CAT 2024 - Slot 1 Dilr Question 21
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CAT 2024 Slot 1 - DILR
Writing down the data with us in a table form.
But this includes countries which have been visited by one person, two people and three people. Essentially, there is an overlap of countries.
It is given to us that 32 distinct countries were visited among the three people,
Using that we can write down the equations,
I + II + III = 32 ........(1)
I + 2II + 3III = 43 .........(2)
Where I, II, and III denote the number of countries visited exactly by 1 of them, 2 of them and all of them.
We are told that USA(ROW) is the only country which was visited by all three people, that means III = 1
Subtracting Equation 1 from 2 we get, II + 2III = 11
And since III = 1 we get II = 9
So, we are looking for 9 countries visited by exactly 2 people, and 22 countries visited by exactly 1 person.
Using the information from the problem set, we can note down the following,
We can see that Dheeraj visited only 1 country in ROW so every other value in that column has to be zero for wherever Dinesh is present. And Samantha has not visited any country in Asia so every value with Samantha present in Asia should be zero as well.
We have the following distribution, we are looking for 9 countries visited by exactly 2 people. And we have identified 2 countries, that means, 7 were countries were visited by both Samantha and Nitesh only. And given that half the countries visited by both of them are in Europe, and total number of countries visited by both of them is 7(only two of them) + 1(USA) = 8, they visited 4 countries in Europe together and 3 countries in ROW together. And using that information, we can fill in the rest of the table as well. Since we know the number of countries visited by each of them in a particular continent.
Number of countries in ROW visited by both Nitesh and Samantha is 3 + 1 = 4