CAT 2004 — DILR Question 27
Answer the following question based on the information given below.
Twenty one participants from four continents (Africa, Americas, Australasia, and Europe) attended a United Nations conference. Each participant was an expert in one of four fields, labour, health, population studies, and refugee relocation. The following five facts about the participants are given.
a. The number of labour experts in the camp was exactly half the number of experts in each of the three other categories.
b. Africa did not send any labour expert. Otherwise, every continent, including Africa, sent at least one expert for each category.
c. None of the continents sent more than three experts in any category.
d. If there had been one less Australasian expert, then the Americas would have had twice as many experts as each of the other continents.
e. Mike and Alfanso are leading experts of population studies who attended the conference. They are from Australasia.
If Ramos is the lone American expert in population studies, which of the following is NOT true about the numbers of experts in the conference from the four continents?
Answer & solution
- A
There is one expert in health from Africa.
- B
There is one expert in refugee relocation from Africa.
There are two experts in health from the Americas.
- D
There are three experts in refugee relocation from the Americas.
If Americas have 1 expert in population studies, we have the following.
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∴ Option 3 is not true.
Hence, option (c).