CAT 2005 — DILR Question 9

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Answer the following question based on the information given below.

The table below reports the gender, designation and age-group of the employees in an organization. It also provides information on their commitment to projects coming up in the months of January (Jan), February (Feb), March (Mar) and April (Apr), as well as their interest in attending workshops on: Business Opportunities (BO), Communication Skills (CS), and E-Governance (EG).

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M = Male, F = Female; Exe = Executive, Mgr = Manager, Dir = Director; Y = Young, I = In-between, O = Old

For each workshop, exactly four employees are to be sent, of which at least two should be Females and at least one should be Young. No employee can be sent to a workshop in which he or she is not interested in. An employee cannot attend the workshop on

Communication Skills, if he or she is committed to internal projects in the month of January;
Business Opportunities, if he or she is committed to internal projects in the month of February;
E-governance, if he or she is committed to internal projects in the month of March.

How many Executives (Exe) cannot attend more than one workshop?

Answer & solution

A
2
3
C
15
D
16

Solution

Dinesh, Gayatri, Kalindi, Parul, Urvashi, and Zeena are executives. Out of these, Dinesh, Kalindi, and Parul can attend two workshops each. The rest attend less than two, i.e. not more than one workshop.

Hence, option (b).