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Six students waiting for their school bus at the bus stop facing north. Their names are Dibya, Rohan, Bipasha, Prabhu, Madhav and Rupali. They are sitting at the bus stop facing north. The name sequence mentioned need not be the exact that they are seated. Dibya is third to the right of Madhav. There is only one person in between Rohan and Rupali. Rupali is not at extreme. Bipasha is to the immediate right of Dibya.

Q 1 - Name the two students those who are at the extreme ends?

Answer : C

Explanation

If we analyse the data given in the question, then we can get that the sequence is: Rohan – Madhav – Rupali – Prabhu – Dibya – Bipasha.

So at the extreme ends Bipasha and Rohan are sitting. Hence, option C is correct.

Alphonso family lives in New York and runs a family business. There are ten persons in Alphonso family and among them four are ladies and six are gents. The name of family members are: Jenny, Jack, Hugh, George, Sam, Susan, Anita, Jon, Mark and Liv. The family ranges from grandparents to grandchildren means there are three generations of people living in the family.

Mark Alphonso is the head of the family and is grandpa of Sam. Anita is paternal-aunt of Sam. George and Jenny are brothers and sisters of Sam. Jon is son of Susan and Jack is Jon’s sibling. Hugh is married to Anita and Jenny is daughter of Hugh.

Q 2 - How is Mark related to Jenny?

Answer : A

Explanation

After analysing the data, we can get the family tree as follows −

In the tree, we can get that Mark and Susan are head of the family and are husband and wife. They have three children and they are Jon, Jack and Anita. Jon is married to Liv and Anita married to Hugh. Sam and George are sons of Jon and Jenny is the daughter of Anita.

Mark is grandfather of Jenny. So, option A is correct.

Six friends are sitting in a row and all of them are facing north. Name of all the friends are Mridul, Ram, Ragini, Rupa, Pankaj and Swarup not necessarily in the same order they are sitting. Ram is at one of the extreme ends. There are two persons sitting between Mridul and Swarup. Between Pankaj and Ragini, there is only one person. Rupa is second to the left of Mridul. Mridul is right of Ragini.

Q 3 - If Pankaj and Ragini interchange their places then who will be third to the right of Pankaj?

Answer : B

Explanation

After analysing the given data, we can conclude that the sitting arrangement is like this −

Swarup-Rupa-Ragini-Mridul-Pankaj-Ram

Ram will be the third to the right of Pankaj. Hence, option B is correct.

There are five friends out of whom two are females. They are Sita, Roshan, Manish, Reema, and Govind. They like to study different language news papers as Bengali, Marathi, English, Hindi and Urdu. Also they like to eat various fruits such as mango, grapes, apple, pine-apple and banana. All like to wear different colour shirts of red, blue, green, black and orange colour. Consider following statement and answer the question.

Manish neither likes red colour nor blue and reads Marathi newspaper.
Govind likes green colour and his favourite fruit is pine-apple.
Reema does not like red colour and nether reads Bengali nor Urdu newspaper.
Sita likes black colour and mango fruit but do not like to study Urdu paper.
Roshan likes to eat grapes and neither likes blue colour nor Bengali news paper.
English paper is read by the person who likes green colour and no female likes to eat banana.

Q 4 - Which colour is favourite colour of Roshan?

Answer : D

Explanation

According the given statements various favourite things of all persons can be tabulated as follows.

Name	Colour	Newspaper	Fruits
Manish	Orange	Marathi	Banana
Govind	Green	English	Pineapple
Reema	Blue	Hindi	Apple
Sita	Black	Bengali	Mango
Roshan	Red	Urdu	Grapes

From the table, it is clear that Roshan likes red colour.

Mohapatra family lives in Jagatsinghpur and runs a family business. There are ten persons in Mohapatra family and among them four are ladies and six are gents. The name of family members are: Lalita, Soumya, Rakesh, Sukant, Satyadeep, Rachita, Amrita, Abhinash, Suresh and Sanju. The family ranges from grandparents to grandchildren means there are three generations of people living in the family.

Suresh Mohapatra is the head of the family and is grandpa of Satyadeep. Amrita is paternal-aunt of Satyadeep. Sukant and Lalita are brothers and sisters of Satyadeep. Abhinash is son of Rachita and Soumya is Abhinash’s sibling. Rakesh is married to Amrita and Lalita is daughter of Rakesh.

Q 5 - How is Rachita related to Lalita?

Answer : D

Explanation

After analysing the data we can get the family tree as like −

In the tree, we can get that Suresh and Rachita are head of the family and are husband and wife. They have three children and they are Abhinash, Soumya and Amrita. Abhinash married to Sanju and Amrita married to Rakesh. Satyadeep and Sukant are sons of Abhinash and Lalita is the daughter of Amrita.

So, Rachita is grandmother of Lalita, hence, option D is correct.

There are eight teachers in a primary school named Vivekananda Sikshakendra and their names are Amir, Puja, Jai, Ravi, Rabeya, Kali, Raja and Ranjan. Ranjan, Raja, Amir and Puja sit in row I facing south. Similarly Kali, Rabeya, Jai and Ravi sit in row II facing north. So all the students face each other in the arrangement. Ranjan sits at one of the ends. Amir is second to the left of Ranjan. Kali faces Amir. Rabeya is not at one end. Ranjan does not face Ravi. Rabeya does not face Raja.

Q 6 - Who sits between Jai and Kali?

Answer : B

Explanation

The arrangement is as follows

Row I Ranjan Puja Amir Raja

Row II Jai Rabeya Kali Ravi

Rabeya sits between Jai and Kali. Hence, option B is correct.

Six persons P,Q,R,S,T and U are sitting in a row, but not necessarily in the same order. All members of the row are facing north.

Q sits third to the left of U.

P is not the neighbour of S and U.

S sits on the immediate right of Q.

T sits second to the left of Q.

Q 7 - Who sits second to the right of Q?

Answer : B

Explanation

R sits second to the right of Q. We can observe it from arrangement as follows −

TP Q S R U

Hence, option B is correct.

Read the information given below and answer the questions that follow −

There are six friends in a college and all of them decided to pursue different types of sports after completion of college life. Their names are Aakash, Pabitra, Radha, Rudra, Avinav, and Ritiesh. They are interested to become cricketer, golfer, runner, footballer, hockey player and swimmer but not respectively in the same order. Aakash will like to be a cricketer, Ritiesh hockey player, Radha will neither become golfer nor runner, Rudra is neither footballer nor swimmer. Avinav will be a runner, and Pabitra will be a swimmer

From the given information try to answer the following question.

Q 8 - Who wants to be a football player?

Answer : B

Explanation

If we look at the following table, we can answer the question −

	Cricketer	Golfer	Runner	Footballer	Hockey Player	Swimmer
Akash	✓
Pabitra						✓
Radha				✓
Rudra		✓
Avinav			✓
Ritiesh					✓

From the table it is clear that Radha wants to be a footballer.

A family consists of six members Payal, Sajan, Rohan, Sita, Tutu and Balram. There are two married couples. Sajan is an IAS and the father of Tutu. Balram is grandfather of Rohan and is a businessman. Sita is grandmother of Tutu and is a housewife. There is one IAS, one businessman, one air hostess, one housewife and two students in the family.

Based on the data provided, answer the following question.

Q 9 - Who is the sister of Tutu?