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CAT 2003 Slot 1 — DILR Question 21

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Answer the following question based on the information given below.

Details of the top 20 MBA schools in the US as ranked by US News and World Report, 1997 are given below.

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In terms of starting salary and tuition fee, how many schools are uniformly better (higher median starting salary AND lower tuition fee) than Dartmouth College?

Answer & solution

  • A

    1

  • 2

  • C

    3

  • D

    4

Solution

There were two schools which satisfied this criterion.

Stanford University (median starting salary = 82,000andannualtuitionfee=82,000 and annual tuition fee =23,100)

New York University (median starting salary = 70,583andannualtuitionfee=70,583 and annual tuition fee =23,554)

Hence, option (b).

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