Classification Puzzle

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Classification Puzzle: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Schedule Based Puzzle, Box Puzzle, Grid Matrix Puzzle, Floor Based Puzzle, Classification Puzzle, Match Fixing Based Puzzles, Team Classification Puzzle & Cards Based Classification Puzzle etc.

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight students of school. They study in standard VI, VII and VIII, without more than three in any standard. Each of them have a favourite subject from physics, geography, English, Marathi, mathematics, chemistry, biology and economics but not necessarily in the same order.
D likes chemistry and studies in standard VIII, with only H. B does not study in standard VII. E and A study in the same standard but not with B. C and F study in the same standard. Those who study in standard VI, do not like mathematics or biology. F likes physics. The one who studies in standard VIII, likes English. C does not like Geography. A's favourite subject is Marathi and G does not like Biology.

What is C's favourite subject?

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I. Aishwarya and Aamir play Hockey and Cricket.
II. Aamir and Madhuri like to play Chess and Hockey.
III. Akshay and Aishwarya play Polo and Cricket.
IV. Akshay and Sushmita play Golf and Polo.
V. Sushmita is good in Golf, Polo and Chess.

Who among the following plays Cricket, Hockey and Polo?

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Seven persons namely Paramjit, Tarun, Morya, Jeeva, Vaani, Ram and Waqar are good friends and are studying in M.Com, M.A. and M.Sc. courses. Three are doing M.Com, two are in M.A. and another two are in M.Sc. Each of them has a very distinct and favorite color choice ranging from blue, red, yellow, white, black, pink and brown but not necessarily in the same order. None doing M.Com like either red or black. Morya is doing M.A. and he likes blue. Ram is doing the M.Sc. and likes brown. Jeeva is doing M.Com and likes yellow. Paramjit who does not like red is in the same discipline as Ram. Tarun is in the same discipline as Morya. Vaani does not like pink.

What is the color combination choice of those who are in M.A. discipline?

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During a week, there is an exhibition in a zoo having animals of seven different types as Tiger, Elephant, Gorilla, Ostrich, Bear, Rhino and Peacock. Only one animal is exhibited on each day. Each of the animals have a caretaker P, Q, R, S, T, U and V. (but not necessarily in the same order). Elephant is looked after by V and is exhibited on Thursday. Ostrich is not exhibited on Sunday and is looked after by Q. Bear and Peacock are exhibited on Saturday and Tuesday respectively. Rhino is looked after by U where as the animal exhibited on Monday is looked after by R. Gorilla is not looked after by T and is exhibited on Wednesday. The animal which is looked after by P is exhibited neither on Tuesday nor on Wednesday.

Which animal is being looked after by S?

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P, Q, R, S, T and V are six students each belonging to a different city, viz, Delhi, Agra, Ghaziabad, Jaipur, Gurgoan, and Faridabad, not necessarily in the same order. Each of them got selected in different colleges of Delhi University viz, Hansraj, Ramjas, Venkateshwar, Hindu, Gargi and St. Stephen, not necessarily in the same order. Q belongs to Faridabad but did not select in either Gargi or Hansraj college. S does not belong either to Delhi or to Jaipur but got selected in Ramjas college. The one who got selected in Gargi doesn't belong to Faridabad. The one who got selected in St. Stephens belongs to Jaipur. V did not get selected in Gargi. Either R or V got selected in Venkateshwar college but neither of them belongs to Gurgoan or Jaipur. P belongs to Ghaziabad, and he got selected either Hansraj college or Venkateshwar college. V doesn't belong to Delhi.

Who among the following belongs to Gurgoan?

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments, viz. Personnel, Administration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any one department. Each of them has a different choice of sports: football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis, but not necessarily in the same order.
D works in Administration and does not like both football and cricket. F works in Personnel with only A, who likes table tennis. E and H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in marketing. G does not work in administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in Administration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in personnel. None of those who work in Administration like badminton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.

Which of the following combination of employee, department and favourite sport is correct?

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Four people of different nations live on the same side of a sector in four houses each of different colour red, pink, blue and yellow being the colours of the houses randomly. Each person has a different favourite drink coffee, milk, banana shake and tea being the drinks available. The Englishman lives in the red house. The following additional information is:
The Hindu drinks tea. The Muslim lives in the first house on the left.
The Muslim lives adjacent to the blue house.
In the second house from the right they drink coffee.
The Sikh drinks banana shake.
Tea is drunk in the blue house.
The pink house is to the right of red house.

