CAT DILR Questions | CAT Data Sufficiency questions

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In each question, you are given certain data followed by two statements. For answering the questions ,

CAT/1996

Question . 96

How old is Sachin in 1997?

(i) Sachin is 11 years younger than Anil whose age will be a prime number in 1998

(ii) Anil’s age was a prime number in 1996

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Explanatory Answer

Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Data Sufficiency question

(a) Anil age was a prime number in 1996 and 1998. So Anil’s age can be two consecutive primes with a difference of 2.

The pairs can be ( 3,5), (5, 7) (11,13) -----and so on. It is not possible to find a unique solution.