Answer the following questions based on the information given below:
For admission to various affiliated colleges, a university conducts a written test with four different sections, each with a maximum of 50 marks. The following table gives the aggregate as well as the sectional cut-off marks fixed by six different colleges affiliated to the university. A student will get admission only if he/she gets marks greater than or equal to the cut-off marks in each of the sections and his/her aggregate marks are at least equal to the aggregate cut-off marks as specified by the college.
Aditya did not get a call from even a single college. What could be the maximum aggregate marks obtained by him?
Since Aditya didn’t get a call from any of the colleges, so for each college, he either didn’t clear one of the sectional cut-offs or he didn’t clear the aggregate cutoff or both. If he didn’t clear one of the sectional cut-offs, then for that section he scored less marks than the least cut-off among the given cut-offs of all the colleges.
For example, for section A, it is given that the cut-offs for colleges 1, 4 and 5 are 42, 43 and 45 respectively. The least cut-off among them is 42. So, in order to not clear the sectional cut-off of section A for colleges 1, 4 and 5, he should have scored less than 42.
Similarly for section B, in order to not clear the sectional cut-off for colleges 1, 2 and 6, he should have scored less than 41.
Similarly for section C, in order to not clear the sectional cut-off for colleges 1, 2, 3 and 5, he should have scored less than 42.
Similarly for section D, in order to not clear the sectional cut-off for colleges 4 and 6, he should have scored less than 44.
We can see that if we consider section C and D then we will cover all six colleges. So the maximum score that one can score in section C and D despite that he misses the sectional cut off are 41 and 43 respectively. Also in order to maximize the total we can assume that the person scored full marks in the both section A and B.
Maximum marks obtained by Aditya such that he doesn’t get any calls = 41 + 43 + 50 + 50 = 184
Hence, option C is the correct answer.
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