Question
Who among the following lives at the topmost
floor? Study the given information and answer the questions:      Eight people namely C, Q, P, S, W, Z, Y and O live on different floors of eight storey building but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes different laptops viz. Dell, Hp, Lenovo, Apple, Asus, Acer, Sony and Microsoft but not necessarily in the same order. Y lives in an even numbered floor but above 4th floor. P doesn’t live on the lowermost floor and at the floor just below or above Y. Four people live between the one who likes Asus and the one who likes Acer. Only one person lives between Q and the one who likes Lenovo. The one who likes Apple lives immediate below the floor on which the one who likes Acer lives. Z doesn’t like Dell and Sony. C likes Lenovo and lives at one of the floor above O. Three people live between Y and the one who likes Dell. P likes Asus and lives on an odd numbered floor. Two people live between Z and the one who likes Apple. S likes Microsoft. The person who likes Sony or Hp doesn’t live at the lowermost floor. W does not like Apple.Solution
By using the given conditions, Y lives in an even numbered floor but above 4th floor. From this there can be two possible cases. Case-1: Y lives on 6th floor and Case-2: Y lives on 8th floor. P likes Asus and lives on an odd numbered floor. P doesn’t live at the lowermost floor and at the floor just below or above Y. In case-1, P lives on 3rd floor and in case-2, P lives either on 5th floor or on 3rd floor. Four people lives between the one who likes Asus and the one who likes Acer. From this it is clear that P lives on 3rd floor. The one who likes Apple lives immediate below the floor on which the one who likes Acer lives. Two people live between Z and the one who likes Apple.Â
Z doesn’t like Dell and Sony. From this case-2 will be eliminated. Further C likes Lenovo and lives at one of the floor above O. So, C can live on 5th floor only. S likes Microsoft. So, S lives on ground floor and O lives on 2nd floor. The person who likes Sony and HP doesn’t live at the lowermost floor. So, Y likes Sony. W does not like Apple. So, Z likes HP and Q lives on 7th floor. So, the final arrangement is---
Five years from now, the age of Arjun will be 28 years. Six years from now, the ratio of ages of Arjun and Varun will be 4:5 respectively. After how man...
The present ages of A and B are in the ratio 11:9. The ratio of A’s age 10 years hence to B’s age 18 years ago is 3:1. If C is 20% less than the sum...
'P' and 'Q' have present ages in the ratio of 4:5. If Q’s current age is increased by 20%, the gap between their ages becomes 1...
The ratio of A and B present age is 5:3. The product of their ages is 1500. What will be the ratio of their ages after 2 years?
The average age of Mohan, his wife, his son and his daughter is 24 years. His wife is just 5 years younger than Mohan himself and his wife was 25 years ...
The present ages of Amit and Sumit are in the ratio of 5:3, respectively. After 6 years from now, if the difference between the age of Amit and Sumit wi...
The present age of A is double of B's present age. C's present age is 3/5th of A's present age. Average age of A, B and C is 28 yrs. Find the present ag...
- The current age ratio of Kiran to Prakash is 8:3. In ten years, Kiran’s age will be three times Prakash’s age at that time. What is Kiran’s present a...
The present age of A is 9/5 times to that of his marriage age. Present age of his brother is 1/2nd of his present age. If A was married 24 years ago the...
The Average age of 25 pupils in a class is ‘y’ years. If their principal, aged 50 years, joins them, the average rises by 1 year. Find the value of ...