Sunday, September 13, 2009

CAT 2009 Question

Mr. A works for company XYZ. The company has introduced a new leave policy in the new year which is applicable from previous year. The following definitions are applicable.

Full Day(FD): Full day in office which is 9 hrs 25 mins (9:25).
Half Day(HD): Half day in office which is 4 hrs 45 mins (4:45).
Full Month(FM): Number of working hours in a month (9:25 x number of working days).
Average Day(AD): Average hours in office which is 9 hrs 25 mins.

The policy has it that, in a month, if AD has not been met, then the deficit hours would be deducted from the FM and the hours obtained will be divided by the FD and the number obtained will be the corresponding number of leaves deducted from an employee.

Suppose June 1st of last year was a Monday. The number of hours of Mr. A for the month of June is given as below.

June 1 - 10:00, June 2 - 5:00, June 3 - 3:00, June 4 - 4:00, June 5 - 4:45
June 8 - 8:00, June 9 - 7:00, June 10 - 10:00, June 11 - 4:30, June 12 - 5:45

For the rest of the working days, Mr. A maintains an average of 9:00 hrs. What would be the number of leaves deducted from his leave balance?

Options:
a. 2 days
b. 5 days
c. 7 days or more
d. Too complex to calculate, skip to next question
e. Didn't understand the question(policy)
P.S: I'm irritated with the policy!

2 comments:

EC said...

I doubt if the policy maker would be able to make out the answer for himself ?? :-)

L P said...

They are very smart, they have softwares in place! Cant mess with them :(