CAT DILR Questions | CAT Data Sufficiency questions
Comprehension
Directions for Questions: These questions are based on the information given below.
Mark,
(a) If one of the statement is sufficient to answer the question and another is not.
(b) If both the statements can answer the question independently.
(c) Both statements are required to answer the question.
(d) Question cannot be answered.
CAT/2000
Question . 56
Ghosh Babu wanted to cordon off a triangular piece from a corner of his square piece of land of perimeter 400 meters. What was the length of the longest side of the cordoned off area?
(a) The cordoned off area is an isosceles triangle
(b) Each of the smaller sides of the triangle is 20 m
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Data Sufficiency question
(b) Statement I gives us nothing new as we know that the hypotenuse will be the longest when the right triangle is isosceles.
Statement II gives us the length of the isosceles sides. Hence statement II alone is sufficient.