High Level Puzzle for IBPS PO/Clerk Main Exam
Directions (Q. 1-5) : Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Ten cricketers of Mumbai Indians namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J live in a building with four floors. Each floor has 3 flats – flat-1, flat-2 and flat-3 – in the same order from left to right. Ground floor is numbered-1 and top most floor is numbered-4. Each flat is built in such a way that flat-1 of floor-2 is just above the flat-1 of floor-1 and so on. Each of them belongs to different countries viz — England, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand, West Indies, Australia and Afghanistan but not necessarily in the same order.
Two flats in which no one lives, are on the even numbered floor and are odd numbered flats but aren’t on the same floor or the same numbered flat. A belongs to England and lives on an odd numbered floor and the odd numbered flat. G lives on the flat just above B. B lives on the lower most floor. The one who belongs to Sri Lanka lives on an odd numbered floor and even numbered flat which is in the left of A’s flat. H belongs to West Indies and lives on the lower most floor but not on odd numbered flat. B and the one who belongs to Afghanistan lives on the same floor. D and E live on the floor number three. D lives just above the flat which is vacant. There is only one floor between C and I. I lives immediate right of F. The one who belongs to India does not live on the floor, which any flat is vacant. The one who belongs to Bangladesh lives immediate left of the one who belongs to Australia. The one who belongs to Bangladesh lives on an even numbered floor and odd numbered flat. The one who belongs to New Zealand lives immediate above the one who belongs to India. The one who belongs to South Africa does not live on an even numbered floor.
1. Who lives just above the one who belongs to Pakistan?1) I, who belongs to Australia.
2) The one who belongs to Afghanistan.
3) The one who belongs to New Zealand.
4) The one who belongs to Sri Lanka.
5) None of these
2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which one does not belong to that group ?
1) Afghanistan, H 2) Sri Lanka, E 3) Australia, F
4) South Africa, E 5) West Indies, B
3. Who lives on the lower most floor ?
1) The one who belongs to Bangladesh.
2) E and the one who belongs to England.
3) The one who belongs to India.
4) The one who belongs to South Africa.
5) None of these
4. The one who belongs to Sri Lanka lives on which of the following floors and which of the following flats ?
1) Floor-2, Flat number-3
2) Floor-3, Flat number-1
3) Floor-4, Flat number-2
4) Floor-3, Flat number-2
5) None of these
5. Which of the following statements is true ?
1) J lives on an even numbered floor.
2) The one who belongs to New Zealand lives immediately above A.
3) The one who belongs to Sri Lanka and the one who belongs to England live on the floor numbered-3.
4) F and the one who belongs to Afghanistan live on the same floor.
5) None is true
Answers:
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 3