Iift 2018 Question 32
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In statement 2 it is given that Roses is to the immediate left of Beauty and Mineral is immediately above Roses.
In statement 4 it is given that Ferry is separated from Helping horizontally by only one word Logical
In statement 6 it is given that Crude and Doctor are in the same horizontal row and Crude is to the right of Doctor. They can be arranged in three ways in a horizontal row.
It is given that Arguments is at 2 X 3 position.
There are three cases possible. Mineral, roses and beauty placed at positions (a,b,c), (d,e,f) and (p,f,r).
Case 1: Mineral, roses and beauty at (d,e,f)
In statement 1 it is mentioned that the words in 2 X1 and 3 X 1 have the same number of letters. Mineral has 7 letters. There are no
remaining words with 7 letters. Therefore, this case is not possible.
Case 2: Mineral, roses and beauty at (p,f,r)
Doctor must be placed at either 2 X 1 or 3 X 1 . Doctor is a 6 letter word and there is no word with 6 letters to be placed at the alternate position. Therefore, this case is not possible.
Case 3: Mineral, roses and beauty at (a,b,c)
Placing ferry, helping and logical in fourth row will not give valid arrangement. Therefore,
Remaining words are cats, doctor, crude, mouse and scare.
The number of letters in 4 X 3 should be less than 1 X 2 . Doctor cannot be placed in row 1. Therefore, a five letter word is placed at
1 X 2 and four letter word placed at 4 X 3 .
Final arrangement:
Beauty and scare are placed diagonally in-the matrix. The answer is option C.