Study the information given below to answer these questions. (i) Arnold's…
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Study the information given below to answer these questions.
(i) Arnold's fitness schedule consists of cycling, rowing, gymnasium, jogging, and boxing from Monday to Saturday, with each workout on one day and one day kept as a rest day.
(ii) The gymnasium workout is done neither on the first day nor on the last day, but it is done earlier than rowing.
(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) Jogging and boxing are done with a two-day gap between them.
(vi) Boxing is done on the day immediately following the rest day.
On which day is boxing done?
- A.
Thursday
- B.
Friday
- C.
Monday
- D.
Wednesday
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Correct answer: D
Concept
In a day-scheduling deduction puzzle, first anchor the activities defined relative to a single reference day — here, the rest day. Since 'the day before the rest day' and 'the day after the rest day' each name exactly one day once the rest day is chosen, this pins two activities immediately; test each candidate rest-day position against the remaining relative-order and gap clues until only one position survives without contradiction.
Applying it to this puzzle
From the cycling clue and the boxing clue, cycling sits the day immediately before the rest day and boxing sits the day immediately after it — so three consecutive days read cycling, rest, boxing in that order.
Within a Monday-to-Saturday week, the rest day needs a day both before and after it, so it can only be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
Testing rest = Tuesday: cycling falls on Monday and boxing on Wednesday, leaving Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for gym, rowing, and jogging.
The rowing-then-jogging clue needs jogging the day right after rowing among those three days; rowing on Thursday would force jogging on Friday and push gym onto Saturday, but gym is barred from the last day, so instead rowing falls on Friday and jogging on Saturday, leaving gym on Thursday.
This placement also satisfies the gym-before-rowing clue (Thursday precedes Friday) and the two-day jogging-boxing gap (Thursday and Friday sit between Wednesday's boxing and Saturday's jogging).
The full week works out as:
Day | Activity |
|---|---|
Monday | Cycling |
Tuesday | Rest day |
Wednesday | Boxing |
Thursday | Gymnasium |
Friday | Rowing |
Saturday | Jogging |
Cross-check
Testing the other candidate rest-day positions (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) each breaks down the same way: whichever three days are left over for gym, rowing, and jogging, gym is barred from both the first and last day of the week, which forces rowing and jogging onto two days that are not adjacent — so the rowing-then-jogging clue fails in every case except rest = Tuesday. Wednesday's boxing is therefore the only schedule consistent with all six clues.