# CAT 2021 Question Paper Slot 2 | CAT Quants

###### CAT Quantitative Aptitude | CAT 2021 Question Paper

CAT 2021 Quant was dominated by Arithmetic followed by Algebra. In Arithmetic, the questions were dominated by topics like Speed-time-distance, Mixture and Alligations. This year, there was a surprise. The questions from Geometry were relatively on the lower side as compared to the previous years. There were 8 TITA Qs this year. Overall this section was at a medium level of difficulty.

1. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

The number of ways of distributing 15 identical balloons, 6 identical pencils and 3 identical erasers among 3 children, such that each child gets at least four balloons and one pencil, is

2. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

If log2[3 + log3{4 + log4(x - 1)}] - 2 = 0 then 4x equals

3. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

Consider the pair of equations: x2 - xy - x = 22 and y2 - xy + y = 34. If x > y, then x - y equals

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

4. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

From a container filled with milk, 9 litres of milk are drawn and replaced with water. Next, from the same container, 9 litres are drawn and again replaced with water. If the volumes of milk and water in the container are now in the ratio of 16 : 9, then the capacity of the container, in litres, is

5. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

Two trains A and B were moving in opposite directions, their speeds being in the ratio 5 : 3. The front end of A crossed the rear end of B 46 seconds after the front ends of the trains had crossed each other. It took another 69 seconds for the rear ends of the trains to cross each other. The ratio of length of train A to that of train B is

1. 2 : 3
2. 2 : 1
3. 5 : 3
4. 3 : 2

6. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

Anil can paint a house in 60 days while Bimal can paint it in 84 days. Anil starts painting and after 10 days, Bimal and Charu join him. Together, they complete the painting in 14 more days. If they are paid a total of ₹ 21000 for the job, then the share of Charu, in INR, proportionate to the work done by him, is

1. 9000
2. 9100
3. 9200
4. 9150

7. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

A box has 450 balls, each either white or black, there being as many metallic white balls as metallic black balls. If 40% of the white balls and 50% of the black balls are metallic, then the number of non-metallic balls in the box is

8. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

Anil, Bobby and Chintu jointly invest in a business and agree to share the overall profit in proportion to their investments. Anil's share of investment is 70%. His share of profit decreases by ₹ 420 if the overall profit goes down from 18% to 15%. Chintu's share of profit increases by ₹ 80 if the overall profit goes up from 15% to 17%. The amount, in INR, invested by Bobby is

1. 2400
2. 2200
3. 2000
4. 1800

9. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

If a rhombus has area 12 sq cm and side length 5 cm, then the length, in cm, of its longer diagonal is

1. $$frac{\sqrt{37} + \sqrt{13}}{2}$ 2. $\frac{\sqrt{13} + \sqrt{12}}{2}$ 3. √$37) + √(13)
4. √(13) + √(12)

10. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

Three positive integers x, y and z are in arithmetic progression. If y − x > 2 and xyz = 5(x + y + z), then z − x equals

1. 8
2. 10
3. 14
4. 12

11. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

Let D and E be points on sides AB and AC, respectively, of a triangle ABC, such that AD : BD = 2 : 1 and AE : CE = 2 : 3. If the area of the triangle ADE is 8 sq cm, then the area of the triangle ABC, in sq cm, is

12. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

For a 4-digit number, the sum of its digits in the thousands, hundreds and tens places is 14, the sum of its digits in the hundreds, tens and units places is 15, and the tens place digit is 4 more than the units place digit. Then the highest possible 4-digit number satisfying the above conditions is

1. 2
2. -2
3. 200
4. -200

21. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

Two pipes A and B are attached to an empty water tank. Pipe A fills the tank while pipe B drains it. If pipe A is opened at 2 pm and pipe B is opened at 3 pm, then the tank becomes full at 10 pm. Instead, if pipe A is opened at 2 pm and pipe B is opened at 4 pm, then the tank becomes full at 6 pm. If pipe B is not opened at all, then the time, in minutes, taken to fill the tank is

1. 140
2. 120
3. 144
4. 264

22. #### CAT 2021 Slot 2 - QA

A person buys tea of three different qualities at ₹ 800, ₹ 500, and ₹ 300 per kg, respectively, and the amounts bought are in the proportion 2 : 3 : 5. She mixes all the tea and sells one-sixth of the mixture at ₹ 700 per kg. The price, in INR per kg, at which she should sell the remaining tea, to make an overall profit of 50%, is

1. 692
2. 688
3. 653
4. 675

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