Puzzle Work Book

8/16/2019 Puzzle Work Book

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Kaashvi collection :p

L, N, P, R, M, Q, T and Y are the members of a committee sitting around

a circular table but not facing the centre. Each member has a different

zodiac sign, viz Leo, Virgo, Libra, Cancer, Aries, Gemini, Pisces and

Scorpio, but not necessarily in the same order. T is third to the right of P.

The one whose sun-sign Leo is second to the left of the one whose sun-

sign is Libra.

Y's sun-sign is Libra and is sitting exactly between P and L. The one

whose sun-sign is Pisces sits second to the right of N. The one whose

sun-sign is Aries is second to the right of the person whose sun-sign is

Gemini. P sits third to the left of the person whose sun-sign is Virgo.

Neither Q nor L is the immediate neighbour of N. Q is fourth to the left of

L. N's sun-sign is neither Cancer nor Ariel. The person whose sun-sign

is Leo is sitting second to the right of the person whose sign is Cancer.

R’s sun-sign is Leo and is not an immediate neighbor of N.

(i) Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G are teaching seven subjects

History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology and English from

Monday to Friday. Each person teaches a different subject and not more

than two subjects are taught on any one of the days.

(ii) Chemistry is taught by B on Tuesday.

(iii) D teaches on Friday but neither Geography nor Physics.(iv) F teaches History but neither on Thursday nor on Friday.

(v) A teaches English on the day on which History is taught.

(vi) C teaches Maths on Monday.

(vii) Geography and Chemistry are taught on the same day.

(viii) G teaches on Thursday.


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In row 1, J, K, L and M are sitting and all of them are facing

north. In row 2, A, B, C and D are sitting and all of them are

facing south. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each

member sitting in a row faces another member of the other

row. (All the information given above does not necessarilyrepresent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.) •

The person from Infosys faces the one who is on the immediate

left of L. L is neither from Google nor from Facebook. • An

immediate neighbour of A faces the person from Accenture.

The person from Microsoft faces the person who is on the left

of the person from Google. • There is only are person sitting

between the persons from Google and TCS but that person isnot J. The persons from Google and Facebook are not sitting at

the extreme ends. • B sits on the immediate left of the person

from Infosys. Persons from IBM and Microsoft are immediate

neighbours. C and K are not sitting at any of the ends. • M

faces the one who is sitting on the immediate right of the

person from Microsoft. A is not from Microsoft or IBM.


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Eight friends— Aman, Bharat, Rohit, Dinesh, Ishant, Farhan,

Aditya and Hirender —are sitting around a circular table, facing

the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them

has a different designation, viz Banker, Teacher, Company MD,Politician, Corporate Leader, General Manager, Specialist

Officer and CEO. Aman sits third to the right of the CEO. Only

two people sit between the CEO and Hirender. The Specialist

Officer and the Company MD are immediate neighbours.

Neither Aman nor Hirender is either a Specialist Officer or a

Company MD. The Specialist Officer is not an immediate

neighbour of the CEO. The Banker sits second to the left ofIshant. Ishant is not an immediate neighbour of Hirender. The

Banker is an immediate neighbour of both the Politician and the

Corporate Leader. The Corporate Leader sits third to the right

of Bharat. Bharat is not a Specialist Officer. Rohit sits on the

immediate right of the Teacher. Aman is not a Teacher. Farhan

is not an immediate neighbour of Aman. Aditya is not an

immediate neighbour of the Banker.

Four boys, Pawan, Mahesh, Chandu and Ravi, and four girls, Eti,

Seema, Hina and Anita, are sitting around a circular table. Two girls and

two boys are not facing the centre. No three girls are sitting together.

Chandu is second to the left of Seema, who is not sitting next to

Mahesh. Eti is third to the left of Anita and one of them is not facing the

centre. Pawan is third to the right of Mahesh, who is facing the centre.

Hina and Ravi are facing each other and both are not sitting next to

Mahesh or Anita.


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A, B, C, D and E are five players, each playing for a different team, viz

Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Black. Each of them likes a different dish,

viz Chicken Tikka, Pizza, Burger, Dosa and Gulabjamun, not necessarily

in the same order. D plays neither for team Blue nor for team Black but

likes Dosa. The player who likes Chicken Tikka plays neither for team

Green nor for team Yellow. A plays for team Red but likes neither Pizza

nor Burger. C plays for team Green but doesn’t likes Pizza. E likesneither Burger nor Gulabjamun. B likes neither Pizza nor Burger. The

one who plays for team Black likes neither Pizza nor Gulabjamun.

