MAT 2004 MS Slot 1 Questions & Answer Key

Which one of the following is an acceptable grouping of the six items?

If Group 1 contains only the item Y, then which of the following must be true?

If W and Y are in the same group and V is in Group 3, then which of the following must be false?

If Group 2 contains only one item, which is neither W nor V, then which of the following must be true?

Statement: This world is neither good nor evil; each man manufactures a world for himself.
Conclusions:
I. Some people find this world quite good.
II. Some people find this world quite bad.

Statement: Domestic demand has been increasing faster than the production of indigenous crude oil.
Conclusions:
I. Crude oil must be imported.
II. Domestic demand must be reduced.

Statement: Parents are prepared to pay any price for an elite education to their children.
Conclusions:
I. All parents these days are very well off.
II. Parents have an obsessive passion for a perfect development of their children through good schooling.

Statement: From the next academia year, students will have the option of dropping Mathematics and Science for their school living.
Conclusions:
I. Students who are weak in Science and Mathematics will be admitted.
II. Earlier, the students did not have the choice of continuing their education without these subjects.

Which of the following is a married couple?

What is E's profession?

How many members of the group are males?

How is B related to C?

Which of the statements (i) to (vii) is superfluous to find answers to the questions above?

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following is necessarily false?

Which is necessarily true?

If Bal does not want to be with Bhai, then

Which of the following is necessarily true?

2, 3, 8, 63, ?

1, 4, 9, 25, ?

ACD, EGI, JLM, ?

\(\frac{4}{9}, \frac{9}{20}, ( ? ), \frac{39}{86}\)

Q1F, S2E, U6D, W21C, ?

2Z5, 7Y7, 14X9, 23W11, 34V13, ?

Event A: The national selectors have decided to retain the same 14 players for the third and final test series against New Zealand.
Event B: India has won the second test against New Zealand.

Event A : Since Rani's own child had died at birth, she was desperate for another.
Event B : Rani had quietly kidnapped the child, less than two days old, and shipped it out of the hospital.

Renu is elder than Anita. Rocky is younger than Anita. Sohan is elder than Renu. Who is the eldest in the group?

Among the six cities — P, Q, R, S, T and U — P is not a hill station; Q and T are historical places; S is not an industrial city; P and S are not historical cities; P and Q are not similar kinds of cities. Which of two cities are historical places?

Mr. Brijesh : A public sector company 'ABC' was privatised 3 years ago. It has increased profitability since then. This is a clear indication that industries will fare better in the private sector than in the public sector.

Mr. Sinha : That's wrong. Closer perusal of ABC's balance sheets shows that it has been profitable since the appointment of a professional managing director 3 years ago, while it was still in the public sector.

Which best describes the weakness in Mr. Brijesh's judgement which Mr. Sinha is using?

Informed people generally assimilate information from several divergent sources before coming to an opinion. However, most popular news organisations view foreign affairs solely through the eyes of our State Department. In reporting the political crisis in foreign country B, the news organisations must endeavour to find out alternative sources of information.

Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the argument above?

How many squares are there in the given figure?

A light bulb company produces 2000 light bulbs per week. The manager wants to ensure that standards of quality remain constant from week to week. The manager therefore claims that out of 2000 light bulbs produced per week, 500 light bulbs are rejected. Of the following, the best criticism of the manager's plan is that the plan assumes that

Animesh walked 30 metres towards West, turned to his right and walked 20 metres. He then turnedto his left and walked 10 metres, then turnedto his left and walked 40 metres. He turned to his left and walked 5 metres. He again turned to his left and continued walking. In which direction is Animesh walking now?

A greater number of fresh vegetables is sold in Kanpur than in Lucknow. Therefore, the people in Kanpur have better nutritional habits than those in Lucknow. Each of the following, if true, weakens the conclusions above, except

Traffic safety experts predict that the installation of newly designed seat belts in all cars in India would reduce the average number offatalities per traffic accident by 30%. In order to save lives, the Department of Transport (DOT) is considering requiring automobile manufacturers to install belts of this design in all cars produced after 2005.

Which of the following, if true, represents the strongest challenge to the DOT's proposal?

A decade after a logging operation in India began cutting downtrees in a territory that served as a sanctuary for Bengal tigers, the incidence of tigers attacking humans in nearby villages has increased by 300%. Since the logging operation has reduced the number of acres of woodland per tiger on an average from 16 acres to approximately 12 acres, the scientists have theorised that tigers must need a minimum number of acres of woodland in order to remain content.
Which of the following statements, if true, would most strengthen the scientists’ hypothes is ?

In a certain code language, if A is written as C, B as D, C as E and so on up to Z, then how will PECULIAR be written in that code?

A company recently registered a big jump in clothing sales after hiring a copywriter and a graphic artist to give its clothing catalogue a magazine-like format designed to appeal to a more upscale clientele. The company is now planning to launch a house wares catalogue using the same concept. The company's plan assumes that

If TV is called Radio’, 'Radio is called Aeroplane’, ‘Aeroplane is called Helicopter’, ‘Helicopter is called Bus’, 'Bus is called Bike’, "Bike is called Water’, "Water is called Frog’, ‘Frog is called Tomato’, ‘Tomato is called Furniture’ and ‘Furniture is called Cigarette’, then what is Tomato sauce made up of?

The Election Commission has revised upwards the ceiling of total expenditure on all counts for Lok Sabha candidates to Rs. x lakh.
Which of the following, if true, will make the ceiling an effective measure for a free and fair election?