Question 58

Three Vice Presidents (VP) regularly visit the plant on different days. Due to labour unrest, VP (HR) regularly visits the plant after a gap of 2 days. VP (Operations) regularly visits the plant after a gap of 3 days. VP (Sales) regularly visits the plant after a gap of 5 days. The VPs do not deviate from their individual schedules. CEO of the company meets the VPs when all the three VPs come to the plant together. CEO is on leave from January 5 th to January 28 th , 2012. Last time CEO met the VPs on January 3, 2012. When is the next time CEO will meet all the VPs ?

Solution

VP (HR) visits the plant after a gap of 2 days i.e every third day. Similarly, VP (Operations) visits the plant every fourth day and VP (Sales) visits the plant every sixth day. To find the number of days after which all the three will come together is the lowest common multiple of 3, 4 and 6 which is 12. So, every 12th day, all three VPs would come together. If their meeting was held on 3rd January, then their subsequent meetings would be held on 15th January, 27th January, 8th February, 20th February and so on. However, the CEO is not available till 28th January. So, their next meeting would be held on 8th February.
hence, option C is the correct answer.


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