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Seating Arrangement
2.

There are 8 houses in a line and in each house only one boy lives with the conditions as given below:

  1. Jack is not the neighbour Siman.
  2. Harry is just next to the left of Larry.
  3. There is at least one to the left of Larry.
  4. Paul lives in one of the two houses in the middle.
  5. Mike lives in between Paul and Larry.

If at least one lives to the right of Robert and Harry is not between Taud and Larry, then which one of the following statement is not correct ?

Robert is not at the left end.
Robert is in between Simon and Taud.
Taud is in between Paul and Jack.
There are three persons to the right of Paul.
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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Discussion:
313 comments Page 26 of 32.
Salman said:   1 decade ago
Other possible arrangement is :

Taud Robert larry mike paul jack harry simon

Answer is C only.
Nishith said:   1 decade ago
Confusion may arise between the correctness of B/C, but B can be true or false depending upon the two arrangements that I have posted. But C can never hold true if we satisfy all conditions given in the question.
Qym Riamei said:   1 decade ago
Left to right: Jack-Harry-Larry-Mike-Paul-Taud-Robert-Simon.
Kishor said:   1 decade ago
I think the arrangement should be
H L M P T S R J.....so we can say that
taud is betwn paul & jack...
Pratap Kesari Ray said:   1 decade ago
@Bhanupriya is right from all aspects.
Mahesh said:   1 decade ago
According to me the order is
harry taud larry mike paul jack robert simon
Jitendra said:   1 decade ago
Banupriya has given the best solution to understand this problem.
Deeksha said:   1 decade ago
There can be two arrangements:.

HLMPJTRS.

JHLMPTRS.
Aneree Shah said:   1 decade ago
Harry Larry Mike Paul Taud Jack Robert Simon
Shan said:   1 decade ago
Mohankumar, your answer is wrong. Just check whether your answer satisfies the 2nd condition.
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