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Krishna distributed 10 acre of land to Gopal and Ram who paid him the total amount in the ratio 2:3. Gopal invested further Rs2 lac in the land and planted coconut and lemon trees in the ratio 5:1 on equal area of land. There were a total of 100 lemon trees. The cost of one coconut was Rs 5. The crop took 7 years to mature and when the crop was reaped in 1997, the total revenue generated was 25% of the total amount put in by Gopal and Ram together. The revenue generated from the coconut and lemon tress was in the ratio 3:2 and it was shared equally by Gopal and Ram as the initial amount spent by them were equal.
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Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Analytical Reasoning question
(a) Ratio of yields from coconut and lemons was 3:2, further the coconut and lemon trees were planted on the equal area of the total 10 acres of land. Therefore the ratio of yields per acre of land for coconuts and lemon was 3:2.