Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U read a magazine one after another.
i. S was neither the first nor the last to read it.
ii. There were as many readers between P and T as there were between R and P.
iii. S read it sometime before Q, who read it sometime after U.
iv. The one who read it last had taken it from R.
Who were the two persons to have read the magazine first and last, respectively?
Explanation:
Correct option is 2: T and Q
There were as many readers between P and T as there were between R and P.
So,according to this statement, final arrangement that shows the sequence of reading the magazine by all 6 persons.
T U P S R Q
1 2 3 4 5 6
As per the above statement, we can say that number of readers between P and T is equal to the number of readers between R and P. here Between T and P only one reader which is U. similarly, between P and R only one reader which is S.