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The Four-Investor Share Matrix

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Directions: Read the information given below and answer the questions that follow.

Four investors – P, Q, R and S – invested in the shares of four different companies: Tata Motors (TM), Reliance (RIL), ITC and Infosys (INF). The partially filled table below shows the number of shares (in hundreds) bought by each investor. For example, the 22 in the ITC column for investor P means P bought 200200 shares of ITC.

InvestorTMRILITCINFTotal
P22
Q1212
R77
S1515
Total11111212881414


1. Every investor bought at least
100100 shares (i.e., a value of at least 11 in the table) of each of the four companies. All hidden values in the table are whole numbers.
2. The number of INF shares bought by P, Q, R and S, in that exact order, formed an increasing arithmetic progression.

3. R bought an equal number of shares in TM, RIL and ITC.

4. S bought twice as many shares of TM as P did.

5. Q bought an equal number of shares of RIL and ITC.

6. P bought strictly more shares of INF than of TM.

How many shares of Reliance (RIL) did P buy?
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