Question

Directions:- Study the following information carefully to answer the question given below.

Seven people P, Q, R, S, T, U and V 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, Mumbai, Patna, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Lucknow but not necessarily in the same order.

How many people live between the floors on which S and the one travelling to Mumbai live?

• A. None
• B. Two
• C. One
• D. More than three
• E. Three

Answer 1

The correct option is B Two

Seven floors and seven people are there in a building. Each person is travelling to a different city.
Only three people live above the floor on which P lives.
_____ 3
_____ 2
_____ 1
$\underset{–}{P}$
Only one person lives between P and the one travelling to Bengaluru.

U lives immediately below the one traveling to Mumbai.
$\underset{–}{Mumbai}\underset{–}{U}$
The one travelling to Mumbai lives on an even numbered floor.
Mumbal - Possibility (2, 4, 6)
Only three people live between the ones travelling to Bengaluru and Patna.

T lives immediately above R.
$\underset{–}{T}\underset{–}{R}$
T is not travelling to Patna.Only two people live between Q and the one travelling to Kolkata.

The one travelling to Kolkata lives below the floor on which Q lives. The one travelling to Delhi does not live immediately above or immediately below Q.

S does not live immediately above or immediately below P.

V does not travel to Chennai. Now, after summarising the above information, we get.
$\begin{array}{ccc}Persons& Floors& Cities\\ S& 7& Chennai\\ Q& 6& Patna\\ V& 5& Lucknow\\ P& 4& Mumbai\\ U& 3& Kolkata\\ T& 2& Bengaluru\\ R& 1& Delhi\end{array}$

Two people live in between.