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1 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Let A be the largest positive integer that divides all the numbers of the form 
and B be the largest positive integer that divides all the numbers of the form 
where k is any positive integer. Then (A + B) equals
2 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
For natural numbers x, y, and z, if xy + yz = 19 and yz + xz = 51, then the minimum possible value of
xyz is.
3 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Alex invested his savings in two parts. The simple interest earned on the first part at 15% per annum
for 4 years is the same as the simple interest earned on the second part at 12% per annum for 3 years.
Then, the percentage of his savings invested in the first part is
1. 62.5%
2. 40%
3. 60%
4. 37.5%
4 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Let a and b be natural number. If 
then (2a + b) equals
5 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
In a class of 100 students, 73 like coffee, 80 like tea and 52 like lemonade. It may be possible that
some students do not like any of these three drinks. Then the difference between the maximum and
minimum possible number of students who like all the three drinks is
1. 48
2. 52
3. 47
4. 53
6 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
A mixture contains lemon juice and sugar syrup in equal proportion. If a new mixture is created by
adding this mixture and sugar syrup in the ratio 1 : 3, then the ratio of lemon juice and sugar syrup in
the new mixture is
1. 1 : 4
2. 1 : 5
3. 1 : 6
4. 1 : 7
7 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Let a, b, c be non-zero real numbers such that 
If the set S consists of all integers m such that f(m) < 0, then the set S must necessarily be
1. the empty set
2. either the empty set or the set of all integers
3. the set of all integers
4. the set of all positive integers
8 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Amal buys 110 kg of syrup and 120 kg of juice, syrup being 20% less costly than juice, per kg. He
sells 10 kg of syrup at 10% profit and 20 kg of juice at 20% profit. Mixing the remaining juice and
syrup, Amal sells the mixture at ? 308.32 per kg and makes an overall profit of 64%. Then, Amal‘s
cost price for syrup, in rupees per kg, is
9 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
In a village, the ratio of number of males to females is 5 : 4. The ratio of number of literate males to
literate females is 2 : 3. The ratio of the number of illiterate males to illiterate females is 4 : 3. If 3600
males in the village are literate, then the total number of females in the village is
10 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
All the vertices of a rectangle lie on a circle of radius R. If the perimeter of the rectangle is P, then the
area of the rectangle is.
11 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Let ABCD be a parallelogram such that the coordinates of its three vertices A, B, C are (1, 1), (3, 4) and (−2, 8), respectively. Then, the coordinates of the vertex D are.
1. (0, 11)
2. (−3, 4)
3. (4, 5)
4. (−4, 5)
12 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
The largest real value of a for which the equation |x + a| + |x - 1| = 2 has an infinite number of solutions for x is
1. -1
2. 0
3. 1
4. 2
13 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
The number of ways of distributing 20 identical balloons among 4 children such that each child gets some balloons but no child gets an odd number of balloons, is
14 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
For any natural number n, suppose the sum of the first n terms of an arithmetic progression is (n+2n2). If the nth term of the progression is divisible by 9, then the smallest possible value of n is
1. 9
2. 7
3. 8
4. 4
15 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
A trapezium ABCD has side AD parallel to BC, ∠BAD = 900, BC = 3cm and AD = 8cm. If the perimeter of this trapezium is 36cm, then its area, in sq. cm, is
16 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Let 0 ≤ a ≤ x ≤ 100 and f (x) = |x - a| + |x - 100| + |x - a - 50|. Then the maximum value of f(x) becomes
100 when a is equal to
1. 50
2. 25
3. 100
4. 0
17 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
The average of three integers is 13. When a natural number n is included, the average of these four
integers remains an odd integer. The minimum possible value of n is
1. 3
2. 5
3. 4
4. 1
18 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
For any real number x, let [x] be the largest integer less than or equal to x. If 
then N is
19 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Ankita buys 4 kg cashews, 14 kg peanuts and 6 kg almonds when the cost of 7 kg cashews is the same as that of 30 kg peanuts or 9 kg almonds. She mixes all the three nuts and marks a price for the mixture in order to make a profit of ?1752. She sells 4 kg of the mixture at this marked price and the remaining at a 20% discount on the marked price, thus making a total profit of ?744. Then the amount, in rupees, that she had spent in buying almonds is
1. 1176
2. 1680
3. 2520
4. 1440
20 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
The average weight of students in a class increases by 600 gm when some new students join the class.
If the average weight of the new students is 3 kg more than the average weight of the original students, then the ratio of the number of original students to the number of new students is
1. 1 : 4
2. 1 : 2
3. 4 : 1
4. 3 : 1
21 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Pinky is standing in a queue at a ticket counter. Suppose the ratio of the number of persons standing
ahead of Pinky to the number of persons standing behind her in the queue is 3 : 5. If the total number of persons in the queue is less than 300, then the maximum possible number of persons standing ahead of Pinky is
22 CAT 2022 Slot 1 - Quant
Trains A and B start traveling at the same time towards each other with constant speeds from stations
X and Y, respectively. Train A reaches station Y in 10 minutes while train B takes 9 minutes to reach
station X after meeting train A. Then the total time taken, in minutes, by train B to travel from station
Y to station X is
1. 12
2. 10
3. 6
4. 15