CAT (QA) PYQs

Pinky is standing in a queue at a ticket counter. Suppose the ratio of the number of persons standing ahead of Pinky to the number of persons standing behind her in the queue is $3: 5$. If the total number of persons in the queue is less than $300$, then the maximum possible number of persons standing ahead of Pinky is

The price of a precious stone is directly proportional to the square of its weight. Sita has a precious stone weighing $18$ units. If she breaks it into four pieces with each piece having distinct integer weight, then the difference between the highest and lowest possible values of the total price of the four pieces will be $288000$. Then, the price of the original precious stone is

An alloy is prepared by mixing three metals $A, B$ and $C$ in the proportion $3 : 4 :7$ by volume. Weights of the same volume of the metals $A, B$ and $C$ are in the ratio $5:2: 6.$ In $130$ kg of the alloy, the weight, in kg, of the metal $C$ is