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CAT 1999 — QA Question 23

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Answer the next 2 questions based on the following information.

The following table presents the sweetness of different items relative to sucrose, whose sweetness is taken to be 1.00.

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Approximately how many times sweeter than sucrose is a mixture consisting of glucose, sucrose and fructose in the ratio of 1 : 2 : 3?

Answer & solution

  • 1.3

  • B

    1.0

  • C

    0.6

  • D

    2.3

Solution

[(0.74)+(1.000)2+(1.7)3]6 = 1.31.

Hence, option (a).

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