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Question : 58 of 200

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Go through the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

(i) There is a group of five persons - A, B, C, D and E.

(ii) One of them is a horticulturist, one is a physicist, one is a journalist, one is an industrialist and one is an advocate.

(iii) Three of them - A, C and advocate prefer tea to coffee and two of them - B and the journalist prefer coffee to tea.

(iv) The industrialist and D and A are friends to one another but two of them prefer coffee to tea.

(v) The horticulturist is C's brother.

Which of the following groups includes a person who likes tea but is not an advocate?

AC
AD
BD
CB

Solution:

Concept:

Identify the tea-lovers and exclude the advocate.

Explanation:

From (iii), the tea-lovers are

A

,

C

, and the advocate.

From (iv), the industrialist and

D

prefer coffee, so

D

is the journalist.

Therefore, the advocate is

E

.

So, the persons who like tea but are not advocates are

A

and

C

.

Hence, the required group is

AC

.

Answer:

AC

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