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Find the incorrect term in the sequence below -
38, 41, 46, 53, 63, 73
  • a)
    41
  • b)
    73
  • c)
    63
  • d)
    46
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Jaideep Shah answered  •  4 days ago
Understanding the Sequence
To identify the incorrect term in the sequence -38, 41, 46, 53, 63, 73, we need to analyze the pattern of the numbers.
Identifying the Pattern
- The sequence starts at -38.
- Each subsequent term seems to be increasing.
Calculating the Differences
- From -38 to 41:
- Difference = 41 - (-38) = 79
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- Difference = 46 - 41 = 5
- From 46 to 53:
- Difference = 53 - 46 = 7
- From 53 to 63:
- Difference = 63 - 53 = 10
- From 63 to 73:
- Difference = 73 - 63 = 10
Identifying the Anomaly
- The sequence shows a consistent increase except for the jump from 41 to 46, which is only 5.
- The subsequent differences (7, 10, 10) indicate a growing pattern.
Conclusion
- The incorrect term is 63 because it disrupts the increasing trend.
- The correct term should follow the increased difference pattern, leading to a value higher than 63, indicating that 63 does not fit into the identified pattern.
Thus, option C (63) is indeed the incorrect term in the sequence.

Direction: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Most students arrive at [college] using “discrete, concrete, and absolute categories to understand people, knowledge, and values.” These students live with a dualistic view, seeing “the world in polar terms of we-right-good vs. other-wrong-bad.” These students cannot acknowledge the existence of more than one point of view toward any issue. There is one “right” way. And because these absolutes are assumed by or imposed on the individual from external authority, they cannot be personally substantiated or authenticated by experience. These students are slaves to the generalizations of their authorities. An eye for an eye! Capital punishment is apt justice for murder. The Bible says so.
Most students break through the dualistic stage to another equally frustrating stage—multiplicity. Within this stage, students see a variety of ways to deal with any given topic or problem. However, while these students accept multiple points of view, they are unable to evaluate or justify them. To have an opinion is everyone’s right. While students in the dualistic stage are unable to produce evidence to support what they consider to be self-evident absolutes, students in the multiplistic stage are unable to connect instances into coherent generalizations. Every assertion, every point, is valid. In their democracy they are directionless. Capital punishment? What sense is there in answering one murder with another?
The third stage of development finds students living in a world of relativism. Knowledge is relative: right and wrong depend on the context. No longer recognizing the validity of each individual idea or action, relativists examine everything to find its place in an overall framework. While the multiplist views the world as unconnected, almost random, the relativist seeks always to place phenomena into coherent larger patterns. Students in this stage view the world analytically. They appreciate authority for its expertise, using it to defend their own generalizations. In addition, they accept or reject ostensible authority after systematically evaluating its validity. In this stage, however, students resist decision making. Suffering the ambivalence of finding several consistent and acceptable alternatives, they are almost overwhelmed by diversity and need means for managing it. Capital punishment is appropriate justice—in some instances.
In the final stage students manage diversity through individual commitment. Students do not deny relativism. Rather they assert an identity by forming commitments and assuming responsibility for them. They gather personal experience into a coherent framework, abstract principles to guide their actions, and use these principles to discipline and govern their thoughts and actions. The individual has chosen to join a particular community and agrees to live by its tenets. The accused has had the benefit of due process to guard his civil rights, a jury of peers has found him guilty, and the state has the right to end his life. This is a principle my community and I endorse
Students who are “dualistic” thinkers may not be able to support their beliefs convincingly because
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Jaideep Shah answered  •  4 days ago
Understanding Dualistic Thinkers
Dualistic thinkers, as described in the passage, are characterized by their reliance on absolute truths handed down from authorities rather than personal experience. This leads to a lack of convincing support for their beliefs.
Reasons for Weak Support of Beliefs:
- Reliance on Authority:
Dualistic thinkers accept truths s
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Jaideep Shah upvoted   •  Mar 02, 2025

Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow.
In a year prior to the Olympics, all the participating athletes were required to undergo dope tests conducted by the Anti-Doping Association.
The tests of the athletes were done five times. The first test was done in February, the second in April, the third in August, the fourth in October, and the fifth in December. Only the athletes who passed the test in February were eligible for the test in April. Only those who passed the test in April were eligible for the test in August and those who passed in August were tested in October, and so on so forth.
During a test, an athlete was tested for the presence of exactly one of the five banned substances - A, B, C, D or E. An athlete already tested for the presence of a particular substance was not tested for the presence of the same substance in subsequent test(s) during the year.
The table given below shows the number of athletes tested in each of the five months for the different banned substances. Finally, only 91 athletes passed the tests, and were cleared to participate in the Olympics. An athlete is said to pass the test conducted for the presence of a banned substance, when that particular banned substance is not detected in the blood sample of the athlete.
Q. Suppose
X = The number of Athletes who failed the test in February due to the presence of substance other than A.
Y = The number of Athletes who failed the test in February due to the presence of any of the five substances.
What can be the approximate minimum value of X, when expressed as a percentage of Y?
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Divey Sethi answered
In Feb, total of 920 Athletes were tested, out of which 430 passed the test and underwent next round of tests in April.
Therefore Y = 920 – 430 = 490. In feb 105 athletes went test for substance A.
If all of them failed the test due to a substance other than A is 490 -105 = 385.
Therefore minimum value of X when expressed as a % of Y is 385 / 490 x 100 = 78.57%. 

Jaideep Shah upvoted   •  Nov 13, 2024

The questions below are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. You should not make assumptions that are by common sense standards implausible, superfluous, or incompatible with the passage. Here-and-There Import Company has always shown a quarterly loss whenever the value of the dollar falls 7% or more against the yen in the previous fiscal quarter. The company had a loss this quarter. Therefore, the dollar must have fallen at least 7% against the yen last quarter.
Which of the following exhibits a parallel pattern of reasoning as the argument above?
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Aditya Kumar answered
With a parallel pattern of reasoning questions, we first identify the structure and validity of the passage, and then consider each answer-choice in turn. The argument in the passage may be diagrammed as follows: Dollar drops > Quarterly loss Quarterly loss ∴ Dollar dropped This argument is invalid since it commits the fallacy of affirming the conclusion. Consider choice (D): Sunny > Biff goes to beach Biff goes to beach
∴ Sunny The answer is (D). As for (A), a diagram shows: 4th of July weekend > Parking enforced Parking enforced
∴ July 4th This appears to have the same structure as the original passage, but it is in fact much stronger. While the premise in (A) discusses the 4th of July weekend, the choice concludes the day is July 4th itself. Choices (B) and (C) exhibit valid reasoning and therefore can not be parallel to the original argument. Finally, it’s hard to know exactly what choice (E) is saying.

Jaideep Shah upvoted   •  Oct 13, 2024

Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below-
Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G were seated along a straight row facing the North. Each of them owned a different handset of different colour. The handsets were of the brands Nokia, Samsung, apple, Lenovo, Micromax, vivo and Motorola not necessarily in the same order. The colours were red, blue, golden, white, black, orange and purple not necessarily in the same order.
• G's neighbour had a white phone and was seated at a gap of 3 from the person with the Motorola handset
• B was 3rd to the right of the one with the Nokia phone
• Motorola handset was purple in colour
• C had the Samsung handset and was seated 3rd to the right of D
• A's neighbour had the apple handset
• E had the blue handset and was at either of the corners, E was not neighbouring B
• A's neighbours had red and golden handsets
• The person with Micromax was 2nd to the right of the person with Lenovo
• A and C were seated at a gap of 1
• A did not have the white or the purple handset
• G did not have the golden handset
• The person with apple handset was to the immediate left of the person with the black handset
Who among the following owned the Nokia handset?
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Krishna Iyer answered
• C had the Samsung handset and was seated 3rd to the right of D
• A's neighbours had red and golden handsets
• A and C were seated at a gap of 1
• A's neighbour had the apple handset
• The person with apple handset was to the immediate left of the person with the black handset
• E had the blue handset and was at either of the corners, E was not neighbouring B. Thus, case 1 is invalid.
• B was 3rd to the right of the one with the Nokia phone
• G's neighbour had a white phone and was seated at a gap of 3 from the person with the Motorola handset
• Motorola handset was purple in colour
• A did not have the white or the purple handset
Case 1:
Case 2:
E should not be neighbouring B, thus, the case is invalid.
• The person with Micromax was 2nd to the right of the person with Lenovo
• G did not have the golden handset
Thus, the final arrangement is as follows:
A owned the Nokia handset.

