Seema was a finance manager in an MNC and felt that gender discrimination at work place
hampered her career growth. Frustrated, she quit the job and started a company. While
starting her company, Seema decided that she would have equal proportion of males and
females. Over the last six years, Seema emerged as a very successful entrepreneur and
expanded her business to eight locations in the country. However, Seema recently started
facing an ethical dilemma because she realized that female employees were not willing to
travel across cities and work late hours, as the work required them to do so. Male employees
did not hesitate undertaking such work. Seema started to feel the pressure of reducing the
proportion of female employees. On the other hand, she is aware that equal representation
was one of the strongest reasons for her to have founded the company. What should she do as
a conscientious female entrepreneur?
(A) See if unwilling female employees could be given assignments which do not require
travel and involve less overtime.
(B) Reduce the number of female employees as it is a business requirement. She should not
let anything affect her business.
The city of Nagar has a population of 10 million, 2 millions amongst whom were rich, 3
million poor and 5 million belonged to the middle class. Saundarya Cosmetics manufactured
and sold beauty product to rich class at a premium price. Its products were very popular with
customers. Many people from the middle and poor segments of population aspired to buy
these products but could not afford because of high prices. Of late, sales growth was
stagnating in the rich segment. Which of the following is the best option for Saundarya
Cosmetics to maximize long-term profits?
(A) Sell the same products at lower prices to middle and poor classes.
(B) Sell its products under different brand names to middle and poor classes.
(C) Sell similar products, of different quality standards with different brand names, to middle
classes and poor classes.
(D) Continue to target rich only and hope that today's middle class would be tomorrow's rich
class.
(E) Target middle class as it is the largest segment and forget about rich class.
Sara has just joined Facebook. She has 5 friends. Each of her five friends has twenty five friends. It is found that at least two of Sara’s friends are connected with each other. On her birthday, Sara decides to invite her friends and the friends of her friends. How many people did she invite for her birthday party? (1) ≥ 105 (2) ≤ 123 (3)
Find the volume of the bucket which is in the shape of a frustum of a cone , whose bottom and top radii are 15cm and 5cm respectively and the height of the bucket is 24cm.
ABCD is a parallelogram and E is an arbitrary point on the plane. If the areas of ∆ABE and ∆DEC are 5 and 2 respectively, find the minimum possible and maximum possible area of ABCD.
Five colleagues pooled their efforts during the office lunch hour to solve the crossword in the daily paper. Colleagues: Mr. Bineet, Mr. Easwar, Ms. Elsie, Ms. Sheela, Ms. Titli. Answers: Burden, Barely, Baadshah, Rosebud, Silence. Numbers: 4 down, 8 across, 15 across, 15 down, 21 across Order: First, second, third, fourth, fitth.
1) Titli produced the answer to 8 across, which had the same number of letters as the previous answer to be inserted, and one more than the subsequent answer which was produced by one of the men. 2) It was not Bineet who solved the clue to 'Burden', and Easwar did not solve 4 down. 3) The answers to 15 across and 15 down did not have the same number of letters. 4) 'Silence', which was not the third word to be inserted was the answer to an across clue. 5) 'Barely', was the first word to be entered in the grid, but 'Baadshah' was not the second answer to be found. 6) Elsie's word was longer than Bineet's'; Sheela was neither the first nor the last to come up with an answer. 7) Fifth one to be worked out was an answer to an across clue.
1. What was Sheela's word? A. Baadshah B. Silence C. Rosebud D. Barely E. Burden
2. What could be Titli's answer? A. Baadshah B. Silence C. Rosebud D. Barely E. Burden
3. What was Titli's order? A. First B. Second C. Third D. Fourth E. Fifth
4. What was Easwar's number? A. 4 down B. 21 across C. 8 across D. 15 down E. 15 across
5. What was Bineet's word? A. Barely B. Burden C. Silence D. Rosebud E. Baadshah
Hi Puys. This must be a difficult time for all of you. XAT is the toughest and mother of all MBA exams as we all say. I was in the same situation last year, so I want to help you with some key points which I followed last year.
I have seen people with 99+ percentile but ended up getting no calls at all because sectional cut-offs are really important and particularly decision making section. Please practice DM as much as you can. Start with your strong section.Question selection in exam is the most important thing. Even 1 question can change your percentile to the make or break situation.
Revise all your concepts. Do give 2-3 timed mocks for XAT. Try attempting sections in different order in mocks so that you can figure out the best sequence for your D day.
Good luck guys. Give your best. Let me know for any other help.
ABCD is a square. P is the midpoint of AB. The line passing through A and perpendicular to DP
intersects the diagonal at Q and BC at R. If AB = 2 then PR is equal to ?
In a parallelogram ABCD, let M be the midpoint of the side AB and N the midpoint of BC. Let P be the intersection point of the lines MC and ND. Find the ratio of area of ▲s APB : BPC : CPD : DPA.
In a plane rectangular co-ordinate system points L, M,N,O are represented by the co-ordinate (-5,0) , (1, -21) , (0,5) , & (1,5). Consider a variable point P in the same plane. The minimum value of PL+PM+PN+PO ?
Police plan to enforce speed limits during the morning rush hour on four different
routes into the city. The traps on routes A, B, C, and D are operated 40% , 30%, 20%,
and 30% of the time, respectively. Bi always speeds to work, and he has probability
0.2, 0.1, 0.5, and 0.2 of using those routes.
1)What is the probability that he'll get a ticket on any one morning?
2)What is the probability he'll go five mornings without a ticket?