IIFT 2010

Directions for Questions 1 to 5: Read the following information and choose the right alternative in the questions that follow.

During the cultural week of an institute six competitions were conducted.

I. Only one competition was held in a day.

II. Rock band competition was not conducted on the closing day.

III. Fash-p was conducted on the day prior to the debate competition.

IV. Group song competition was conducted neither on Wednesday nor on Saturday.

V. None of the competitions was conducted on Thursday and Sunday.

VI. The street Play competitions was held on Monday.

VII. There was a gap of two days between the debate competition and the group song competition.

1. The cultural week started with which competition?

(a) Fash-p competition

(b) Debate competition

(c) Street play competition

(d) Rock band competition

2. How many days gap is there between rock band competition and group song

competition?

(a) Two

(b) Three

(d) Five

(c) Four

3. Which pair of competitions was conducted on Wednesday?

(a) Rock band competition and debate competition

(b) Debate competition and fash-p competition

(c) Rockband competition and Folk dance competition

(d) None of these

4. Which competition exactly precedes the street play competition?

(a) Rock band competition

(b) Group song competition

(c) Debate competition

(d) Fash-p competition

5. The Fash-p competition follows which competition?

(a) Debate competition

(b) Street play competition

(c) Rock band competition

(d) None of these

Directions for Questions 6 to 8: Read the information given below and answer the questions that follow the information.

A parking lot can accommodate only six cars. The six cars are parked in two rows in such a way that the front of the three cars parked in one row is facing the other three cars in the other row.

I. The Alto is not parked in the beginning of any row.

II. The Esteem is second to the right of zTO.

III. Punto, which is the neighbour of Alto is parked diagonally opposite the zTO.

IV. Swift is parked in front of Alto.

V. SX4 is parked to the immediate right of Alto.

6. If the SX4 and Esteem exchange their positions mutually then car(s) adjacent to Esteem is(are)?

(à) ³ 10 and Swift (b) Only Swift

(c) Only Alto (d) Alto and Punto

7. If Alto changes position with ³ 10 and Punto changes position with SX4 and Swift shifts one position to the right to accommodate Beatle then the car(s) parked adjacent to Beatle is(are)?

(a) Punto only (b) ³ 10 and SX4

(c) Punto and Alto (d) Alto and Swift

8. In the original parking scheme four new cars enter the parking lot such that Wagon-R is second to the right of ³ 10 and Zen is second to the left of SX4. Jazz is parked second to the left of Wagon-R and Beat is parked to the right of Alto, then the cars that moved out are?

(a) Esteem and Swift (b) Punto and Alto

(c) ³ 10 and Alto (d) Punto and SX4

Directions for Questions 9 to 13: Read the information given below and answer the next five questions that follow:

I. Six friends Rahul, Kabeer, Anup, Raghu, Amit and Alok were engineering graduates. All six of them were placed in six different companies and were posted in six different locations, namely Tisco-Jamshedpur, Telco-Pune, Wipro- Bangalore, HCL-Noida, Mecon-Ranchi and Usha Martin-Kolkata. Each of them has their personal e-mail id’s with different email providers, i.e., Gmail, Indiatimes, Redifimail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Sancharnet, though not necessarily in the same order.

II. The one having e-mail account with Sancharnet works in Noida and the one having an e-mail account with Indiatimes works for Tisco.

III. Amit does not stay in Bangalore and does not work for Mecon, the one who works for Mecon has an e-mail id with Gmail.

IV. Rahul has an e-mail id with Rediffinail and works at Pune.

V. Alok does not work for Mecon and the one who works for Wipro does not have an e-mail account with Yahoo.

VI. Kabeer is posted in Kolkata, and does not have an account with Hotmail.

VII. Neither Alok nor Raghu work in Noida.

VIII. The one who is posted in Ranchi has an e-mail id which is not an account of Rediffinail or Hotmail.

IX. Anup is posted in Jamshedpur.

9. The man who works in Wipro has an e-mail account with:

(a) Sancharnet (b) Yahoo

(c) Rediffinail (d) None of these

10. Which of the following e-mail-place of posting-person combination is correct?

(a) Kabeer-Kolkata-Redifimail

(b) Alok-Bangalore-Indiatimes

(c) Amit-Noida-Yahoo

(d) Raghu-Ranchi-Gmail

11. Which of the following is true?

(a) Amit is posted at Ranchi.

