Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2023
Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below-
Ten persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J sit in two rectangular tables X and Y. Three of them like horror novel, three likes thriller and four of them likes romance novel.
Four persons sit in table X and remaining sits in table Y. The person sits in middle faces outside the centre and the person sit in corner face inside the centre. Persons sits in table X sit in middle and in Table Y four seats are placed in middle and four seats are placed in the corner. Two seats are vacant in Table Y.
D sits in table X. J does not sit in table Y. G sits immediate left of J and neither of them like thriller. The one who likes romance does not sit in the middle of table Y. D likes romance and sits opposite to G. E likes romance and sit on table Y. Both the immediate neighbours of E like thriller. More than three seats between the persons who likes thriller. A sits immediate left of the one who likes thriller. F sits third to the left of A. C sits in table X. Two persons sits between D and J. B does not like thriller and romance. Two persons sit between D and the one who likes thriller. The persons who likes thriller does not sit in the corner. I sits 2nd to the left of a vacant seat. Both the vacant seats are not adjacent two each other. The one who likes horror sits immediate right of the one who likes romance in table Y. A doesn’t like Horror.
Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Who among the following does not belong to that group?
- A.
H
- B.
J
- C.
I
- D.
F
- E.
C
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
Concept
In an "odd one out" question, four of the five listed persons share one common, well-defined property and the fifth does not. To find the outlier you first fix that property from the seating arrangement, then test each option against it. Here the cleanest shared property is the kind of seat a person occupies: a middle seat versus a corner seat. (In the layout, everyone in Table X occupies a middle seat, and Table Y has both middle and corner seats.)
Application
Fix the seat-type of each listed person from the clues:
J does not sit in Table Y, so J sits in Table X — and every Table X seat is a middle seat. So J occupies a middle seat.
C sits in Table X, so C also occupies a middle seat.
H and F end up among the central positions: the thriller-likers sit among the middle seats (a clue says thriller-likers never sit at a corner), and H and F fall into those middle seats when the arrangement is completed.
I sits 2nd to the left of a vacant seat in Table Y, which places I at a corner seat.
Contrast
Comparing the five by seat-type:
Person | Seat type |
|---|---|
H | Middle |
J | Middle |
F | Middle |
C | Middle |
I | Corner |
Four of the five sit in middle seats; only the person at the corner seat breaks the pattern, so that person is the one who does not belong to the group.