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Please solve it with elaborate method (DISCUSSION on this problem will be highly appreciated).

And if u have any systematic approach known to solve such puzzles, please share it here.

I find it very difficult to solve such puzzle within 10 mins.

Qestion:

In an annual function of a school five students C, K, J, L and B participated in discuss throw competition.

All of them throw discus but discus was thrown by them to different distances. The distances were 27, 29, 31, 33, and 35 feet, but not necessarily in the same order as the names are. Similarly the colour of shirt of each person was different. Shirt colours were black, blue, brown, green and red.

Each person was called to throw discus one by one.

1) K and the person who was given the chance at fifth position threw the discus more than 30 feet. And neither of the two was in blue shirt.

2) J's shirt was green. He threw the discus immediately before the person who got the first rank.

3) The person in red shirt threw the discus two feet less than the person who threw the discus only after one person.

4) B was called first to throw the discus. But he did not get the last rank.

5) One who threw the discus immediately after C was in brown shirt.

6) L was not the person who threw the discus at 31 or at 35 feet.

7) The person in black shirt did not throw the discus at 33 feet.

8) The person in blue shirt did not throw the discus at 2nd or 4th position.

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Chadda family has eleven persons A to J consists of three married couples. All men in the family are professional engineer, Lawyer, Accountant, Dancer, Actor, Singer and women are housewife, Tennis player, teacher and doctor. A lawyer is married to I, who is the daughter in law of B. J, H and G are the grandsons of an engineer A.B tennis player has a daughter and three sons.H’s Father is a lawyer whose brother is E.The doctor is the only sister of J’s father.A cricketer who is brother of dancer’ s father D and F. Dancer's mother is a teacher and Actor’s brother is a dancer.The singer’s mother is not doctor nor teacher and her/his father is Accountant. I and K are daughter in law.F’s father is an engineer and has a son J....What is the profession of K?...... #post your ans below , ignore if already solved...

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Seven persons namely P,Q,R,S,T,U,V working as a AM( Assistant Manager), MAN(Manager), DGM(Deputy General Manager), GM (General Manager), CGM ( Chief General Manager), ED( Executive Director), CEO( Chief Executive Officer) not in the same order in a organization. And likes different cities namely Mumbai, Jaipur, Ranchi, Chandigarh, Agra, Patna, Bhopal not in same order.
NOTE :: position have been increasing order of their experience. CEO is most experienced person and Assistant manager least experienced.
1) R junior to only two persons. S does not like Ranchi.
2) Person who likes Chandigarh is junior to T but not a least junior.
3) Person who likes Patna is senior to ED.
4) Person who likes Ranchi senior to U but junior to T.
5) T is junior to CGM but senior to V.
6) U junior to V and likes Agra.
7) Q senior to T but not a most senior.
8) CGM does not like Bhobal.
9) V junior to P but not to S.
10) CGM senior to one who likes Jaipur

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It is better if also the step by step solution of question is dicussed. Pl post screen shots of solution (diagram) or method used step by step. It helps a lot.

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 Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular  table facing the centre of the table but not necessarily in the same  order. Each of them has a different profession, viz Teacher, Singer,  Doctor, Accountant, Lawyer, Banker, Businessman and Actor. A sits third  to the right of the Actor. Only two people sit between the Actor and H.  Doctor and Businessman are immediate neighbours. Neither A nor H is  either Businessman or a Doctor. The Businessman is not an immediate  neighbour of the Actor. The teacher sits second to the left of E. E is  not an immediate neighbour of H. The Teacher is an immediate neighbour  of both the Accountant and Lawyer. The Lawyer sits third to the right of  B. B is not Businessman. C sits on the immediate right of the singer. A  is not a Singer. F is not an immediate neighbour of A. G is not an  immediate neighbour of the Teacher. 

