APPSC Group-I Preliminary Exam 2004 Solved Paper 1

A company wants to select a team of four mechanical engineers for transfer to North India where they are going to set up a new plant. The company is managed by professional managers and is very particular about human resources and industrial relations. There are seven engineers of equal ability; X,Y and Z (who are of Senior Executive cadre), and A, B, C and D (who are of Junior Executive cadre). The company requires that there should be two Senior Executives and two Junior Executives in each team. It is also necessary that all the engineers in a particular team are friendly with each other, in order to have real team spirit and avoid any industrial relations problem. The following is the situation of the relations between the seven engineers:
I. Y and A are not friendly.
II. Z and C are not friendly.
III. A and B are not friendly.