Data Sufficiency: Pratyush at Toughest Questions

Pratyush @ Toughest Questions
Data Sufficiency
Find out which of the 2
statements that follow are
sufficient to answer the
question.
A. Only A is sufficient.
B. Only B is sufficient.
C. Both are required.
D. Either is sufficient.
E. Data insufficient/irrelevant.
Mark Answer as ...
Is x = - 5?
A. 25 = x
2
B. x = |x|
Answer: (B)
Is x > y?
A. x + y = 2

B. x / y = 2
Answer: (C)
A. k
2
is odd
B. 2k is even
Answer: (A)
Is the integer k odd or
even?
A. 3x = 3k
B. k = y
2
Answer: (E)
Is x > y?
A. x > 1
B. x < y
Answer: (C)
Is 1/x > 1/y?
A. a > 2b
B. a >= b + 3
Answer: (A)
Is 2a > 3b; a,b > 0?
A. 68% of eligible men voted
B. 73% of eligible women voted
Answer: (E)
100,000 people are
eligible to vote. How many
of them voted?
A. X is divisible by 3
B. X is divisible by 27
Answer: (B)
Is X divisible by 9?
A. 2a + 3b = 11a + 2b
B. The 2 digit no. Is a multiple
of 19
Answer: (A)
What is the 2 digit number
ab? It is > 9
A. 3 digit number abc is a
multiple of 8
B. a*b*c is a multiple of 8
Answer: (E)
Is a+b+c multiple of 8?
0 <= Integers a,b,c <=9
A. x = y
B. y = z
Answer: (A)
A, B & C are lines. Are A
and B parallel?
A. Perimeter of ABCD >
Perimeter of EFGH
B. AC > EG
Answer: (E)
Which area is larger,
ABCD or EFGH?
A. AC = 42
B. Radius of BOC is 2
Answer: (D)
ABCD is a square. BCO is
a semi-circle. What is the
area of ABOCD?
A. Coordinates of P is (2,3)
B. Coordinates of Q is (4,1)
Answer: (C)
Do P & Q lie on the circle
with center at (0,0)?
A. a +b > c
B. a > b > c
Answer: (B)
a, b and c are angles of a
triangle. Is c > 60?
A. First April of that year was a
Monday
B. X X X X is a leap year.
Answer: (A)
On what day of the week
does first August of the
year X X X X fall ?
A. X attempted 80% of the 180
questions.
B. X got 60% of the attempted
questions correct.
Answer: (E)
Xs score in the latest
test is
A. All the letters are different
B. Two of the six letters repeat
Answer: (A)
The total number of
ways a six letter word can
be re arranged
A. A has 3 one rupee coins and
four 50 paise coins
B. The newspaper costs Rs. 2
Answer: (C)
In how many ways can A
pay for the newspaper ?
A. X es the cost by 10 and
gives a discount of 10%.
B. X es the cost by 10% and
allows a discount of 10%.
Answer: (B)
Does X gain or lose?
A. x + y + z = 3
B. x y z
Answer: C
x, y & z are real
numbers.
Is x
2
+ y
2
+ z
2
> 3?
A. f(x) = x
2

B. g(x) = 1/2x
Answer: E
What is x equal to ?
f(g(x)) = 9.
A. 2 < x < 5
B. 3 < y < 6
Answer: C
How many possible
values can (x - y) assume,
if x and y are integers ?
A. a > c and c < b
B. c > 0
Answer: E
Is (a / b) > (a+c) / (b+c)
A. January 1st of the year was
a Wednesday
B. The last two digits of the
year (XXXX) is a multiple of 4.
Answer: C
Are there 53 Wednesdays
& Thursdays in this year?
A. Its boundary length is 36cm
B. The area (hexagon) is 6
times the area (an equilateral
triangle) formed on one of the
sides
Answer: A
Find the area of a regular
hexagon
A. b is negative.
B. c is positive.
Answer: C
If a, b and c are integers,
is (a-b+c) greater than
(a+b-c)
A. a @ b is not necessarily
equal to b @ a for two integers
a and b, and 1 @ 2 = 3
B. a @ b = (a + b)/a for a not
equal to 0
Answer: B
What is 2 @ 3
A. The AM of X and Y = a and
the GM of X and Y is also = a.
B. (X/Y) = R and (X-Y) = D
Answer: E
What are values of the
real numbers X and Y?
Is (x y) > (r s)
A. x > r and y < s
B. xy < rs
Answer: A
A. a is less than 3
B. The sum of a and b is 18
Answer: B
Are both a & b
positive? Both a & b
are less than 10.
A. The number is divisible by
11.
B. The number is divisible by 7.
Answer: A
What is the integer R in
the number 25R397 ?
A. a > 2b
B. a b + 3
Answer: A
If a & b are both positive
numbers, then which is
larger, 2a or 3b?
A. k < 1
B. k < - 2
Answer: B
Is k
2
+ k 2 > 0
A. A(1) is an even integer.
B. The sum of the first 10 terms
is even.
Answer: A
A series of numbers is
A(n) = A(n-1) + 2. Is
A(10) an even integer?
A. x is greater than 1.
B. x is less than y.
Answer: C
Is 1/x greater than 1/y ?
A. The fifth term in S is 47.
B. Each term in S is obtained
by multiplying the preceding
term by 4 and adding 1.
Answer: C
What is 1000
th
term in
sequence S?
A. The cube of x is less than
the cube of y.
B. The square of x is less than
the square of y.
Answer: A
If x and y are integers,
is x < y?
A. a b c 0
B. a
2
, b
2
, c
2
are in A.P
Answer: C
a, b, c are positive
numbers. Is 1/(b+c),
1/(c+a), 1/(a+b) in AP?
A. The smallest of the three is
equal to the sum of the integers
B. The sum of the 3 integers is
< than the average of the 3
Answer: A
What is the sum of 3
consecutive odd integers?
A. 2a + 3b = 11a + 2b
B. The two digit number is a
multiple of 19
Answer: A
What is the 2 digit number
ab? The number is
greater than 9.
A. The common ratio is > 0
B. The common ratio is > 1
Answer: E
Is the geometric
progression an increasing
one?
A. The time was between 4O
clock and 5O clock.
B. The arms of the clock were
135
o
apart.
Answer: C
What was the time when
X arrived?
A. AB is a multiple of 4.
B. The sum of its digits is
divisible by 9.
Answer: E
What is the two digit
number AB?
A. y - x = 2
B. z - y = 2
Answer: C
x, y and z are positive
odd integers. Is x + z
divisible by 4?
A. n + 0.001 > 3
B. n + 0.0001 < 3
Answer: A
If 2 < n < 3, is the
hundreds digit of the
decimal form of n equal to
9?
A. One weighs 12 pounds.
B. One weighs 24 pounds.
Answer: B
Three packages together
weigh 48 pounds. What is
the weight of the heaviest
package?
A. 12% of the customers in the
shop today purchased it.
B. The shop had 480
customers today.
Answer: E
How many soaps did
the shop sell today?
A. 4x < 5y
B. x < 0
Answer: B
If xy = 0, is x > y?
A. x
2
+ y
2
= 65
B. x = 7 and y = 7
Answer: D
Is ( x + y)
2
+ (x - y)
2
=
130?
A. 50 < x < 70
B. y = 5
Answer: B
x and y are positive
integers & x/y is a
decimal, is the decimal a
terminating decimal?

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