Instructions

Read the following passage:

In an intra B-school competition, five students have participated. To facilitate a fairand blind evaluation, each student has been assigned a secret project name (i.e., Redwings, Green forest, Purple umbrella, Blue ocean, and Orange candy) randomly; andwere given two awards: one for being the best in the particular management discipline(i.e., Marketing, Finance, Operations, Human Resources, and Information Technology);and one for being ranked from 1st to 5th. Only one student can be declared as winnerunder each category. The secret project name, management discipline, and rankinginformation provided above need not to be in the same order. Determine who hasbeen assigned which secret project name, and which two awards, they received.Following set of information are also available:
(i) The winner under marketing category was ranked just above Babita’s project(which was not Purple umbrella).
(ii) The project coded as Blue Ocean was ranked just above Babita’s project (whichwas not winner under information technology discipline).
(iii) The Green forest project ranked just above the winner of project under humanresource discipline, and just below Chandan’s project.
(iv) The Red wings project was placed just higher than the winner of InformationTechnology discipline, and just below the Amar’s project.
(v) The Orange candy project ranked just above Dolly’s (which wasn’t the Purpleumbrella) and just below the winner of project under Finance discipline.
(vi) The winner under information technology was neither coded as Green forest, norwas it won by Eshan.

Question 85

Which of the following is the secret project name of the Eshan?

Solution

In statement 1 it is given that the winner under marketing category was ranked just above Babita’s project(which was not Purple umbrella) and the project coded as Blue Ocean was ranked just above Babita’s project (which was not winner under information technology discipline).

In statement 3, it is given that the Green forest project ranked just above the winner of project under human resource discipline, and just below Chandan’s project. Therefore, the order is Chandan-green-HR.
In statement 4, it is given that the Red wings project was placed just higher than the winner of Information Technology discipline, and just below the Amar’s project. Therefore, the order is Amar-red-IT(not green, not Eshan).
In statement 5, it is given that the Orange candy project ranked just above Dolly’s (which wasn’t the Purple umbrella) and just below the winner of project under Finance discipline. Therefore, the order is Finance-orange-Dolly(not purple).
Only possible order is Aman-red-IT(chandan)-green-HR. Therefore,

Implementing the condition given in statement 5, we will get the final arrangement.

Final table:

The secret project name of Eshan is The Purple Umbrella.

Answer is option D.


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