CAT 2017 Slot 2 QA Q1 Number Systems

Question 1 of the Quantitative Ability (QA) section, CAT 2017 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer.

The numbers 1, 2,..., 9 are arranged in a 3 X 3 square grid in such a way that each number occurs once and the entries along each column, each row, and each of the two diagonals add up to the same value. If the top left and the top right entries of the grid are 6 and 2, respectively, then the bottom middle entry is: [TITA]

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Answer: 3 Number Systems TITA

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