Jaideep Shah upvoted   •  Sep 30, 2024

Five students went to a doctor for regular checkup. Doctor asked his assistant to measure the weight of these students. But the problem is that the weighing machine that assistant has measures only those weights which are more than 80kg. So assistant thought to measure weight of 3 students at a time and he weighed all the possible combinations of weight of students. He obtained the measurements as 95kg, 150kg, 125kg, 120kg, 145kg, 175kg, 170kg, 200kg, 195kg & 225kg.
Find the average weight of all the students.
    Correct answer is '54'. Can you explain this answer?

    Lavanya Menon answered
    Let p, q, r, s, t be the weight of 5 students. Let us assume that p < q < r < s < t.
    From the information mentioned above.
    The three lightest students will have the least weight.
    Hence, p + q + r = 95 (i)
    The two lightest students and the fourth lightest student will have the second least weight.
    p + q + s = 120 (ii)
    The three heaviest students will have the highest weight.
    r + s + t = 225 (iii)
    The two heaviest students and the fourth heaviest student will have the second highest weight.
    q + s + t = 200 (iv)
    Since the students are weighed in triplets, 10 weightings mean each student is weighed 6 times.
    Hence, 6(p + q + r + s + t) = 95 + 150 + 145 + 120 + 145 + 175 + 170 + 200 + 195 + 225 = 1620
    => p + q + r + s + t = 270 (v)
    (i) + (iii) - (v) => r = 50
    (i) + (iv) - (v) => q = 25
    (ii) + (iii) - (v) => s = 75
    Putting the values of q and r in (i), we get p=20
    Putting the values of r and s in (iii), we get t=100
    Average weight of all the students = (p + q + r + s + t)/5 = (20 + 25 + 50 + 75 +100)/5 = 270/5 = 54kg.

    Find the most appropriate word to be fit in the blank.
    Glycerin soap ordinarily ___________of about equal parts of pure hard soap and glycerin.
    • a)
      comprising
    • b)
      made
    • c)
      consists
    • d)
      All of the above
    Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

    Jaideep Shah answered  •  Aug 02, 2024
    Explanation:
    Glycerin soap ordinarily consists of about equal parts of pure hard soap and glycerin.
    • Comprising: This word implies that glycerin soap is made up of different parts or components, which may not be accurate in this context.
    • Made: This word is too vague and does not convey the specific relationship between hard soap and glycerin in ... more
    • Consists: This word accurately describes the composition of glycerin soap, indicating that it is primarily composed of equal parts of pure hard soap and glycerin.


    Therefore, the most appropriate word to be fit in the blank is "consists."

