Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered…
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Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statement are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and Give answer:
Seven people-A, B, C, D, E, F and G-live on different floors of a 7-floor building but not necessarily in the same order. The ground floor is numbered 1, the floor just above it is numbered 2, and so on. Who lives three floors below A.
Statement I: A lives on an even-numbered floor. E lives immediately above A. B lives on floor number 4. There are as many persons live above A as below G.
Statement II: D lives on a floor immediately above G. F does not live on the topmost floor. C lives on floor number 5 below A.
- A.
(a) If the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
- B.
(b) If the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
- C.
(c) If the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.
- D.
(d) If the data even in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.
- E.
(e) If the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.
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Correct answer: E
Statement I restricts A to an even floor but does not uniquely identify who is three floors below A. Statement II alone also does not fix the full arrangement. Together, A must be on floor 6 in the seven-floor model implied by the statements, C is on floor 5 below A, B is on floor 4, G is on floor 2 and D is immediately above G on floor 3. Therefore the person three floors below A is fixed only when both statements are used.