MAD OVER MARKETING

Round I

Name Roll No Contact No.

Rules:
1. This is a written round.
2. A team can contain a maximum of three members
3. There are 30 questions in all.
4. The time allotted: 45 minutes
5. Marks will only be given for the correct answers.
6. The top teams on the basis of their score in this round
would move on to the next round.
7. The use of programmable calculators is not allowed.
1. 150 is what per cent of 30 ?

a-500% b-200% c-300% d-186%

2. How many times do the hands of the clock coincide in a day ?

a-22 b-21 c-24 d-28

3. I bought a book for Rs 60 , I sold off to a friend for Rs 70 but after a

while i felt sorry , that I sold it and bought it back for Rs 80, how much
loss did I incur?

a-12 b-30 c-20 d-10

4. Salespeople of this type of marketing are, expected to sell products

directly to end-user retail consumers by means of relationship referrals
and word of mouth marketing, but most importantly they are incentivized
to recruit others to join the company as fellow salespeople so that these
can become their down line distributors. Name the type of marketing.
Bonus : Name a Tamil movie that features the characters involved in this
type of marketing.

5. Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is b/w 50 to 70.Each of her

sons have as many sons as they have brothers . Their combined number
gives Lucia’s present age? What is her age?

a-85 b-55 c-84 d-64

6. You are given three coins: one has heads on both faces, the second has
tails on both faces, and the third has a head on one face and a tail on the
other. You choose a coin at random and toss it, and it comes up heads.
The probability that the other face is tails is

a-1/4 b-1/3 c-1/2 d-2/

7. The sum of the digits of a number N is 23. The remainder when N is
divided by 11 is 7. What is the remainder when N is divided by 33?

a-7 b-29 c-13 d-22

8. In the 1920s, foreign companies had a virtual monopoly over the

industry. These companies closely controlled the know-how and
technology of soda ash production. During that period, Kapil Ram Vakil
(Vakil), a chemical engineer, established the Okhamandal Works and
decided to set up his plant near Okha at the westernmost tip of India.
However, due to lack of adequate finances, Vakil approached Sayaji Rao,
the then Maharaja of Baroda, who helped him by writing to the Tatas
asking for their involvement in a project of national importance. Name
the company established by the Tatas and it’s brand slogan.

9. If a 10 lit. mixture contains milk and water in the ratio 2:1 then, how
much more mixture should be added to change the ratio to 1:2 ?

a-8 b-9 c-10 d-11

10.There are 4 baskets. The first basket has 3 apples and 4 oranges, the
second one has 4 apples and 5 mangoes, the third one has 6 Mangoes and
2 bananas and the last one has 7 bananas and 2 apples. If a fruit is
randomly chosen from any basket and it comes out to be an apple, then
what is the probability that it was taken out from the second basket?

a-18/69 b-28/41 c-45/69 d-28/69

11.The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangular display is

Approximately 3.3 to 2. If the width of display is 8 meters what is the
approximate length of display in meters?

a-13 b-14 c-11 d-15

 12.Mike takes 4 tests. If the average score for the first three of those tests
is 100 and average for all 4 tests is 75, what was his score for the fouth
test?

a-0 b-65 c-75 d-55

The following questions Q No.13-16 is based on the passage given below:

In a class there are seven students (including boys and girls) A, B, C,

D, E, F and G. They sit on three benches I, II and III. Such that at
least two students on each bench and at least one girl on each bench.
C who is a girl student, does not sit with A, E and D. F the boy
student sits with only B. A sits on the bench I with his best friends. G
sits on the bench III. E is the brother of C.

13. How many girls are there out of these 7 students?

a-3 b-3 or 4 c-4 d-5

14. Which of the following is the group of girls?

a-BAC b-BFC c-BFD

15. On which bench are there three students?

a-Bench I b-Bench II c-Bench III

16. Who sits with C?

a-B b-D c-G

The questions 17 and 18 are based on the following question:

How can you rearrange the letters in the following words to make
one word?

17. DIRTY ROOM

18. REAL FUN

19. X was the market leader in the confectionery market in India with a
market share of around 70%. In the 1990s when Indian consumers
considered X as a product meant for children. Adults were thus, not its
major consumers. To change this perception, the company came up with
a series of campaigns targeting the adult group and consumers in the age
group 15-35. Starting with the 'Real taste of life' campaign, the company
encouraged people to bring out the child in them. Name the brand X and
its parent company.

20. The average of first 40 natural numbers is

a-20.5 b-22.5 c-23 d-21

21. How many values can n natural numbers take, if n! is a multiple of 7 6

but not 79 ?

a-21 b-14 c-19 d-12

22. A and B run a race of 2000m. First,A gives B a head start of 200m
and beats him by 30 seconds. Next, A gives B a head start of 3 mins and
is beaten by 1000m. Find the time in minutes in which A and B can run
the race separately?

a-8,10 b-4,5 c-6,7 d-5,9

23. The brand was introduced in the Indian market during the mid-
nineteenth century; it was highly preferred by rural customers and the
government departments like the police and the armed forces. During the
late nineties, sales of the brand declined due to a number of factors like
poor quality, lack of a proper sales and service network, and weakening
of the brand image. However, Siddhartha Lal, a young member of the Lal
family which controlled the Eicher Group, opined that the fortunes of the
brand could be reversed. Siddhartha took a number of initiatives to revive
the fortunes of the brand. Enhanced quality and new models improved the
sales by the year 2005. What brand are we talking about? Bonus: Suggest
some of the changes that they would have made?

24. 5 skilled workers can build a wall in 20days; 8 semi-skilled workers

can build a wall in 25 days; 10 unskilled workers can build a wall in
30days. If a team has 2 skilled, 6 semi-skilled and 5 unskilled workers,
how long will it take to build the wall?

a-12 b-15 c-14 d-18

25. An inlet pipe fill a tank in 5 hrs and outlet pipe empty same tank in 36
hrs working individually. How many additional number of outlet pipes of
same capacity required to be opened so that tank never overflows?

a-4 b-8 c-7 d-10

26.Shanti’s school normally FINISHES AT 4 PM. her mom drives from

home to pick her up, reaching the school exactly at 4 pm. one day, a half-
holiday is announced and the School finishes for the day at 1 pm. Rather
than sitting and Waiting, Shanti decides to start walking towards home.
Her mother meets her along the way and as a result they reach home an
hour earlier than normal. what is the ratio of the Shanti’s walking speed
to her mother’s driving Speed?

a-1:5 b-3:9 c-7:10 d-3:5

27.The head of a fish is 6 inches long. Its tail is as long as its head and
half its body. If its body is half of its whole length, how long is the fish?

a-16 inches b-24 inches c-32 inches d-48 inches

28. What is missing in the series 6 , 15 , 28 , ?, 66

29. In 1977, American cola giant Coca Cola abandoned operations in

India after government regulations. Following this, the Parle brothers,
Ramesh and Prakash Chauhan, launched X as their flagship drink. X
enjoyed a near monopoly, overshadowing domestic rivals such as Double
Seven ,Dukes and McDowell's Crush. After the liberalization of the
Indian economy, Coca-Cola re-entered India after a prolonged absence,
spurring a three-way Cola War. The same year, Parle sold out to Coke for
US$60,000,000 and X had an 85% market share when it was sold.
Identify brand X.

30. A merchant buys 80 articles, each at Rs.40. He sells n of them at a

profit of n% and the remaining at a profit of (100 – n)%. What is the
minimum profit the merchant could have made on this trade?

a-1580 b-1390 c-1650 d-1222