LCM HCF Quants CAT 2023 Actual Questions slot 3
The sum of the first two natural numbers, each having 15 factors (including 1 andthe number itself), is
The sum of the first two natural numbers, each having 15 factors (including 1 andthe number itself), is
The weight of society’s expectations is hardly a new phenomenon but it has becomeparticularly draining over recent decades, perhaps because expectations themselvesare so multifarious and contradictory. The perfectionism of the 1950s was rooted in thenorms of mass culture and captured in famous advertising images of the ideal whiteAmerican family that now seem self-satirising. In that … Read more
Comprehension:The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.The biggest challenge [The Nutmeg’s Curse by Ghosh] throws down is to the prevailingunderstanding of when the climate crisis started. Most of us have accepted . . . that it startedwith the widespread use of coal at the … Read more
Comprehension:In a coaching class, some students register online, and some others register offline. Nostudent registers both online and offline; hence the total registration number is the sum ofonline and offline registrations. The following facts and table pertain to these registrationnumbers for the five months – January to May of 2023. The table shows the minimum,maximum, … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.The Second Hand September campaign, led by Oxfam . . . seeks to encourage shopping at local organisations and charities as alternatives to fast fashion brands such as Primark andBoohoo in the name of saving our … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.The Positivists, anxious to stake out their claim for history as a science, contributed the weight of their influence to the cult of facts. First ascertain the facts, said the positivists, thendraw your conclusions from them. … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.Over the past four centuries liberalism has been so successful that it has driven all its opponents off the battlefield. Now it is disintegrating, destroyed by a mix of hubris andinternal contradictions, according to Patrick Deneen, … Read more
Comprehension:The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.Steven Pinker’s new book, “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters,”offers a pragmatic dose of measured optimism, presenting rationality as a fragile butachievable ideal in personal and civic life. . . . Pinker’s ambition … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.Umberto Eco, an Italian writer, was right when he said the language of Europe is translation. Netflix and other deep-pocketed global firms speak it well. Just as the EU employs a smallarmy of translators and interpreters … Read more
Q1. There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: Dualism was long held as the defining feature of developing countries in contrast to developed countries, where frontier technologies and high productivity were … Read more
Q1. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. Q2. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, … Read more
Q1. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or “what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes counterfactuals for many reasons. Counterfactuals explain … Read more
1-5. Odsville has five firms – Alfloo, Bzygoo, Czechy, Drjbna and Elavalaki. Each of these firms was founded in some year and also closed down a few years later. Each firm raised Rs. 1 crore in its first and last year of existence. The amount each firm raised every year increased until it reached a … Read more
Q1-5. There are nine boxes arranged in a 3×3 array as shown in Tables 1 and 2. Each box contains three sacks. Each sack has a certain number of coins, between 1 and 9, both inclusive.The average number of coins per sack in the boxes are all distinct integers. The total number of coins in … Read more
Q1-5. Anjali, Bipasha, and Chitra visited an entertainment park that has four rides. Each ride lasts one hour and can accommodate one visitor at one point. All rides begin at 9 am and must becompleted by 5 pm except for Ride-3, for which the last ride has to be completed by 1 pm. Ride gates … Read more
Q. For any natural numbers m, n, and k, such that k divides both m + 2n and 3m + 4n, k must be a common divisor of