CAT 2019 Slot 1DILR Question 13

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Answer the following question based on the information given below.

​​​​​​​A new game show on TV has 100 boxes numbered 1, 2, . . . , 100 in a row, each containing a mystery prize. The prizes are items of different types, a, b, c, . . . , in decreasing order of value. The most expensive item is of type a, a diamond ring, and there is exactly one of these. You are told that the number of items at least doubles as you move to the next type. For example, there would be at least twice as many items of type b as of type a, at least twice as many items of type c as of type b and so on. There is no particular order in which the prizes are placed in the boxes.

What is the minimum possible number of different types of prizes?

Answer & solution

Answer: 2

Solution

There is exactly one prize of type a.

There can be 99 items of type b. Thus, there can be only two types of items.

Answer: 2.

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