SNAP 2009 Question Paper

Let the no. of tractors with A, B, and C be a, b, and c respectively.

After A gives out tractors to both B and C, the number of tractors with B becomes 2b and that with C becomes 2c. The remaining tractors with A becomes a-(b+c).

After B's turn to give out tractors, A has 2{a-(b+c}, C has 2(2c)= 4c, and B will be left with 2b-(a-b-c)-2c tractors.

Finally after C's turn, A has 4{a-(b+c)} = 4(a-b-c) tractors, B has 4b-2(a-b-c)-4c = 4b-2a+2b+2c-4c=6b-2a-2c tractors. And C is left with 4c-2(a-b-c)-{2b-(a-b-c)-2c}= 4c-2a+2b+2c-(2b-a+b+c-2c)= 4c-2a+2b+2c-2b+a-b+c= -a-b+7c tractors

It is given that they are all left with 24 tractors in the end.

For A, 4(a-b-c)=24

=> a-b-c=6

=> a= 6+b+c.

For B, 6b-2a-2c=24

=> 3b-a-c=12

=>3b-6-b-c-c=12

=>2b-2c=18

=>b-c=9

=>b=c+9.

For C, -a-b+7c=24

=>-6-b-c-c-9+7c=24

=>5c-b=39

=>5c-c-9=39

=>4c=48

.'. c=12.

b=c+9 

.'. b=21.

a=6+b+c

=> a= 6+21+12

.'. a=39. 

The second line of the passage discusses about job requirements for the desktop publisher role. It clearly says that the good basic skills in reading, communication, and mathematics play an important role to develop a career there. Hence, option A. 

In the given passage, it is given that according to NAAS, without the use of crop protection products to control insects, weeds, and diseases, crop yields per acre will drop by more than 50 percent. i.e. If the crop protection products are not used, then the crop yields will fall by more than 50 percent. However, we cannot be sure about its reverse. Hence, we can eliminate Option A. Option D is in line with this. 

Lou subjects the arrival of his manager on time on the basis of only 1 factor. There might be other factors that can affect the manager's reaching on time, for example, delay in baggage claims, Traffic jams, etc. Hence, Evelyn is right when she says Lou's argument to be fallacious. However, concluding that the manager will not be on time on the basis of Lou's argument is absurd and unwarranted. Hence, Option b is the correct one here.

The argument presented is that Cars are safer than planes supported with the data given. And we need to weaken this argument. 

In Option B, if we assume the number of plane accidents to be x. Then as per the data provided in the question, the number of deaths due to plane accident becomes x/2. 

And if we consider number of car accidents to be 100,000x. The number of deaths because of car accident becomes 1% of 100,000x, which is 1000x, which is way greater than that caused by planes(x/2). This clearly shows that cars are not safer than Planes. 

Hence, this weakens the main argument and is our final answer.

Only B contributes to company S .

25+40=65%  of the total production of listed elements is processed by B

% Production for industry A is = 10+10+15+20+40+5 = 100%

100% production corresponds to 100000 tons.

The antonyms of Increase and descend are decrease and ascend respectively. Hence, they are the perfect words to fulfil the analogy.

.'. Option B- RB

Going by the options, Option A will give Modern: Ancient:: Young: Old, which seems okay, because of the antonym pairs used for analogy.

Option B gives us, Modern: Ancient:: Western:Old. Here, Western and Old seems an absurd pair and not related as Modern and Ancient. Therefore, we eliminate this.

Option C is vague as it gives out of context pairs in the form of Modern: Death:: Industrialisation: Old.

Option D can also be eliminated as Modern: Famous:: Fashion: Old makes no sense.

Hence, option A is the final answer.