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Recently, the answers of a test held nationwide were leaked to a group of unscrupulous people. The investigative agency has arrested the mastermind and nine other people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I in this matter. Interrogating them, the following facts have been obtained regarding their operation. Initially the mastermind obtains the correct answer-key. All the others create their answer - key in the following manner. They obtain the answer key from one or two people who already possess the same. The people are called his/her “sources”. If the person has two sources, then he/she compares the answer-keys obtained form both sources. If the key to a question from both sources is identical, it is copied, otherwise it is left blank. If the person has only one source, he/she copies the source’s answers into his/her copy. Finally, each person compulsorily replaces one of the answers (not a blank one) with a wrong answer in his/her answer key.
The paper contained 200 questions; so the investigative agency has ruled out the possibility of two or more of them introducing wrong answers to the same question. The investigative agency has a copy of the correct answer key and has tabulated the following data. These data represent question numbers.
CAT/2003
Question . 212
Which of the following two groups of people had identical sources?
(I) A, D and G
(II) E and H
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Analytical Reasoning question
(d)
(I) A, D, and G have the same source as the mastermind as they have only one wrong answer and no blank answers
(II) E and H have no blank answers so it means they both have got their answers from one single source, i.e. A.
So, both (I) & (II) had identical sources.