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D speaks Telugu. Three persons live between A and the one who speaks Malayalam. The number of persons above A is the same as the number of persons below H. A does not speak Kannada. Three persons live between H and the one who speaks Bengali. The number of persons above E is the same as the number of persons below the one who speaks Bengali. Two persons live between E and the one who speaks Kannada. E does not speak Bengali. The one who speaks Hindi lives just above the one who speaks Gujarati. Neither A nor E speaks Hindi. C lives just below the one who speaks Marathi but lives above the 4th floor. The number of persons above I is the same as the number of persons below the one who speaks Tamil. F lives above I’s floor. The one who speaks Punjabi does not live on the bottommost floor. How many persons live below the one who lives just above G?
- Three
- Four
- Two
- One
- More than four
Correct answer: More than four
Solution
This is a floor-based linear arrangement with multiple language conditions. After satisfying the distance relations, the person just above G is placed on an upper floor such that more than four persons are below that floor.
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