Directions : Study the information carefully and answer the questions given…
2018
Directions : Study the information carefully and answer the questions given below.
Six people Tarun, Charu, Visakha, Monika, Anko and Viraj are born in different years with the current base is taken as 2018. None of them is older than 90 years old. They like different fruits apple, Orange, Grapes, Cherry, Mango, Banana.
Note- The last two digits or reverse of the last two digits of the year in which a person is born can be the age of some other person. (Like A is born in 1943 and age of B is denoted by the last two digits of the birth year of A. Then B’s age will be either 34 or 43).
Tarun was born in the year 1983. The difference of age between Tarun and Charu is 21 years. Visakha age is sum of the digits of the year in which Charu was born. The one who likes mango is 5 years elder to Visakha. Anko age is either the last two digits or reverse of the last two digits of the year in which the person who likes mango was born. Only one person is elder to Anko and Visakha likes apple. The one likes cherry is just younger to Anko. The difference between Viraj’s and the one who likes cherry is 24 years. The one who likes banana was born in an even year. The one who likes orange is younger to the one who likes grapes both in odd number of years. Monika is younger than Viraj.
Which of the following statement is correct?
- A.
Anko is three years older than the one who likes cherry
- B.
Viraj is the eldest
- C.
Anko born in 1959
- D.
Monika is born before Visakha
- E.
All are correct
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Correct answer: E
Concept
This is a linear puzzle that fixes each person on an age line (age = 2018 - birth year, none above 90). The technique is to convert every textual clue into an exact age or year, then chain them: anchor from the known birth year, branch only where a clue allows two values, and discard any branch that violates a later clue. A single self-consistent line of six ages must remain.
Step-by-step deduction
Tarun is born in 1983, so his age is 2018 - 1983 = 35.
The age gap between Tarun and Charu is 21, giving Charu age 14 (born 2004) or 56 (born 1962). Visakha's age equals the digit-sum of Charu's birth year: 2+0+0+4 = 6, or 1+9+6+2 = 18.
The mango-liker is 5 years elder to Visakha. The Anko clue says Anko's age is the last two digits, or their reverse, of the mango-liker's birth year. Testing the Charu-2004 branch makes the mango-liker only 11 (born 2007), giving Anko age 07 or 70 with no way to satisfy “only one person is elder to Anko” consistently. The Charu-1962 branch works: Visakha is 18 (born 2000), the mango-liker is 23 (born 1995), so Anko's age is 95 (invalid, over 90) or its reverse 59. Hence Anko is 59, born 1959.
“Only one person is elder to Anko” means exactly one age exceeds 59. “The cherry-liker is just younger than Anko” points to Charu at 56 (the next age below 59), so Charu likes cherry.
The Viraj-cherry age gap is 24, so Viraj is 56+24 = 80 or 56-24 = 32. Only 80 supplies the single person elder than Anko, so Viraj is 80, born 1938. The unplaced person of age 23 (the mango-liker) must be Monika, born 1995, and Monika < Viraj holds.
Fruits left are orange, grapes, banana for Tarun, Anko, Viraj. The banana-liker is born in an even year, and only Viraj (1938) is even, so Viraj likes banana. Orange is younger than grapes with both ages odd: Tarun (35) and Anko (59) are both odd, so Tarun likes orange and Anko likes grapes.
Final arrangement
Person | Birth year | Age | Fruit |
|---|---|---|---|
Viraj | 1938 | 80 | Banana |
Anko | 1959 | 59 | Grapes |
Charu | 1962 | 56 | Cherry |
Tarun | 1983 | 35 | Orange |
Monika | 1995 | 23 | Mango |
Visakha | 2000 | 18 | Apple |
Cross-check of each statement
Anko (59) is exactly 3 years older than the cherry-liker Charu (56) — true.
Viraj at 80 is the oldest of all six — true.
Anko's birth year is 1959 — true.
Monika (1995) is born before Visakha (2000) — true.
Since every one of the four statements holds in the unique arrangement, the correct response is that all of them are correct.