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Question No 1 – 4: There are exactly ten stores and no
other buildings on a straight street in Bistupur Market. On the northern side
of the street, from West to East, are stores 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9; on the southern
side of the street, also from West to East, are stores 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. The
stores on the northern side are located directly across the street from those
on the southern side, facing each other in pairs, as follows: 1 and 2; 3 and 4;
5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10. Each store is decorated with lights in exactly one
of the following colours: green, red, and yellow. The stores have been
decorated with lights according to the following conditions:
No store is decorated with
lights of the same colour as those of any store adjacent to it.
No store is decorated with
lights of the same colour as those of the store directly across the street from
it.
Yellow lights decorate
exactly one store on each side of the street.
Red lights decorate store 4.
Yellow lights decorate store
5
1. Which one of the following could be an accurate
list of the colours of the lights that decorate stores 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10,
respectively?
(A) Green, red, green, red, green
(B) Green, red, green, yellow, red
(C) Green, red, yellow, red, green
(D) Yellow, green, red, green, red
(E) Yellow, red, green, red, yellow
2. If green lights decorate store 7, then each of the
following statements could be false EXCEPT:
(A) Green lights decorate
store 2
(B) Green lights decorate
store 10
(C) Red lights decorate
store 8
(D) Red lights decorate
store 9
(E) Yellow lights decorate
store 2
3. Which one of the following statements MUST be true?
(A) Green lights decorate
store 10
(B) Red lights decorate
store 1
(C) Red lights decorate
store 8
(D) Yellow lights decorate
store 8
(E) Yellow lights decorate
store 10
4. Suppose that yellow lights decorate exactly two
stores on the south side of the street and exactly one store on the north side.
If all other conditions remain the same, then which one of the following
statements MUST be true?
(A) Green lights decorate
store 1
(B) Red lights decorate
store 7
(C) Red lights decorate
store 10
(D) Yellow lights decorate
store 8
(E) Yellow lights decorate
store 2
Question No. 5-8. During a four-week period, each one
of seven previously unadvertised products – G, H, J, K, L, M and O – will be
advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week.
Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. None
of the other products gets repeated in any pair. Further, the following
constraints must be observed:
J is not
advertised during a given week unless H is advertised during the immediately
preceding week.
The product that is
advertised twice is advertised during week 4 but is not advertised during week
3.
G is not advertised during a
given week unless either J or O is also advertised that week.
K is advertised during one
of the first two weeks.
O is one of the products
advertised during week 3.
5. Which one of the following could be the schedule of
the advertisements?
(A) Week 1: G, J; week 2: K,
L; week 3: O, M; week 4: H, L
(B) Week 1: H, K; week 2: J,
G; week 3: O, L; week 4: M, K
(C) Week 1: H, K; week 2: J,
M; week 3: O, L; week 4: G, M
(D) Week 1: H, L; week 2: J,
M; week 3: O, G; week 4: K, L
(E) Week 1: K, M; week 2: H,
J; week 3: O, G; week 4: L, M
6.
If L is the product that is advertised during two of the weeks, which one of
the following is a product that MUST be advertised during one of the weeks in
which L is advertised?
(A) G (B) H (C)
J (D) K (E) M
7.
Which one of the following is a product that could be advertised in any of the
four weeks?
(A) H (B) J (C)
K (D) L (E) O
8.
Which one of the following is a pair of products that could be advertised
during the same week?
(A) G and H (B) H and J (C) H and O (D) K and O (E) M and O
Question
9 – 10: Read the following situations and choose the best possible alternative.
9.
A database software manufacturing company found out that a product it has
launched recently had a few bugs. The product has already been bought by more than
a million customers. The company realized that bugs could cost its customers
significantly. However if it informs the customers about the bug, it feared
losing credibility. What would be the most ethical option for the company?
(A) Apologize and fix up the bug
for all customers even if it has to incur losses.
(B) Do not tell customers about
bugs and remove only when customers face problems, even if it means losses for
the customers.
(C) Keep silent and do nothing.
(D) Keep silent but introduce an
improved product that is bug free at the earliest.
(E) Take the product off the
market and apologize to customers.
10.
The city of Nagar has a population of 10 million, 2 millions amongst whom were
rich, 3 million poor and 5 million belonged to the middle class. Saundarya
Cosmetics manufactured and sold beauty product to rich class at a premium
price. Its products were very popular with customers. Many people from the
middle and poor segments of population aspired to buy these products but could
not afford because of high prices. Of late, sales growth was stagnating in the
rich segment. Which of the following is the best option for Saundarya Cosmetics
to maximize long-term profits?
(A) Sell the same products at
lower prices to middle and poor classes.
(B) Sell its products under
different brand names to middle and poor classes.
(C) Sell similar products, of
different quality standards with different brand names, to middle classes and
poor classes.
(D) Continue to target rich only
and hope that today’s middle class would be tomorrow’s rich class.
(E) Target middle class as it is
the largest segment and forget about rich class.
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Answers
1(b) 2(d)
3(b) 4(e) 5(b)
6(e) 7(d) 8(b)
9(a) 10(c)