Direction : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2021
Direction : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Some students attend the lectures and they all are arranged in three parallel rows such that row1 is north of row2 and row 3 is south of row 2. Each row has 8 seats. All the students face north direction. Some seats are vacant in each row. Twelve students- Allen, Fame, Emma, Alpha, Coco, Nick, Ivory, London, Olive, Unique, Jack and Den who attend the lectures are divided into two classes i.e., class A and class B. The students whose name start with a vowel belongs to class A and the rest belong to class B. The students in class A are sitting in the alternative seats from the second seat of Row 1 when counts from the left end according to the dictionary order followed by class B students who are sitting in reverse alphabetical order. After row 1, students are sitting in row 2 then in row 3 following the same rule. All students are sitting in the alternative seats only. Now the students sit around two circular tables i.e., Table1 and Table2 and all are facing the centre. Students belong to Class A sit in table 1and the rest of them sit in table 2. Conditions for table 1: Allen sits opposite to the one who sits second from the left end in row 2. The one who sits right of olive in row 2 sits second to the right of Allen. Alpha doesn’t sit adjacent to Olive and sit opposite to Emma.
Conditions for table 2: London sits second to the right of the one who sits adjacent to Unique. The one who sits at extreme end sit third to the left of London. Jack sits opposite to Den and doesn’t sit adjacent to Nick.
Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and thus form a group. Who among the following does not belong to the group?
- A.
Allen
- B.
Alpha
- C.
Ivory
- D.
Emma
- E.
Nick
Attempted by 14 students.
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Correct answer: E
Concept
In an "odd one out" classification question, four of the five given names share one defining property and the fifth does not. Here the property that splits all twelve students is fixed by the passage: a name that begins with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U) belongs to Class A and is seated at Table 1, while a name that begins with a consonant belongs to Class B and is seated at Table 2.
Application
Apply the vowel/consonant rule to each name in the list:
Name | First letter | Class / Table |
|---|---|---|
Allen | A — vowel | Class A, Table 1 |
Alpha | A — vowel | Class A, Table 1 |
Ivory | I — vowel | Class A, Table 1 |
Emma | E — vowel | Class A, Table 1 |
Nick | N — consonant | Class B, Table 2 |
Contrast
Four of the five names begin with a vowel and therefore share the same class and table; only one name breaks the pattern:
Allen, Alpha, Ivory and Emma each begin with a vowel, so all four fall in Class A and are seated together at Table 1 — they form the group.
Nick begins with the consonant N, so it falls in Class B and is seated at Table 2 — it is the lone name outside the vowel group.
Result
Nick is the name that does not belong to the group.