Direction : Study the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2019
Direction : Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Eight persons are working in three different cities i.e. Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad. At least two persons are working in a city. There are four married couples of two generations. Number of males and females are equal in each city.
Note- Married couples are not working in same city. They have different designations i.e. GM, AGM, CEO, Manager, Assistant Manager, PO, Clerk, Sub staff (these are in decreasing order of seniority means GM is senior most and Sub staff is junior most person).
Only three persons are senior than the only son of B. B doesn’t work in Pune. E is sister in law of G who is junior most person. H is son in law of D, who is immediate senior of A. F is spouse of C and both are not working in Delhi. There are as many posts above father in law of A as below sibling of A. Only C and H are working in Hyderabad. Only PO and Sub staff are working in Delhi. Spouse of E is not working in Delhi. G is daughter in law of B who is spouse of D. F is senior than H and junior than C.
Who among the following is Assistant Manager?
- A.
B
- B.
D
- C.
C
- D.
F
- E.
None of these
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Correct answer: E
Concept
In a designation-based arrangement, anchor every clue to a fixed seniority ladder and to fixed family roles, then let the relational words pin each person to a single rank. A comparative clue ("X is senior than Y") fixes ordering, a counting clue ("only N persons are senior than Z") fixes Z's exact rank position, and an in-law clue (daughter-in-law, son-in-law) fixes both gender and which couple a person belongs to. The asked person is whoever is forced into the named designation once the whole grid is closed.
Application — building the grid
Eight ranks, most-senior first: GM, AGM, CEO, Manager, Assistant Manager, PO, Clerk, Sub staff.
G is the junior-most person, so G holds Sub staff. G is the daughter-in-law of B (and B is the spouse of D), so B and D are a married couple and G is married to the only son of B and D.
"Only three persons are senior than the only son of B" places that son at the 4th rank from the top, i.e. Manager. So B and D's son is Manager.
D is the immediate senior of A, and the only unattached person who can be married to G (the son of B and D) is A — so A is that son and A holds Manager. Being A's immediate senior in rank, D holds CEO.
H is the son-in-law of D, so H is married to a daughter of B and D; that daughter is E. Hence E and H form a couple, and the four couples are B–D, A–G, E–H and C–F (F is the spouse of C).
Cities: Hyderabad has exactly C and H. Delhi holds only the PO and Sub staff; G (Sub staff) sits in Delhi, so B (PO) is the other Delhi person. The remaining four — A, D, E, F — work in Pune.
Equal males and females in each city, plus the in-law genders (G female, H male) force: B male, C female, D and E female, A and F male.
A's father-in-law is G's father = F, and A's sibling is E. The clue "as many posts above the father-in-law of A as below the sibling of A" gives rank(F) − 1 = 8 − rank(E), i.e. rank(F) + rank(E) = 9.
The ranks still free for C, E, F, H are GM(1), AGM(2), Assistant Manager(5) and Clerk(7). With rank(F)+rank(E)=9 the only split is F = AGM and E = Clerk; the seniority chain C senior-than F senior-than H then forces C = GM and H = Assistant Manager.
Final arrangement
Person | City | Designation |
|---|---|---|
A | Pune | Manager |
B | Delhi | PO |
C | Hyderabad | GM |
D | Pune | CEO |
E | Pune | Clerk |
F | Pune | AGM |
G | Delhi | Sub staff |
H | Hyderabad | Assistant Manager |
Cross-check & result
The Assistant Manager is H. None of the offered names (B, C, D, F) is the Assistant Manager, so the correct response is "None of these". Verification: G = Sub staff (junior-most ✓), C senior-than F senior-than H reads GM senior-than AGM senior-than Assistant Manager ✓, only three ranks (GM, AGM, CEO) sit above Manager = A ✓, and posts above F (one: GM) equal posts below E (one: Sub staff) ✓.