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Brock Lesnar, Shane McMahon, Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins and Rusev are eight fighters sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing towards the centre and four of them are facing away from the centre. All of them like a different movie, viz. Tamasha, Bajirao, Dilwale, Massan, Airlift, Sultan, Dangal and Ready, but not necessarily in the same order. Dean Ambrose faces towards the centre and likes Tamasha. Both the immediate neighbours of Dean Ambrose face away from the centre and like Dilwale or Massan. Roman Reigns faces away from the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of Roman Reigns do not face away from the centre. Dean Ambrose sits third to the right of Kevin Owens, who likes Airlift and faces away from the centre. Undertaker sits third to the left of Kevin Owens. The one who likes Dilwale sits opposits of Kevin Owens. The one who likes Bajirao is not the immediate neighbour of Kevin Owens and faces away from the centre. Brock Lesnar sits second to the left of Undertaker and does not like Dangal or Ready. The one who likes Dangal sits between Rusev and Kevin Owens. Shane McMahon faces away from the centre and does not like Bajirao... #post your arrangement below, ignore if already solved ..

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In a family of ten persons – P, Q,  R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y – there are five males and five females. All  the persons have either their favourite hobby or professions viz.  Cooking, Reading, Painting, Gardening, Dancing, Singing, Cricket,  Football, Teacher and Doctor. No couple like the version of same hobby.  In the family of three generations, each male member except Q and W, has  two brothers and one sister. The granddaughter of Y does not like  Cricket, Q has no brother. P does not like Cooking. No female member  likes either Dancing or cooking. 

X is mother-in-law of U and she  likes Football. V, who likes Singing, is the daughter-in-law of Q. S who  likes Painting is the unmarried brother of T, who does not like  Gardening. R is the brother-in-law of U but he does not like Gardening,  Dancing or Cooking. T is V's sister-in-law. Q's mother is W's wife, who  does not like Teaching. The grand parents do not like any hobby. 

1. Who among the following likes dancing?

1) R 

2) P 

3) U

4) Cannot be determined 

5) Other than given options

2. U likes which of the following?

1) Cricket 

2) Gardening 

3) Reading

4) Cannot say 

5) Other than given options

3. Which of the following pair of persons do not represent a couple?

1) Q and X 

2) P and U 

3) V and R 

4) W and Y 

5) T and S

4. How is P related to T?

1) Father 

2) Brother 

3) Husband

4) Cannot say 

5) Other than given options

5. How is W related to T?

1) Grandfather 

2) Grandmother 

3) Aunt

4) Uncle 

5) Other than given options

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 A number arrangement machine when given an input of numbers, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and steps of rearrangement.

Input : 17 23 29 13 47 37 19 79

Step I: 79 23 29 13 47 37 19 17

Step II: 79 47 29 13 23 37 19 17

Step III: 79 47 37 13 23 29 19 17

Step IV: 79 47 37 29 23 13 19 17

Step V: 79 47 37 29 23 19 13 17

Step VI: 79 47 37 29 23 19 17 13

This is the final arrangement and Step VI is the last step for this input. 

plzz xplain logic behind this ...........

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how that last appeared????

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Eight persons Q. F. Y. A. U, N, G and T are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them who sit at the corner, are facing towards the centre and other four who sit in the middle of each row, are facing outside the c entre. Each person has different lucky numbers — 11, 12, 13, 14. 15: 16: 17 and 18 but the sequence of persons and lucky numbers are not necessarily in the same order. A's daughter's lucky number is 11. Only one person is sitting between O and N. T 's brother A. sits on the immediate left of his mother whose lucky number is 16. O is the father of G. Only one person sits between T's mother and U. U sits on the immediate right of the person whose lucky number is 12. No female is an immediate neighbour of F who sits at the comer of the table. A's daughter sits second to the right of N and on the immediate left of that person whose lucky number is 13. F sits second to the left of T 's husband whose lucky number is neither 14 nor 17. N, who is sister of G. her lucky number is 17 and is not an immediate neighbour of T's husband. Only one person sits between T and G. G sits second to the right of the person whose lucky number is 13. G is father of Y and not an immediate neighbour of U. Y is not married to T.