A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven members of a club. Each of

them likes one day of the week, viz Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, not

necessarily in the same order. Each of them owns a different

car, viz Swift, Alto, Figo, Beat, SX4, Estillo and Optra, not

necessarily in the same order. C likes Wednesday and hisfavourite car is neither SX4 nor Optra. E does not like Monday

and his favourite car is Beat. The favourite car of the one who

likes Friday is Figo. The one whose favourite car is Estillo likes

Tuesday. D likes Saturday and D’s favourite car is not SX4. G’s

favourite car is Alto. F likes Thursday. B does not like Estillo.


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P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and X are eight persons. Each is a professor of a

different subject, viz Maths, Physics, Hindi, English, Geology, Zoology,

Botany and History. Each of them pursues a different hobby, viz Singing,

Music, Poetry, Shayari, Painting, Tracking, Cooking and Swimming, but

not necessarily in the same order. P, who likes Cooking, is a professor

of neither History nor Geology. Q is a professor of English and does not

like either Singing or Poetry. The one who is a professor of Maths likes

Shayari. The one who likes Swimming is a professor of Physics and the

one who is a professor of Botany likes Music. X doesn’t like Painting. T

and V like Music and Tracking, though not necessarily in the same

order. S likes Swimming. W is a professor of Zoology and doesn’t like

Singing. The one who is a professor of Geology likes Tracking. R is not

a professor of History. The one who is a professor of Hindi doesn’t like

either Poetry or Painting.

Twelve members of a family are sitting on two apposite sides of

rectangular dining table for a dinner. Two parallel rows of chairs

containing six people each are set in such a way that there is an equal

distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A, B, C, D, E and F areseated and all of them are facing south. In row 2, P, Q, R, S, T and O

are seated and all of them are facing north, but not necessarily in the

same order. Each of them likes different types of food, viz Indian,

African, English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Thai,

Spanish, Korean and Russian, but not necessarily in the same order. C,

who likes German food, sits third to the left of B. C is not an immediate

neighbour of either E or A. P, who likes Korean food, sits third to the

right of S. Neither P nor S sits at the extreme ends. E, who likes Indianfood, faces the one who likes Mexican food. F, who likes English food,

faces O, who sits second to the left of T and does not like French food. T

is not an immediate neighbour of S. Only two people sit between Q and

T, who like Russian and Thai food respectively. D, likes neither African

nor French food who sits on the immediate right of the person who likes

German food. A, who likes Chinese food, does not face R. The one who

likes Spanish food sits second to the left of the person who faces the

one who likes English food.


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Eight friends, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, are sitting around a square table

in such a way that four of them sit on four corners of the square while

four sit in the middle of each of the four sides. Each of them likesdifferent motor bikes, viz Avenger, Pulsar, Suzuki, Yamaha, Karizma,

Splendour, Apache and Activa. The ones who sit on the four corners

face the centre while those who sit in the middle of the sides face

outside, but not necessarily in the same order. A, who likes Pulsar, faces

the centre and sits third to the right of F. E, who faces the centre, likes

Activa and, is not an immediate neighbour of F. Only one person sits

between F and G and they like Karizma and Suzuki respectively. D, who

does not like Splendour, sits second to the right of B, who likes neither Avenger nor Splendour. D faces the centre. C is not an immediate

neighbour of A. H likes Apache.

Six persons, viz Sinha, Saini, Bhagat, Yadav, Gupta and Mishra plan to

go to six different hill stations, viz Manali, Kullu, Mussourie, Rishikesh,

Shimla and Nainital. They wish to go in six different months, viz January,

March, May, June, August and December. Two of them want to travel by

bus and two by rail and others are planning to go either by car or by

flight. Following information is also given. I. Gupta goes to Manali but

neither by air nor by bus. II.Sinha prefers bus journey but travels neither

in August nor in May. III. Neither Mishra nor Saini goes either to Shimla

or to Mussourie. IV.Rishikesh is visited in December. V. Persons going

to Kullu and Shimla go by bus and car respectively. VI.Mr Bhagat goesto Nainital in March by air but Mishra does not travel in December.


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There are six boys – Amit, Bhushan, Dhruv, Manoj, Harsh and Arvind.

They want to go out with six girls – Neha, Shruti, Kruti, Chanchal, Sujata

and Radhika, not necessarily in the same order. The pairs went to a

movie, beach, park, play and two of them went to circus. They like

different cars, viz Esteem, Matiz, Santro and Tata. But Esteem and

Matiz are preferred by two pairs. Further information is as follows: I. Amit

and Manoj visit circus but do not like either Esteem or Tata. II. Arvind

can’t go out with Sujata. Both of them do not like Santro. III.Chanchal

and Kruti want to go to movie and park respectively. IV.Dhruv goes out

with Radhika to beach but does not like either Matiz or Tata. V. Bhushan

goes for a movie and likes Esteem. VI.Harsh can’t go out either with

Neha or with Shruti and he does not go to a park either in Santro or in

Matiz.

