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Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.
Seven people A, B, C, D, E, F, and G attend the quiz competition on seven different days of the same week starting from Monday to Sunday, but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them belongs to different countries, viz India, Srilanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, China and Bhutan but not necessarily in the same order.
A belongs to Srilanka and attend the quiz competition on Thursday. Only one person attends the quiz competition between A and the one who belongs to Pakistan. F attends the quiz immediately after the one who belongs to Srilanka. Only three people attend the quiz competition between the one who belongs to Pakistan and Bangladesh. E attends the quiz immediately before C. E does not belong to Bangladesh. Only two people attend the quiz competition between B and the one who belongs to India. The one who belongs to India attend the quiz after B. The one who belongs to Bhutan does not attend the quiz immediately before or after B. D does not attend the quiz immediately before or after A. G does not belong to China.
1). Who among the following attend the quiz on Wednesday?
- The one belongs to China
- B
- G
- E
- None of these
2). Who attend the quiz immediately before B?
- C
- D
- F
- A
- None of these
3). D attends the quiz on which of the following day?
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Monday
- Sunday
- None of these
4). How many people attend the quiz between B and one who belongs to Bhutan?
- 4
- 3
- 2
- More than 3
- None of these
5). Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
i) C belongs to Bhutan
ii) G attend the quiz immediately before B
iii) E attend quiz on Sunday
- Only (i)
- Only (i) and (ii)
- Only (ii) and (iii)
- Only (iii)
- All (i), (ii) and (iii)
Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.
Seven persons Virat, Rahul, Raina, Dhoni, Sachin, Ashwin and Yuvi are living in seven storey building in such a way that ground floor is numbered one, and the floor above the one is numbered two and so on until the topmost floor is numbered seven. All of them born in different months viz, March, April, May, June, July, August and December, but not necessarily in the same order.The persons who were born in consecutive months are not live in the adjacent floors.
Sachin lives immediately above the person who was born in March.Yuvi lives below the person who was born in May,but not immediately below. The one who lives in third floor is not born in May. The person who was born in August lives below Dhoni but not immediately below. Dhoni lives above the floor of Virat but not immediately above. Sachin was born in December.Rahul was born in March and lives on fifth floor. Neither Dhoni nor Yuvi lives either lowermost or topmost floor of the building. Yuvi lives one of the floors below Dhoni.Dhoni was not born in April or July.
6). Which of the following person lives on topmost floor?
- Ashwin
- Raina
- Virat
- Cannot be determined
- None of these
7). Who among the following person was born in May?
- Ashwin
- Raina
- Dhoni
- Virat
- None of these
8). Who among the following person was born in August?
- Virat
- Yuvi
- Raina
- Ashwin
- None of these
9). How many person lives between Dhoni and Virat?
- One
- Three
- Two
- More than three
- None of these
10). The one who was born in July, lives on which of the following floor?
- Second floor
- Lowest floor
- Third floor
- Topmost floor
- None of these
Answers:
Direction (1-5)
- A belongs to Srilanka and attend the quiz competition on Thursday.
- F attends the quiz immediately after the one who belongs to Srilanka.
- Only one person attends the quiz competition between A and the one who belongs to Pakistan.
- Only three people attend the quiz competition between the one who belongs to Pakistan and Bangladesh.
From the above statements we have 2 possibilities
Case 1:
| Day | Person | Country |
| Monday | ||
| Tuesday | Pakistan | |
| Wednesday | ||
| Thursday | A | Srilanka |
| Friday | F | |
| Saturday | Bangladesh | |
| Sunday |
Case 2:
| Day | Person | Country |
| Monday | ||
| Tuesday | Bangladesh | |
| Wednesday | ||
| Thursday | A | Srilanka |
| Friday | F | |
| Saturday | Pakistan | |
| Sunday |
- Only two people attend the quiz competition between B and the one who belongs to India.
- The one who belongs to India attend the quiz after B.
Case 1:
| Day | Person | Country |
| Monday | ||
| Tuesday | B | Pakistan |
| Wednesday | ||
| Thursday | A | Srilanka |
| Friday | F | India |
| Saturday | Bangladesh | |
| Sunday |
Case 2:
| Day | Person | Country |
| Monday | ||
| Tuesday | B | Bangladesh |
| Wednesday | ||
| Thursday | A | Srilanka |
| Friday | F | India |
| Saturday | Pakistan | |
| Sunday |
- E attends the quiz immediately before C.
- E does not belong to Bangladesh.
- From this statement Case 1 is dropped and Case 2 becomes,
Case 2:
| Day | Person | Country |
| Monday | ||
| Tuesday | B | Bangladesh |
| Wednesday | ||
| Thursday | A | Srilanka |
| Friday | F | India |
| Saturday | E | Pakistan |
| Sunday | C |
- D does not attend the quiz immediately before or after A. So D should attend the quiz on Monday.
- The one who belongs to Bhutan does not attend the quiz immediately before or after B. So C belongs to Bhutan.
