CAT DILR Questions | CAT Data Sufficiency questions

Comprehension

Directions for Questions: These questions are based on the information given below.

In each question there are two statements A and B

Choose (a) if the question can be answered by one of the statements alone but not by other

Choose (b) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.

Choose (c) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but cannot be answered using either statement alone

Choose (d) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements A and B.

CAT/2003

Question . 26

Each packet of Soap costs Rs. 10. Inside each packet is a gift coupon labelled with one of the letter S,O, A and P. If a customer submits four such coupons that make up the word Soap the customer gets a free Soap packet. Ms X kept buying packet after packet of Soap till she could get one set of coupons that formed the world Soap. How many coupons with lable P did she get in the above process

A. The last label obtained by her was S and the total amount spent was Rs. 210

B. The total number of vowels obtained was 18

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Explanatory Answer

Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Data Sufficiency question

(c) Combining the statements, we get (A) : number of coupons = 21, and (B) : number of vowels = 18. The last letter being S, it leaves 2 blanks, which must be P’s Hence answer is (c).