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Eight persons - A, B, C, D, P, Q, R, and S live in a 4-storey building such as ground floor is numbered as 1 above it numbered as 2 then the top floor is numbered as 4 but not necessarily in the same order. Each of the floors has two flats in it as flat-1 and flat-2. Flat-1 of floor 2 is immediately below flat-1 of floor 3 and so on. In the same way, flat-2 of floor 2 is immediately above flat-2 of floor 1 and immediately below flat 2 of floor 3, and so on. Flat-1 is to the West of flat-2.
Q lives on an odd-numbered floor but not on floor number 1. Both R and B live in the same flat number. R and A live on the same floor. B does not live in flat-2. There is one floor between Q and S. Both Q and S do not live in the same flat. R lives 3 floors above B. C lives immediately below D in the same flat.
Who among the following lives in flat-2 on the 4th floor?
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Download Solution PDFPersons: A, B, C, D, P, Q, R and S.
Floor: 1 to 4.
Flats: flat-1 and flat-2.
1) B does not live in flat-2.
2) Both R and B live in the same flat number.
It means both R and B live inn flat-1.
So, the possible arrangements are as follows,
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Floor |
Flat-1 |
Flat-2 |
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4 |
R |
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3 |
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2 |
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1 |
B |
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3) R and A live on the same floor.
4) There is one floor between Q and S.
5) Both Q and S do not live in the same flat.
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Case1: |
Case2: |
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Floor |
Flat-1 |
Flat-2 |
Floor |
Flat-1 |
Flat-2 |
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4 |
R |
A |
4 |
R |
A |
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3 |
Q |
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3 |
S |
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2 |
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2 |
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1 |
B |
S |
1 |
B |
Q |
6) Q lives on an odd-numbered floor but not on floor number 1. Therefore case 2 is wrong.
7) C lives immediately below D on the same flat. Imply that C and D leaves in flat-2.
So, the final arrangement is as follows,
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Floor |
Flat-1 |
Flat-2 |
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4 |
R |
A |
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3 |
Q |
D |
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2 |
P |
C |
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1 |
B |
S |
Hence, A lives in flat-2 of 4th floor.
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