Logical Reasoning: Rajdhani Express Passengers

XAT 2011 · DM · Hard · Logical Reasoning

Passage / data set

Answer question based on the following information:

On a certain day six passengers from Chennai, Bangalore, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Hyderabad boarded the New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express from TataNagar. The following facts are known about these six passengers:

  1. The persons from Kochi and Chennai are less than 36 years of age. Person Z, the youngest among all is a doctor.
  2. The oldest person is from Kolkata and his/her profession is same as that of the person who got down at Mughal Sarai.
  3. The person from Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai got down at four different stations. The eldest among these four got down at Koderma and the youngest at Kanpur. The person who got down at New Delhi is older than the person who got down at Mughal Sarai.
  4. The engineer from Bangalore is older than the engineer from Chennai.
  5. While arranging the teachers in increasing order of age it was observed that the middle person is as old as the engineer from Chennai.
  6. Person Y who got down at Mughal Sarai is less than 34 year old.
  7. The teacher from Kochi is four year older than the 31 year old doctor who is not from Mumbai.
  8. In the past, three of the travellers have served in the Indian Army.

Question 1 of 3

Which of the following options is true?

  1. A.

    The person from Chennai is older than the person from Kochi.

  2. B.

    The oldest teacher is from Mumbai.

  3. C.

    The person from Mumbai is older than at least one of the engineers.

  4. D.

    The person from Kochi got down at Mughal Sarai, and was an engineer.

  5. E.

    The person who got down at New Delhi is older than Y, who in turn is older than the person from Hyderabad.

Question 2 of 3

All six travelers are working in the same organization for at least one year. The organization recruits two categories of employees - fresh graduates and those who have at least five years of experience in the Indian Army. In both cases a new recruit should be less than 30 years of age. Among the travelers from same profession, those with military background are at least five years older than the travelers who joined as fresh graduates. Identify the travelers who joined the organization as fresh graduate(s):

  1. A.

    Only Y.

  2. B.

    The person Y and the traveller from Chennai.

  3. C.

    The person Y and the travellers from Kochi and Hyderabad.

  4. D.

    The travellers from Kochi and Hyderabad.

  5. E.

    The teacher from Mumbai, the traveller from Kochi and the younger engineer.

Question 3 of 3

If W is neither the youngest nor the oldest among the travelers from her profession, which of the following is true about her?

  1. A.

    She got down at Koderma.

  2. B.

    She is 36 years old.

  3. C.

    She got down at Mughal Sarai.

  4. D.

    She is from Kochi.

  5. E.

    None of the above

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