Eight teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are teaching different

subjects viz Electronics, Robotics, Arts, Commerce, Computer, Java,

Mechanics and Painting but not necessarily in the same order. All of

them are sitting around a circular table but not facing the centre.

• W sits third to the right of S. P and R and also their immediate

neighbors do not teach Electronics. Only one teacher sits between T

and the Electronics teacher.

• Java and Arts teachers are immediate neighbor of each other. P is

neither Computer nor Java teacher.

• Only one teacher sits between U and Commerce teacher. U does

not teach either Electronics or Arts.

•

P sits third to the left of V. V teaches Robotics. S is not theimmediate neighbor of either P or V. The one who teaches Painting is

an immediate neighbor of S.

• Three teachers sit between V and the Mechanics teacher. W is not

teaching either Electronics or Painting.


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Five friends A, B, C, D and E are working in 5 different

Companies P, Q, R, S and T and they earn different salaries

i.e. Rs 9000, Rs 12000, Rs 15000, Rs 18000 and Rs 21000

and they all are of different ages i.e. 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30

years not necessarily in same order.

• Person who is 29 year old earns highest salary but does not

work at P and Q.

•

E does not work at S and T and his age is not 30. • The salary of D is less than Rs 15000.

• The person who is 27 years old earns Rs 18000 per month.

• A earns Rs 12000 per month but does not work at Q and S.

• B works at P and earns more than Rs 15000.

• Person who is 28 years old works at T.

• 30 years old person earns at least Rs 15000.


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Brock, Kane, Undertaker, Khal i , Johncena, Bigshow,

Bat ista and Mark are eight f igh ters si t t ing around a circular

table. Four o f them are facing towards the centre and fou r

of them are facing away from th e centre. Al l of th em l ike a

dif ferent mov ie, viz. Tamash a, Bajirao, Dilwale, Massan,

Air l i f t , Sul tan, Dangal and Ready, but n ot n ecessar i ly in th e

same order. Joh ncena faces towards the centre and l ikes Tamasha.

Both the immediate neighb ours of Jo hncena face away

from the centre and l ike Di lwale or Massan. Khal i faces

away from the centre. Bo th the imm ediate neighb ours of

Khal i do n ot face away from th e centre. Johncena si ts third

to the r ight of B igshow , who l ikes Air l if t and faces away

from the centre. Undertaker si ts third to the lef t of

B igshow.

The one who l ikes Di lwale si ts oppos i ts of Bigsh ow. The

one who l ikes Baj irao is n ot the immediate neighbour of

Bigshow and faces away from the centre. Brock si ts

second to th e lef t of Undertaker and d oes no t l ike Dangal

or Ready. The one who l ikes Dangal si ts between Mark and

Bigsh ow . Kane faces away from the centre and does not

l ike Bajirao.


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Ten persons are si t t ing in two paral le l row s containing f ive

person s each. In row 1, Am itabh , Rakesh , Akshay, Art i and

Ritesh are si t ting and al l of them are facing sou th. In row 2,

Jaya, Poonam, Twinkle, Gaurav and Jenel ia are si t t ing and

al l of them are facing north. In the given seat ing

arrangement, each member seated in a row faces ano ther

member of the other row . Moreover, each of them belongs

to d i f ferent ci t ies — Meeru t, Gurg aon , Begus arai, Hajipur ,

Noida, Cuttack, Banaras, Haridwar, Allahabad and

Mednipur b ut no t necessar i ly in the same order.

There are on ly two persons s i t t ing between the person

from Merrut , wh o s i ts at an extreme end, and Ritesh. Jaya,

who si ts in th e middle of the row, is no t an immediate

neighbour of Poonam , who is not f rom Mednipu r . Jenel ia is

si t t ing at an extreme end. Ritesh, from No ida , si ts o n the

immediate r ight o f the person from Gurgaon and faces the

immediate neighhour o f Poonam. Rakesh is not s i t ting at

the extreme lef t end. Jaya is no t from Al lahabad. There is

only on e person between Aksh ay and A rt i , who is f rom

Meerut. Gaurav, from Cuttack, is an immediate neighbou r

of the person from Mednipu r and does no t face the person

from Begusarai .Twinkle, who is from Haj ipur, is an

immediate neighbour of the person from A l lahabad, who in

turn faces the imm ediate neighbour o f the person from

Noida. There are two person s between the person from

Banarasand the person from Begusarai . Rakesh is not

from Banaras. Jenel ia is no t from Haridw ar.


