Instructions

Read the following passage:

Ten teams have submitted their nominations for a reputed Hackathon. They were first divided in two groups of 5 teams each: Ghost Riders to The Capitalists (group 1); and Team Intelligence to Dr Bigbull (group 2). In the competition, each team from one group had to pitch their idea against the each team from another group. For example Ghost Riders will have to pitch their idea against each team in group 2. The following table gives partial information about the final scoresheet at the end of the competition:

Note: * To be read as “Tech Pirates” lost the idea presentation round against “Evil Masterminds”.
For group 1 - The total points earned by each teams have been given in the last column e.g. Ghost Rider has scored 7 points overall.
For group 2 - The total points earned by each teams have been given in the last row e.g. Team Intelligence has scored 12 points overall.
In addition to this, the golden Hawks did not lose the presentation round against The Think Tank.
Point rule:
(i) If a team Wins, the winning team will get 5 points;
(ii) If there is a tie, both teams will get 2 points each; and
(iii) If a team lost the match, the losing team will get 0 points.

Question 77

What was the result of presentation round between The Think Tank and Evil Masterminds?

Solution

The given table is as follows.

Consider TC’s points breakup. It won against GH and DB. It has two ties. Looking at the points breakups of the Teams in group 2, we can see that only TI and SE could have tied against TC. Thus, TC lost against EM.

Now, since SE has ties against TC and GR and won against TP, it must have lost its remaining matches.

EM won against TP and TC. Thus, it must have lost against GR, SS and TTT.

The table now becomes as given below.

GR must have lost against TI, GH and DB.

TTT could have only tied against GH. Thus, it lost against TI.

TI won against GR and TTT and tied against TC. Thus, it must have lost against TP and SS.

Thus, TP must have tied against GH and DB

SS lost against GH and DB.

Thus, the final table looks as given below.

Thus, Evil Masterminds lost against The Think Tank.

Hence, the answer is option B.


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