CAT (QA) PYQs

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

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

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 Rs. $420$ if the overall profit goes down from $18\%$ to $15\%$. Chintu's share of profit increases by Rs. $80$ if the overall profit goes up from $15\%$ to $17\%$. The amount, in INR, invested by Bobby is