SetsCAT Previous-Year Questions

3 previous-year questions on Sets from CAT, with full solutions. Practise free — check answers as you go; sign in to save your progress.

3

Sets · CAT PYQs

CAT 2025 Slot 3 · QA
Q1.

In a class of 150 students, 75 students chose physics, 111 students chose mathematics and 40 students chose chemistry. All students chose at least one of the three subjects and at least one student chose all three subjects. The number of students who chose both physics and chemistry is equal to the number of students who chose both chemistry and mathematics, and this is half the number of students who chose both physics and mathematics. The maximum possible number of students who chose physics but not mathematics, is

CAT 2018 Slot 2 · QA
Q2.

For two sets A and B, let AΔB denote the set of elements which belong to A or B but not both. If P = {1,2,3,4}, Q = {2,3,5,6,}, R = {1,3,7,8,9}, S = {2,4,9,10}, then the number of elements in (PΔQ)Δ(RΔS) is

CAT 2003 - Retake · QA
Q3.

Consider the sets Tn = {n, n + 1, n + 2, n + 3, n + 4}, where n = 1, 2, 3, … , 96.

How many of these sets contain 6 or any integral multiple thereof (i.e., any one of the numbers 6, 12, 18, ...)?