CAT 2018 Slot 2 — DILR Question 30
Mixed PracticeEasy
Passage / Data
Answer the following question based on the information given below.
Each visitor to an amusement park needs to buy a ticket. Tickets can be Platinum, Gold, or Economy. Visitors are classified as Old, Middle-aged, or Young. The following facts are known about visitors and ticket sales on particular day:
- 140 tickets were sold.
- The number of Middle-aged visitors was twice the number of Old visitors, while the number of Young visitors was twice the number of Middle-aged visitors.
- Young visitors bought 38 of the 55 Economy tickets that were sold, and they bought half the total number of Platinum tickets that were sold.
- The number of Gold tickets bought by Old visitors was equal to the number of Economy tickets bought by Old visitors.
If the number of Old visitors buying Platinum tickets was equal to the number of Middleaged visitors buying Economy tickets, then the number of Old visitors buying Gold tickets was
Answer & solution
Correct answer: 3
Answer: 3
Solution
We have, 20 − 2y = 17 − y or y = 3. Therefore the number of old visitors buying Gold tickets = 3.
Therefore the required answer is 3.
Answer: 3
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