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CAT 1995 — DILR Question 36

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Direction: Answer the questions based on the following information.

A company produces five types of shirts — A, B, C, D and E — using cloth of three qualities — high, medium and low -, using dyes of three qualities — high, medium and low. One shirt requires 1.5 m of cloth. The following table gives respectively:
1. The number of shirts (of each category) produced, in thousands
2. The percentage distribution of cloth quality in each type of shirt, and
3. The percentage distribution of dye quality in each type of shirt.

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What is the total requirement of cloth?

Answer & solution

  • 1,50,000 m

  • B

    2,00,000 m

  • C

    2,25,000 m

  • D

    2,50,000 m

Solution

Total requirement of cloth
= Total number of shirts × Cloth required per shirt
= (20 + 30 + 30 + 10 + 10) × 1000 × 1.5 = 1,50,000 m.

CAT 1995 DILR Q36: What is the total requirement of cloth? — Solution | TheCATExam