Question

    Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions: There are eight persons i.e. Padma, Pari, Pallavi, Paridhi, Parul, Pavitri, Payal and Pooja who lives in a building having Four floors such that ground floor is numbered as 1 and above it is 2 and so on up to top floor numbered as 3. Each of the floor consist of 2 flats as flat-A, flat-B. Flat-A of floor-2 is immediately above flat-A of floor-1 and immediately below flat-A of floor-3 and in the same way flat-B of floor-2 is immediately above flat-B of floor-1 and immediately below flat-B of floor-3 and so on. Flat-B is in east of flat-A. Each of them speaks different languages i.e. Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Urdu, English, Hindi, Kannada and Punjabi. Note: If A lives above (or below) B, then there are living in same flat unless stated otherwise. Payal lives in an even numbered Floor in Flat-B. Pallavi who speaks Kannada lives in Flat-A of an odd numbered floor. Pallavi lives south-west of Payal. Persons speaking Tamil and Bengali shared the same Floor. Parul lives second to above Paridhi in Flat-B. The one who speaks Urdu lives north-east of Padma. Pooja speaks Hindi lives to the west of Parul. There is a gap of one Floor between the both who speaks Tamil & Punjabi and both of them live in an even numbered floor in Flat-A. Pavitri speaks Tamil and lives above the one who speaks Punjabi. One who speaks Marathi lives immediately below of Payal.

    Who among of the following lives to the East of the one

    who speaks Hindi?
    A One who speaks Urdu Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B One who live in Flat-B of Floor-3 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Parul Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D All of the above Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Both A and C Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Payal lives in an even numbered Floor in Flat-B. One who speaks Marathi lives immediately below of Payal. Pallavi who speaks Kannada lives in Flat-A of an odd numbered floor. Pallavi lives south-west of Payal. Parul lives second to above Paridhi in Flat-B. Case-2 we get one more possibility Pooja speaks Hindi lives to the west of Parul Note: Case-2 gets rejected since Pooja speaks Hindi lives to the west of Parul is not possible. There is a gap of one Floor between the both who speaks Tamil & Punjabi and both of them live in an even numbered floor in Flat-A. Pavitri speaks Tamil and lives above the one who speaks Punjabi. Persons speaking Tamil and Bengali shared the same Floor The one who speaks Urdu lives north-east of Padma. Case-2-A gets eliminated since above said condition is possible. Finally, Pari lives in Flat-B of Floor-4 and Payal speaks English. FINAL ARRANGEMENT  

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