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In a Decathlon, the events are 100m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 1500m, High jump, Pole-vault, Long jump, Discus, Shot Put and Javelin. The performance in the first four of these events is consolidated into Score-1, the next three into Score-2, and the last three into Score3. Each such consolidation is obtained by giving appropriate positive weights to individual events. The final score is simply the total of these three scores. The athletes with the highest, second highest and the third highest final scores receive the gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. The table below gives the scores and performances of nineteen top athletes in this event.
CAT/2003
Question . 183
At least how many competitors (excluding Daley Thompson) must Michael Smith have out-jumped in the long jump event?
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Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Data Tabulation question
(d) From score-2, it is clear that Michael Smith is ranked 12th in a mix of three events, viz. High Jump, Pole-vault and Long jump (Daley Thompson is excluded). So in all, there are 6 atheletes (18 – 12 = 6) below Smith. Let us have a look at their scores.
So from the above table we can clearly say that Smith, to maintain his position, has to at-least out-perform (ones with a equal or higher scores) Torsten Voss, Jurgen Hingsen, Grigory Degtyarov and Steve Fritz.
Note : He need not defeat Siegfried as the weightage of pole-vault might be high (where his score is higher) and inspite of scoring less in long jump his final score2 might out class Siegfried’s. As the question asks atleast so we can exclude Siegfried.