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Direction for [ Question No: 21 To 23 ] :

Refer to the data and answer the following question.

Five friends, named Ajay, Bhushan, Chandru, Dinesh and Eknath, each belonging to a different profession, play Cricket, Tennis, Hockey, Polo and Squash, not necessarily in the same order. We know that:

1. Ajay plays Tennis and he is not a Professor
2. Dinesh is not a Doctor
3. The Writer plays Squash and the Doctor plays Cricket
4. Bhushan does not play Squash
5. Eknath is the Manager and does not play Polo
6. The 5th person is an Architect

21.

What is the profession of the person who plays polo?

Exam Year(s)

Haryana Civil Services - 2026, HPSC - 2026,

Answer: B

The person who plays polo is a Professor.

From the clues, Ajay is the Architect and plays Tennis, and Eknath is the Manager and plays Hockey. The other three, Bhushan, Chandru and Dinesh, are the Professor, the Doctor and the Writer, and play Cricket, Polo and Squash.

The Doctor plays Cricket and the Writer plays Squash, so whoever plays Polo is neither of them and must be the Professor. This holds whichever of the three plays Polo, which is why 'Cannot be determined' is wrong. The Architect plays Tennis, not Polo.

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22.

Who of the following is the Architect?

Exam Year(s)

Haryana Civil Services - 2026, HPSC - 2026,

Answer: A

The Architect is Ajay.

Ajay plays Tennis, so he is not the Doctor (Cricket) or the Writer (Squash). Clue 1 says he is not the Professor, and clue 5 makes Eknath the Manager. The only profession left for Ajay is Architect, the fifth profession named in clue 6.

Eknath is the Manager. Bhushan and Chandru are among the Professor, Doctor and Writer, so neither can be the Architect.

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23.

Which game is played by the Manager?

Exam Year(s)

Haryana Civil Services - 2026, HPSC - 2026,

Answer: C

The Manager plays Hockey.

The Manager is Eknath (clue 5), who does not play Polo. Squash belongs to the Writer and Cricket to the Doctor, both of whom are other people, and Ajay plays Tennis. Of the five games only Hockey remains, so Eknath plays Hockey.

Squash and Tennis are taken by the Writer and Ajay, and the answer is fully determined, so 'Cannot be determined' is wrong.

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Direction for [ Question No: 24 To 25 ] :

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Ajay would do five tasks: A, B, C, D and E: starting at 9 am in the morning. A is the first task and takes 2 h. B can be done after A is complete and requires 1 h. Work on C which would take 1 h can start only after A and B are complete. Ajay can do task D along with B and C and would take 3 h for that. Activity E with duration of 1 h can start on completion of A, B, C and D.

24.

If Ajay takes 2 hours for B and completes other preceding tasks without delay, when can E start?

Exam Year(s)

HPPSC HPAS - 2021,

Answer: C

E can start at 2 p.m.

A takes 9 to 11 a.m. With B now taking 2 hours, B runs 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and C, which needs A and B done, runs 1 to 2 p.m. D runs alongside B and C, from 11 a.m., for 3 hours, which ends at 2 p.m. E needs A, B, C and D all complete, so it starts at 2 p.m., when both C and D end.

12 noon and 1 p.m. are too early, since B or C are still running. 3 p.m. would add an hour of idle time that nothing in the information requires.

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25.

What is the earlist time when Ajay can complete all tasks?

Exam Year(s)

HPPSC HPAS - 2021,

Answer: B

All tasks can be done by 3 p.m.

With B taking one hour, A runs 9 to 11, B 11 to 12 and C 12 to 1. D runs alongside B and C from 11 a.m. for 3 hours, so it ends at 2 p.m. E needs A, B, C and D complete, so it starts at 2 p.m. and takes one hour, ending at 3 p.m.

C finishes at 1 p.m. but D does not, so 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. are too early. 4 p.m. needs a delay that is not in the information.

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Direction for [ Question No: 26 To 27 ] :

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:

There are four married couples in a family. Each couple deals in different types of business, i.e., Furniture, Garments, Jewellery and Publishing. The male members of the couples are Ashutosh, Prem, Rajiv and Pappu. The female members are Rosy, Rinku, Rupu and Nitu. Once they were invited to my house on the occasion of my son's birthday. Each couple came one after another.

(i) Rajiv arrived immediately after the couple who deals in Garments but immediate before Rupu.
(ii) Prem arrived immediately before Rosy.
(iii) Pappu deals in Books.
(iv) Ashutosh arrived immediately before Rinku (who does not deal in Furniture). Rinku arrived immediately before the couple which deals in Jewellery.

26.

The two females who deal in Furniture and Garments respectively are members of the couples who arrived at the following order....

Exam Year(s)

HPPSC HPAS - 2021,

Answer: A

The two women arrived in the order 1 and 2.

The order of arrival is: 1 Ashutosh and Nitu (Furniture), 2 Prem and Rinku (Garments), 3 Rajiv and Rosy (Jewellery), 4 Pappu and Rupu (Publishing, the "Books" of the paper).

