LRDI For IIFT 2018 - CAT

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The data on select economic indicators for entire world comprising of 7 regions namely East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa is presented in Table-1 for the year 2017. Further, Table-2 represents the economic indicators for select countries.
GNI refers to Gross National Income (USD Billions). PPP refers to Purchasing Power Parity (USD Billions). POP refers to Population (Millions) and SA refers to Surface Area (Thousands sq. km)

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The occupancy rate of a hotel is the share of available rooms that are occupied during a given time. Figure- I presents quarter wise average hotel occupancy in four regions (Asia-Pacific, America, Europe and Middle East & Africa) for the year 2016. Figure-2, shows the revenue of select hotel chains worldwide in 2016.

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IBM is one of the most valuable technology brand in the world. Visualizing the trends, IBM has added and dropped business segments across years. For example, "Technology Services and Cloud Platforms (TSCP)" which started in 2015 only, generated a revenue of approximately 34280 million U.S. Dollars in 2017. Table shows the Global Revenue generated by IBM in nine different segments of its business from 2010 to 2017 in millions USD.

TSCP-Technology Services & Cloud Platforms. CS-Cognitive Solutions, GBS-Global Business Services, SYS-Systems, GF-Global Financing, Other. SOFT-Software. GTS-Global Technology Services and S&T-Systems and Technology

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The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is an interactive benchmarking tool created by the World Bank to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in their performance on trade logistics and what they can do to improve their performance. It is a measure of the country scores on six key indicators: Customs, Infrastructure, International Shipments, Logistics Competence, Tracking & Tracing and Timeliness. Table shows the LPI indicators (on the scale of 1 to 5) of select countries on these indicators. Figure below presents the perceived performance of these indicators (on the scale of 1 to 5) of India on these 6 indicators.

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The data was collected for an industry in order to analyse the impact and importance of select parameters. The Figure represents performance of the industry on select parameters which arc Fixed Capital. Materials, Value added and Number of Factories from the year 2008-09 to 2015-16. Total inputs - (Output — Value added). Table represents select performance indicators which are Output, Number of Workers and Emoluments from the year 2008-09 to 2015-16.

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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 I {ikon.
(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.

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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:

• If Sunny stays in the room painted purple, then Pinky and Richie stay in the same room as Nancy.
• If Pinky stays in the room painted purple, then Sunny stays in the room in which Nancy and Richie don't stay.
• if Nancy stays in the room painted blue, then Sunny and Richie stay in the room which Pinky has chosen.
• If Richie stays in the room painted Blue then Sunny and Pinky do not stay in the same room as Nancy.

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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 × 3 matrix. Each coded word has been allocated a position in the matrix 1  × 2 position represents row 1 and column 2).
The clues to compile the secret message are:

• The words in 2 × 1 and 3 × 1 have the same number of letters.
• Roses is to the immediate left of Beauty and Mineral is immediately above Roses.
• The word in 4 × 3 is shorter than the word in 1 × 2.
• Ferry is separated from Helping horizontally by only one word Logical.
• Arguments is at position 2 × 3 in the matrix and the word immediately below it has odd number of letters.
• Crude and Doctor are in the same horizontal row and Crude is to the right of Doctor.
• Cats is not in the same row or column as Mouse.

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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:

• P is sitting to the immediate left of S and the officer opposite to S discusses issues pertaining to Remedies.
• U's issue is ranked 7^th and there is one officer between U and the officer whose issue is ranked 2^nd.
• The officer whose issue is ranked 1 is not opposite to the officer whose issue is ranked 8 who represents issues related to Investments.
• The ranks of the issues raised by the officers sitting opposite to each other cannot be both even or both odd.
• 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.
• R is sitting opposite to Q and represent issues related to Standards and Trade in Intellectual Property Rights not necessarily in the same order.
• P's issue was ranked 4^th and he was discussing issues related to Tariffs and sits opposite to the officer ranked 5^th who represents issues related to Subsidies.
• The officers representing issues related to Trade in Services and Trade facilitation are sitting adjacent to each other.

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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 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.

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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.