Xavier Aptitude Test 2014 Paper
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Directions for (Qs. 33-35): Read the following case-let and answer the question that follow :
Ms. Banerjee, class teacher for 12th standard, wants to send teams (based on past performance) of three students each to district, state, national and international competition in mathematics. Till now, every students of the class has appeared in 100 school level tests. The students had following distribution of marks in the tests, in terms of “average” and “number of times a student scored cent per cent marks”.
Ms. Banerjee has carefully studied chances of her schoolwinning each of the competitions. Based on in-depth calculations,she realized that her school is quite likely to win district levelcompetition but has low chances of winning the internationalcompetition. She listed down the following probabilities of winsfor different competitions. Prize was highest for internationalcompetition and lowest for district level competition (in that order).
All the students are studying in the school for last twelveyears. She wanted to select the best team for all fourcompetitions (Ms. Banerjee had no other information to selectstudents).
Ms. Banerjee, class teacher for 12th standard, wants to send teams (based on past performance) of three students each to district, state, national and international competition in mathematics. Till now, every students of the class has appeared in 100 school level tests. The students had following distribution of marks in the tests, in terms of “average” and “number of times a student scored cent per cent marks”.
| Student | Average | Number of times astudent scores cent per cent |
| 1 | 70 | 7 |
| 2 | 60 | 15 |
| 3 | 65 | 8 |
| 4 | 70 | 1 |
| 5 | 65 | 6 |
| 6 | 65 | 10 |
| 7 | 65 | 4 |
| 8 | 60 | 12 |
| 9 | 65 | 3 |
| 10 | 60 | 8 |
| 11 | 70 | 1 |
| 12 | 65 | 6 |
| 13 | 70 | 2 |
| 14 | 60 | 20 |
| 15 | 65 | 5 |
| Competition | Probability of win |
| District | 0.95 |
| State | 0.6 |
| National | 0.1 |
| International | 0.05 |
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Question : 35 of 103
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Ms. Banerjee has to select the team for national competition after she has selected the team for international competition. A student selected for international competition cannot be a part of national competition. Which is the best team for the national competition?
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