Direction: Read the following information and answer the question given below.…
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Direction: Read the following information and answer the question given below. Six school friends - A, B, C, D, E and F - are going for holidays in the summer vacation with their families, to different places - Shimla, Nainital, Mussoorie, Kasauli, Lansdowne and Auli (not necessarily in the same order). All of them will go in the same week but on different days, except Sunday. Further information is as follows: I. E is going to Shimla. II. F is going to Kasauli but will go one day before the friend who is going to Auli. III. The one who is going to Lansdowne will go on Monday. IV. A is not going to Nainital but will go on Tuesday. V. C will go one day before B, but neither of them will go on Monday or on Thursday. Question: Who among the following is going to Mussoorie?
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
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Correct answer: A
Concept
In a linked day-and-place puzzle with several friends, first lock every clue that fixes one person's day or place directly, then use adjacency clues ("one day before") to test the small set of valid day-pairs against the days already taken, and only assign the last ambiguous places once every other place is used up. Only one complete day-and-place grid can satisfy every clue at once, so the answer comes from building that grid, not from testing the given options one by one.
Application
The travel days (excluding Sunday) are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, one friend per day. A travels on Tuesday and is explicitly ruled out from Nainital.
The friend going to Lansdowne travels on Monday. Since A already travels on Tuesday, A is not this Monday traveller, so A does not go to Lansdowne.
C travels exactly one day before B, and neither C nor B travels on Monday or Thursday. Checking the day-pairs: Tuesday-Wednesday is blocked because Tuesday belongs to A, and Wednesday-Thursday is blocked because B cannot be on Thursday. The only pair left is Friday-Saturday, so C travels Friday and B travels Saturday.
That leaves Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for D, E and F. E goes to Shimla and F goes to Kasauli, so neither of them can be the Monday traveller (who goes to Lansdowne); D must be the Monday traveller, going to Lansdowne.
Wednesday and Thursday remain for E and F. F travels exactly one day before the friend going to Auli. If F were on Wednesday, the Auli traveller would be on Thursday - but Thursday's slot is E, who already goes to Shimla, which is a contradiction. So F travels on Thursday, E travels on Wednesday, and the Auli traveller is on Friday, which is C.
With Shimla (E), Kasauli (F), Lansdowne (D) and Auli (C) all assigned, only Nainital and Mussoorie remain for A and B. Since A cannot go to Nainital, A gets Mussoorie and B gets Nainital.
Cross-check
Assembling every deduction into one grid and checking it against all five conditions:
Friend | Day | Place |
|---|---|---|
A | Tuesday | Mussoorie |
B | Saturday | Nainital |
C | Friday | Auli |
D | Monday | Lansdowne |
E | Wednesday | Shimla |
F | Thursday | Kasauli |
E goes to Shimla - matches the grid.
F goes to Kasauli and travels one day before the Auli traveller (Thursday, one day before C's Friday) - matches.
The Lansdowne traveller (D) is on Monday - matches.
A does not go to Nainital and travels on Tuesday - matches.
C travels one day before B (Friday before Saturday), and neither is on Monday or Thursday - matches.
Every condition holds for exactly this grid, confirming the result.
Result
A is the one going to Mussoorie.