CAT 1997 — QA Question 48
Answer the next 2 questions based on the following information.
A thief, after committing the burglary, started fleeing at 12 noon, at a speed of 60 km/hr. He was then chased by a policeman X. X started the chase, 15 min after the thief had started, at a speed of 65 km/hr.
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 the distance, he is 3 km east and 1 km north of Mali.
II. When the person has covered the distance, he is 6 km east and 2 km north of Mali.
Answer & solution
Answer: 2
The diagram will be as shown. M is Mali and P is Pali. Consider statement I. When the person covers 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).