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SBI Po Puzzles : 

Ten  persons  are  sitting  in  twelve  seats in  two  parallel  rows  containing 

five people  each,  in  such  a  way  that  there  is  an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A, B, C, D and E are seated and all of them are facing south, and in row 2 , P, Q,  R,  S  and  T  are  sitting  and  all  of  them  are  facing  north.  One  seat is vacant  in  each  row.  Therefore,  in  the  given  seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. All of them like a different colour i.e. Red, Green, Pink, Blue, Purple, White, Black, Grey, Violet and Yellow.

 S sits third to the right of R and likes Blue colour. 

Only two people sit between Q and Vacant seat. 

Q does not like Purple and Pink colour. 

E is not an immediate neighbour of C

B likes yellow colour. The one who likes Pink colour faces the one who likes 

Grey colour.

The one who likes Pink colour sits opposite to the one, who sits third right of the one, who sits opposite to S. 

 C is not an immediate neighbour of D. 

T, who likes neither Purple nor White colour, does not face vacant seat. 

Neither S nor R sits at an extreme ends. D faces R. 

Vacant seats are not opposite to each other. 

Two persons sit between C and B, who sits third right of the one, who likes Black colour. 

The one who likes Violet colour faces the one, who likes Blue colour. 

The person who likes Red colour and Grey colour are adjacent to each other.

 Vacant seat of row-1 is not an immediate neighbour of D. 

Q sits at one of the extreme ends. 

R does not like Red and Grey colour.

Vacant seat of row-1 does not face S also does not sit at any of the extreme ends.

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solve this and explain 5th and 6th step

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Anshul,  Ishu, Rocky, Mohit, Sahil, Alisha, Monty and Ruchi are sitting around a  circular table facing the centre of equal distances between each other  (but not necessarily in the same order). Each one of them is also  related to Mohit in some way or the other. Only two people sit between  Alisha and Rocky. Mohit sits second to the left of Alisha. Only three  people sit between Rocky and Mohit’s sister. Mohit’s son sits second to  the right of Mohit’s sister.

Only one  person sits between the son of Mohit and Ruchi. Anshul sits on the  immediate right of Monty. Monty is neither the son nor the mother of  Mohit.

Ruchi is an  immediate neighbour of Mohit’s mother. Only three people sit between  Mohit’s mother and Mohit’s brother. Mohit’s daughter sits second to the  left of Mohit’s brother.

Mohit’s father is not an immediate neighbour of Mohit. Mohit’s wife sits third to the right of Ishu.

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight persons of a family. There are three married couples in the family. They are from three generations. There are no unmarried females in the family. B and A are offspring’s of D while G and H are offspring of E and C respectively. F is the wife of D. C is one the females and she is not the wife of A. Among them there are three doctors, two engineers, two authors and one painter. Each person has only one occupation. One day all the persons sit around a round table looking towards centre to solve a puzzle which was asked recently in the examination for Bank PO. They sit in such a manner that only one of the grandson of D is sitting between C and A, while only E is sitting between B and F. H, who is not sitting next to B, is also not sitting opposite to D. While B is not sitting opposite to female. One of the sons of D is sitting on the immediate left of D .Only one person is sitting between C and B but that person is not G. The persons who are sitting next to E are neither engineer not doctors. The Persons who are sitting on the immediate left of G and immediate right of B are not doctors while H is a renowned painter. 1. The only person who is sitting between B and C is n/an (a) Engineer (b) Doctor (c) Author (d) Painter (e) None of these 2. The only male who is sitting opposite a female is a/an (a) Engineer (b) Doctor (c) Author (d) Painter (e) None of these 3. The two females who are sitting adjacent to each other are? (a) C and E (b) C and D (c) E and F (d) Can’t be determined (e) None of these 4. G is sitting between whom among the following persons? (a) A and C (b) C and B (c) A and F (d) Can’t say (e) None of these 5. Who among the following female is the author? (a)F (b)E (c)B (d)D (e)None of these...... .. #post your arrangement, ignore if already solved