- G does not belong to China,hence G belongs to Nepal. And finally D belongs to China.
- So the final arrangement becomes
| Day | Person | Country |
| Monday | D | China |
| Tuesday | B | Bangladesh |
| Wednesday | G | Nepal |
| Thursday | A | Srilanka |
| Friday | F | India |
| Saturday | E | Pakistan |
| Sunday | C | Bhutan |
- Answer: c
- Answer: b
- Answer: c
- Answer: a
- Answer: a
Direction (6-10)
- Rahul was born in March and lives on fifth floor.
- Sachin lives immediately above the person who was born in March.
- Sachin was born in December.
- Neither Dhoni nor Yuvi lives either lowermost or topmost floor of the building.
- Dhoni lives above the floor of Virat but not immediately above.
- Yuvi lives one of the floors below Dhoni.
From these Statements we have 4 possible cases.
Case 1:
| Floor number | Person | Month |
| 7 | ||
| 6 | Sachin | December |
| 5 | Rahul | March |
| 4 | Dhoni | |
| 3 | Yuvi | |
| 2 | Virat | |
| 1 |
Case 2:
| Floor number | Person | Month |
| 7 | ||
| 6 | Sachin | December |
| 5 | Rahul | March |
| 4 | Dhoni | |
| 3 | ||
| 2 | Yuvi | |
| 1 | Virat |
Case 3:
| Floor number | Person | Month |
| 7 | ||
| 6 | Sachin | December |
| 5 | Rahul | March |
| 4 | ||
| 3 | Dhoni | |
| 2 | Yuvi | |
| 1 | Virat |
Case 4:
| Floor number | Person | Month |
| 7 | ||
| 6 | Sachin | December |
| 5 | Rahul | March |
| 4 | Dhoni | |
| 3 | Yuvi | |
| 2 | ||
| 1 | Virat |
- Yuvi lives below the person who was born in May,but not immediately below.
- The one who lives third floor is not born in May.
- The person who was born in August lives below Dhoni but not immediately below.
- Dhoni was not born in April or July
- The persons who were born in consecutive months are not live in the adjacent floors.
From these above Statements
For case 1:
- Dhoni was not born in July, August and April, hence Dhoni was born in either May or June.
- Dhoni was born not born May because Yuvi not lives immediately below of the person who was born in May.
- Let us assume Dhoni was born in June.
- The person who lives topmost was born in May.
- Yuvi was not born in August and July, hence yuvi was born in April.
- Then we have only two months July and August both are consecutive months.
- The person born in Consecutive months does not live in the adjacent floors.
- So case 1 was dropped.
Case 1:
For case 2:
- Dhoni was not born in July, August and April, hence Dhoni was born in either May or June.
- Let as assume Dhoni was born in May.
- Then the person who lives on floor no.3 was not born in April, August and June, hence the person who lives in 3rd floor was born in July.
- From the conditions Yuvi was not born in August and June, hence Yuvi was born in April.
- The person who was born in August lives below Dhoni but not immediately below.
- Hence Virat was born in August.
- So the person lives topmost floor who was born in June.
- Finally all the conditions are fully satisfied.
For case 2 -In case Dhoni was born in June.
- The person born in August should live in floor number 1 or 2 and also the person born in July should live in floor number 1 or 2. So it is not possible because the person born in Consecutive months does not live in the adjacent floors.
- So Dhoni was not born in June month in case 2.
For case 3:
- Dhoni was not born in April, July, August and May, hence Dhoni was born in June.
- Yuvi was not born in July and August, hence Yuvi was born in April.
- The remaining July was not fixed correct position because the person born in Consecutive months does not live in the adjacent floors.
- So case 3 was also dropped.
For case 4:
- Dhoni was not born in July, August and April, hence Dhoni was born in either May or June.
- Dhoni was born not born May because Yuvi not lives immediately below of the person who was born in May.
- Let as assume Dhoni was born in June.
- The person who lives topmost was born in May.
- Yuvi was not born in August and July, hence Yuvi was born in April.
- Then we have only two months July and August both are consecutive months.
- The person born in Consecutive months does not live in the adjacent floors.
- Then the case 4 was also dropped. And finally we get only one case. i.e., case 2.
Case 2:
| Floor number | Person | Month |
| 7 | June | |
| 6 | Sachin | December |
| 5 | Rahul | March |
| 4 | Dhoni | May |
| 3 | July | |
| 2 | Yuvi | April |
| 1 | Virat | August |
- Then either Ashwin or Raina lives on either floor number 7 or floor number 3. Thus the final arrangement becomes,
| Floor number | Person | Month |
| 7 | Ashwin/Raina | June |
| 6 | Sachin | December |
| 5 | Rahul | March |
| 4 | Dhoni | May |
| 3 | Ashwin/Raina | July |
| 2 | Yuvi | April |
| 1 | Virat | August |
6. Answer: d
- Answer: c
- Answer: a
- Answer: c
- Answer: c
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