Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2023
Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Eight persons work in two different departments i.e., Research and Agriculture and all of them get different marks in the Research and Agriculture sessions organized by organization. Each of them has different years of experience (in whole number) in their departments. They have qualification in either HR or diploma. No one has more experience than 11 years. Equal number of persons work in both departments. A and D have same qualification. B gets twice marks as the experience of F and doesn’t qualification in HR. F has twice experience than E who has more experience than A. F did Diploma same as C. A’s marks is two more than B’s marks but not multiple of 7. C and D have different qualification. The one who gets marks in multiple of 8 works in agriculture department. G’s experience is equivalent to smallest two digits prime number. F have 4 marks less than E. G’s experience and C’s Mark are not equal. G gets the marks which is 3/2 of the marks get by A. C’s experience is five times of A’s experience. The marks get by D is twice of C’s experience. A and D work in the same department but not as B. A gets marks which is twice of C marks. C and F work in same department but not as A’s department. A has even number of experiences. B has more experience than H but less than D and all have prime number experience. E and H work in same department. E, G and H have same qualification but different than B. H marks is 9 more than E and just less than D.
Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and thus form a group then who among the following doesn’t belong to the group?
- A.
A - HR
- B.
B - Diploma
- C.
D - HR
- D.
F - Diploma
- E.
H - Diploma
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: E
Concept
In an 'odd one out' question, four of the five statements share a common property and the fifth breaks it. Here each statement pairs a person with a qualification (HR or Diploma). The grouping property is being a TRUE statement about the qualification grid built from the clues; the statement that disagrees with that grid is the one that does not belong.
Step 1 - Fix the qualifications from the clues
B is not HR, so B holds Diploma.
F did Diploma, the same as C, so F and C hold Diploma.
C and D have different qualifications; C is Diploma, so D is HR.
A has the same qualification as D, so A is HR.
E, G and H share one qualification that differs from B's Diploma, so E, G and H are all HR.
Step 2 - The finished grid
A = HR, B = Diploma, C = Diploma, D = HR, E = HR, F = Diploma, G = HR, H = HR.
Step 3 - Cross-check each statement against the grid
A-HR, B-Diploma, D-HR and F-Diploma all agree with the grid. Pairing H with Diploma disagrees with the grid, because H is HR. The statement that disagrees with the grid is the one that does not belong to the group, so the answer is H paired with Diploma.