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CAT 2003 Slot 1 — QA Question 52

MiscellaneousEasy
Passage / Data

Each question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer each question using the following instructions

Choose 1 if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone.
Choose 2 if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone.
Choose 3 if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone.
Choose 4 if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements.

In each question there are two statements: A and B.

Choose 1 if the question can be answered by one of the statements alone but not by the other.
Choose 2 if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.
Choose 3 if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but cannot be answered using either statement alone.
Choose 4 if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements A and B.

Each packet of SOAP costs Rs. 10. Inside each packet is a gift coupon labelled with one of the letters S, O, A, and P. If a customer submits four such coupons that make up the word SOAP, the customer gets a free SOAP packet. Ms. X kept buying packet after packet of SOAP till she could get one set of coupons that formed the word SOAP. How many coupons with label P did she get in the above process?

A. The last label obtained by her was S and the total amount spent was Rs. 210.
B. The total number of vowels obtained was 18.

Answer & solution

  • A

    1

  • B

    2

  • 3

  • D

    4

Solution

From Statement A,

Number of soaps purchased by Ms. X = 21010 = 21

Also the last label obtained by her is S.

But this is not sufficient to get the number of P's.

∴ Statement A alone is not sufficient.

From Statement B,

The number of O's and A's is 18.

But this is also not individually sufficient to arrive at the required answer.

∴ Statement B alone is not sufficient.

After combining both the statements A and B, we can conclude that 18 out of 21 coupons are O's and A's and that the 21st is an S.

∴This means that the remaining two are P's.

Hence, option (c).

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