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    Question

    Study the following information carefully and answer the  given below. Six persons – A, B, C, D, E and F are living in a six-storey building, but not necessarily in the same order. They like different colours – Pink, Green, Red, Yellow, Black and White. The lower-most floor is numbered as 1 and the floor immediately above is numbered as 2 and so on. Only two persons live between the one who likes red and E, who lives above the third floor. D lives immediately below the one who likes red. The one who likes yellow lives two floors above D. A lives three floors above the one who likes pink. A doesn’t like yellow. No one lives between the one who likes black and white. Only three persons live between B and the one who likes white. The one, who likes pink, lives on the adjacent floor of C.

    How many persons live between A and the one who likes

    green?
    A As many persons live below C Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B As many persons live above the one who likes white Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Four Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D As many persons live between the one who likes black and D Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Five Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    We have, Only two persons live between the one who likes red and E, who lives above the third floor. D lives immediately below the one who likes red. From this condition, there are two possibilities Again we have, The one who likes yellow lives two floors above D. A lives three floors above the one who likes pink. A doesn’t like yellow. Again we have, No one lives between the one who likes black and white. Only three persons live between B and the one who likes white. The one, who likes pink, lives on the adjacent floor of C. From the above condition, case 1 gets eliminated.

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