Question

Comprehension

Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

Eight persons O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V are living in a four-storey building such that the ground floor is numbered as 1, above it is floor 2 then the top floor is numbered as 4. Each of the floors has 2 flats in it as flat-1 and flat-2. Flat-1 of floor-2 is immediately above flat-1 of floor-1 and 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. T lives to the east of V. There is a gap of one floor between P and Q and they both live in the same flat. U does not live in flat-1. Q lives in flat-2 of an even-numbered floor. Only two floors are there between V and R. S and P lives on the same floor.

Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group, which among the following does not belong to that group?

1. T
2. Q
3. V
4. P
5. U

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : V

Eight persons O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V are living in a four-storey building.

Each floor has 2 flats, flat-1 and falt-2 where flat-1 is to the west of flat-2.

1. Q lives in flat-2 of an even-numbered floor.

Following are the possibilities we get,

Case 1
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4
3
2		Q
1

 

Case 2
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4		Q
3
2
1

There is a gap of one floor between P and Q and they both live in the same flat.

Case 1
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4		P
3
2		Q
1

 

Case 2
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4		Q
3
2		P
1

3. Only two floors are there between V and R.

4. T lives to the east of V.

Case 1
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4	R	P
3
2		Q
1	V	T

 

Case 2
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4	R	Q
3
2		P
1	V	T

5. U does not live in flat-1.

Case 1
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4	R	P
3		U
2		Q
1	V	T

 

Case 2
Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4	R	Q
3		U
2		P
1	V	T

6. S and P live on the same floor.

Here, this statement is violated in case 1, so it is eliminated and the final arrangement is,

Floor	Flat 1	Flat 2
4	R	Q
3	O	U
2	S	P
1	V	T

Here, all the persons live in flat-2 except V.

Hence, V does not belong to that group.