Tabular Arrangement Questions for the CAT exam are part of the Logical Reasoning section of the CAT exam. Through Tabular Arrangement questions, aspirants are tested on concepts related to Logical Reasoning and critical thinking. The difficulty level of the Tabular Arrangement questions can be moderate to difficult.
Tabular Arrangement Practice questions for the CAT exam
Question 1: At an automobile exhibition, cars are displayed on each floor of a three-floor building. On each floor the cars are either all family cars or all sports cars, either all new or all used, and either all production models or all research models. The following conditions apply to this exhibition:
If the exhibition includes both family cars and sports cars, then each family car is displayed on a lower numbered floor than any sports car.
A. The exhibition includes no used research models.
B. The exhibition includes no research models that are sports cars.
C. There are new cars on floor 1.
D. There are used cars on floor 3.
Q 1. If there are sports cars on exactly two floors, then which one of the following statements could be true?
A. There are research models on floor 1.
B. There are sports cars on floor 1.
C. There are family cars on floor 2.
D. There are research models on floor 2.
E. There are family cars on floor 3.
Answer: A
Q 2. Which one of the following statements could be true?
A. The exhibition includes new research model sports cars.
B. The exhibition includes used research model family cars.
C. The exhibition includes used research model sports cars.
D. There are research models on exactly one floor.
E. There are research models on all three floors.
Answer: D
Q 3. Which one of the following statements must be true?
A. There are production models on floor 1.
B. There are research models on floor 1.
C. There are production models on floor 2.
D. There are production models on floor 3.
E. There are research models on floor 3.
Answer: D
Q 4. If there are research models on exactly two floors, then which one of the following statements can be false?
A. There are family cars on floor 1.
B. There are research models on floor 1.
C. There are new cars on floor 2.
D. There are research models on floor 2.
E. There are family cars on floor 3.
Answer: E
Q5. If all the new cars in the exhibition are research models, then which one of the following statements must be true?
A. All the family cars in the exhibition are new.
B. All the family cars in the exhibition are research models.
C. All the family cars in the exhibition are used.
D. All the new cars in the exhibition are family cars.
E. All the production models in the exhibition are family cars.
Answer: D
Q 6. If all the production models in the exhibition are used, then which one of the following statements must be true?
A. There are family cars on floor 1.
B. There are new cars on floor 2.
C. There are research models on floor 2.
D. There are family cars on floor 3.
E. There are sports cars on floor 3.
Answer: A
Must-do Tabular Arrangement questions for the CAT exam
Question 2: Ten musicians (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J) are experts in at least one of the following three percussion instruments: tabla, mridangam, and ghatam. Among them, three are experts in tabla but not in mridangam or ghatam, another three are experts in mridangam but not in tabla or ghatam, and one is an expert in ghatam but not in tabla or mridangam. Further, two are experts in tabla and mridangam but not in ghatam, and one is an expert in tabla and ghatam but not in mridangam.
The following facts are known about these ten musicians.
1. Both A and B are experts in mridangam, but only one of them is also an expert in tabla.
2. D is an expert in both tabla and ghatam.
3. Both F and G are experts in tabla, but only one of them is also an expert in mridangam.
4. Neither I nor J is an expert in tabla.
5. Neither H nor I is an expert in mridangam, but only one of them is an expert in ghatam.
Q 1. Who among the following is DEFINITELY an expert in tabla but not in either mridangam or ghatam?
A. C
B. H
C. A
D. F
Answer: B
Q 2. Who among the following is DEFINITELY an expert in mridangam but not in either tabla or ghatam?
A. B
B. G
C. J
D. E
Answer: C
Q3. Which of the following pairs CANNOT have any musician who is an expert in both tabla and mridangam but not in ghatam?
A. A and B
B. C and F
C. C and E
D. F and G
Answer: C
Q 4. If C is an expert in mridangam and F is not, then which are the three musicians who are experts in tabla but not in either mridangam or ghatam?
