CAT 2003 Question Paper (Leaked)
DIRECTIONS for the following three questions: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Details of the top 20 MBA schools in the US as ranked by US News and World Report, 1997 are given below.
In terms of staring salary and tuition fee, how many schools are uniformly better (higher median starting salary AND lower tuition fee) than Dartmouth College?
How many schools in the list above have single digit rankings on at least 3 of the 4 parameters (overall ranking, ranking by academics, ranking by recruiters and ranking by placement)?
DIRECTIONS for the following three questions: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Table A below provides data about ages of children in a school. For the age given in the first column, the second column gives the number of children not exceeding the age. For example, first entry indicates that there are 9 children aged 4 years or less. Tables B and C provide data on the heights and weights respectively of the same group of children in a similar format. Assuming that an older child is always taller and weighs more than a younger child, answer the following questions.
What is the number of children of age 9 years or less whose height does not exceed 135 cm?
How many children of age more than 10 years are taller than 150 cm and do not weigh more than 48 kg?
Among the children older than 6 years but not exceeding 12 years, how many weigh more than 38 kg.?
DIRECTIONS for the following two questions: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
An industry comprises four firms (A, B, C, and D). Financial details of these firms and of the industry as a whole for a particular year are given below. Profitability of a firm is defined as profit as a percentage of sales.
If firm A acquires firm B, approximately what percentage of the total market (total sales) will they corner together?
DIRECTIONS for the following three questions: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
A, B, C, D, E, and F are a group of friends. There are two housewives, one professor, one engineer, one
accountant and one lawyer in the group. There are only two married couples in the group. The lawyer is
married to D, who is a housewife. No woman in the group is either an engineer or an accountant. C, the
accountant, is married to F, who is a professor. A is married to a housewife. E is not a housewife.
