Matches played between boys and girls
CAT 2018 Slot 2 · Quantitative Ability · Hard · Permutations & Combinations
This is a hard Quantitative Ability question from the CAT 2018 Slot 2 paper. It tests Permutations & Combinations. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.
In a tournament, there are 43 junior level and 51 senior level participants. Each pair of juniors play one match. Each pair of seniors play one match. There is no junior versus senior match. The number of girl versus girl matches in junior level is 153, while the number of boy versus boy matches in senior level is 276. The number of matches a boy plays against a girl is
1098
Explanation
Let and be the number of girls and boys in the junior level, where . Girl vs girl matches in junior level: . So .
Let and be the number of girls and boys in the senior level, where . Boy vs boy matches in senior level: . So .
Matches played between a boy and a girl occur within juniors and within seniors: In juniors: . In seniors: .
Total boy vs girl matches .
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