Study the information given below to answer this question. (i) Arnold’s…

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Study the information given below to answer this question.

(i) Arnold’s fitness schedule consists of cycling, rowing, gymnasium, jogging and boxing, one activity on each day from Monday to Saturday, with one of the six days being a rest day.

(ii) The gymnasium workout is done neither on the first day nor on the last day, but is done earlier than the rowing day.

(iii) Jogging is done on the day immediately after the rowing day.

(iv) Cycling is done on the day immediately before the rest day.

(v) There is a two-day gap between the jogging day and the boxing day.

(vi) Boxing is done on the day immediately after the rest day.

What is the gap, in number of days, between the cycling day and the jogging day?

  1. A.

    one

  2. B.

    two

  3. C.

    three

  4. D.

    four

Show answer & explanation

Correct answer: D

Concept

In a constraint-based day-of-week arrangement puzzle, first anchor the most restrictive relational clues — an ‘immediately before/after’ pair, or a fixed day-gap — because these lock several days into one contiguous block. Once that block is fixed, place the remaining activities using the softer inequality clues (earlier than / not on the first or last day), then verify every clue against the completed schedule.

Application

  1. Clues (iv) and (vi) both anchor the rest day: cycling sits immediately before it and boxing immediately after it, so cycling, rest and boxing form three consecutive days in that order.

  2. Testing each possible position of this three-day block against the remaining clues — clue (iii) tying jogging to the day right after rowing, clue (ii) placing gymnasium before rowing but not on the first or last day, and clue (v) fixing a two-day gap between jogging and boxing — only one placement leaves a workable arrangement for rowing, jogging and gymnasium: cycling on Monday, rest on Tuesday, boxing on Wednesday.

  3. With three days left — Thursday, Friday and Saturday — for rowing, jogging and gymnasium, clue (iii) forces jogging to sit immediately after rowing; the only pairing that also keeps gymnasium off the last day and earlier than rowing is gymnasium on Thursday, rowing on Friday and jogging on Saturday.

  4. The completed week is: Monday – cycling, Tuesday – rest, Wednesday – boxing, Thursday – gymnasium, Friday – rowing, Saturday – jogging.

  5. Cycling falls on Monday and jogging on Saturday, so the days strictly between them are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Cross-check

Re-reading all six clues against this schedule confirms each one holds: gymnasium (Thursday) is neither first nor last and precedes rowing (Friday); jogging (Saturday) is the day after rowing; cycling (Monday) is the day before the rest day (Tuesday); jogging (Saturday) and boxing (Wednesday) sit three days apart with Thursday and Friday between them; and boxing (Wednesday) is the day after the rest day (Tuesday). No other placement of the cycling-rest-boxing block satisfies clues (ii), (iii) and (v) simultaneously, so this schedule is the unique solution.

Result

Counting the weekdays strictly between the cycling day and the jogging day gives four days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday).

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