Solve the following and check with the answers given at the end.

1-4:   John is undecided which of the four novels to buy. He is considering a spy thriller, a Murder mystery, a Gothic romance and a science fiction novel. The books are written by Rothko, Gorky, Burchfield and Hopper, not necessary in that order, and published by Heron, Piegon, Blueja and sparrow, not necessary in that order.
(1) The book by Rothko is published by Sparrow.
(2) The Spy thriller is published by Heron.
(3) The science fiction novel is by Burchfield and is not published by Blueja.
(4)The Gothic romance is by Hopper.

1.    Pigeon publishes ____________.

2.    The novel by Gorky ________________.

3.    John purchases books by the authors whose names come first and third in alphabetical order. He does not buy the books ______.

4.    On the basis of the first paragraph and statement (2), (3) and (4) only, it is possible to deduce that
1.    Rothko wrote the murder mystery or the spy thriller
2.    Sparrow published the murder mystery or the spy thriller
3.    The book by Burchfield is published by Sparrow.
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5:   A tennis marker is trying to put together a team of four players for a tennis tournament out of seven available. males - a, b and c; females – m, n, o and p. All players are of equal ability and there must be at least two males in the team. For a team of four, all players must be able to play with each other under the following restrictions:
b should not play with m,
c should not play with p, and
a should not play with o.
Which of the following statements must be false?
1.    b and p cannot be selected together
2.    c and o cannot be selected together
3.    c and n cannot be selected together.

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6:  What can you conclude from the statement : All green are blue, all blue are red. ?
(i)    some blue are green
(ii)    some red are green
(iii)    some green are not red
(iv)    all red are blue
(a)    i or ii but not both
(b)    i & ii only
(c)    iii or iv but not both
(d)    iii & iv

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Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following :
Five executives of European Corporation hold a Conference in Rome
Mr. A converses in Spanish & Italian
Mr. B, a spaniard, knows English also
Mr. C knows English and belongs to Italy
Mr. D converses in French and Spanish
Mr. E , a native of Italy knows French

7.   Which of the following can act as interpreter if Mr. C & Mr. D wish to converse
a) only Mr. A    b) Only Mr. B    c) Mr. A & Mr. B    d) Any of the other three

8. If a 6th executive is brought in, to be understood by maximum number of original five he should be fluent in
a) English & French    b) Italian & Spanish    c) English & French    d) French & Italian

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9 - 13.
1.    Ashland is north of East Liverpool and west of Coshocton.
2.    Bowling green is north of Ashland and west of Fredericktown.
3.    Dover is south and east of Ashland.
4.    East Liverpool is north of Fredericktown and east of Dover.
5.    Fredericktown is north of Dover and west of Ashland.
6.    Coshocton is south of Fredericktown and west of Dover.

9.    Which of the towns mentioned is furthest of the north – west
(a) Ashland   (b) Bowling green   (c) Coshocton   (d) East Liverpool   (e) Fredericktown

10.    Which of the following must be both north and east of Fredericktown?
(a) Ashland   (b) Coshocton   (c) East Liverpool
I a only    II b only    III c only    IV a & b    V a & c

11.    Which of the following towns must be situated both south and west of at least one other town?
A.    Ashland only
B.    Ashland and Fredericktown
C.    Dover and Fredericktown
D.    Dover, Coshocton and Fredericktown
E.    Coshocton, Dover and East Liverpool.

12.    Which of the following statements, if true, would make the information in the numbered statements more specific?
(a)    Coshocton is north of Dover.
(b)    East Liverpool is north of Dover
(c)    Ashland is east of Bowling green.
(d)    Coshocton is east of Fredericktown
(e)    Bowling green is north of Fredericktown

13.    Which of the numbered statements gives information that can be deduced from one or more of the other statements?
(A) 1        (B) 2        (C) 3        (D) 4        (E) 6
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ANSWERS:

Answer 1-4:

Explanation:
Given
Novel Name                     Author                Publisher
Spy thriller                       Rathko               Heron
Murder mystery                Gorky                Piegon
Gothic romance                Burchfield           Blueja
Science fiction                  Hopper               Sparrow

Since Blueja doesn’t publish the novel by Burchfield and Heron publishes the novel spy thriller, Piegon publishes the novel by Burchfield.
Since Hopper writes Gothic romance and Heron publishes the novel spy thriller, Blueja publishes the novel by Hopper.
Since Heron publishes the novel spy thriller and Heron publishes the novel by Gorky, Gorky writes Spy thriller and Rathko writes Murder mystery.

Answer 5:  3.
Explanation:
Since inclusion of any male player will reject a female from the team. Since there should be four member in the team and only three males are available, the girl, n should included in the team always irrespective of others selection.

Answer 6: (b)

Answer 7: d) Any of the other three.
Explanation :  From the data given, we can infer the following.
A knows Spanish, Italian
B  knows Spanish, English
C  knows Italian, English
D  knows Spanish, French
E   knows Italian, French
To act as an interpreter between C and D, a person has to know one of the combinations Italian&Spanish, Italian&French, English&Spanish,    English&French
A, B, and E know atleast one of the combinations.

Answer 8:  b) Italian & Spanish
Explanation : No of executives who know
i) English is 2
ii) Spanish is 3
iii) Italian is 3
iv) French is  2
Italian & Spanish are spoken by the maximum no of executives. So, if the 6th executive is fluent in Italian & Spanish, he can communicate with all the original five because everybody knows either Spanish or Italian.