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World Cup is being organised by India. Different teams areparticipating in the World Cup. Seven teams which areparticipating are – Pakistan, Australia, Srilanka, India, Kenya,South Africa and West Indies. They will be playing therematches at different places, namely Delhi, Ranchi, Chennai,Nagpur, Chandigarh and Mumbai, but not necessarily in thesame order, on different days of the week, starting fromMonday.Pakistan will be playing at Ranchi, but neither on Friday nor onMonday.The host country will be playing on Thursday at Nagpur.There is a gap of one day between Pakistan and India match.South Africa will be playing the match before West Indies butafter Kenya at Cuttack on Wednesday.West Indies will be playing on the last day of the week.

Australia will be playing at Mumbai.No match will be played at Delhi on Monday.The match at Chandigarh will be played on the last day of theweek.The match at Chennai will be played on Tuesday.No match will be played at Mumbai on Tuesday and Friday.


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Eight players—HshimAmla, De Villiers, Dale Steyn, JP Duminy,Imran Tahir, MorneMorkel, David Miller and Dean Elgar aresitting in three lines L1, L2 and L3. And they are in threedifferent categories, either batsman or bowler or all rounder. Ineach line at least two and at most three players aresitting there.

And at least two players are in each category but not more thanthree.De Villiers and Dale Steyn are in different lines but not inlineL2, and both are in same categories. Dean Elgar and DavidMiller are in same line and in same categories, but not allrounders. JP Duminyand Imran Tahir are in different lines butnot in line L1 andin different categories butnot all rounder.

HashimAmla is in LineL2 and JP Duminy is not in same line asin HashimAmla. Both players of lineL2 are bowlers.MorneMorkel is all rounder andnot in line L1. From three allrounder two are line in L3. MorneMorkel and Dale Steyn areinsame line and there are three batsmen.


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(i) Seven teachers Prashant, Vidushi, Vandana, Aniket, Neeraj,

Meena and Priyanka teach in the science section of XII of a

particular school. They teach one of the following subjects

Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Physics and Maths

(ii) Physics and Chemistry are teached by two teachers.

(iii) Both the Chemistry teachers and one from Zoology and

Maths each has cleared UGC (NET).

(iv) Four female teachers are Vidushi, Vandana, Meena and

Priyanka. Of them two are married. Two teachers are members

of PTA executive council, out of which only one is male.

However, none of the married teachers are its members.

(v) All the married teachers except one are class teachers of

one class or the other. There are four married teachers

Prashant, Vidushi, Aniket and Meena. There are three subject

teachers.

(vi) None of the married women teachers have cleared

UGC(NET). Two male teachers have cleared NET out of which

one is married. he is Mr.Prashant, a subject teacher. He is not

from PCM stream. He teaches Botany or Zoology.

(vii) The PTA members are subject teachers and not class

teachers.

(viii) PTA members teach same subject.

(ix) Only Mrs.Vidushi teaches Botany. Priyanka is a class

teacher.


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In a conference 8 people Pappu, Kalu, Chotu, Bikki, Golu, Tina, Reena

and Payal from different cities Begusarai, Khagaria, Munger, Bhagalpur,

Mokama, Muzzafarpur, Purnia and Katihar not necessarily in same order

sitting around a rectangular table. 3 persons are sitting oneach longer

side andeach on the smaller sides.Bikki is sitting second to the right of

the person who is from Katihar. Golu is sitting third to the left of the

person who isfrom Muzzafarpur. Tina and Reena are sitting opposite

each other. Chotu is sitting diagonally opposite the person from Purnia.

Kalu is sittingopposite the person who is from Begusarai. The person

from Bhagalpur is sitting second to the right of the person from

Mokamaandsecond to the left of Pappu, who is not sitting near the

person who is from Purnia. Reena is sitting on the smaller side and to

the right ofthe person who is from Purnia. Persons from Mokamaand

Bhagalpur are not on the same side of the table. The person

fromBhagalpur is sitting third to the right of the person from Katihar, who

is not sitting diagonally opposite the person from Khagaria.The person

from Bhagalpur is third to the left of Chotu. Tina sits second to the left of

Payal.The person fromKhagaria sits opposite to the person

fromMokama.

There are eight friends, namely Aniket, Neeraj, Vineet, Prashant,Saurabh, Santosh, Anand and Trilok. All of them own a different 2-wheeler, namely Bajaj, Hero, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, TVS, LML andHarley Davidson, though not necessarily in the same order. All ofthem are sitting around a circular table facing the centre.

Trilok is not a neighbour of Neeraj while Santosh ownsneither LML nor Harley Davidson. There is only one personbetween Aniket and Prashant.

