Directions : Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.
Six persons J, K, L, M, N, O are born in six different years 1946, 1958, 1963, 1971, 1994, 2006. All of them like different colours Red, Black, Orange, Pink, White, Yellow. Note- All the calculations of the ages are to be done on the basis of year 2019. The sum of the ages of M and the one who likes Black colour is 86. The one who likes Pink colour was born in an even numbered year. M does not like red colour. The one who likes Pink colour is older than the one who likes Black colour. M does not like Pink colour. K is older than the one who like Pink colour. N likes Orange and was born in an odd numbered year. The sum of the ages of J and the one who likes Yellow colour is 81. O is younger than the one who likes orange colour. L does not like yellow colour.
Who among the following likes Red colour?
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IBPS CLERK MAINS 2018
None of thes
Incorrect AnswerExplanation:
- First, find the ages based on the year 2019: J (73), K (61), L (56), M (48), N (25), O (13).
- Consider M and the person who likes Black: Their combined age must be 86. So, if M is 48, then the one who likes Black must be 38. Therefore, L (56) cannot like black since L is not one who is aged 38.
- M does not like Red or Pink. The person liking Pink is older than the one liking Black and was born in an even year. K, being older, cannot like Pink as only L (56), born in 1963 is older than M from even numbered years.
- N (25) likes Orange. This fits the odd-numbered year and younger than K. So N isn’t Pink.
- O is younger than N, so O doesn’t like Pink. Hence, J (73) must like Yellow, leaving K who’s older than the Pink lover.
- Combining this with the J-Yellow 81 total age rule, if J is 73, the Yellow lover is K (8), meaning Pink must be M (48). So M likes Pink (1971).
- The remaining for each: J-Red, L can like Black. Hence, L likes Red.
- Highlighted: Option:4, L.
- As the sequence concludes, “.”
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By: Parvesh Mehta