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Market Research · Quiz 1 · 16 Jul 2023 · May 2023 term

Question 11: A family of three. All three are graduates. Father is a …

Question 11

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Please look at the grid below and identify the SEC under the following situations of the household and answer the given subquestions.

A family of three. All three are graduates. Father is a bank officer in middle management who is close to retirement age, mother a homemaker, son working in a software firm in junior management role. The father’s pension is used for running the household, but the son is the highest earning member in the household

  1. A

    A1

  2. B

    B1

  3. C

    C

  4. D

    A2

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  • A

    A1

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Question 11 of 40 in the IIT Madras BS Market Research (Market Research) Quiz 1 paper sat on 16 Jul 2023, in the May 2023 term (IIT M DEGREE AN2 EXAM QPE2 16 JULY 2023). It carries 1 mark.

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