CAT 1996 — QA Question 27
Direction: Answer the questions based on the following information.
A salesman enters the quantity sold and the price into the computer. Both the numbers are two-digit numbers. But, by mistake, both the numbers were entered with their digits interchanged. The total sales value remained the same, i.e. Rs. 1,148, but the inventory reduced by 54.
Out of two-thirds of the total number of basketball matches, a team has won 17 matches and lost 3 of them. What is the maximum number of matches that the team can lose and still win more than threefourths of the total number of matches, if it is true that no match can end in a tie?
Answer & solution
4
- B
6
- C
5
- D
3
The team has played a total of (17 + 3) = 20 matches. This constitutes of the matches. Hence, total number of matches played = 30. To win of them, a team has to win 22.5, i.e. at least win 23 of them. In other words, the team has to win a minimum of 6 matches (since it has already won 17) out of remaining 10. So it can lose a maximum of 4 of them.