Puzzles-7

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            School M. which has always been among the winning schools in interschool sports competitions has sent only 5 participants for the interschool competitions to be held this year. More participants were expected from the school as last year out of its 19 participants 12 won gold medal while others won silver and bronze medals. Which of the following may not be a reason for the decrease in number of participants for interschool sports competition from School M ?

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            P, Q, R, S, T, V and W are seven Students of a college. Each of them has a favourite subject from Physics, Chemistry, English, Biology, History, Geography and Philosophy not necessarily in the same order. Each of them also has a favourite sport from Football, Cricket, Hockey, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis and Basketball not necessarily in the same order.

R likes Philosophy and his favourite sport is Hockey. The one who likes Football likes English. T's favourite sport is not Badminton or Table Tennis. V does not like either History or Biology. The one whose favourite sport is basketball does not like Physics. W likes Chemistry and his favourite sport is Volleyball. S likes Geography. Q's favourite sport is Badminton. V does not like English and his favourite spoil is not Basketball. P's favourite sport is Cricket. The one whose favourite sport is Badminton does not like Biology.

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            Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated and all of them are facing South. In row-2 A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. S sits third to right of Q. Either S or Q sits at an extreme end of the line. The one who faces Q sits second to right of E. Two people sit between B and F. Neither B nor F sits at an extreme end of the line. The immediate neighbour of B faces the person who sits third to left of P, K and T are immediate neighbours of each other. C sits second to the left of A. T does not face the immediate neighbour of D.

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            Seven persons — M, N, O, P, Q, R and S - live on separate floors of a seven-storeyed building, but not necessarily in the same order. The ground floor of the building is numbered 1, the floor above it 2 and so on until the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each person likes different cartoon characters, viz. Chipmunk, Flinstone, Jetson, Popeye. Scooby Doo, Simpson and Tweety, but not necessarily in the same order. The person who likes Popeye lives on floor numbered 4. Only two persons live between P and the one who likes Popeye. M does not live on the lowermost floor. M lives on any odd numbered floor below the one who likes Popeye, S lives on an even numbered floor but neither immediately above nor immediately below the floor of M. Only two persons live between M and the person who likes Tweety. Only one person lives between N and R. R lives on an even numbered floor and does not like Popeye. Only three persons live between the persons who like Chipmunk and Jetson respectively. The person who likes Chipmunk live on any floor above the N's floor. The person who likes Chipmunk does not live on the topmost floor. O does not like Chipmunk or Jetson. The person who likes Scooby Doo lives on the floor immediately above the floor of the person who likes Simpson.

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Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that there is equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 S, T, U, V, W and X are seated and all of them are facing south. In row-2 M, N, O, P, Q and R are seated and all of them are facing north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. (Note: None of the information given is necessarily in the same order.) T sits third to the left of X. X does not sit at an extreme ends of the line. P sits second to the left of the who faces T. Only two people sit between P and M. V sits second to the right of S. S is not an immediate neighbour of T. O sits second to the left of R. Q is neither an immediate neighbour of M nor R. U is not an immediate neighbour of S.

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            Seven people, namely, A, B, C, D, E, F and G like; seven different colours namely, Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, Silver, Red and Yellow, not necessarily in the same order. They will also attend a meeting, not necessarily in the same order, from Monday to Sunday (of the same week.)

            E will attend a wedding on Wednesday. Only one person will attend wedding between E and the one who like pink. Only two people will attend a wedding between the one who likes pink and the one who likes yellow. Only three people will attend a meeting between the one who likes Pink and C. B will attend a wedding immediately after the one who likes pink. Only one person will attend a wedding between B and A. D will attend a wedding immediately before GF. Only one person will attend a wedding between F and the one who likes green. F likes neither blue nor orange. The one who likes silver will attend a wedding immediately before the one who likes blue.