    Direction: A toy-producing factory has a setup that requires 3 stages stage 1, stage 2, stage 3 and the manufacturing of toys must take place in the order of stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3. There is one machine each for every stage and the following things are known about the factory
    1. Production happens in batches and 1 batch contains 50,000 toys
    2. Machine for stage 1 takes 25 minutes to process 1 batch. Time taken for stage 2 and stage 3 is 40 minutes and 30 minutes respectively.
    3. Stage 1 machine is stopped for maintenance for 15 minutes after completing every 3 batches.
    4. Stage 2 machine is stopped for 10 minutes for maintenance after completing every 4 batches. Stage 3 machine is stopped for 20 minutes for maintenance after completing every 4 batches.
    5. Even if the machine is idle between the batches, the maintenance has to happen only after the defined number of batches have been produced.
    6. There is no time delay in switching to other batches or maintenance.
    7. The factory is operating from 9 am to 5 pm. No machine is supposed to be running after 5 pm.
    8. The production is carried out in such a way that all the stages are completed on the same day.
    Q. What is the absolute difference (in minutes) in time when batch 6 was completed and when the factory began operating?
    Correct answer is '305'. Can you explain this answer?

    Jaideep Shah answered  •  Aug 02, 2024
    Calculation of time difference between batch 6 completion and factory start
    In order to find the absolute difference in time when batch 6 was completed and when the factory began operating, we need to calculate the total time taken to produce 6 batches of toys.

    Time taken for each stage
    - Stage 1: 25 minutes per batch
    - Stage 2: 40 minutes per batch
    - S
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    18. Each of 435 bags contains at least one of the following three items: raisins, almonds, and peanuts. The number of bags that contain only raisins is 10 times the number of bags that contain only peanuts. The number of bags... more

    Jaideep Shah answered  •  Aug 02, 2024
    Analysis:
    - Let's denote the number of bags containing only raisins, almonds, and peanuts as R, A, and P respectively.
    - Given that the number of bags containing only almonds is 20 times the number of bags containing only raisins and peanuts, we can write A = 20(R + P).
    - Also, it is given that the number of bags containing only peanuts is one-fifth the number of bags contain
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    The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
    1. Camelids are unusual in that their modern distribution is almost the reverse of their origin. 
    2. The original camelids of North America remained common until the quite recent geological past, but then disappeared, possibly as a result of hunting or habitat alterations by the earliest human settlers, and possibly as a result of changing environmental conditions after the last ice age, or a combination of these factors. 
    3. Camelids first appeared around 45 million years ago during the middle Eocene, in present-day North America. 
    4. Three species groups survived: the dromedary of northern Africa and southwest Asia; the Bactrian camel of central Asia; and the South American group, which has now diverged into a range of forms that are closely related, but usually classified as four species: llamas, alpacas, guanacos and vicuñas. 
    5. The family remained confined to the North American continent until only about two or three million years ago, when representatives arrived in Asia, and (as part of the Great American Interchange that followed the formation of the Isthmus of Panam1] South America. 
      Correct answer is '13524'. Can you explain this answer?

      Jaideep Shah answered  •  Aug 02, 2024
      Explanation:

      Camelids Origin and Distribution:
      - Sentence 3 introduces the origin of camelids in North America around 45 million years ago.
      - Sentence 1 states the unusual fact that the modern distribution of camelids is almost the reverse of their origin.

