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Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow.

The only people to attend a conference were four ship captains and the first mates of three of those captains. The captains were L, M, N & O, and the first mates were A, D, & G.

Each person, in turn, delivered a report to the assembly as follows:

I: Each of the first mates delivered their report exactly after his or her captain.

II: The first captain to speak was M.

Ill: Captain N spoke after captain M.

Among the following statements, which would make M, D, N, G, L, O, A the only possible sequence of speakers?

 

A)  D is M's first mate, G is N's first mate and A is O's first mate.

B)  D is M's first mate, G is N's first mate, A was the second to speak after L.

C) The order of the first four speakers is MDNG.

D) The order of the last three speakers is LOA.

E) None of these