A. C, E and G
B. C, G and H
C. E, G and H
D. E, F and H
Answer: D
Most Important Tabular Arrangement Question for CAT
Question 3: A street cleaning crew works only Monday to Friday, and only during the day. It takes the crew an entire morning or an entire afternoon to clean a street. During one week the crew cleaned exactly eight streets—First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth streets. The following is known about the crew’s schedule for the week:
A. The crew cleaned no street on Friday morning.
B. The crew cleaned no street on Wednesday afternoon.
C. It cleaned Fourth Street on Tuesday morning.
D. It cleaned Seventh Street on Thursday morning.
E. It cleaned Fourth Street before Sixth Street and after Eighth Street.
F. It cleaned Second, Fifth, and Eighth streets on afternoons.
Q 1. If the crew cleaned Second Street earlier in the week than Seventh Street, then it must have cleaned which one of the following streets on Tuesday afternoon?
A. First Street
B. Second Street
C. Third Street
D. Fifth Street
E. Eighth Street
Answer: B
Q 2. If the crew cleaned Sixth Street on a morning and cleaned Second Street before Seventh Street, then what is the maximum number of streets whose cleaning times cannot be determined?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
Answer: C
Q 3. What is the maximum possible number of streets any one of which could be the one the crew cleaned on Friday afternoon?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
Answer: E
Q 4. If the crew cleaned First Street earlier in the week than Third Street, then which one of the following statements must be false?
A. The crew cleaned First Street on Tuesday afternoon.
B. The crew cleaned Second Street on Thursday afternoon.
C. The crew cleaned Third Street on Wednesday morning.
D. The crew cleaned Fifth Street on Thursday afternoon.
E. The crew cleaned Sixth Street on Friday afternoon.
Answer: A
Q 5. If the crew cleaned Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh streets in numerical order, then what is the maximum number of different schedules any one of which the crew could have had for the entire week?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
Answer: D
Q 6. Suppose the crew had cleaned Fourth Street on Tuesday afternoon instead of on Tuesday morning, but all other conditions remained the same. Which one of the following statements could be false?
A. The crew cleaned First Street before Second Street.
B. The crew cleaned Second Street before Fifth Street.
C. The crew cleaned Third Street before Second Street.
D. The crew cleaned Sixth Street before Fifth Street.
E. The crew cleaned Seventh Street before Second Street
Answer: B
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Question 4. Four institutes, A, B, C, and D, had contracts with four vendors W, X, Y, and Z during the ten calendar years from 2010 to 2019. The contracts were either multi-year contracts running for several consecutive years or single-year contracts. No institute had more than one contract with the same vendor. However, in a calendar year, an institute may have had contracts with multiple vendors, and a vendor may have had contracts with multiple institutes. It is known that over the decade, the institutes each got into two contracts with two of these vendors, and each vendor got into two contracts with two of these institutes.
The following facts are also known about these contracts.
I. Vendor Z had at least one contract in every year.
II. Vendor X had one or more contracts in every year up to 2015, but no contract in any
year after that.
III. Vendor Y had contracts in 2010 and 2019. Vendor W had contracts only in 2012.
IV. There were five contracts in 2012.
V. There were exactly four multi-year contracts. Institute B had a 7-year contract, D had a 4- year contract, and A and C had one 3-year contract each. The other four
contracts were single-year contracts.
VI. Institute C had one or more contracts in 2012 but did not have any contract in 2011
VII. Institutes B and D each had exactly one contract in 2012. Institute D did not have any contract in 2010.
Q 1. In which of the following years were there two or more contracts?
1. 2018
2. 2017
3. 2015
4. 2016
Answer: C
Q 2. Which of the following is true?
1. D had a contract with Y in 2019
2. D had a contract with X in 2011
3. B had a contract with Y in 2019
4. B had a contract with Z in 2017
Answer: C
Q 3. In how many years during this period was there only one contract?
1. 4
2. 2
3. 3
4. 5
Answer: C
Q 4. What BEST can be concluded about the number of contracts in 2010?
1. exactly 4
2. at least 4
3. exactly 3
4. at least 3
Answer: C
Q 5. Which institutes had multiple contracts during the same year?
1. B and C only
2. A only
3. B only
4. A and B only
Answer: D
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