      Extinction and Survival:
      - Sentence 2 talks about the disappearance of the original c
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      Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below.
      A person has kept some sweets in 10 lockers for his 10 students, so that each of them chooses one. In each locker, there are some chocolates and some lollipops, where each lollipop costs Rs. 15 and each chocolate costs Rs. 25. Each locker is differently coloured i.e. yellow, blue, white, red, green, brown, pink, grey, orange and purple. Lockers are in two rows, one above another. The bottom row has lockers marked with numbers 1 to 5 (left to right) and the top row has lockers marked with numbers 6 to 10 (left to right). Locker number 1 is just below locker number 6 and in the same way, locker number 2 is just below locker number 7 and so on. Locker numbers 1 to 5 contain sweets worth Rs. 485 and locker numbers 6 to 10 contain sweets worth Rs. 570. There are neither less than 3 sweets nor more than 8 sweets in any locker. Locker number 9 is brown in colour. Locker number 5 has 4 lollipops and 4 chocolates. Locker of red colour is numbered 3 more than the locker of green colour and both are in the same row. Locker number 1 contains sweets worth Rs. 125. The red coloured locker has sweets worth Rs. 45 more than the green coloured locker. Only the purple coloured locker contains the maximum number of sweets. The pink coloured locker is just above the yellow coloured locker. Grey colour locker is numbered 3 more than the locker which is yellow in colour and both are in the same row. The locker number which is numbered 1 less than the orange coloured locker contains sweets worth Rs. 95. The blue coloured locker contains 2 lollipops. The white coloured locker contains 3 sweets. Sweets in the orange coloured locker are worth Rs. 5 less than the sweets in the pink coloured locker. The red and white coloured lockers contain the same number of lollipops. Sweets in the grey coloured locker are worth Rs. 10 less than the white coloured locker. Sweets in the pink and blue coloured lockers cost Rs. 190 altogether. The orange and brown coloured lockers contain equal number of chocolates. Locker number 2 has sweets worth Rs. 80.
      Q. How many chocolates are there in lockers 6 to 10 altogether?
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      Jaideep Shah answered  •  Jun 17, 2024
      Explanation:
      Given Information:
      - Sweets worth Rs. 570 are in lockers 6 to 10.
      - Each chocolate costs Rs. 25.
      Calculations:
      - From the given information, we know that locker number 2 has sweets worth Rs. 80.
      - This means locker number 6 has sweets worth Rs. 570 - Rs. 80 = Rs. 490.
      - Now, we need to find the number of chocolates in lockers 6 t
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      How to find if a big number is a perfect square?

      Jaideep Shah answered  •  Apr 27, 2024
      How to Determine if a Big Number is a Perfect Square
      Determining whether a big number is a perfect square involves a simple process that can be carried out using basic mathematical principles. Below are the steps to follow in order to find out if a given big number is a perfect square:

      Step 1: Find the Square Root
      The first step in determining if a big number is
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      Jaideep Shah asked   •  Apr 27, 2024

      Instructions
      The schematic diagram below shows 12 rectangular houses in a housing complex. House numbers are mentioned in the rectangles representing the houses. The houses are located in six columns - Column-A through Column-F, and two rows - Row-1 and Row-2. The houses are divided into two blocks - Block XX and Block YY. The diagram also shows two roads, one passing in front of the houses in Row-2 and another between the two blocks.
      Some of the houses are occupied. The remaining ones are vacant and are the only ones available for sale.
      The road adjacency value of a house is the number of its sides adjacent to a road. For example, the road adjacency values of C2, F2, and B1 are 2, 1, and 0, respectively. The neighbour count of a house is the number of sides of that house adjacent to occupied houses in the same block. For example, E1 and C1 can have the maximum possible neighbour counts of 3 and 2, respectively.
      The base price of a vacant house is Rs. 10 lakhs if the house does not have a parking space, and Rs. 12 lakhs if it does. The quoted price (in lakhs of Rs.) of a vacant house is calculated as (base price) + 5 × (road adjacency value) + 3 × (neighbour count). The following information is also known.
      1. The maximum quoted price of a house in Block XX is Rs. 24 lakhs. The minimum quoted price of a house in block YY is Rs. 15 lakhs, and one such house is in Column-E.
      2. Row-1 has two occupied houses, one in each block.
      3. Both houses in Column-E are vacant. Each of Column-D and Column-F has at least one occupied house.
      4. There is only one house with parking space in Block YY.
      Which house in Block YY has parking space?
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      EduRev CAT answered

      It is given that some of the houses are occupied. The remaining ones are vacant and are the only ones available for sale.
      The base price of a vacant house is Rs. 10 lakhs if the house does not have a parking space, and Rs. 12 lakhs if it does. The quoted price (in lakhs of Rs.) of a vacant house is calculated as (base price) + 5 × (road adjacency value) + 3 × (neighbor count).
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      Jaideep Shah asked   •  Nov 27, 2023

      Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries.
      Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

