In such type of questions, a few essential criteria for the selection of a group of items are given. The candidate has to keep these conditions in mind and make the required selection as per the directions given in each question.

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A company wants to select a team of four call centre executives from its South Indian Centre for transfer to North India where they are going to set up a new centre. The company is managed by professional managers and is very particular about human resources and. personnel relation.There are seven team members of equal ability X, Y and Z (who are Senior), and A,B, C and D (who are Junior). The company requires that there should be two senior executives and two junior executives in the team. It is also necessary that all of the executives in a particular team are friendly with each other in order to have a real team spirit and avoid any personnel relations problem in the new centre being set up in the North.

Following is the situation of relations among the seven executives:

(i) Y and A are not friendly.

(ii) Z and, C are not friendly.

(iii) A and B are not friendly.

If both Y and Z are selected, which of the executives must be on the team with them?

 


A) Both B and A

B) Both B and D

C) both C and D

D) Only D

Answer:

Option B

Explanation:

If Y and Z are selected, then by (i) and (ii),A and C cannot be selected. Thus, the two junior executives in the team must be B and D