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Direction: Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and answer the question.

  1. A six-storey building consisting of an unoccupied ground floor and five floors on the top of the ground floor numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 houses five different persons, viz A, B, C, D and E. Who lives on third floor?
    I. C lives on an even-numbered above D. B live immediately above A.
    II D lives on an odd-numbered floor. A and B are immediate neighbours. Similarly, C and E are immediate neighbours. C does not live on an odd-numbered floor.
    1. if the data in Statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in Statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
    2. if the data in Statements II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in Statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
    3. if the data in Statement I alone or in Statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.
    4. if the data in both the Statement I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.
    5. If the data in both the Statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.
Correct Option: D

Using Statement I:
We get two arrangement, ie
5 → B E
4 → A C
3 → D or B
2 → C A
1 → E D
Using Statement II: Many arrangements are possible.



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