CAT 2023 Slot 3 Question Paper with Solution: PDF Download

VARC questions

DIRECTIONS for the question: The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer. 

1. Veena Sahajwalla, a materials scientist at the University of New South Wales, believes there is a new way of solving this problem. 

2. Her vision is for automated drones and robots to pick out components, put them into a small furnace and smelt them at specific temperatures to extract the metals one by one before they are sent off to manufacturers for reuse.

3. E-waste contains huge quantities of valuable metals, ceramics and plastics that could be salvaged and recycled, although currently not enough of it is.

4. She plans to build microfactories that can tease apart the tangle of materials in mobile phones, computers and other e-waste. 

Correct Answer: 3142

DIRECTIONS for the question: The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. 

The weight of society's expectations is hardly a new phenomenon but it has become particularly draining over recent decades, perhaps because expectations themselves are so multifarious and contradictory. The perfectionism of the 1950s was rooted in the norms of mass culture and captured in famous advertising images of the ideal white American family that now seem self-satirising. In that era, perfectionism meant seamlessly conforming to values, behaviour and appearance: chiselled confidence for men, demure graciousness for women. The perfectionist was under pressure to look like everyone else, only more so. The perfectionists of today, by contrast, feel an obligation to stand out through their idiosyncratic style and wit if they are to gain a foothold in the attentioneconomy.

a. Though long-standing, the pressure to appear perfect and thereby attract attention, has evolved over time from one of conformism to one of non-conformism.

b. The pressure to appear perfect has been the cause of tension and conflict because the idea itself has been in a state of flux and hard to define.

c. The desire to attract attention is so deep-rooted in individual consciousness that people are willing to go to any lengths to achieve it.

d. The image of perfectionism is reflected in and perpetuated by the media; and people do their best to adhere to these ideals.

Correct Answer: a

DILR Questions

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows.

An air conditioner (AC) company has four dealers - D1, D2, D3 and D4 in a city. It is evaluating sales performances of these dealers. The company sells two variants of ACs - Window and Split. Both these variants can be either Inverter type or Non-inverter type. It is known that of the total number of ACs sold in the city, 25% were of Window variant, while the rest were of Split variant. Among the Inverter ACs sold, 20% were of Window variant.

The following information is also known:

1. Every dealer sold at least two window ACs.

2. D1 sold 13 inverter ACs, while D3 sold 5 Non-inverter ACs.

3. A total of six Window Non-inverter ACs and 36 Split Inverter ACs were sold in the city.

4. The number of Split ACs sold by D1 was twice the number of Window ACs sold by it.

5. D3 and D4 sold an equal number of Window ACs and this number was one-third of the number of similar ACs sold by D2.

6. D2 and D3 were the only ones who sold Window Non-inverter ACs. The number of these ACs sold by D2 was twice the number of these ACs sold by D3.

7. D3 and D4 sold an equal number of Split Inverter ACs. This number was half the number of similar ACs sold by D2. 

Question: How many Split Inverter ACs did D2 sell?

Correct answer - 14

Question: What percentage of ACs sold were of Non-inverter type? 

A. 33.33%

B. 20.00%

C. 25.00%

D. 75.00% 

Correct answer - Option C

Quantitative aptitude questions

Question: For a real number x , if 1/2,log₃ (2^x−9)/log₃ 4, and log₅ (2^x+17/2)/log₅ 4 are in an arithmetic progression, then the common difference is

A. log₄ 7

B. log₄ (3/2)

C. log₄ (7/2)

D. log₄ (23/2) 

Correct Answer - C. 𝐥𝐨𝐠_𝟒 (𝟕/𝟐)

Question: Let n and m be two positive integers such that there are exactly 41 integers greater than 8 m and less than 8n, which can be expressed as powers of 2. Then, the smallest possible value of n + m is

A. 14

B. 42

C. 16

D. 44 

Correct Answer - C. 16

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