Reasoning Questions: Puzzles Set 37

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Direction(1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

a) A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight students in the class. Three of them study English and Commerce each and two of them study Sanskrit. Each one of them has a different weight.
b) The heaviest does not study Sanskrit and the lightest does not study English.
c) F is heavier than A and D, but lighter than H and B. E, who does not study English, is heavier than B and is the second heaviest. G is lighter than D but heavier than A.
d) H, who is fourth from the top, studies Commerce along with D.
e) G does not study either English or Sanskrit. B does not study Sanskrit

1. Who is the heaviest?
   a) E
   b) B
   c) C
   d) D
   e) none of these
   
   Answer

   Answer – c) C
   
   
   
2. Who among the following is lighter than D?
   a) C
   b) G
   c) E
   d) F
   e) none of these
   
   Answer

   Answer – b) G
   
   
   
3. Which of the following pairs studies Sanskrit?
   a) FG
   b) AC
   c) CE
   d) BE
   e) AE
   
   Answer

   Answer – e) AE
   
   
   
4. Which of the following groups of students studies English?
   a) ABF
   b) BCE
   c) ABC
   d) BCA
   e) BCF
   
   Answer

   Answer – e) BCF
   
   
   
5. Who is the lightest person in the students?
   a) F
   b) D
   c) C
   d) A
   e) none of these
   
   Answer

   Answer – d) A
   
   
   

Direction(6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

There is a group of six persons living in a four-storey building. The persons are P, Q, R, S, T and U. Each storey of the building has two flats. Thus, there are eight flats in all and two of them are vacant.
a) R is heavier than Q, who in turn is heavier than U.
b) The heaviest of the group lives on the top floor while the lightest lives on the ground floor.
c) T is lighter than S.
d) One of the flats on the first floor is vacant while one on the second floor is also vacant.
e) P is neither the heaviest nor the lightest.
f) There are only two people heavier than R. P is not one of them.
g) Q shares the floor with the heaviest of the group while R shares it with the lightest.

Explanation

There are two possibilities in this arrangement i.e.
 

6. Who among the following is the lightest in the group?
   a) P
   b) R
   c) U
   d) Q
   e) None of these
   
   Answer

   Answer – c) U
   
   
   
7. On which floor does P live?
   a) ground
   b) first
   c) second
   d) either first or second
   
   Answer

   Answer – d) either first or second
   
   
   
8. Who among the following shares the floor with R?
   a) Q
   b) P
   c) S
   d) U
   e) None of these
   
   Answer

   Answer – d) U
   
   
   
9. T and P 
   a) Lives on the same floor
   b) Have two floors between their floors
   c) Lives on adjacent floors
   d) Have one floor between them
   e) None of these
   
   Answer

   Answer – c) Lives on adjacent floors
   
   
   
10. Starting from the heaviest of the group, what is the rank of Q in order of weight?
    a) 3^rd
    b) 4^th
    c) 5^th
    d) either 4^th or 5^th
    
    Answer

    Answer – d) either 4^th or 5^th
    
    
    

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