Vineet, who owns TVS, is third to the left of the one who ownsHonda. The one who is sitting opposite the one who had Heroowns Harley Davidson.

Neither Aniketnor Prashant has Honda. There are two personsbetween Saurabh and Anand, who own Heroand Yamaharespectively, but neither of those two persons is Vineet.

Aniket is second to the left of Saurabh and owns Suzuki.

Neeraj is an immediate neighbour of Anand.


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(1) There are seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G based in Delhi. Each of

them is from a different state, has a different profession, and plays a different

instrument. (2) C, a doctor, is from Bihar. (3) E and F play mandolin and violin, though not necessarily in that order. (4) A is not from Kerala. (5) The person from Kerala is an engineer and plays guitar. (6)The lawyer plays sitar. (7) The businessman from UP plays violin. (8) The teacher and the cricketer play flute and piano, though not necessarily in

that order. (9) F is a pilot. (10) The Maharashtrian is a teacher. (11) The Gujarati plays piano. (12) G, a Punjabi, does not play sarod. (13) B is a cricketer.

Eight friends−J, K, L, M, N, O, P and Q live on eight different

floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order. The

lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above

that is numbered two and so on till the topmost floor is

numbered eight. J lives on floor numbered 4. Only one person

lives between J and L. O lives on the floor immediately below L.

Only one person lives between O and P. P lives above O. O

lives on floor numbered 5. Only one person live between K and

N, M lives on an even numbered floor but does not live on floor

numbered 8. K lives below Q’s floor .


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A ,B, C, D and E are five men sitting in a line facing to south - while M, N, O, P

and Q are five ladies sitting in a second line parallel to the first line and are

facing to North.

B who is just next to the left of D, is opposite to Q. C and N are diagonally opposite to each other. E is opposite to O who is just next right of M. P who is just to the left of Q, is opposite to D. M is at one end of the line.

Eight people E, F, G, H, J, K, L and M are sitting around a circular table facing

the centre. Each of them is of a different profession Chartered Accountant, Columnist, Doctor,

Engineer,Financial Analyst, Lawyer, Professor and Scientist but not necessarily

in the same order. F is sitting second to the left of K. The Scientist is

an immediate neighbour of K. There are only three people between the Scientistand E. Only one person sits between the Engineer and E. The Columnist is to

the immediate right of the Engineer. M is second to the right of K. H is

the Scientist. G and J are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither G nor J is

an Engineer. The Financial Analyst is to the immediate left of F. The Lawyer is

second to the right of the Columnist. The Professor is an immediate neighbour

of the Engineer. G is second to the right of the Chartered Accountant.

A bu i ld ing has eight f loors f rom 1 to 8 in such a way that ground

f loor is numbered 1, the above f loor is num bered 2 and so o n. The

top m ost f lo or is n umbered 8. Eight perso ns G, P, M, R, Q, A, D and

C are staying each on one of these f loors . A is staying o n f loor 6.

There is a gap of three persons between G and R. C is staying o n

the topm ost f loo r. Neither P nor M is staying on th e f loor 5. Q is

staying m iddle of P and M. R is staying on the f loor 1. M is not an

immediate neighbor of G.


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Eight f r iends – Romil, Ramesh, Rakesh, Rohit, Rahul, Abhij it ,

Abhishek and Ani l – are sit t ing around a circular table, not

necessari ly in the same order. Four of them are facing ins ide others

are facing outside. They are belong to eight dif ferent cit ies –

Bhopal, Patna, Kolkata, Delhi, Gwalior, Bengaluru, Chennai and

Rajkot, but n ot necessari ly in the same ord er. Abhij i t faces the Centre and sits third to the right o f Rakesh. Rohit

belongs to Kolkata and faces the person who belongs to

Bengaluru. Abh ishesk si ts third to the r ight o f Ramesh, who stays

in Bhopal. The persons who belong to Delhi and Gwalior are facing

to the same direct ion (insid e or outsid e). Rahul is sit t ing between

the person who belongs to Kolkata and the one from Rajkot

respect ively. Romil belongs to Gwalior and Rakesh belongs toPatna. The person who belongs to Chennai is fac ing o utward and

immediate neighbo r of Rajkot . Ani l is immediate neighbor o f the

persons who belong to Gwal ior and Chennai . Rahul is immediate

lef t of Rohit .

Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each,in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons.In row l, P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated and all of them are facing south.In row 2, A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing north.Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in arow faces another member of the other row. A sits third to right of D. Neither A nor D sits at extreme ends. T faces D.V does not face A and V does not sit at any of the extreme ends. V is notan immediate neighbour of T. B sits at one of the extreme ends. Onlytwo people sit between B and E. E does not face V. Two persons sitbetween R and Q. R is not an immediate neighbour of T. C does notface V. P is not an immediate neighbour of R.


