CAT Questions

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The country Brazil is the largest producer of sugarcane in the world.

Om Prakash Rawat is the Chief Election Commissioner of India where Ashok Lavasa & Sunil Arora are the Election Commissioners of India. The Election Commission of India had announced Assembly elections for 5 states recently.

Galvanised iron sheets have a coating of zinc.

We can make an equation:

3(100000 + x) = 10x+1

(Why? Well, adding 100000 puts a 1 at the front of a five-digit number, and multiplying by 10 and adding 1 puts a 1 at the end of a number)

Solving this gives:

10x+1 = 3(100000 + x)
10x+1 = 300000 + 3x
10x = 299999 + 3x
7x = 299999
x = 299999/7 = 42857

The answer is 42857 (142857 is three times smaller than 428571).

Phoebus Levene was an organic chemist in the early 1900's. He is perhaps best known for his incorrect tetranucleotide hypothesis of DNA. He is who studied the structure and function of nucleic acids.

The discovery of Identification of Ribose and Deoxyribose is attributed to Phoebus Levene.