IIFT 2018 Question Paper
For the following questions answer them individually
Based on the information below, answer the questions which follow.
Six friends Albert, Betty, Claire, Daisy, Evan and Fred who are working in different organisations, are looking for a switch in their jobs. They came across an advertisement in the newspaper regarding a job fair being organised in New Delhi. After enrolling for the fair, different days are allotted to each one of them from Monday to Saturday not necessarily in the same order, starting from Monday. They also had to arrange for their stay in different hotels to concentrate well while preparing for the upcoming interviews namely Taj, Hilton, Crowne Plaza, Radisson, Hyatt and Marriott. Additional information provided is as follows:
i. Albert prefers to stay in Taj but not in Hilton. Albert does not work in Whirlpool and participates in the Job fair on Monday. The person who works in Whirlpool participates in the Job fair on Saturday.
ii. Fred does not stay in Hyatt but works in Himalaya.
iii. Betty and Daisy participate in the Job fair on consecutive days.
iv. Claire participates in the Job fair on the day before the person staying in Crowne Plaza but on the next day of Pepsi employee.
v. The person working with Oppo participates in the Job fair on Friday and does not stay in Hilton.
vi. Claire who is working with Nestle participates in the Job fair at a gap of one day prior to Evan.
vii. Daisy stays in Marriott and attends the conference on the last day of the week.
viii. The person working with Apple stays in Radisson.
If the current salary packages of the friends working in Whirlpool, Nestle, Himalaya, Pepsi, Oppo and Apple are 20, 30. 40; 50, 60 and 70 Iakhs per annum in the same order, then at the time of participating in job fair find the average annual package of Albert, Betty and Fred?
Based on the information below, answer the questions which follow.
Richie invites three of his friends Sunny, Pinky and Nancy for his birthday party organised at his home. As the party goes on till late in the night, Sunny, Pinky and Nancy choose to stay at Richie's house. Being good friends they usually stay back at each other's house. Each one of them including Richie stay either in the room painted blue or in the room painted purple. They have adequate number of rooms of both colours. The preferences which need to be fulfilled are:
i. If Sunny stays in the room painted purple, then Pinky and Richie stay in the same room as Nancy.
ii. If Pinky stays in the room painted purple, then Sunny stays in the room in which Nancy and Richie don't stay.
iii. if Nancy stays in the room painted blue, then Sunny and Richie stay in the room which Pinky has chosen.
iv. If Richie stays in the room painted Blue then Sunny and Pinky do not stay in the same room as Nancy.
Under all possible combinations which of the two friends will always have their room colours unchanged.
Based on the information answer the questions which follow.
An agent has to send a secret message to CBI office in Delhi. He needs to compile his message using following 12 code words- Scare, Logical, Mouse, Beauty, Helping, Roses, Cats, Doctor, Arguments. Crude. Ferry and Mineral. The agent compiles the coded message and delivers it to CBI office in form of a $$4\times3$$ matrix. Each coded word has been allocated a position in the matrix ($$1\times2$$ position represents row 1 and column 2). The clues to compile the secret message are:
i. The words in $$2\times1$$ and $$3\times1$$ have the same number of letters.
ii. Roses is to the immediate left of Beauty and Mineral is immediately above Roses.
iii. The word in $$4\times3$$ is shorter than the word in $$1\times2$$.
iv. Ferry is separated from Helping horizontally by only one word Logical.
v. Arguments is at position $$2\times3$$ in the matrix and the word immediately below it has odd number of letters.
vi. Crude and Doctor are in the same horizontal row and Crude is to the right of Doctor.
vii. Cats is not in the same row or column as Mouse.
