CAT 2025 Slot 3 DILR · Question 12
Anirbid, Chandranath, Koushik, and Suranjan participated in a puzzle solving
competition. The competition comprised 10 puzzles that had to be solved in the same
sequence, i.e., a competitor got access to a puzzle as soon as they solved the previous
puzzle. Some of the puzzles were visual puzzles and the others were number-based puzzles.
The winner of the competition was the one who solved all puzzles in the least time.
The following charts describe their progress in the competition. The chart on the left
shows the number of puzzles solved by each competitor at a given time (in minutes) after the
start of the competition. The chart on the right shows the number of visual puzzles solved
by each competitor at a given time (in minutes) after the start of the
competition.
At what number in the sequence was the fourth number-based puzzle?
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