(b) Raghu is posted at Jamshedpur.

(c) Kabeer has an e-mail id with Yahoo.

(d) Rahul has an e-mail id with Indiatimes.

12. Which of the following sequences of location represent Alok, Kabeer, Anup, Rahul, Raghu and Amit in the same order?

(a) Bangalore, Noida, Pune, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Kolkata

(b) Bangalore, Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Pune, Noida, Ranchi

(c) Kolkata, Bangalore, Jamshedpur, Pune, Noida, Ranchi

(d) None of these

13. People who have an e-mail account with Indiatimes, Sancharnet and Yahoo work for which companies, in the same sequence as the e-mail accounts mentioned.

(a) Usha Martin, HCL, Wipro

(b) Tisco, Wipro, Usha Martin

(c) HCL, Tisco, Wipro

(d) Tisco, HCL, Usha Martin

14. How many ‘zeroes’ are there in the following sequence which are immediately preceded by a nine but not immediately followed by seven?

7090070890702030045703907

(a) One (b) Two

(c) Three (d) Four

Answer Key

Solutions:

Solutions for Questions 1 to 5:

The first thing you should do in this case is to build the most relevant structure to place the information. Since, the question talks about the week from 19th October to 26th October, we can build the following starting grid in order to place the information of the question:

Once you have visualised the above table, you can now move on to the direct clues which can be fit into the table at this point. These are:

Clue number (V): No Competition conducted on Thursday and Sunday.

Clue number (VI): Street Play conducted on Monday

Putting these two clues in the above grid you would get the following:

Once you have placed this information inside the grid you should look for the next clues that are usable directly at this point.

You should first look for a mixture of two clues which can give you some direct information to move ahead with your solution;

OR if such a thing cannot be found;

You should look for a clue that gives you multiple possibilities and move ahead with your solution process by considering each of the possibilities from that point. For instance, clue (VII) at this point gives you 4 possibilities of placing debate competition and group song as it says that there is a gap of 2 days between the two. These possibilities can be seen as under:

Possibilities 1 and 2 arise out of placing group song and debate on 19th and 22nd as shown below:

Wednesday

26

Possibilities 3 and 4 arise out of placing group song and debate on 22nd and 25th as shown below:

At this point if you try to use clue (III) Fash-p was conducted on the day prior to debate competition, you realise that it is not possible to have debate on either 25th or on 19th as both these days do not have anything on the day prior to them.

Thus, debate has to be placed on 22nd and Group song can move to either 19th or 25th. We now have the following two possibilities which are still feasible at this point: Possibility 1:

Possibility 2:

But Possibility 2 can be rejected due to the fact that it contradicts clue (IV). Thus, we get the following definite structure:

This can be further completed by using clue (II) at this point, viz: Rock band is not conducted on the closing day. With this the table gets completed.

The answers can now be read off from the above table.

1. The fashion week started with the Rock Band competition. Option (d) is the correct answer.

2. There are 5 days between the rock band and group competition. Option (d) is the correct answer.

3. The two Wednesdays are 19th and 26th and on these days the Rock band competition and the Street play competition were held. Option (d) is the correct answer.

4. The Group song competition precedes the Street play competition. Option (b) is the correct answer.

5. Fash- p competition follows the Rock Band competition. Option (c) is the correct answer.

Solutions for Questions 6 to 8:

Again for this question, the first thing you should do is to create the visual structure of the problem situation. The following grid would define the situation.

Using clues (III) and (V), we get that SX4, Alto and Punto are parked in one row. Also, we know from Clue (III) that Punto is diagonally opposite zTO. This gives rise to two essential possibilities:

Possibility 1:

Possibility 2:

Note: We have been able to deduce that Alto is in the middle parking of it’s row using the combination of clues (III) and (V). Although Clue (I) also tells us that, we really do not need that clue and this you should recognize as a case of what can be called redundant information.

