CAT Question of the Day The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph. For a country that likes to believe that it is about catching up with the West or even the advanced Asian nations, India has a long way to go before it matches them on average life expectancy. An average Indian was expected to live 63.7 years in 2008, but most Asians live longer, 71.6 years. And those in the Organisation of Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) nations live as long as 79.2 years. The Japanese live 82.7 years, the South Koreans 79.9, and the Chinese 73.1 years. | OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | India has a long way to go before it can catch up with the west or the advanced Asian countries, though it likes to believe that it would soon. | | | 2) | Going by the average life expectancy of Indians, India is unlikely to catch up with the West or advanced Asian nations anytime soon. | | | 3) | At an average life expectancy of 63.7 years, Indians still live shorter lives than people in the West and advanced Asian nations. | | | 4) | With the average life expectancy of 63.7 years, India is unlikely to catch up with the West or advanced Asian nations anytime soon. |
Tip of the Day While solving Modern Maths questions, It is convenient to shift to logarithmic expressions when working with higher powers of variables. Last year's Question of the day (22-Dec-12) The average of a sequence of n alternate natural numbers is N. If the next number in the sequence is also included the average changes by:
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Depends on n | | | 2) | Depends on the starting number of the series | | | 3) | Both 1 and 2 | | | 4) | None of these |
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