Question

It’s Valentine’s Day and five boys Amit, Bhuvan, Chetan, Dilip and Ehsaan are buying flowers for their respective girlfriends. Each of these boys has a preference from 1 to 5 (1 being first preference, it is given the first rank) of flowers among orchid, rose, carnation, gerbera and daffodil. There is a level of dissimilarity between the five boys and this is measured as the sum of the differences in the ranks assigned by them to each of these 5 flowers. The greater this difference, the more dissimilar the persons.
The following table indicates the preferences of each of these five boys:
$\begin{array}{cccccc}& \text{AMIT}& \text{BHUVAN}& \text{CHETAN}& \text{DILIP}& \text{EHSAAN}\\ \text{ORCHID}& \text{2}& \text{5}& \text{1}& \text{4}& \text{1}\\ \text{ROSE}& \text{4}& \text{2}& \text{3}& \text{3}& \text{3}\\ \text{CARNATION}& \text{3}& \text{1}& \text{4}& \text{2}& \text{2}\\ \text{GERBERA}& \text{5}& \text{4}& \text{5}& \text{1}& \text{4}\\ \text{DAFFODIL}& \text{1}& \text{3}& \text{2}& \text{5}& \text{5}\end{array}$
Q. Which of the following pairs are the least dissimilar among the five?

• A. Dilip-Ehsaan
• B. Amit- Chetan
• C. Chetan-Ehsaan
• D. Amit- Ehsaan

Answer 1

The correct option is B Amit- Chetan

$\begin{array}{cc}\text{Name}& \text{Level of Dissimilarity}\\ \text{Amit-Bhuvan}& \text{3+2+2+1+2=10}\\ \text{Bhuvan-Dilip}& \text{1+1+1+3+2=8}\\ \text{Dilip-Ehsaan}& \text{3+0+0+3+0=6}\\ \text{Chetan-Ehsaan}& \text{0+0+2+1+3=6}\end{array}$