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(#M40031278) ELITMUS Logical Reasoning question Keep an EYE

1. There were 9 men and children.
2. There were 2 more women than children.
3. The number of different man-woman couples possible was 24. Note that if there were 7 men and 5 women, then there would have been 35 man-woman couples possible.

Also, of the three groups - men, women and children - at the party:
4. There were 4 of one group.
5. There were 6 of one group.
6. There were 8 of one group.
Exactly one of the above 6 statements is false.

Can you tell which one is false? Also, how many men, women and children are there at the party

Asked In Elitmus ranjeet singh (10 years ago)

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Sri Harsha  (10 years ago)

Statement 4 is false. Men = 3 , Women = 8 , children = 6

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Praveen kumar  (10 years ago)

1)M+C=9
2)W=C+2
==>C=W-2
sub C=W-2 in (1)
M+W-2=9
M+W=11
3)M*W=24
possible value for M&W that satisfies M+W=11 & M*W=24 is 8M 3W & 3M 8W
by using these 2 C can be 6 or 1
so possibility is 8M 3W 1C & 3M 8W 6C
so statement (4) says 4 in one group but it is not possible
so ans is (4)

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ankit  (10 years ago)

statement 4 is incorrect
men , women , children can be= 3,8,6 or 8,3,1

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Naveen Pandey  (10 years ago)

first one is correct if the number of men=3 women=8 children=6

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sreekar maram  (10 years ago)

option 3 is false as the question says that there are 9 men let the children be x and then verify options 4,5,6 there will be no chance of getting 24 as the total men are 9 and woman are 6 so 9c6 which gives us 84

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Vijay Singh Adhikari  (10 years ago)

there are 3 men , 6 childern and 8 women ..
4th statement is wrong.

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ABHILASH  (10 years ago)

incase of 6 women and 4 children...men will be 5..then 6 ll br false..!!

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tanveer ahmed  (10 years ago)

by using statements 1 2 and 3 we get two solutions(1.m=8,c=1,and w=3..2. m=3,c=6,w=8) hence statement 4 is false

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hemanth chowdary  (10 years ago)

statment 5 is wrorng

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sravani  (9 years ago)

3rd statement is false...

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