To the current grid if we add the information we get from Clue (II) that tells us that Esteem is second to the right of zTO, and from Clue (IV) which tells us that Swift is in front of Alto, we can complete the picture as follows:

Possibility 1:

Possibility 2:

From this point we can move into the questions as we have already used up all the information given in the clues.

6. If SX4 and Esteem interchange their position, then the car(s) adjacent now to SX4 would become adjacent to Esteem.

Since, Alto is adjacent to SX4 currently (in both the possibilities), we can conclude that only Alto would be adjacent to Esteem after the switch. The situation can be visualised as follows:

Possibility 1:

Possibility 2:

Option (c) is the correct answer.

7. After the interchanges as defined: Alto withzlθ and Punto with SX4, the possibility grids would look as below:

Possibility 1:

Possibility 2:

From this position if Swift shifts right it would obviously have to displace Punto from the parking lot and the Beatle would take the position which Swift is currently occupying. The new grid after this change would look like:

Possibility 2:

Possibility 2:

In this situation we can clearly see that Alto and Swift are next to the Beatle. Option (d) is the correct answer.

8. Wagon-R replaces Esteem, zTO gets replaced by Jazz, Zen replaces the Punto and Beat replaces the SX4. The figures now look like:

Possibility 1:

Possibility 2:

In both cases, the Alto and the Swift are two cars which remain in the parking lot. Thus, options (a), (b) and (c) cannot be true with respect to the cars which moved out. Hence, we select option (d) as the correct answer.

Solutions for Questions 9 to 13:

Again like for all puzzle questions, the key is to define the visual structure of the solution. Clue (I) gives you the input as to how you would need to structure the solution grid. The starting solution grid should look something like below:

From this point first try to fix the positioning of the direct clues into the grid.

Clues (IV), (VI) and (IX) are usable directly in the above table.

These clues about Rahul, Kabeer and Anup help us move further into our solution grid which would now look as below.

From this point you realise that since we have to place only 3 more people in their correct cities/companies we can use the clue (VII) in order to realise that since neither Alok nor Raghu work in Noida it only leaves us with Amit who must be in Noida. The table modifies to:

Now use clue (V) to place Alok and Raghu in the two remaining places. Since Alok does not work for Mecon, he must be working for Wipro and consequently Raghu would be working for Mecon.

The solution grid now becomes:

We should now concentrate on fixing the email providers for the six people.

For this Clue (I) is very useful at this point as it helps us fix two email providers in the above grid. We can also use clue (VHI) at this point to fix that Ranchi-Mecon-Raghu is not Hotmail.

The solution grid now becomes:

Analysing the above situation we can clearly see that three of the six email providers are now fixed leaving the other three to be fixed. These are Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. Also we can see in our solution grid at this point that Hotmail cannot be put for Raghu- Mecon-Ranchi nor for Kabeer-Usha Martin-Kolkata and that leaves us with only Alok- Wipro-Bangalore where Hotmail can be matched.

The solution grid now becomes:

Clue (III) helps us place that Gmail is for Mecon. Thus the final Solutionbecomes:

The answers can now be read off the above table:

9. The man who works for Wipro has an email account with Hotmail. Option (d) is

the correct answer.

10. Raghu-Ranchi-Gmail is the only correct combination amongst the 4 options. Option (d) is the correct answer.

11. Kabeer has an email-id with Yahoo is the correct statement. The other options are incorrect. Option (c) is the correct answer.

12. Option (a) is incorrect as Kabeer is in Kolkata and not in Noida.

Option (b) is incorrect as Amit is in Noida and not in Ranchi as this options says.

Option (c) is incorrect as Alok is in Bangalore and not in Kolkata.

Thus, option (d) is the correct answer.

13. The person with the Indiatimes email-id works for TISCO while the one with the Sancharnet email account works for HCL and the one with the Yahoo email- id works for Usha Martin.

Option (d) is the correct answer.

14. In the sequence 7090070890702030045703907 there is only one ‘zero’ which satisfies the given condition as can be seen through the bold digits below: 7090070890702030045703907.

Option (a) is the correct answer.