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Year

CAT 2023

Section

Data

Topic

Distribution

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-1

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

Faculty members in a management school can belong to one of four departments - Finance and Accounting (F&A), Marketing and Strategy (M&S), Operations and Quants (O&Q) and Behaviour and Human Resources (B&H). The numbers of faculty members in F&A, M&S, O&Q and B&H departments are 9, 7, 5 and 3 respectively.

Prof. Pakrasi, Prof. Qureshi, Prof. Ramaswamy and Prof. Samuel are four members of the school's faculty who were candidates for the post of the Dean of the school. Only one of the candidates was from O&Q.

Every faculty member, including the four candidates, voted for the post. In each department, all the faculty members who were not candidates voted for the same candidate. The rules for the election are listed below.

  1. There cannot be more than two candidates from a single department.
  2. A candidate cannot vote for himself/herself.
  3. Faculty members cannot vote for a candidate from their own department.

After the election, it was observed that Prof. Pakrasi received 3 votes, Prof. Qureshi received 14 votes, Prof. Ramaswamy received 6 votes and Prof. Samuel received 1 vote. Prof. Pakrasi voted for Prof. Ramaswamy, Prof. Qureshi for Prof. Samuel, Prof. Ramaswamy for Prof. Qureshi and Prof. Samuel for Prof. Pakrasi.

Question 1

Which two candidates can belong to the same department?

Prof. Pakrasi and Prof. Qureshi

Prof. Pakrasi and Prof. Samuel

Prof. Qureshi and Prof. Ramaswamy

Prof. Ramaswamy and Prof. Samuel

Question 2

Which of the following can be the number of votes that Prof. Qureshi received from a single department?

7

6

8

9

Question 3

If Prof. Samuel belongs to B&H, which of the following statements is/are true?

Statement A: Prof. Pakrasi belongs to M&S.

Statement B: Prof. Ramaswamy belongs to O&Q

Neither statement A nor statement B

Only statement B

Only statement A

Both statements A and B

Question 4

What best can be concluded about the candidate from O&Q?

It was Prof. Samuel.

It was either Prof. Ramaswamy or Prof. Samuel.

It was Prof. Ramaswamy.

It was either Prof. Pakrasi or Prof. Qureshi.

Question 5

Which of the following statements is/are true?

Statement A: Non-candidates from M&S voted for Prof. Qureshi.

Statement B: Non-candidates from F&A voted for Prof. Qureshi.

Both statements A and B

Only statement B

Only statement A

Neither statement AA nor statement BB

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