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A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it isdivided into three groups, viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food

group — with three members in each group. There are certain conditionsfor the formation of the groups.Only three members will be selected in each group. One person cannotbe selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H is in theEntertainment group. C and D are in the same group but not in the groupof I. A and B are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as Ibut is in the Food group. F is in the group in which either H or B or bothof them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is neither withE nor with I.

Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but notnecessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different

company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS, SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis.Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north but notnecessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a differentcompany among Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One andICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly one person from the otherrow. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to theimmediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite theperson who is to the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google

employee and the SAPIENT employee sit at right ends in theirrespective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is adjacent to E. D sitsopposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is notadjacent to D but opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an endnor opposite A, but sits to the right of P. The Accenture employee isadjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One employee.S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neitherend. T is opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee issecond to the right of the Axis employee. The Capital One employee is

not adjacent to P.


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Six exams Maths, science, History, Economics, English and Hindi are tobe scheduled starting from 2

nd March and ending on 8

th march wit

Sunday being an off day, notnecessarily in the same order. Each of the exam has different time

duration: 40 mins, 50 mins, 60 mins, 75 mins, 90 mins and 100 mins,again not necessarily in the same order. 8

th march is not sunday and an exam of 40 mins is scheduled on that

day. Maths exam is for less than 60 mins and is scheduled immediatelybefore English exam. There are two exams scheduled between Hindiexam which is for 100 mins and History exam which is for 60 mins.English exam is before Sunday and there are two days between sundayand maths exam. Economics exam which is for 75 mins is not scheduledon 2

nd march. The exam schedules on saturday is of 100 mins.

P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y, Z are sitting around a circle facing centre but not necessarily in

the same order. The husband of Z is sitting second to the right of Q who is sitting

between two males. X sits second to the left of the daughter of S. X is the sister of Y.

X is not an immediate neighbour of Z's husband. Only one person sits between Pand X. P is the father of Y. S who is brother of Z sits to the immediate left of his

mother. Only one person sits between Z's mother and W. Only one person sits

between Z and Y. Y is mother of R. Y is not an immediate neighbour of W.


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Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a round table facing towards the

centre of the table in a restaurant. They have ordered for different items (Pizza,Strawberry, Vanilla, Burger, Pastries and Patties) as their lunch. They are wearing T-

shirts of different colours, i.e. white, black, green, red, yellow and blue. Order of items

for the lunch and colours of T-shirts are not necessarily according to the order of their

names. I.The persons who have ordered for Pizza, Vanilla and Pastries are neither in white T-

shirt nor in black. II.The persons who are in green and yellow T-shirts have neither ordered for Pizza nor

for Vanilla. III.A is neither in white T-shirt nor on the immediate left of the person who has

ordered for Burger. IV.The only person who is between E and F eats Strawberry. The person who is on the

left side of the person in white T-shirt does not eat Patties. V.D has ordered Burger and the colour of his T-shirt is green. He is facing the person

who has ordered for Strawberry. VI.One who has ordered for Pizza is seated opposite to the person wearing blue T-

shirt, while the person whose T-shirt is of green colour is on the left of the person whohas ordered for Pastries. VII.One who has ordered for Patties is on the immediate right of the person in white

T-shirt but on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for Vanilla. VIII.C has not ordered for Vanilla while F has not ordered for Pizza.

(i)There are five types of cards viz. A, B, C, D and E. There are three cards of each

type. These are to be inserted in envelopes of three colours – Red, Yellow and Brown.There are five envelopes of each colour. (ii)B, D and E type cards are inserted in red envelopes. A, B and C type cards are to be

inserted in yellow envelopes and C, D and E type cards are to be inserted in brown

envelopes. (iii)Two cards each of B and D type are inserted in red envelopes.

There are six persons A, B, C, D, E and F in school. Each of the teachers teaches

two subjects, one compulsory subject and the other optional subject. D’s optional

subject was History while three others have it as compulsory subject. E and F have

Physics as one of their subjects. F’s compulsory subject is Mathematics which is an

optional subject of both C and E. History and English are A’s subjects but in terms of

compulsory and optional subjects, they are just reverse of those of D’s. Chemistry is

an optional subject of only one of them. The only female teacher in the school has

English as her compulsory subject.


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(i)Five friends P, Q, R, S and T travelled to five different cities of Chennai,

Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad by different modes of transport of

Bus,Train, Aeroplane, Car and Boat from Mumbai. (ii)The person who travelled to Delhi did not travel by boat (iii)R went to Bangalore by car and Q went to Kolkata by aeroplane (iv)S travelled by boat whereas T travelled by train (v)Mumbai is not connected by bus to Delhi and Chennai

Madan and Rohit are in the same team of hockey. Parth defeated Rohit

in badminton but lost to Sachin in tennis. Nitin teams with Sagar in

football and with Sachin in hockey. Rohit defeated Sachin in chess.

