Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions
Nine people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and J live in a nine-storey building such that the bottommost floor is numbered as 1 and the topmost floor is numbered as 9 but not necessarily in the same order. They can speak nine different languages – Assamese, Bengali, Gujrati, Odia, Sanskrit, English, Telegu, Hindi, and Kannada but not necessarily in the same order.
H cannot speak Kannada. F lives above H. Two persons live below G. The number of persons, who live above the person, who speaks Sanskrit is equal to the number of persons, who live below A. G speaks either Telegu or Hindi. E's floor number is half of C's floor number. One person lives between G and the one, who speaks Sanskrit. D lives immediately above J. D neither speaks Telegu nor Kannada. One person lives between A and the one, who can speak Gujrati. The one, who can speak Assamese does not live on a prime numbered floor. C does not live immediately above or immediately below G’s floor. The one, who speaks English lives three floors above J. One person lives between C and B, who can speak Odia. The one, who can speak Assamese lives immediately above the, one who can speak Bengali.
Who lives immediately above the one, who can speak Sanskrit?
This questions was previously asked in
IBPS PO Mains (26th November 2022)
Explanation:
- E's floor number is half of C's, meaning C must live on an even-numbered floor above 2.
- H cannot speak Kannada and F lives above H.
- The number of people above the one who speaks Sanskrit equals those below A.
- G has two people below and speaks either Telugu or Hindi.
- D is directly above J, and D doesn't speak Telugu or Kannada.
- An Assamese speaker is not on a prime-numbered floor and is directly above a Bengali speaker.
- English is three floors above J.
- Between G and the Sanskrit speaker, there's one floor.
- One floor exists between A and the Gujarati speaker.
- One floor is between C and B, with B speaking Odia.
Considering these points, the individual living immediately above the Sanskrit speaker is B.
- The correct answer is: Option 5 - B