CAT 2021 Question Paper | CAT Verbal Ability Slot 1
Question :

Suppose hospital A admitted 21 less Covid infected patients than hospital B, and all eventually recovered. The sum of recovery days for patients in hospitals A and B were 200 and 152, respectively. If the average recovery days for patients admitted in hospital A was 3 more than the average in hospital B then the number admitted in hospital A was

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Answer : The answer is '35'

Explanatory Answer

Let's consider the number of patients admitted in hospital A and hospital B to be 'x' and ‘x + 21' 
Given that, the sum of recovery days for patients in hospitals A and B were 200 and 152, respectively.
The average recovery days for patients admitted in hospital A was 3 more than the average in-hospital B.

By solving the above equation we get x = 35.
Hence, the number of patients admitted to hospital A is 35.

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