Which of the following statement is not true?

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Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H work in three different companies: X, Y and Z. Out of these, two are female who work in different companies and have different specializations. Two of them are specialists in Finance, two in HR, two in Marketing and one each is an Engineer and a Computer Specialist. D, working in a company X has specialized in HR and her friend G, a Finance Specialist is working in company Z. H, an HR specialist, is working with B, a Marketing Specialist and does not work in company Y. C is not a Computer Specialist. No two people with the same specialization work together. F is a specialist in Marketing working in company Y and his friend A has specialized in Finance and is working company X with only one another Specialist. Not more than three of them work in company Z. No female is an Engineer or a Computer Specialist.

Who is the Computer Specialist?

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A, B, C, D and E are five friends going to a party wearing shirts of different colours; blue, red, green, yellow and violets. Their trousers are also blue, red, green, yellow and violet, not necessarily in the same order. No person is wearing same colour shirt and trouser. A's shirt and D's trouser are of the same colour. E's shirt and C's trouser are of the same colour. D is not wearing any yellow dress, he is wearing violet shirt. E is wearing blue trouser, A is wearing green trouser and B is wearing violet trouser.

Who is wearing yellow colour shirt?

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P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V are 7, friends who travel to college every day by a particular train which stops at 5 stations – 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively after it leaves base stations. 3, among them get in the train at the base station. S gets down at the next station at which U gets down. Q gets in with 2, persons and does not get down with either P or T. V alone gets in at station 3, and gets down with R after 1, station. P travels between only 2, stations and gets down at station 5. None of them gets in at station 2. R gets in with U but does not get in with either Q or S. T gets in with 2, others and gets down alone after S. Q and S going to the same college, and they get down together at station 3. None of them gets down at station 1.

Which of the following is correct ?

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Seven specialist doctors P, Q, R, S, T, U and V visit a polyclinic on the four days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday in a week. At least one doctor but not more than two doctors visits the polyclinic on each of these days. Each of them is specialist of different fields ENT, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Neurologist, Ophthalmologist, Radiologist and Oncologist. S visits on Friday with Radiologist, Pediatrician does not visit on Saturday nor with T and V. Oncologist U visits alone on Tuesday. Q visits on Wednesday and he is not Pediatrician. R visits on Wednesday. V is not Radiologist. Pediatrician visits with ENT specialist. Neurologist visits on Friday. P is neither Orthopaedics nor Radiologist.

Who among them visits the polyclinic along with P?

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Four people of different nations live on the same side of a sector in four houses each of different colour red, pink, blue and yellow being the colours of the houses randomly. Each person has a different favourite drink coffee, milk, banana shake and tea being the drinks available. The Englishman lives in the red house. The following additional information is:
The Hindu drinks tea. The Muslim lives in the first house on the left.
The Muslim lives adjacent to the blue house.
In the second house from the right they drink coffee.
The Sikh drinks banana shake.
Tea is drunk in the blue house.
The pink house is to the right of red house.

Who sits adjacent to Muslim?

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, are eight friends. Two of them like watch and three of them like ring and bracelet each. They all are of different weights. The lightest does not like ring and the heaviest does not like watch. 7, is lighter than 4, but only heavier than 18, likes bracelet with 4, and is fourth from the top. 7, does not like either ring or watch. 2, does not like watch. 6, is heavier than 1 and 4, but lighter than 2 and 85, who does not like ring, is heavier than 2, and is the second heaviest.

Which of the following groups of friends like ring?

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Five friends F, M, K, N and Y are working in 5 different hospitals C, P, O, S and U, and they earn different salaries i.e. 8000, 12000, 15000, 18000 and 20000, and they all are of different ages i.e., 24, 26, 27, 29 and 30, years. These all information are not necessarily in same order.
Person who is 29, year old earns highest salary but does not work in C and P hospital. Y does not work in S and U hospital and his age is not 30. The salary of N is less than 15000. The person who is 26, years old earns 18000, per month. F earns 12000, per month but does not work in P and S. M works in C hospital and earns more than 15000. Person who is 27, years old works in U. 30, years old person earns at least 15000.

