Barclays Capital Interview Question for Analysts


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person




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Third person belongs to same tribe as first person....

- Satveer Singh June 03, 2014 | Flag Reply
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yeah i told that to the interviewer, but he want the final answer. :O

- rms792 June 03, 2014 | Flag
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I agree, both TLT and LTL are valid answers (using the notation of VK). We have a statement that relates the 1st to 2nd, and a statement that relates the 2nd to 3rd. To derive some contradiction, would require some statement that closes the loop by relating the 1st and the 3rd person.

- ranan.fraer June 05, 2014 | Flag
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Let's forget about the answers to the question and think about all possible combinations.

T represents Truth person, L represents Lie person.
3rd person 2nd person 1st person
TTT
TTL
TLT
TLL

LLL
LLT
LTL
LTT

based on the answers, I eliminated all but two combinations TLT and LTL.

Then eliminated LTL because if 3rd person is lying, then first person has to be telling the truth since 3rd person is objecting to the answer of 2rd person(first person is liar).

So the answer is Truth.

- VK June 05, 2014 | Flag Reply
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i tink ur answer is correct....very good explanation...

- saloni October 05, 2014 | Flag
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Correct explanation

- Ankit Tripathi November 28, 2014 | Flag
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As Anonymous said below, this doesn't make sense to me. If the third person is lying, then the second person is telling the truth. The second person says that the first person is lying. So LTL is valid, there is no contradiction that I can see.

If the third person is telling the truth, then the second person is lying. The second person says that the first person is lying, so the first person must be telling the truth. So TLT also seems valid.

With the problem given I don't think there is a definite answer for the third person. If there is supposed to be a correct answer then we must be missing some information.

- merlinme January 27, 2015 | Flag
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I think the Question is not complete here. If we just rephrase the question to following then we can easily eliminate LTL.

You ask the first person 'To which Tribe do you belong to?' and he answers in his native language which you don't know. The second person says that the 1st person belongs to the Lie Tribe. And the thrid says that the 2nd person is lying (in english).

- Aniket March 04, 2015 | Flag
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Tribe which always speak lie.

- vk June 02, 2014 | Flag Reply
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how?

- rms792 June 03, 2014 | Flag
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^y??

- Anonymous June 02, 2014 | Flag Reply
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The person who always speaks true

- srinu June 02, 2014 | Flag Reply
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if the first guy can understand english, why he replies in his own language?

he is likely to say "I do not know what you are talking about"

I guess the third guy telling the truth

- nano June 03, 2014 | Flag Reply
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I think the third guy belongs to the "lie" speaking tribe.
How? ... because the first person replied in native language which means he understood the question in English but pretended as if he didn't speak English. So the first person was lying, which implies that third person was lying too.

- Pinky September 05, 2014 | Flag Reply
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I don't think you can eliminate LTL from below

"Then eliminated LTL because if 3rd person is lying, then first person has to be telling the truth since 3rd person is objecting to the answer of 2rd person(first person is liar). "

The second person is objecting rightfully to the first persons answer given he is telling the truth. The third person being from the lying tribe is accordingly opposing the truth as told by the second person.

- Anonymous November 10, 2014 | Flag Reply
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lier

- Anonymous March 04, 2015 | Flag Reply
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There are two possibilities TLT and LTL. To explain In plain english, 3rd person could be supporting 1st person either in his lie or in the truth, 2nd person is always speaking exactly opposite of first person is saying hence TLT and LTL. This question is incomplete, we need some more details to give a concrete answer.

- Madhav August 27, 2015 | Flag Reply
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the question wasn't framed properly
had it been ..
" the 2nd person told the arch that the first person said that he belonged to the lie tribe"
the answer would have been easy to find

- shins September 02, 2015 | Flag Reply
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The third and second person speaks English, which means they are not from tribe.

- RK May 11, 2016 | Flag Reply
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o

- Anonymous May 11, 2016 | Flag Reply


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