3 SetsXAT Previous-Year Questions

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3 Sets · XAT PYQs

XAT 2020 · QA & DI
Passage / Data

Read the information given below and answer the 2 associated questions.

​​​​​​​190 students have to choose at least one elective and at most two electives from a list of three electives: E1, E2 and E3. It is found that the number of students choosing E1 is half the number of students choosing E2, and one third the number of students choosing E3.
Moreover, the number of students choosing two electives is 50.

Q1.

Which of the following CANNOT be obtained from the given information?

XAT 2020 · QA & DI
Passage / Data

Read the information given below and answer the 2 associated questions.

​​​​​​​190 students have to choose at least one elective and at most two electives from a list of three electives: E1, E2 and E3. It is found that the number of students choosing E1 is half the number of students choosing E2, and one third the number of students choosing E3.
Moreover, the number of students choosing two electives is 50.

Q2.

In addition to the given information, which of the following information is NECESSARY and SUFFICIENT to compute the number of students choosing only E1, only E2 and only E3?