Who works in Hospital P?

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Six friends Ashok, Nishikant, Chandra Shekhar, Pranab Sinha, Sunil Jha and Digvijay Pathak work in different companies, namely 'Tisco', 'Telco', 'Wipro', 'HCL', `Mecon' and `Usha Martin'. Each one reads a different newspaper, i.e., The Economic Times, The Times of India, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, The Indian Express and The Poineer, though not necessarily in the that order.
 The one reading the Pioneer works in `HCL' and the one reading The Times of India works in Tisco.
 Sunil Jha does not work in Wipro' or `Mecon'.
 Ashok, who works in Telco, reads The Hindu. Digvijay Pathak does not work in `Mecon' and the one who works in Wipro' does not read The Hindustan Times. Nishikant Works in `Usha Martin'. Neither Digvijay Pathak nor Pranab sinha works in HCL. The one who works in `Mecon' reads neither 'The Hindustan Times' nor The Indian Express'. Chandra Shekhar works in 'Tisco'.

Which of the following sequences of companies represents Digvijay Pathak, Nishikant, Chandra Shekhar, Ashok, Pranab Sinha and Sunil Jha in the same order?

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There are seven teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U and V in Bank Power. Each one of them teaches a different subject. There are three female and four male teachers, and out of these, there are two pairs of couples.
R who teaches Computers is married to the teacher who teaches English. T and V are female teachers who teach History and Economics respectively. P teaches Reasoning and his wife does not teach Economics. Q does not teach English or Mathematics. U and S are male teachers. U is unmarried. One of them teaches Geography.

Which group among the following represents the group of males?

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In such type of questions, a few essential criteria for selection of a group of members is given. The candidate has to keep these conditions in mind and make the required selection as per the directions given in each question.

Nine students Aliya, Zeba, Babita, Chintu, Dinki, Eram, Firoz, Gagan and Heera are planning to enjoy car racing.
There are only two cars and following are the conditions: 
I. One car can accommodate maximum five and minimum four students. 
II. Aliya will sit in the same car in which Dinki is sitting but Heera is not in the same car. 
III. Babita and Chintu can't sit in the same car in which Dinki is sitting. 
IV. Firoz will sit in the car of four people only, along with Aliya and Eram but certainly not with Gagan.

If Heera is sitting in the same car with Aliya then which of the following conditions will be affected except condition II ?

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A, B, C, D, E, G, and I are seven friends who study in three different standards namely 5th, 6th, 7th, such that not less than two friends study in the same standard. Each friend also has a different favourite subject namely History, Civics, English, Marathi, Hindi, Maths and Economics but not necessarily in the same order. A like Maths and studies in 5th, standard with only one other friends who like Marathi. I study with two other friends. Both the friends who study with I like language (here languages include only Hindi, Marathi and English). D studies in 6th, standard with only one person and does not like Civics. E studies with only one friend. The one who likes history does not study in 5th or 6th, standard. E does not like languages. C does not like English, Hindi or Civics.

Which combination represents E's favourite subject and the standard in which he studies?

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P, T, M, J, V, R, and W are seven friends studying in a college. Three of them are in B.Sc. and two each are in B.A. and B.Com. Each of them has a favourite colour from Blue, Red, Yellow, White, Black, Violet and Brown but not necessarily in the same order. None of them studying in B.Sc. likes either red or Black. M is B.A. and likes Blue. R is in B.Com and likes Brown. J is in B.Sc. and likes Yellow. P, who does not like Red, is in the same discipline of R, and T is in the same discipline of M. V does not like Violet.

Which colour does V like?

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Seven officers L, M, N, P, Q, R and S work in three different shifts I, II, and III, with at least two persons working in each shift. Each one of them has a different weekly off from Monday to Sunday not necessarily in the same order.M works in second shift only with R whose weekly off is on Friday. Q's weekly off is on the next day of L's weekly off and both of them work in different shifts. P works in third shift and his weekly off is on Saturday. S has a weekly off on Monday, and he works in first shift. The one who has weekly off on Sunday works in first shift. L and P do not work in the same shift, L's weekly off is on Tuesday.

Which of the following combinations of shift, person and weekly off is definitely correct?