CAT 1999 Question Paper Question 22

Instructions

DIRECTIONS for the following two questions: These questions are based on the situation given below: Ten coins are distributed among four people P, Q, R, S such that one of them gets one coin, another gets two coins, the third gets three coins and the fourth gets four coins. It is known that Q gets more coins than P, and S gets fewer coins than R.

Question 22

If Q gets fewer coins than R, then which one of the following is not necessarily true?

Solution

From the given passage, it is given that Q>P, R>S.

When R = 4 and S = 3, then Q = 2 and P = 1.

P+Q = 2+1 = 3 which contradicts statement 1.



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