The clues give three chains of couples in a row of four: the Garments couple, then Rajiv, then Rupu's couple; Prem, then Rosy's couple; Ashutosh, then Rinku's couple, then the Jewellery couple. If Rajiv were second he would clash with Ashutosh in the third chain unless both sat in the first two places, and that leaves Rinku with Rajiv in Furniture, which the clues forbid. So Rajiv is third and Ashutosh first. The Garments couple is then second and is Rinku's, and the Jewellery couple is Rajiv's. Prem, who must come just before Rosy, is second, so Rosy is Rajiv's wife. Pappu (Books) is fourth with Rupu, and Nitu is with Ashutosh in Furniture.

Furniture is the first couple (Nitu) and Garments is the second couple (Rinku), so the two women come in the order 1 and 2. 2 and 1 reverses them, and 3 is the Jewellery couple.

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27.

Which of the following statement is true?

Exam Year(s)

HPPSC HPAS - 2021,

Answer: C

The true statement is Rosy is the wife of Rajiv.

The order of arrival is: 1 Ashutosh and Nitu (Furniture), 2 Prem and Rinku (Garments), 3 Rajiv and Rosy (Jewellery), 4 Pappu and Rupu (Publishing, the "Books" of the paper).

The clues give three chains of couples in a row of four: the Garments couple, then Rajiv, then Rupu's couple; Prem, then Rosy's couple; Ashutosh, then Rinku's couple, then the Jewellery couple. If Rajiv were second he would clash with Ashutosh in the third chain unless both sat in the first two places, and that leaves Rinku with Rajiv in Furniture, which the clues forbid. So Rajiv is third and Ashutosh first. The Garments couple is then second and is Rinku's, and the Jewellery couple is Rajiv's. Prem, who must come just before Rosy, is second, so Rosy is Rajiv's wife. Pappu (Books) is fourth with Rupu, and Nitu is with Ashutosh in Furniture.

Rupu is married to Pappu and deals in Books (Publishing), not Garments. Prem deals in Garments, not Jewellery. Nitu deals in Furniture, not Books. Only the third statement fits.

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Direction for [ Question No: 28 To 29 ] :

Study the information below to answer these questions:

L, M, N, O and P are five important cities of our country out of which, three are industrial cities, two are port cities, one is a hill station and three cities have a university each. Every hill city has a university but has no port. 'O' is not a port city. No port city has a university. 'M' is a port city. Two industrial cities have universities and 'N' and 'O' are not industrial cities. The industrial cities with universities don't have ports. None of the industrial cities is a hill station. 'O' is a hill station and 'P' has a university.

28.

Which city has neither industries nor a university nor a hill station?

Exam Year(s)

HPPSC HPAS - 2021,

Answer: B

The city with no industry, no university and no hill station is N.

Work out the cities. N and O are not industrial, so the three industrial cities are L, M and P. M is a port, and an industrial city with a university has no port, so M has no university; the two industrial cities with universities are L and P. O is the hill station with a university, so the three university cities are L, O and P. The ports are M and one more: not O (not a port), not L or P (they have universities), so N. Summary: L is industrial with a university, M is industrial with a port, N has a port only, O is the hill station with a university, P is industrial with a university.

N is not industrial, has no university and is not the hill station (that is O). M is industrial, and L and P are industrial and have universities.

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29.

Which two cities have ports?

Exam Year(s)

HPPSC HPAS - 2021,

Answer: B

The two port cities are M and N.

Work out the cities. N and O are not industrial, so the three industrial cities are L, M and P. M is a port, and an industrial city with a university has no port, so M has no university; the two industrial cities with universities are L and P. O is the hill station with a university, so the three university cities are L, O and P. The ports are M and one more: not O (not a port), not L or P (they have universities), so N. Summary: L is industrial with a university, M is industrial with a port, N has a port only, O is the hill station with a university, P is industrial with a university.

L and P cannot have ports because they are industrial cities with universities, and O is stated not to be a port, so the ports are M and N.

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Direction for [ Question No: 30 To 30 ] :

(i) There is a group of six persons A, B, C, D, E and F from a family. They are Psychologist, Manager, Lawyer, Jeweller, Doctor and Engineer.
(ii) The doctor is the grandfather of F who is a Psychologist.
(iii) The manager D is married to A.
(iv) C, the Jeweller is married to the Lawyer.
(v) B is the mother of F and E.
(vi) There are two married couples in the family.

30.

What is the profession of E ?

Answer: E

Given F is a psychologist.
B is the mother of F and E is the brother or sister of F.
There are only two married couples in the family. Since, D is married to A, so C, the jeweller, who is married to a lawyer, will be married to B.
Again, the Manager D is married to A means A is the doctor and Grandfather of F and E.
Also, no one else is an Engineer. So, E must be an Engineer.
Clearly, E is an Engineer. So, the answer (e).

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