IIFT 2018
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.
Based on the information answer the questions which follow.
Eight officers of Indian Trade Service meet for a cup of coffee at Coffee Point. The officers P, Q, R, S, T. U. V and W are seated in a circle and discuss issues related to Trade in Services, Trade in Intellectual Property Rights, Investments, Tariffs, Remedies, Standards, Trade Facilitation and Subsides not necessarily in the same order. An MBA student sitting on the next table overhears the discussion and ranks the issues as per their importance from 1 to 8. No two issues can have the same rank and no two officers can have the same position. Additional information available is:
i. P is sitting to the immediate left of S and the officer opposite to S discusses issues pertaining to Remedies.
ii. U's issue is ranked $$7^{th}$$ and there is one officer between U and the officer whose issue is ranked $$2^{nd}$$.
iii. The officer whose issue is ranked 1 is not opposite to the officer whose issue is ranked 8 who represents issues related to Investments.
iv. The ranks of the issues raised by the officers sitting opposite to each other cannot be both even or both odd.
v. The officer discussing issues related to Trade in Services is sitting opposite to T. T is sitting at a gap of one place from P.
vi. R is sitting opposite to Q and represent issues related to Standards and Trade in Intellectual Property Rights not necessarily in the same order.
vii. P's issue was ranked 4th and he was discussing issues related to Tariffs and sits opposite to the officer ranked 5th who represents issues related to Subsidies.
viii. The officers representing issues related to Trade in Services and Trade facilitation are sitting adjacent to each other.
If the officer V is to the immediate right of the officer representing Trade Facilitation, then the officer $$4^{th}$$ to the right of V discusses which issue?
The officer to the $$4^{th}$$ right to the officer discussing the issues related to Remedies, is discussing which issue?
Based on the information answer the questions which follow.
A consultant to Department of Commerce. Government of Bianca has suggested 30 products which have high export potential. Dora an entrepreneur and prospective exporter notices that these products can be grouped in three ways- Machine made goods, Handmade goods and Intermediate goods. Among these 30 products some products are both machine made and intermediate goods but not handmade goods. Few products have a combination of handmade and machine made goods but not intermediate goods. Some products are handmade and intermediate goods but not machine made goods. Further it is seen that handmade-machine made goods are I less than machine made-intermediate goods. Similarly the total number of handmade-intermediate goods is I less than machine made-intermediate goods. There are just 4 products common across all product groups i.e. machine made-handmade- intermediate goods. Apart from this the number of only handmade goods is same as only machine made goods but less than only intermediate goods. Each product group/combination has at least one product. Dora prefers to export machine made goods and avoid hand made goods. She finds out that only handmade goods are twice the only machine made-intermediate goods and the number of only intermediate goods is an even number. Whereas her close friend Sara prefers to export intermediate goods followed by only handmade goods.
Sara and Dora prefer to export as many common products as possible in order to understand the regulatory conditions. Keeping their preferences intact, what is the maximum number of common products which can be exported by both of them?
If another exporter Abeer prefers to export only intermediate goods, then the total number of products which both Abeer and Dora export are
Based on the information answer the questions which follow.
Nautanki a famous play group from Eastern India is playing different shows every hour starting from 10am with a two hour lunch break from I pm to 3 pm after which the show resumes at 3 pm. Entry tickets for different shows are coded with 7 words each day. The same words are rearranged for different shows following a definite rule. For example:
Show 1 : Banana is the favourite fruit of Bina
Show 2 : the is of favourite Bina fruit Banana
Show 3 : of is fruit favourite Banana Bina the
And so on till the last show at 9 pm.
If on some other day, for the fourth show the code is 'All of Delhi welcome to the show' Then the code for entry ticket for the first show on that day is
If the entry code for the show at 7 pm is 'Do things to help others in difficulty' Then the code for entry ticket for the show at 12 noon of that day was
