If A + B means A is the brother of B; A % B means A is the father of B and A x B means A is the sister of B. Which of the following means M is the uncle of P?
Answer: D
Correct answer: M + K % T x P
M + K makes M the brother of K; K % T makes K the father of T; T × P makes T the sister of P, so P too is K’s child. M is therefore the brother of P’s father - his uncle.
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A is the father of B, C is the daughter of B, D is the brother of C, and E is the son of D. How is E related to A ?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Great-grandson
Trace the generations downward: A, then B, then D (B’s son, being C’s brother), then E. E stands three generations below A, so he is A’s great-grandson.
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Pointing to a girl in the photograph, Amar said, "Her mother's brother is the only son of my mother's father." How is the girl's mother related to Amar ?
Answer: C
Only son of Amar's mother's father - Amar's maternal uncle.
So,
the girl's maternal uncle is Amar's maternal uncle.
Thus, the girl's mother is Amar's aunt.
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Pointing to a man, a woman said, “His mother is the only daughter of my mother.” How is the woman related to the man ?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Mother
The only daughter of the woman’s mother can be no one but the woman herself. The man’s mother is therefore the speaker, so she is his mother.
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Pointing to a woman, Abhijit said, "Her granddaughter is the only daughter of my brother." How is the woman related to Abhijit?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Mother
The woman’s granddaughter is the daughter of Abhijit’s brother, so that brother is her son - which makes her Abhijit’s mother. She cannot be his mother-in-law, since a mother-in-law’s granddaughter through him would be his own daughter.
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Pointing to a girl in the photograph, Amar said, "Her mother's brother is the only son of my mother's father." How is the girl's mother related to Amar ?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Aunt
My mother’s father is Amar’s maternal grandfather, whose only son is Amar’s maternal uncle. The girl’s mother is that man’s sister, so she and Amar’s mother are sisters - making the girl’s mother Amar’s aunt.
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A man said to a lady, " Your mother's husband's sister is my aunt."
How is the lady related to the man ?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Sister
Your mother’s husband is the lady’s father, and his sister is her aunt - and that woman is the speaker’s aunt as well. Sharing a father, the two are siblings, so the lady is his sister.
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Pointing to a man on the stage, Rita said, "He is the brother of the daughter of the wife of my husband." How is the man on the stage related to Rita ?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Son
The wife of my husband is Rita herself, so the daughter referred to is Rita’s daughter, and the man is that girl’s brother - which makes him Rita’s son.
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When Karan saw Manish, he recalled, "He is the son of the father of my daughter's mother." Who is Manish ?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Brother-in-law
My daughter’s mother is Karan’s wife, so the father of my daughter’s mother is his father-in-law. Manish is that man’s son - Karan’s wife’s brother, and so his brother-in-law.
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Pointing towards a person in a photograph, Anjali said, "He is the only son of the father of my sister's brother." How is that person is related to Anjali ?
Answer: C
Relation's given in the question may be analysed as follows :
Sister's brother - brother;
Brother's father - father;
Father's son - brother;
So he is Anjali Brother.
Note: It is more handy to solve the question when we start from end to analyse the relation as we did above.
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