CAT (QA) PYQs

The price of a precious stone is directly proportional to the square of its weight. Sita has a precious stone weighing $18$ units. If she breaks it into four pieces with each piece having distinct integer weight, then the difference between the highest and lowest possible values of the total price of the four pieces will be $288000$. Then, the price of the original precious stone is

The ratio of the number of students in the morning shift and afternoon shift of a school was 13 : 9. After 21 students moved from the morning shift to the afternoon shift, this ratio became 19 : 14. Next, some new students joined the morning and afternoon shifts in the ratio 3 : 8 and then the ratio of the number of students in the morning shift and the afternoon shift became 5 : 4. The number of new students who joined is

The scores of Amal and Bimal in an examination are in the ratio $11:14$. After an appeal, their scores increase by the same amount and their new scores are in the ratio $47 : 56$. The ratio of Bimal's new score to that of his original score is