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IBPS PO Mains 30 Nov 2024 Shift 2 Paper

Question Numbers: 1-3

Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions.

There are three dices and each dice contains four sides. Each of the dice are thrown 9 times and 3 letters are obtained every time and are rearranged to form nine different meaningful words as follows:

RED, CAT, APT, LAB, BUT, SUE, ERA, RIP, LIE.

Note: No two dice have the same letters.

Question : 1 of 155

Marks: +1, -0

In the dice which contains more than one vowel, which of the following consonants is present?

Validate

Solution:

Concept:

Each three-letter word is formed by taking one letter from each of the three dice. So if two words have two common letters, the two remaining letters must be on the third dice.

Explanation:

Compare

RED

and

ERA

. The common letters are

R

and

E

, so

A

and

D

must be on the same dice.

Compare

RIP

and

LIE

. The common letter is

I

; this places

I

with

A

and

D

, while

P

and

E

are together, and

R

and

L

are together.

Continuing with

LAB

APT

CAT

, and

BUT

, we get the complete arrangement:

DICE 1	DICE 2	DICE 3
E	R	A
B	T	D
C	S	U
P	L	I

Dice 3 contains

A

D

U

I

, which has more than one vowel (

A

U

I

The only consonant present on this dice is

D

Answer:

D

(Option E).

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