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Directions: Five persons are sitting in a row. One of the two persons at the extreme ends is intelligent and the other one is fair. A fat person is sitting to the right of a weak person. A tall person is to the left of the fair person and the weak person is sitting between the intelligent and he fat person. Person to the left of weak person possesses which of the following characteristics?

A) Intelligent        

B) Fat

C) Fair                             

D) Tall

Correct Answer: A

Solution :

Information given in the question that one of the two person at the extreme ends is intelligent and other one is fair, suggests two conditions as shown in fig. (1) and (2). Information that a tall person is sitting to the left of fair person rules out the possibility of fig. (1) as no person in fig. (1) can sit to the left of fair person .Therefore, only fig. (2) shows the correct positions of intelligent and fair persons. Now rest of the information regarding the position of other persons can easily be inserted. The final ranking of their sitting arrangement is as shown in fig. (3). Intelligent Weak Fat Tall Fair fig (3)