CAT 2023 Slot 1 DILR Question Paper with Solution: PDF Download

CAT 2023 Questions and Solutions Slot 1

Check below 8 questions that appeared in the CAT 2023 slot 1 DILR section below. These questions have been followed by answers. you can check the entire CAT 2023 question paper Slot 1 set along with solution for DILR in the free downloadable PDF shared below the questions.

LR passage:

Faculty members in a management school can belong to one of four departments – Finance and Accounting (F&A), Marketing and Strategy (M&S), Operations and Quants (O&Q) and Behaviour and Human Resources (B&H). The numbers of faculty members in F&A, M&S, O&Q and B&H departments are 9, 7, 5 and 3 respectively. Prof. Pakrasi, Prof. Qureshi, Prof. Ramaswamy and Prof. Samuel are four members of the school's faculty who were candidates for the post of the Dean of the school. Only one of the candidates was from O&Q. Every faculty member, including the four candidates, voted for the post. In each department, all the faculty members who were not candidates voted for the same candidate. The rules for the election are listed below.

1. There cannot be more than two candidates from a single department.

2. A candidate cannot vote for himself/herself.

3. Faculty members cannot vote for a candidate from their own department.

After the election, it was observed that Prof. Pakrasi received 3 votes, Prof. Qureshi received 14 votes, Prof. Ramaswamy received 6 votes and Prof. Samuel received 1 vote. Prof. Pakrasi voted for Prof. Ramaswamy, Prof. Qureshi for Prof. Samuel, Prof. Ramaswamy for Prof. Qureshi and Prof. Samuel for Prof. Pakrasi.

Q.1 Which of the following can be the number of votes that Prof. Qureshi received from a single department?

Ans

1. 7
2. 8
3. 6
4. 9

Answer: D

Q 2: If Prof. Samuel belongs to B&H, which of the following statements is/are true?

Statement A: Prof. Pakrasi belongs to M&S.

Statement B: Prof. Ramaswamy belongs to O&Q.

Options: 

1. Neither statement A nor statement B
2. Both statements A and B
3. Only statement B
4. Only statement A

Answer: D

Q.3 What best can be concluded about the candidate from O&Q?

Ans

1. It was either Prof. Pakrasi or Prof. Qureshi.
2. It was Prof. Ramaswamy.
3. It was either Prof. Ramaswamy or Prof. Samuel.
4. It was Prof. Samuel.

Answer: D

Q.4 Which of the following statements is/are true?

Statement A: Non-candidates from M&S voted for Prof. Qureshi.

Statement B: Non-candidates from F&A voted for Prof. Qureshi.

Options: 

1. Only statement B
2. Only statement A
3. Both statements A and B
4. Neither statement A nor statement B

Answer: B

DI Question:

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows. Five restaurants, coded R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 gave integer ratings to five gig workers - Ullas, Vasu, Waman, Xavier and Yusuf, on a scale of 1 to 5 .

The means of the ratings given by R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 were 3.4, 2.2, 3.8, 2.8 and 3.4 respectively. The summary statistics of these ratings for the five workers is given below.

*Range of ratings is defined as the difference between the maximum and minimum ratings awarded to a worker. The following is partial information about ratings of 1 and 5 awarded by the restaurants to the workers.

(a) R1 awarded a rating of 5 to Waman, as did R2 to Xavier, R3 to Waman and Xavier, and R5 to Vasu.

(b) R1 awarded a rating of 1 to Ullas, as did R2 to Waman and Yusuf, and R3 to Yusuf.

Question 1: How many individual ratings cannot be determined from the above information?

Answer: 0

Question 2: To how many workers did R2 give a rating of 4?

Answer: 0

Question 3: What rating did R1 give to Xavier?

Answer: 3

Question 4: What is the median of the ratings given by R3 to the five workers?

Answer: 4

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In 2023, CAT had 20 DILR questions. Both Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning had 2 sets each with 5 questions per set. As per the analysis of CAT 2023 Slot 1 question paper, one logical reasoning set was easy and one was moderately tough. Data Interpretation sets were both moderate.

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