Music Festival Band Scheduling

XAT 2010 · DM · Hard · Analytical Reasoning

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Seven bands were scheduled to perform during the week long music festival at XLRI. The festival began on a Monday evening and ended on the Sunday evening. Each day only one band performed. Each band performed only once. The organizing committee had the task of scheduling the performances of the seven bands - Cactus, Axis, Enigma, Boom, Fish, Dhoom and Bodhi Tree. The festival schedule followed the following conditions:

  • The performance of Bodhi Tree, the home band of XLRI, did not precede the performance of any other band.
  • Among the visiting bands three were rock bands and the other three were fusion bands. All three bands of the same genre were not allowed to perform consecutively.
  • Boom, which was a rock band, refused to perform immediately before or after Fish.
  • Meet, who was a lead vocalist with a rock band, refused to perform after Angelina.
  • Angelina, the only female lead vocalist in the music fest besides Bony, was with the band Enigma. Angelina refused to perform after Thursday citing personal reasons.
  • Ali, who was the lead vocalist of a rock band, was not with the band Dhoom, and did not perform on Saturday.
  • Sid, the lead vocalist of the rock band Cactus, could perform only on Monday.
  • Rupam, the only male among the lead vocalists of the fusion bands, was with Fish and performed on Wednesday.
  • None of the bands performed in absence of their lead vocalist.

Question 1 of 3

All of the following statements can be true except:

  1. A.

    If Meet was the lead vocalist of Axis then Ali was the lead vocalist of Boom.

  2. B.

    If Meet was the lead vocalist of Dhoom then Bony was the lead vocalist of Axis.

  3. C.

    If Bony was the lead vocalist of Dhoom then Meet was the lead vocalist of Axis.

  4. D.

    If Ali was the lead vocalist of Boom then Meet was the lead vocalist of Dhoom.

  5. E.

    If Bony was the lead vocalist of Axis then Meet was the lead vocalist of Boom.

Question 2 of 3

Which of the following must be true?

  1. A.

    Ali performed on Saturday and Enigma performed on Thursday.

  2. B.

    Dhoom performed on Thursday and Angelina performed on Tuesday.

  3. C.

    Boom performed on Friday and Meet performed on Tuesday.

  4. D.

    Ali performed on Friday and Enigma performed on Tuesday.

  5. E.

    Bony performed on Saturday and Axis performed on Thursday.

Question 3 of 3

Which of the following is a plausible performance sequence?

  1. A.

    Cactus, Enigma, Fish, Dhoom, Boom, Axis

  2. B.

    Cactus, Dhoom, Fish, Boom, Enigma, Axis

  3. C.

    Cactus, Axis, Fish, Boom, Enigma, Dhoom

  4. D.

    Cactus, Axis, Fish, Enigma, Boom, Dhoom

  5. E.

    Cactus, Boom, Fish, Axis, Enigma, Dhoom

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