PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

BOX(ES) BASED PUZZLES

PREPARATORY SET-54 (HARD)

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

 

Nine boxes of three type – Plastic (B11, B21 and B13), Wooden (B12, B31 and B01) and Metal (B22, B10 and B14) are kept one above other in the form of stack. Each box is wrapped with different colored paper – Black, Blue, Pink, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Brown, Red and White. Each box also contains different fruits viz., Lemon, Berry, Mango, Fig, Papaya, Guava, Banana, Cherry and Grapes. Each box is marked with different number either a perfect square or perfect cube number between 2– 200. Boxes are marked and placed in such a way that either kept in ascending or descending order of numbers from top to bottom. All the given information is not necessary in same order. No two boxes of same type are kept together.

 

The box wrapped with White paper is marked with cube number and is kept at a gap of one box below B31. No box is marked as 9. The box wrapped with Black paper is marked with cube number. Box B11 is kept just above the box having Grapes. B22 is kept at a gap of two boxes from the box marked 81, which is kept just above the box wrapped with Cyan paper. Box B31 having Guava is kept just below Metal box marked 121. At most two boxes are kept below the box wrapped with Green paper. At most four boxes are kept between the box having Banana and the box B01, which doesn’t contain Papaya. The box wrapped in Brown paper is neither kept adjacent to box marked 64 nor adjacent to box having Grapes. The box wrapped with Green paper is kept at a gap of two boxes from the box having Guava. Three boxes are kept between the box wrapped with Pink and the box marked 64. No metal box contains Banana. The box having Fig is kept just below the box wrapped with Green Paper. One box is kept between the box wrapped Brown and box B22, which is neither marked 121 nor wrapped with White paper. The box wrapped with Pink neither contains Fig nor contains Mango. One box is kept between box B13 and box B10. The box having Mango is kept at a gap of three boxes above box B11, which neither contains Fig nor wrapped with White paper. The box wrapped with Red paper is marked as 169. Three boxes are kept between the box wrapped with Blue paper and plastic box, which is kept adjacent to the box marked 8. Two boxes are kept between the box having Cherry and the box B21, which is not kept at bottom. The box having Berry and the box wrapped with Yellow paper are kept together. Lemon is kept at one of the position below Box containing Banana. B01 does not contain Berry or Papaya.

 

Question No : 1

Which of the following statement is true with respect to the box having Papaya?

(1) The box having Banana is kept just below the box having Papaya

(2) One box is kept between the box having Papaya and the box wrapped with Cyan paper

(3) Only four boxes are kept below the box having Papaya

(4) Two boxes are kept between the box contains Papaya and the box having Lemon

(5) More than two statements are true

Question No : 2

Which of the following combination is true?

(1) Mango–B22–169–Red

(2) B13–Yellow–25–Fig

(3) B10–Grapes–White–27

(4) Cyan–B31–Cheery–64

(5) All the above combinations are not true

Question No : 3

What is the square root of the difference of numbers on box B14 and the box which contains Guava?

(1) 53

(2) 210

(3) 247

(4) 82

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Which of the following combination is true for wooden boxes?

(1) Blue–Yellow–Pink

(2) Berry–Lemon–Papaya

(3) Yellow–Cyan–Guava

(4) 8–27–Cheery

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Which of the following box is wrapped with Black paper?

(1) B21

(2) B11

(3) B22

(4) B12

(5) None of these