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CAT 1997 — QA Question 48

Data SufficiencyEasy

Direction: Each of these items has a question followed by two statements, I and II. Mark the answer

1. if the question can be answered with the help of one statement alone.
2. if the question can be answered with the help of any one statement independently.
3. if the question can be answered with the help of both statements together.
4. if the question cannot be answered even with the help of both statements together.

A person is walking from Mali to Pali, which lies to its north-east. What is the distance between Mali and Pali?

I. When the person has covered 13 the distance, he is 3 km east and 1 km north of Mali.

II. When the person has covered 23 the distance, he is 6 km east and 2 km north of Mali.

Answer & solution

Correct answer: 2

Answer: 2

Solution

The diagram will be as shown. M is Mali and P is Pali. Consider statement I. When the person covers 13 distance, he is 3 km east and 1 km north of Mali. Based on this statement alone, we can easily find out where
he will be on line MP by using Pythagoras’ theorem. Once we find this distance, we can easily get distance MP by multiplying it by 3. Similarly, based on statement II alone also, we can find distance MP. Hence, both the statements are independently sufficient to answer the question. Hence, the answer is (b).

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