Directions : Study the following information carefully to answer the given…
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Directions : Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions:
Nine persons - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I live on different floors of nine storey building. Ground floor is numbered as 1st floor and just above the ground floor is numbered as 2nd floor and so on till the topmost floor is numbered as 9th floor. They speak different languages i.e., Marathi, Hindi, Gujrati, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannad, Punjabi and Bengali. All the data is not necessarily in the same order.
D speaks Telugu. Three persons live between A and the one who speaks Malayalam. The number of persons live above A is same as the number of persons live below H.A does not speak Kannad. Three persons live between H and the one who speaks Bengali. The number of persons live above G is same as the number of persons live below the one who speaks Bengali. Two persons live between E and the one who speaks Kannad. E does not speak Bengali. The one who speaks Hindi lives just above the one who speaks Gujrati. Neither A nor E speaks Hindi. C lives just below the one who speaks Marathi but lives above the 4th floor. The number of persons live above I is same as the number of persons live below the one who speaks Tamil. F lives above I’s floor. The one who speaks Punjabi doesn’t live on the bottommost floor.
Which of the following statement is not true?
I. E lives more than two floors above the one who speaks Telugu
II. The number of persons live between the ones who speaks Gujrati and Malayalam is same as the number of persons live above H
III. B lives below the one who speaks Kannad
- A.
Both II and III
- B.
Only I
- C.
Both I and II
- D.
Only III
- E.
None is true
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
Concept
In a floor-and-attribute puzzle, lock the distance and 'persons-between' clues onto the 9-floor frame first (count of persons above/below a marker fixes that marker's floor), then layer language clues that pin one floor relative to another (just-above / just-below). Once every floor carries a fixed person and language, each statement is read off the grid by value, never by guesswork.
Building the arrangement
Persons above A equal persons below H gives floor(A)+floor(H)=10; persons above G equal persons below the Bengali speaker gives floor(G)+floor(Bengali)=10; persons above I equal persons below the Tamil speaker gives floor(I)+floor(Tamil)=10.
C sits just below the Marathi speaker and above the 4th floor, fixing C high in the stack; Hindi sits just above Gujrati as one rigid block.
Three-between clues fix |A - Malayalam| = 4 and |H - Bengali| = 4; the two-between clue fixes |E - Kannad| = 3. D speaks Telugu, F is above I, and Punjabi is not on the ground floor.
These constraints intersect at exactly one valid grid.
Final grid (top to bottom)
Floor | Person | Language |
|---|---|---|
9 (top) | F | Hindi |
8 | A | Gujrati |
7 | I | Marathi |
6 | C | Bengali |
5 | E | Punjabi |
4 | G | Malayalam |
3 | B | Tamil |
2 | H | Kannad |
1 (ground) | D | Telugu |
Testing each statement
Statement I: E is on floor 5, the Telugu speaker (D) is on floor 1, so E is 4 floors above - more than two floors above holds, so I is TRUE.
Statement II: between Gujrati (floor 8) and Malayalam (floor 4) there are 3 persons, but the persons above H (floor 2) number 7; 3 is not 7, so II is FALSE (not true).
Statement III: B is on floor 3 and the Kannad speaker (H) is on floor 2, so B is above the Kannad speaker, not below; III is FALSE (not true).
Result
The question asks which statements are NOT true. Statement I holds on the grid, while the count statement and the B-versus-Kannad statement both fail. Hence exactly two statements are not true: the count statement and the B-versus-Kannad statement.