both female and excellent?

(a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 32

1.2 How many students were both male and good?

(a) 10 (b) 16 (c) 22 (d) 48

1.3 Among average students, what was the ratio of male to female?
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 1 (c) 3 : 2 (d) 2 : 3

1.4 What proportion of female students were good?

(a) 0 (b) 0.25 (c) 0.5 (d) 1.0

1.5 What proportion of good students were male?

(a) 0 (b) 0.73 (c) 0.4 (d) 1.0

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Question Set 2
Rang Barsey Paint Company (RBPC) is in the business of manufacturing paints. RBPC buys RED,
YELLOW, WHITE, ORANGE, and PINK paints. ORANGE paint can be also produced by mixing
RED and YELLOW paints in equal proportions. Similarly, PINK paint can also be produced by
mixing equal amounts of RED and WHITE paints. Among other paints, RBPC sells CREAM paint,
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equal amounts of ORANGE and PINK paint) and WASHEDORANGE paint (formed by mixing
equal amounts of ORANGE and WHITE paint). The following table provides the price at which
RBPC buys paints.

Colour Rs. / Litre

RED 20
YELLOW 25
WHITE 15
ORANGE 22
PINK 18

2.1 The cheapest way to manufacture AVOCADO paint would cost

(a) Rs. 19.50 per litre.
(b) Rs. 19.75 per litre
(c) Rs. 20.00 per litre.
(d) Rs. 20.25 per litre.

2.2 WASHEDORANGE can be manufactured by mixing

(a) CREAM and RED in the ratio 14:10.
(b) CREAM and RED in the ratio 3:1.
(c) YELLOW and PINK in the ratio 1:1.
(d) RED, YELLOW, and WHITE in the ratio 1:1:2.

2.3 Assume that AVOCADO, CREAM and WASHEDORANGE each sells for the same price.
Which of the three is the most profitable to manufacture?
(a) AVOCADO
(b) CREAM
(c) WASHEDORANGE
(d) Sufficient data is not available.

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Question Set 3
The seven basic symbols in a certain numeral system and their respective values are as follows:
I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500 and M = 1000

In general, the symbols in the numeral system are read from left to right, starting with the symbol
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value of the numeral is the sum of the values of the symbols. For example, XXVII = 10 +
10 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 27. An exception to the left-to-right reading occurs when a symbol is followed
immediately by a symbol of greater value; then the smaller value is subtracted from the larger.For
example, XLVI = (50 – 10) + 5 + 1 = 46.

3.1 The value of the numeral MDCCLXXXVII is

(a) 1687 (b) 1787 (c) 1887 (d) 1987

3.2 The value of the numeral MCMXCIX is

(a) 1999 (b) 1899 (c) 1989 (d) 1889

3.3 Which of the following represent the numeral for 1995?

I. MCMLXXV II. MCMXCV III. MVD IV. MVM

(a) Only I and II (b) Only III and IV

(c) Only II and IV (d) Only IV

Question Set 4
The proportion of male students and the proportion of vegetarian students in a school are given
below. The school has a total of 800 students, 80% of whom are in the Secondary Section and rest are
equally divided between Class 11 and 12.

Male (M) Vegetarian (V)

Class 12 0.6
Class 11 0.55 0.5
Secondary Section 0.55
Total 0.475 0.53

4.1 What is the percentage of male students in the secondary section?

(a) 40
(b) 45
(c) 50
(d) 55

4.2 In Class 12, twenty five per cent of the vegetarians are male. What is the difference between the
number of female vegetarians and male non-vegetarians?
(a) less than 8
(b) 12
(c) 14
(d) 16

4.3 What is the percentage of vegetarian students in Class 12?

(a) 40
(b) 45
(c) 50
(d) 60

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Question Set 5
A certain race is made up of three stretches: A, B and C, each 2 km long, and to be covered by a
certain mode of transport. The following table gives these modes of transport for the stretches, and
the minimum and maximum possible speeds (in km/hr) over these stretches. The speed over a
particular stretch is assumed to be constant. The previous record for the race is 10 min.
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Min Max
A Car 40 60
B Motorcycle 30 50
C Bicycle 10 20

5.1 Anshuman travels at minimum speed by car over A and completes stretch B at the fastest speed.
At what speed should he cover stretch C in order to break the previous record?
(a) Maximum speed for C
(b) Minimum speed for C
(c) This is not possible
(d) None of these

5.2 Mr Hare completes the first stretch at the minimum speed and takes the same time for stretch B.
He takes 50% more time than the previous record to complete the race. What is Mr Hare's speed
for the stretch C?
(a) 10.9 km/hr (b) 13.3 km/hr (c) 17.1 km/hr (d) None of these

5.3 Mr Tortoise completes the race at an average speed of 20 km/hr. His average speed for the first
two stretches is four times that for the last stretch. Find the speed over stretch C.
(a) 15 km/hr (b) 12 km/hr
(c) 10 km/hr (d) This is not possible

Question Set 6
Boston is 4 hr ahead of Frankfurt and 2 hr behind India. X leaves Frankfurt at 6 p.m. on Friday and
reaches Boston the next day. After waiting there for 2 hr, he leaves exactly at noon and reaches India
at 1 a.m. On his return journey, he takes the same route as before, but halts at Boston for 1hr less than
his previous halt there. He then proceeds to Frankfurt.

6.1 If his journey, including stoppage, is covered at an average speed of 180 mph, what is the distance
between Frankfurt and India?
(a) 3,600 miles (b) 4,500 miles
(c) 5,580 miles (d) Data insufficient

6.2 If X had started the return journey from India at 2.55 a.m. on the same day that he reached there,
after how much time would he reach Frankfurt?
(a) 24 hr (b) 25 hr (c) 26 hr (d) Data insufficient

6.3 What is X's average speed for the entire journey (to and fro)?
(a) 176 mph (b) 180 mph (c) 165 mph (d) Data insufficient

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ANSWERS
Set 1
1.1 – (c)
1.2 – (a)
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1.4 – (d)
1.5 – (b)

Set 2
2.1 – (b)
2.2 – (d)
2.3 – (b)

Set 3
3.1 – (b)
3.2 – (a)
3.3 – (c)

Set 4
4.1 – (b)
4.2 – (d)
4.3 – (a)

Set 5
5.1 – (c)
5.2 – (b)
5.3 – (c)

Set 6
6.1 – (b)
6.2 – (a)
6.3 – (a)