PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

TABLE PUZZLES [FLOOR/BUILDING]

PREPARATORY SET-36 (HARD)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

 

Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are living on an eight storey building which has two vacant floors. The ground floor is numbered 1, the above one floor is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 8. Each of them has different professions as Teacher, Scientist, Engineer, HR, Economist and Doctor but necessary in the same order. All of them are belongs to same family with three different generations.

 

S lives on one of the odd numbered floors but not in the ground floor. Only two persons are living between the one who is Teacher and S, who is the only daughter of R. The vacant floors are not immediately above or below each other and none of the vacant floors are in topmost or bottom most floors. Only one floor between U’s son and the one who is an Economist. At least three persons living between the one who is an Engineer and the HR, who is the husband of S. The HR lives one of the floors above the Engineer. U and her son Q, who is the Doctor are living in adjacent floors to each other. Only one of the odd numbered floors is vacant floor. S is not an Economist. The Engineer is the mother of S. T is the father of the one who is an Economist. P lives immediately above the one who is a Scientist. P’s grandfather is neither HR nor an Engineer.

 

Question No : 1

Who among the following lives on the topmost floor?

(1) P

(2) Q

(3) T

(4) U

(5) R

Question No : 2

How is the HR related to the Teacher?

(1) Son

(2) Daughter

(3) Father-in-law

(4) Son-in-law

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

How many persons are living between R and the Scientist?

(1) Two

(2) Three

(3) Four

(4) One

(5) No one

Question No : 4

Who among the following lives on the second floor?

(1) The Teacher

(2) U

(3) Q

(4) Economist

(5) Vacant floor

Question No : 5

How many male members are there in the family?

(1) One

(2) Three

(3) Two

(4) Four

(5) Can’t say