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Ten persons John, Krish, Leon, Monty, Nathan, Pihu, Queen, Rehan, Smith and Tret are sitting in two rows with five persons in each row. The persons in row one are facing south and the persons in row two are facing north. Each person in row one faces a person from the other row. All of them like a different soft drink, viz Sprite, Slice, Pepsi, Maaza, Fanta, Mirinda, Limca, 7up, Nimbooz and Cola, but not necessarily in the same order. The persons who like Fanta and Mirinda sit opposite each other. Pihu sits opposite John, who likes Sprite. The one who likes Slice sits opposite the one who likes 7up. Tret is not facing north but sits third to the left of Queen, who likes Slice. There is only one person between Krish and Leon. Nathan sits at one of the ends of the row and likes Mirinda. The one who likes 7up is on the immediate right of Monty, who does not like Cola. The persons who like Pepsi and Maaza respectively are not facing north. Leon likes Limca. The one who likes Maaza sits opposite the one who is second to the right of Krish. Smith does not like Cola. Nathan sits opposite the one who sits second to the left of the one who likes Pepsi.

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Ten persons  John, Krish, Leon, Monty, Nathan, Pihu, Queen, Rehan, Smith and Tret are  sitting in two rows with five persons in each row. The persons in row  one are facing south and the persons in row two are facing north. Each  person in row one faces a person from the other row.

All of them  like a different soft drink, viz Sprite, Slice, Pepsi, Maaza, Fanta,  Mirinda, Limca, 7up, Nimbooz and Cola, but not necessarily in the same  order.

The persons  who like Fanta and Mirinda sit opposite each other. Pihu sits opposite  John, who likes Sprite. The one who likes Slice sits opposite the one  who likes 7up. Tret is not facing north but sits third to the left of  Queen, who likes Slice. There is only one person between Krish and Leon.  Nathan sits at one of the ends of the row and likes Mirinda. The one  who likes 7up is on the immediate right of Monty, who does not like  Cola. 

The persons  who like Pepsi and Maaza respectively are not facing north. Leon likes  Limca. The one who likes Maaza sits opposite the one who is second to  the right of Krish. Smith does not like Cola. Nathan sits opposite the  one who sits second to the left of the one who likes Pepsi.

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Seven people  Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Robert Niro, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Russell  Crowe and Tom Hank live on separate floors of a 7-floor building. Ground  floor is numbered 1, first floor is numbered 2 and so on until the  topmost floor is numbered 7. Each one of these is travelling to a  different city, viz Delhi, Manchester, Paris, Cannes, Kansas, Brussels  and London but not necessarily in the same order. 

Only three  people live above the floor on which Johnny Depp lives. Only one person  lives between Johnny Depp and the one travelling to Brussels. Russell  Crowne lives immediately below the one travelling to Manchester. The one  travelling to Manchester lives on an even numbered floor. Only three  people live between the ones travelling to Brussels and Paris. Brad Pitt  lives immediately above Robert Niro. Brad Pitt is not travelling to  Paris. Only two people live between Al Pacino and the one travelling to  Kansas. The one travelling to Kansas lives below the floor on which Al  Pacino lives. The one travelling to Delhi does not live immediately  above or immediately below Al Pacino. Kevin Spacey does not live  immediately above or immediately below Johnny Depp. Tom Hank does not  travel to Corsica.

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There are seven teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U and V in XYZ INSTITUTE. Each one of them teaches a different subject. There are three female and four male teachers, and out of these, there are two pairs of couples. R who teaches Computers is married to the teacher who teaches English. T and V are female teachers who teach History and Economics respectively. P teaches Reasoning and his wife does not teach Economics. Q does not teach English or Mathematics. U and S are male teachers. U is unmarried. One of them teaches Geography... #post your ans below, ignore if already solved....

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