Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions.
Ten persons Arush, Izaan, Jai, Kabir, Manav, Parth, Ritvik, Uday, Sahil, and Ved live (not necessarily in the same order as given) in two Flat A and Flat B in a building of five floors where floors are numbered as 1 to 5 from bottom to top.
Each person lives in one flat. Flat A is west of Flat B.
Note: Flat A of Floor 1 is exactly below Flat A of Floor 2 and so on. If X lives in Flat A and it is given that Y lives above X then it means that Y lives in Flat A if not stated that it lives in a different flat.
Kabir lives three floors above Ved and both live in different flats. Parth lives just below Kabir’s floor. Manav lives just north-west of Arush. Jai lives to the west of Ritvik whose floor is below Uday's floor. More than one-floor gap is between Ved and Izaan. Izzan does not live on an even number of floors. Sahil lives just above the floor on which Manav lives.
Who among the following person lives to the right of Izaan?
- AOption (a)
Manav
- BOption (b)
Jai
- COption (c)
Parth
- DOption (d)
Kabir
- EOption (e)
Arush
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Correct answer
Kabir
Why this answer is correct
1) Kabir lives three floors above Ved and both live in different flats. Parth lives just below Kabir’s floor.
| Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 3 | Case 4 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B |
| 5 | Kabir | Kabir | ||||||
| 4 | Kabir | Kabir | Parth | Parth | ||||
| 3 | Parth | Parth | ||||||
| 2 | Ved | Ved | ||||||
| 1 | Ved | Ved |
2) More than one-floor gap is between Ved and Izaan. Izzan does not live on an even number of floors.
| Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 3 | Case 4 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B |
| 5 | Izzan | Izzan | Izzan | Kabir | Kabir | Izzan | ||
| 4 | Kabir | Kabir | Parth | Parth | ||||
| 3 | Parth | Parth | ||||||
| 2 | Ved | Ved | ||||||
| 1 | Ved | Ved |
3) Manav lives just north-west of Arush.In Case 2 this condition cannot be satisfied which is why Case 2 is eliminated. Sahil lives just above the floor on which Manav lives.
| Case 1(a) | Case1(b) | Case 3 | Case 4 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B | Flat A | Flat B |
| 5 | Izzan | Izzan | Izzan | Kabir | Kabir | Izzan | ||
| 4 | Kabir | Sahil | Kabir | Sahil | Parth | Parth | ||
| 3 | Sahil | Parth | Manav | Parth | Manav | Sahil | ||
| 2 | Manav | Arush | Ved | Arush | Manav | Ved | ||
| 1 | Ved | Arush | Ved | Arush |
4) Jai lives to the west of Ritvik whose floor is below Uday's floor. This condition is not satisfied in Case 1(a), Case 1(b), and Case 4 which is why Case 1(a), Case 1(b), and Case 4 are eliminated.
Hence, the final arrangement is:
| Floor | Flat A | Flat B |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Izzan | Kabir |
| 4 | Sahil | Parth |
| 3 | Manav | Uday |
| 2 | Ved | Arush |
| 1 | Jai | Ritvik |
Hence, Kabir lives to the right of Izaan.