CAT 2004 | Question: 05

Question

Answer the questions based on the information given below:

A study was conducted to ascertain the relative importance that employees in five different countries assigned to five different traits in their Chief Executive Officers. The traits were compassion (C), decisiveness (D), negotiation skills (N), public visibility (P), and vision (V). The level of dissimilarity between two countries is the maximum difference in the ranks allotted by the two countries to any of the five traits. The following table indicates the rank order of the five traits for each country.

	Countries
Rank	India	China	Japan	Malaysia	Thailand
1	C	N	D	V	V
2	P	C	N	D	C
3	N	P	C	P	N
4	V	D	V	C	P
5	D	V	P	N	D

Three of the following four pairs of countries have identical levels of dissimilarity. Which pair is the odd one out?

• A. Malaysia and China
• B. China and Thailand
• C. Thailand and Japan
• D. Japan and Malaysia