CAT 2022 Slot 3 VARC Q17 Para Jumbles

Question 17 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2022 Slot 3, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

1.Various industrial sectors including retail, transit systems, enterprises, educational institutions, event organizing, finance, travel etc. have now started leveraging these beacons solutions to track and communicate with their customers.
2.A beacon fixed on to a shop wall enables the retailer to assess the proximity of the customer, and come up with a much targeted or personalized communication like offers, discounts and combos on products in each shelf.
3.Smart phones or other mobile devices can capture the beacon signals, and distance can be estimated by measuring received signal strength.
4.Beacons are tiny and inexpensive, micro-location-based technology devices that can send radio frequency signals and notify nearby Bluetooth devices of their presence and transmit information.

TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.

Answer: 4312 Para Jumbles TITA

Solution

  1. 4 defines beacons, the topic, so it opens.
  2. 3 explains how devices pick up 'the beacon signals' and estimate distance, which follows the definition.
  3. 1 says many sectors 'now' use 'these beacon solutions'; 2 gives a specific retail example of that use.