      In computer programming, code smell is any symptom in the source code of a programme that possibly indicates a deeper problem. Code smells are usually not bugs - they are not technically incorrect and don't currently prevent the programme from functioning. Instead, they indicate weaknesses in design that may be slowing down development or increasing the risk of bugs or failures in the future. But when code is a slow, wretchedly designed mess that's hard to maintain, programmers talk about stench. The metaphor becomes olfactory, the swill of gases that rise from rot and decay.
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      Wizius Careers answered
      The passage talks about how a particular concept, code smell, is first used in technical sense to denote slowing speed of the system, with even more slowing if it is not corrected, leading people to use the term 'stench' to denote the ultimate decay of the source code. Option A states the problem too broadly as that belonging to the "the digital world". Option B states that the olfactory meaning takes 'precedence' which is not stated in the text. Option D tries to link the ideas of 'stench' and 'code smell'. However, these two are just separate terminologies where the 'stench' is used to describe more serious computing problems as compared to 'code smell'. Only option C provides the best summary of the text.

      Jaideep Shah asked   •  Apr 11, 2023

      If the difference between compound interest and simple interest on a certain amount for two years is Rs. 7.35 and the rate of interest is 7%, then find the principal.
      • a)
        Rs. 1500
      • b)
        Rs. 1400
      • c)
        Rs. 1200
      • d)
        Rs. 1300
      • e)
        None of these
      Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

      Given:
      Difference between compound interest and simple interest for 2 years = Rs. 7.35
      Rate of interest = 7%

      To find:
      Principal amount

      Let's solve this step by step.

      Step 1: Calculate the difference between compound interest and simple interest for 1 year.
      Since the question asks for the difference for 2 years, we need to find the difference for
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      Jaideep Shah asked   •  Feb 05, 2020

      Morita, a cow, is sold at a profit of 20% to a leather factory. The leather factory spends 120% of the cost at which they bought her to process her skin to convert it into sheets of leather. The leather factory sells the leather to a shoe maker at a profit of 10%. The shoe maker spends 50% of the cost at which he bought the leather to make a pair of shoes and sells it to a distributor earning 15% profit. The distributor sells it to the retailer at 20% profit. The retailer marks up the price by 20% and then gives 10% discount. What percentage more than the cost of the Morita does the consumer pay? (Assume that only one pair of shoes can be made from the leather of one cow.)
      • a)
        540%
      • b)
        530%
      • c)
        549%
      • d)
        545%
      Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

      Alok Choudhary answered
      Let the cost of Morita be Rs. X.

      Cost to the leather factory = 1.2X
      Cost on processing the leather = 1.2 x 1.2X = 1.44X
      Cost of leather = 1,2X + 1.44X = 2.64X
      Cost to the shoe maker = 1.1 x 2.64X = 2.904x
      Cost involved in making a pair of shoes = 0.5 * 2.904X = 1.452X
      So, the cost of pair of shoes = 2.904X + 1.452X = 4.356X
      Cost to the distributer = 1.15 x 4.356X = 5.0094X
      Cost to the retailer = 1.2 x 5.0094X = 6.01128X
      Marked price = 1.2 x 6.01128X= 7.213536X
      Discounted price = 0.9 x 7.213536X = 6.4921824X
      The customer pays 5.49Xi.e., 549% more than the cost of Morita.
      Hence, option 3.

      Jaideep Shah asked   •  Jan 28, 2020

      Given that x = 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + ... + 2k an d y = 2k+1 where 0 < k < 10000. If k is an integer, then what is the sum of the difference between the values of y and x for the range 0 < k < 10000?
      • a)
        1
      • b)
        10000
      • c)
        10001
      • d)
        None of these
      Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

      x = 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + ... + 2k 
      x is the sum of the first (k+ 1) terms of the geometric progression with first term as 1 and common ratio 2.

      = 2k+1 - 1
      = y - 1
      Difference between values of y and x for any 0 < k < 10000 =  1
      The sum of difference between the values of y and x for 0 < k < 10000 = 1 + 1 + 1 + ... 9999 times = 9999
      Hence, option 4.

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