CAT DILR Questions | CAT Analytical Reasoning questions
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The year was 2006, All six teams in Pool A of World Cup hockey, play each other exactly once. Each win earns a team three points, a draw earns one point and a loss earns zero points. The two teams with the highest points qualify for the semifinals. In case of a tie, the team with the highest goal difference (Goal For - Goals Against) qualifies. In the opening match, Spain lost to Germany. After the second round (after each team played two matches), the pool table looked as shown below.
In the third round, Spain played Pakistan, Argentina played Germany, and New Zealand played South Africa. All the third round matches were drawn. The following are some results from the fourth and fifth round matches
(A) Spain won both the fourth and fifth round matches.
(B) Both Argentina and Germany won their fifth round matches by 3 goals to 0.
(C) Pakistan won both the fourth and fifth round matches by 1 goal to 0.
CAT/2004
Question . 175
If Pakistan qualified as one of the two teams from Pool A, which was the other team that qualified?
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Analytical Reasoning question
(d) The question is inconsistent. If Pakistan wins the last two rounds, and we are also told in (a) to (c) that Spain, Argentina, Germany and Pakistan won their fifth round matches. This is not possible, since there can be only three winners.