CLAT Sample Paper CLAT Sample Paper-8

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    Direction: Answer the questions based on the following information. One participants from four continents (Africa, Americas, Australia and Europe) attended a United Nations conference. Each participant was an expert in one of four fields, labour, health, population studies and refugee relocation. The following five facts about participants are given
    I. The number of Labour experts in the camp was exactly half the number of experts in each of the three other categories.
    II. Africa did not send any labour expert. Otherwise, every continent, including Africa, sent at least one expert for each category.
    III. None of the continents sent more than there experts in any category.
    IV. If there had been one less Australian expert, then the Americas would have had twice as many experts as each of the other continents.
    V. Mike and Alfanso are leading experts of population studies who attended the conference. They are from Australia
     

    Which of the following combinations is not possible?

    A)  2 experts in population studies from the Americas and 2 health experts from attended the conference

    B)         2 experts in population studies from the Americas and 1 health expert from Africa attended the conference

    C)         3 experts in refugee relocation from the Americas and 1 health expert from Africa attended the conference

    D)         Africa and America each had 1 expert in population studies attending the conference

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    From the given choices, the statements in the first three choices are possible from the given table. The statement in choice (D) is not possible as in this case the total number of experts in population studies is 5, i.e., 2 from Australia, 1 from Africa, 1 from Europe and 1 from Americas.


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