Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2019
Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Eight persons are working in three different cities i.e. Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad. At least two persons are working in a city. There are four married couples of two generations. Number of males and females are equal in each city.
Note: Married couples are not working in same city. They have different designations i.e. GM, AGM, CEO, Manager, Assistant Manager, PO, Clerk, Sub staff (these are in decreasing order of seniority means GM is senior most and Sub staff is junior most person).
Only three persons are senior than the only son of B. B doesn't work in Pune. E is sister in law of G who is junior most person. H is son in law of D, who is immediate senior of A. F is spouse of C and both are not working in Delhi. There are as many posts above father in law of A as below sibling of A. Only C and H are working in Hyderabad. Only PO and Sub staff are working in Delhi. Spouse of E is not working in Delhi. G is daughter in law of B who is spouse of D. F is senior than H and junior than C.
How many persons are junior than H?
- A.
Three
- B.
Four
- C.
Two
- D.
Five
- E.
None of these
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
Concept
In a designation-plus-city-plus-family puzzle, first build the seniority ladder from the anchor clues, then layer the city and relationship conditions on top. Three anchor types fix ranks directly: “only N persons are senior than X” places X exactly at rank N+1; “junior-most” fixes the bottom of the ladder; and “immediate senior of” ties two adjacent ranks together. Once the full ladder is known, a “how many are junior than P” question is simply the number of designations sitting below P.
The eight designations, senior to junior, are: GM, AGM, CEO, Manager, Assistant Manager, PO, Clerk, Sub staff.
Building the ladder
Only three persons are senior than the only son of B, so that son occupies the 4th rung, Manager. The only-son must be a male child of B; checking the named males, the partners H (a son-in-law) and the C–F couple are ruled out, so the only son is A, who must therefore be the Manager.
G is the junior-most, i.e. Sub staff (8th rung), and as B's daughter-in-law she is married to B's only son — so the couple A–G is fixed. Likewise H, the son-in-law of D, is married to B's daughter E, fixing the couple E–H.
“D is the immediate senior of A” places D exactly one rung above the Manager, making D the CEO (3rd rung).
“F is senior than H and junior than C” fixes the downward order C, F, H. With “only C and H in Hyderabad”, “F and C not in Delhi”, and “only PO and Sub staff in Delhi”, F must sit in Pune; testing the allowed Delhi pair (a PO and Sub staff) forces B to the PO rung and leaves C at GM and F at AGM.
The family condition — as many posts above the father-in-law of A as below the sibling of A — settles the last two free rungs: the sibling of A must sit at Clerk (one post below it) and the father-in-law slot at AGM (one post above it). Only the assignment with E at Clerk and H at Assistant Manager satisfies this together with every earlier clue; the alternatives that would push H to Clerk break this balance.
The complete arrangement
Designation | Person | City |
|---|---|---|
GM | C | Hyderabad |
AGM | F | Pune |
CEO | D | Pune |
Manager | A | Pune |
Assistant Manager | H | Hyderabad |
PO | B | Delhi |
Clerk | E | Pune |
Sub staff | G | Delhi |
Answering the question
H holds the Assistant Manager post, the 5th rung. The designations strictly below it are PO, Clerk and Sub staff – held by B, E and G respectively. That is three persons junior than H.
Cross-check
Count downward from Assistant Manager: PO, Clerk, Sub staff – the ladder ends after exactly three more rungs, with nothing below Sub staff. So the number of persons junior than H is three.