Instructions

Analyse the following caselet and answer the questions that follow:

Six people working at the Bengaluru office of Simsys are planning to buy flats at a real estate project at Whitefield. Their preferences are listed below:

They have identified 7 real estate projects with following facilities available (marked with √):

A person is ‘satisfied’ if a project meets all three preferences.

Question 1

Identify the project(s) where NONE of the 6 persons will be ‘satisfied’.

Solution

From the information given in the question, we can make the following table about the project and the person satisfied with it.

We can infer from the table that P cannot satisfy any of the following persons.

Question 2

Identify the project(s), where AT LEAST 3 of the persons will be ‘satisfied’.

Solution

From the information given in the question, we can make the following table about the project and the person satisfied with it.

We can infer from the table that M, Q and S can satisfy at least three persons.

Question 3

The marketing managers of all the six projects have agreed to add a recreation club and a car parking facility to the projects. In this changed scenario identify projects where AT MOST 2 of the 6 persons will NOT be ‘satisfied’.

Solution

We can create the following table from the above information.

From the table, we can infer that N, Q and R will satisfy the given condition.

Instructions

For the following questions answer them individually

Question 4

Analyse the following caselet and answer the question that follows:

Genius Consulting is a boutique consulting firm started by Shirish, Balram, Rahman and Xavier, four friends from a premier business school. They committed themselves to abide by two principles: a) not to indulge in anything unethical and b) share earnings equally.

Genius Consulting could not get a significant project till the following year, when they managed a big one after Rahman’s father referred their firm to his top management. Convinced of the team’s talent following an impressive presentation, the top management awarded them the project even though six other referred teams made presentations.

The day following the presentations, they met to decide the way forward for the organization. Which of the following choices would be the most appropriate for Genius Consulting?

Solution

The project does not violate any principle of Genius consulting. Getting referred is not an unethical activity. Therefore, we can eliminate options A and B.
Sharing the earnings equally is one of the core values of Genius consulting. Therefore, Rahman should not be paid the finders fee.
Therefore, option C is the right answer.