IBPS PO General Awareness: Puzzles questions with solutions

Q1. Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight friends who live in a building of 8 floors. They live on separate floors of a same eight storey building, but not in the same order. Each one of them owns a car manufactured by different automobile company. The ground floor of the building is numbered 1, the floor above it 2 and so on until the topmost floor is numbered 8. The person who lives on floor numbered 4 has a Tata car and lives just above the floor where B lives. Kia is owned by the person who lives on the top floor and is not owned by E. The person who owns the Jaguar lives three floors above the person who owns a Honda car, which is owned either by B or C. C lives on the floor numbered 2 and D does not have a Jaguar car. H either has a Jaguar or Tesla car, and lives on the floor numbered 6. G and E live on the floor at the extreme ends, not necessarily in the same order and either of them has a BMW car. The person living on floor numbered 2 has an Audi. A neither owns a Tesla nor a Maruti car. F lives on the floor numbered 7 and doesn't own a Maruti car. Who owns the Tata car?

1. A
2. B
3. H
4. G

Answer: A

C=floor 2 (Audi). Tata owner on floor 4, just above B → B=floor 3. H=floor 6 (Jaguar or Tesla). F=floor 7. G and E at extremes. Kia at floor 8, not owned by E → G=floor 8 (Kia), E=floor 1. Floors 4 and 5 for A and D. Honda owned by B or C. Jaguar is 3 floors above Honda. If B(floor3) has Honda → Jaguar at floor 6 = H ✓. A doesn't have Tesla/Maruti and is on floor 4 with Tata ✓. D on floor 5.

Q2. What is the designation of V?

1. COO
2. Manager
3. AM
4. Assistant

Answer: AM

The question is a direct answer from a puzzle set, and the correct designation of V is AM. Without the full arrangement, the designation is taken from the provided answer key.