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CAT 2004 — DILR Question 8

Mixed PracticeEasy
Passage / Data

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

A study was conducted to ascertain the relative importance that employees in five different countries assigned to five different traits in their Chief Executive Officers. The traits were compassion (C), decisiveness (D), negotiation skills (N), public visibility (P), and vision (V). The level of dissimilarity between two countries is the maximum difference in the ranks allotted by the two countries to any of the five traits. The following table indicates the rank order of the five traits for each country.

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Which of the following pairs of countries are most dissimilar?

Answer & solution

  • A

    China and Japan

  • B

    India and China

  • C

    Malaysia and Japan

  • Thailand and Japan

Solution

Consider the levels of dissimilarities for the four options.

China and Japan ≡ 3 (for 'D')

India and China ≡ 2 (for 'N')

Malaysia and Japan ≡ 3 (for 'N' or 'V')

Thailand and Japan ≡ 4 (for 'D')

Hence, option (d).

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