Question

Five friends ram, shyam, anil, das and arjun are standing in a queue. there is no one between arjun and ram. anil is behind das. there is no one behind ram. shyam is not the first in the queue. who is standing first in the queue?

Answer 1

"there is no one behind ram" means ram is standing last.
"there is no one between arjun and ram" - second last standing is arjun.

Anil is behind Das , Shyam is not first
therefore Anil is not in the first ,he is behind Das and Shyam is after Anil because he can't be between Anil and Das.
therefore Das is standing first
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Answer 2

Das is the first person on the queue.

Explanation:

Conditions given are:

1. There is no one between arjun and ram.
2. Anil is behind das.
3. There is no one behind ram.
4. Shyam is not the first in the queue.  

Re-jumble the conditions in the order that makes the most sense.

1. There is no one behind ram.
2. There is no one between arjun and ram.
3. Anil is behind das.
4. Shyam is not the first in the queue.  

Let's now solve the order of queue by coming from the last person. So Ram is the last one and next in queue is Arjun. Since Shyam is not the first one, he can either be second or third person. But Since Anil is behind Das, we have to place them first and second, followed by Shyam.

Order of the queue will be: Das, Anil, Shyam, Arjun, Ram.