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There are seven friends whose name are Jugal, Ram, Raj, Kris, Sila, Jon and Jenny. They live in different cities in India and all work in a leading public sector bank. They live in Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Kanpur, Shimla, Agartala and Kolkata not necessarily in the same order. They like different colours and the colours are blue, red, green, yellow, pink, black and brown.

Kris stays in Bhubaneswar and likes yellow colour.
The one who stays Kanpur likes pink colour.
The one who stays in Shimla likes black colour.
Sila does not like black or pink.
Jon does not like green or red.
Jenny likes green colour.
Jugal likes to stay in Mumbai.
Ram likes blue colour.
Sila likes brown colour.
Raj does not like black colour.
Ram does not stay in Agartala or Kolkata.
Sila does not stay in Agartala.

Q 1 - If Jenny will marry Jon then after marriage in which city will Jenny live with Jon?

Answer : B

Explanation

If we look at the question and analyse the data, then we can find that −

Name	City	Colour
Ram	Jaipur	Blue
Raj	Kanpur	Pink
Kris	Bhubaneshwar	Yellow
Sila	Kolkata	Brown
Jon	Shimla	Black
Jenny	Agartala	Green
Jugal	Mumbai	Red

Jon lives in Shimla so, Jenny will also live in Shimla.

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 Hugh related to Jon?

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.

Hugh is husband of Anita and Anita is sister of Jon. Hence, option A is correct.

There are eight friends in a school named Adarsha Bidya Mandira and their names are O, P, S, T, R, Q, N and M. M, N, O and P sit in row I and face south. Similarly Q, R, S and T sit on row II and face north. So all the students face each other in the arrangement. M sits at one of the end. O is second to the left of M. Q faces O. R is not at one end. M does not face T. R does not face N.

Q 3 - Who is immediate right of P in this arrangement?

Answer : C

Explanation

The arrangement is as follows −

Row I M P O N

Row II S R Q T

The persons in row I and row II face each other. So, immediate right of P in this arrangement is M.

Six competitors waiting for their turn to perform and are waiting at the back stage sitting on a bench and all of them are facing north. Their names are Tanuja, Surjit, Preity, Lochan, Amit and Tanmayee. The name sequence mentioned need not to be the exact that they are seated. Tanuja is third to the right of Amit. There is only one person in between Surjit and Tanmayee. Tanmayee is not at extreme. Preity is to the immediate right of Tanuja.

Q 4 - How many competitors are there to the right of Amit?

Answer : A

Explanation

If we analyse the data given in the question then we can get the sequence as −

Surjit – Amit – Tanmayee – Lochan – Tanuja – Preity

So to the right of Amit there are only four competitors.

There are seven friends whose names are Ahmed, Gopal, Rajeev, Sreejesh, Namita, Jack and Elizabeth. They all live in Bangalore and all work in different leading multi-national companies. They work in IBM, TCS, HCL, Infosys, Accenture, Dell and HP not necessarily in the same order. They like different cars and the cars are Wagon R, Etios, Audi, Mercedes, Sumo, Travera and Celerio. Sreejesh works in TCS and likes Mercedes car. The one who works in Infosys likes Sumo car. And the one who works in Accenture likes Travera car. Namita does not like Travera or Sumo. Jack does not like Audi or Etios. Elizabeth likes Audi car. Ahmed likes to work in IBM. Gopal likes Wagon R car. Namita likes Celerio car. Rajeev does not like Travera car. Gopal does not work in Dell or HP. Namita does not work in Dell.

Q 5 - Which car does Rajeev like?

Answer : D

Explanation

If we look at the question and analyse the data then we can find that −

Name	Company	Cars
Gopal	HCL	Wagon R
Rajeev	Infosys	Sumo
Sreejesh	TCS	Mercedes
Namita	HP	Celerio
Jack	Accenture	Travera
Eizabeth	Dell	Audi
Ahmed	IBM	Etios

So, Rajeev like sumo car, 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 faces Raja?

Answer : A

Explanation

The arrangement is as follows

Row I Ranjan Puja Amir Raja

Row II Jai Rabeya Kali Ravi

Ravi faces Raja so, option A 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 is hockey player among them?

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					✓

Ritiesh is hockey player among them.

Study the following information carefully to answer the given question.

Five friends A, B, C, D, and E have their favourite subjects- Hindi, Maths, Sanskrit, Science and Computer Science, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them studies in a different standard- V, VI, VII, VIII and IX but not necessarily in the same order.

C’s favourite subject is Hindi and he studies neither in Std VI nor in Std IX. B likes Sanskrit and studies in std VII. The one who likes Science studies in Std VI.D likes Computer Science and studies in Std VIII.E do not like Science.

Q 9 -Which is A’s favourite subject?