Those who play cricket do not play badminton, volleyball or tennis.

Madan and Parth are in opposite teams of basketball. Nitin represents

his state in cricket while Sagar does so at the district level. Boys who

play chess do not play football, basketball or volleyball. Madan and

Parth are together in the volleyball team. Boys who play football also

play hockey.

Seven boys A, D, Y, U, P, Q and J live in three different buildings –

Ashiana, Top-view and Ridge. Each of them is flying kites of differentcolours i.e. red, green, blue white, black, yellow and pink, not

necessarily in that order. Not more than three or less than two stay in

any of the buildings. Q is flying a pink and does not live in Ridge

building. U does not live in the same building as A or P and is flying a

yellow coloured kite. D lives in Ridge building with only one more person

and is flying a green kite. None in the Top-view building flies a white kite.

P does not fly a blue kite.


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Six banks clerks Anu, Esha, Indu, Om, Uma and Yogi are working in

three SBI associates banks – SBI Patiala, SBI Hyderabad, SBI Mysore.

They are belonging to four different cities i.e. Delhi, Dehradoon, Agraand Ajmer. At least one clerk qorks in each bank and at least one clerk

belong to each city. Uma works either in SBI Patiala or SBI Mysore. One

clerk of SBI Hyderabd belongs to Delhi. Esha eithr belongs to Delhi or

Dehradoon and does not work in SBI Hydrerabad. Yogi does not work

with Om and Esha. Indu works in SBI Patiala and she is not from Delhi.

Both the clerks of SBI Mysore are not from Ajmer. Anu is not from Ajmer

and Om work with SBI Patiala. Two persons belong to Delhi and they

don’t work with SBI Mysore. Person from Agra does not work in SBIPatiala. Uma is from Delhi and Om is not from Dehradoon. Clerks of

same bank’s does not belong to same city.

Twelve friends are seated along the two rows –(such that facing each

other) A, B, C, D, E and F are seated in first row and facing South. P, O,

R, S, T and V are seated in Second row and facing North. Q is on the

immediate right of S who is facing A. D is on the immediate right of A. P,

F and C are at extreme ends and nobody is seated on the right of F.

Only V is seated between P and T and he is not facing B. Q is on the

immediate left of R.


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Shukla, Mishra, Singh, Kulkarni, Rao, Joshi and Nair are to conductinterviews simultaneously either alone or in pairs at four differentlocations—Surat, Chandigarh, Delhi and Lucknow. Only one wants totravel by rail, two prefer travelling by car and the rest travel by air.

Shukla is going to Lucknow but neither by car nor by air. Mishra prefers to travel by car. Neither Joshi nor Nair is going to Delhi. Only those going to Surat travel by road. Kulkarni will assist his friend Mishra. The two managers who go to Delhi travel by air.

B, M, T, R, K, H and D are travelling in a train compartment with threetier sleeper berth. Each of them has a different profession of Engineer,

Doctor, Architect, Pharmacist, Lawyer, Journalist and Pathologist. They

occupied two lower berths, three middle berths and two upper berths. B,

the engineer, is not on the upper berth. The Architect is the only other

person who occupies the same type of berth as that of B. M and H are

not on the middle berth and their professions are Pathologist and Lawyer

respectively. T is a Pharmacist. D is neither a Journalist nor an Architect.

K occupies the same type of berth as that of the Doctor.


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Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H work in three differentcompanies: X, Y and Z. Out of these, two are female who work indifferent companies and have different specializations. Two of them arespecialists in Finance, two in HR, two in Marketing and one each is anEngineer and a Computer Specialist. D, working in a company X hasspecialized in HR and her friend G, a Finance Specialist is working incompany Z. H, an HR specialist, is working with B, a MarketingSpecialist and does not work in company Y. C is not a Computer Specialist. No two people with the samespecialization work together. F is a specialist in Marketing working incompany Y and his friend A has specialized in Finance and is workingcompany X with only one another Specialist. Not more than three of

them work in company Z. No female is an Engineer or a ComputerSpecialist.

There are seven teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U and V in Bank Power. Eachone of them teaches a different subject. There are three female and fourmale teachers, and out of these, there are two pairs of couples.R who teaches Computers is married to the teacher who teachesEnglish. T and V are female teachers who teach History and Economicsrespectively. P teaches Reasoning and his wife does not teachEconomics. Q does not teach English or Mathematics. U and S are maleteachers. U is unmarried. One of them teaches Geography.


