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    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 the following lives in Flat-B of

    Floor-2?
    A One who speaks English Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B One who speaks Marathi Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C One who speaks Urdu Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D One who speaks Punjabi Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these 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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