BOC01 and BRC-Weekly Test 05

Questions 1 – 5

A government is assigning each of six embassy office workers – Farr, Golden, Hayakawa, Inserra, Jones and Kovacs- to embassies. There are four embassies. Embassies L and M are located in countries with dry climates, whereas embassies P and T are located in countries with humid climates. The office workers must be assigned according to the following rules:

• Each embassy must have at least one of the workers assigned to it.
• At least one embassy in a humid climate must have at least two workers assigned to it.
• Golden cannot be assigned to the same embassy as kovacs.
• Inserra must be assigned to an embassy in a dry climate.
• Jones must be assigned to an embassy in a humid climate.

Read the following passage and answer the questions 1 through 5:

The growth rate of large and medium manufacturing industries, which hovered below 7 percent during the last three fiscal years, soared to 10.2 percent in the first quarter of 2005-06, due mainly to an investment hike to counter the adverse impacts of the quota phase-out. However, experts warn that if the government’s current tight monetary policy brings in any further interest rate hike, it might retard the boom in Bangladesh. Among the large and medium industries, paper, ceramics, plastic goods, wood products, garments and textiles marked the highest growth, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). In July-September 2005, the category comprising of paper, newsprint and books scored the growth rate of 21.21 percent. The industries of non-metallic products including ceramics, cement and glass posted a 17.2 percent growth. Among the small industries, textiles, leather, apparel, paper and printing witnessed growth ranging from 10 to 16 percent. Non-metallic products grew by 28.26 percent. A Bangladesh Bank source said a huge amount of loan had been disbursed in the last two years in the industrial sector. Economists consider investment in textiles to meet the post-multi-fiber-agreement (MFA) challenges, has resulted in a significant production growth. They do, however, argue that if the pace of industrial growth is to be sustained the government has to improve the law and order as well as the infrastructure including port facilities.

• I. To counter adverse-impact of the post-MFA quota phase-out
• II. Higher investment in textile industry
• III. Low interest rate and lower inflation rate