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Eight players—Sachin, Virender, Mahender, Suresh, Praveen, Rahul,Ravinder, and Dinesh are sitting in three lines L1, L2 and L3. And theyare in three different categories, either batsman or bowler or all rounder.In each line at least two and at most three players are sitting there. And

at least two players are in each category but not more than three.

Virender and Mahender are in different lines but not in line L2, and bothare in same categories. Dinesh and Ravinder are in same line and insame categories, but not all rounder. Suresh and Praveen are indifferent lines but not in line L1 and in different categories but not allrounder. Sachin is in line L2 and Suresh is not in same as in Sachin.Both players of line L2 are bowlers. Rahul is all rounder and not in lineL1. From three all rounder two are line in L3. Rahul and Mahinder are in

same line, and there are three batsmen.

Five friends Rosy, Mandy, Denial, Lucky and Ella like five differentwatches Titan, Samay, Sonata, Citizen and Fastrack 5 different cars

Wagon R, Alto, Santro, Swift and Xylo & 5 different pens Reynolds,

Parker, Cello, Montex and Elkos. Ella like wagon R car but not like

Parker pen and Citizen Watch; lucky likes sonata watch and Reynolds

pens but not like Xylo car. Mandy likes Xylo car and Samay watch. Rosy

like Santro car and Cello pen, person who likes wagon R car likes

Fastrack watch. Elkos pen is liked by a person who has swift car and

citizen watch.


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Eight people S, R, N, L, M, T, O and P are sitting in a circle facing the centre.All eight belong to different professions ___ reporter, doctor, cricketer, teacher,

accountant, shopkeeper, painter and supervisor. They are not necessarily seated

in the mentioned order.

M is sitting third to the left of O. The doctor is to the immediate right of M andM is not a reporter. R is sitting fourth to the right of P. Neither R nor P is animmediate neighbour of M. T is a teacher and is sitting third to the right of the

doctor. The shopkeeper is sitting second to the left of the teacher. The painter is

sitting second to the left of M. S the cricketer is sitting exactly between T and P.

The accountant is sitting second to the right of the cricketer. N is sitting third to

the left of T.

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a circle, but not necessarily

in the same order. Four of them are facing outside and four of them are facing

the centre.

E faces outside, Both the immediate neighbours of E face the centre.H sits second to the right of E. B sits third to the left of E. D faces the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of D face outside. G sits second to the left of A. B sits third to the right of H. F is an immediate neighbour of D. C is an immediate neighbour of G. D is not an immediate neighbour of B.


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Eight colleagues, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, are sitting around a circular tablefacing the centre but not necessary in the same order. Each one of them holds a

different post - Manager, Compony Secretory, Chairman, President, Vice

President, Group Leader, Financial Advisor and Managing Director.

A sits third to the right of the Managing Director. Only two people sit betweenthe Managing Director and H. The Vice President and the Company Secretary areimmediate reighbours. Neither A nor H is a Vice President or a Company

Secretary. The Vice President is not an immediate neighbor of the Managing

Director. The Manager sits second to the left of E. E is not an immediate

neighbor of H. The Manager is an immediate neighbor of both the Group Leader

and the Financial Advisor. The Financial Advisor sits third to the right of B. B is

not the Vice President. C sits on the immediate right of the Chairman. A is not thechairman. F is not an immediate neighbor of A. G is not an immediate neighbor

of the Manager

Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each,

in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons.I n row -1 - P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated and all of them are facing

south.

I n row-2 - A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row

faces another member of the other row. P sits third to the left of T. Neither P nor T sits at an extreme end of the

line. A sits second to the right of E. Neither A nor E faces T or P. A does

not sit at an extreme end. R does not face A and R does not sit at anextreme end of the line. Only one person sits between F and C. Neither F

nor C faces T. C does not sit at the extreme end. Only one person sits

between V and Q. F is not an immediate neighbour of B and A does not

face V.


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Six friends – Deepa, Vandana, Anita, Nikita, Rashmi and Sonika have

ordered six different food items which are Chola- Bhatura, Chowmein,

Pizza, Burger, Dosa and Idli not necessarily in same order. Each one likes

a different type of Ice cream Mango, Strawberry, Black Current, Vanilla,

Choco chip and Butter Scotch again not in the same order.

Nikita did not like Idli. Rashmi order Pizza and likes Mango ice cream.

Anita likes Black Currant ice cream and did not order Idli. The one who

likes Vanila ice cream has ordered Dosa, Sonika ordered Burger and doesnot like Butter Scotch. The one who likes Choco chip has ordered

Chowmein. Deepa and Vandana not like Choco chip. Deepa does not like

Butter Scotch.


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