Question

Eight books are kept one over the other. Counting from the top, the second, fifth and sixth books are on Plays. Two books on Plays are between two books on Composition. One book of Plays is between two books Poetry while the book at the top of the book of Literature is a book of Composition. Which book is fourth from the top?

Answer 1

Answer:

Counting from the top, the second, fifth and sixth books are on Plays. Two books on Plays are between two books on Composition. One book of Plays is between two books on Poetry while the book at the top of the ... (a) Plays (b) Poetry (c) Composition (d) Literature ... Clearly, the fourth book from the top is on Composition.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: The fourth book is composition from the top

Explanation:

1. There are eight books one over the other
2. The second book, fifth book and sixth book from top are plays, lets denote them as 2P, 5P, 6P, where P denotes Play
3. Now two books of place are between two books on composition, there for the sequence will be like ..CPPC.., where C denotes Composition
4. One book of play is between two books on poetry, the sequence will be ..PoPPo.., where Po denotes Poetry
5. while book at top of literature is composition, sequence is ....CL
6. So our incomplete sequence from top to bottom is _ P _ _ P P _ _
7. As we can see C will come at fourth place so that statement 1 and 3 holds
8. Po wil come at places 1 and 3 to make statement 1 and 4 true
9. Finally L will come at last to make all the statement true.
10. Therefore the sequence from top to bottom is Po P Po C P P C L

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