CAT 2019 LRDI Questions with Answers 10

In the table below the check marks indicate all languages spoken by five people: Paula, Quentin, Robert, Sally and Terence. For example, Paula speaks only Chinese and English.

These five people form three teams, Team 1, Team 2 and Team 3. Each team has either 2 or 3 members. A team is said to speak a particular language if at least one of its members speak that language.

The following facts are known.

Each team speaks exactly four languages and has the same number of members.
English and Chinese are spoken by all three teams, Basque and French by exactly two teams and the other languages by exactly one team.
None of the teams include both Quentin and Robert.
Paula and Sally are together in exactly two teams.
Robert is in Team 1 and Quentin is in Team 3.

Question 1:
Who among the following four is not a member of Team 2?

Quentin
Paula
Sally
Terence

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OPTION: 1

Question 2:
Who among the following four people is a part of exactly two teams?

Sally
Robert
Paula
Quentin

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OPTION: 1

Question 3:
Who among the five people is a member of all teams?

Sally
No one
Terence
Paula

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OPTION: 4

Question 4:
Apart from Chinese and English, which languages are spoken by Team 1?

Arabic and Basque
Arabic and French
Basque and Dutch
Basque and French

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OPTION: 2

From (1) and (5), the persons in Team 1 speak English. Chinese. Arabic and French. (Robert speaks both Arabic and French).

From (1) and (5), the persons in Team 3 speak. English, Chinese and Dutch. (Quentin speaks Dutch and English). Since each person speaks two languages and each team speaks exactly four languages, we need to find one person for Team 3. who speaks one language among English, Chinese and Dutch and a different language apart from these three.

Since, Paula and Sally together speak Basque, Chinese and English and they are together in exactly two teams, they cannot be in Team 1. They must be in Teams 2 and 3.

Hence, from (5) and the above, Paula, Quentin and Sally, (Basque. Chinese. Dutch and English) are in Team 3. Since there are three persons in Team 3. Teams 1 and 2 should also have three persons each. Team 1 speaks, English, Chinese, Arabic and French. Robert (Arabic and French) is one of the team members. Now, two more persons, who speak languages among the above four are to be selected. It is possible only with Paula and Terence.

From (2) Basque and French are spoken by two teams. Hence, Team 2 speaks these two languages. Paula and Sally are there in Team 2 (Basque, Chinese and English). We need to find one more person, who speaks one of these three languages and French. It is possible with only Terence.

Team

Persons

Robert,

Paula,

Terence

Paula,

Sally,

Terence

Quentin,

Paula,

Sally

Languages