Who is sitting where?

Logic Level 1

In a class there are seven students (including boys and girls) A, B, C, D, E, F and G. They sit on three benches I, II and III, such that there are at least two students on each bench and at least one girl on each bench. C who is a girl student does not sit with A, E and D. The boy student F sits only with B. A sits on bench I with his best friends. G sits on bench III. E is the brother of C.

Answer the following questions -
1. Who sits with C ?
2. On which bench there are three students?
3. How many girls are there in the class?

G , Bench I , 3 or 4. D , Bench III , 4 E , Bench I or II, Data Inadequate B , Bench II , 3

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17 solutions

Vaibhav Borale
Aug 4, 2014

i) Now, as F & B will be together anywhere thus C have only choice to sit with G.

ii) "A sits on bench I with his best FRIENDS" means along with 2 other students.....so on 1st bench there are 3 students.

iii) Here, E, F & G are definitely male thus, there can be 3 or 4 girls among these 7 students.

Also... A is a male, "HIS best FRIENDS"

Double hint whammy

Flewk Isdead - 6 years, 9 months ago

G should be female, cz A, E, and F known as male :)

Shiina Shiina - 6 years, 9 months ago

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G can be a male too - what stops it?

Shadi Barghash - 6 years, 8 months ago

why G is definitely a male, please?

Ahmad Elsagheer - 6 years, 9 months ago

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G can be a girl too. It is said ATLEAST one girl on a bench, implying G may be a girl too.

Rachit Jain - 6 years, 9 months ago

  1. C who is a girl student does not sit with A, E and D.
  2. E is the brother of C.
1 + 2 = Harsh

Flewk Isdead - 6 years, 9 months ago

yap G is male??

Rabbany Rony Lsc - 6 years, 8 months ago

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G can be a male or female, that's there are "3 or 4 girls."

Shadi Barghash - 6 years, 8 months ago

Hey.. G doesn't need to be 'definitely' a male, thus there can be 3 or 4 girls.

In bench III, there must be at least 2 students, of which at least one should be a girl, but the second (or more) student(s) can be girls or boys. Since C is known to be a girl, then the '1+ girls' constraint is achieved, and so G can be a boy or a girl to complete the '2+ STUDENTS' constraint.

However, E, F, and "A" are definitely a male.

Hence, E, F and A are males, D, B and C are females, and G's gender is not given.

Shadi Barghash - 6 years, 8 months ago

Because C is not in a group with A, E, D and F is only in a group with B. \Rightarrow C is in a group with G a n s = G B e n c h I 34 \Rightarrow ans = \boxed{GBenchI34}

Jayanta Mandi
Aug 18, 2014

1st and 3rd occupied,so B&F can sit in 2nd bench.So that leaves C to sit with G in the 3rd bench(as C can't sit with A in the 1st bench). So A,E,D sits in the first bench. From the statement A,E,F are boys so girl cane be 3 or 4.(A is a boy bcoz A takes 'he' as personal pronoun).

Mohd Yakop
Aug 6, 2014

I only answer 1st question because there is only one answer that start with G :)

question 1: -C not sit with A, E and D. -possible student sit with C is B, F and G -since F only sit with B mean only G possible student sit with C

Zahid Hussain
Aug 11, 2019

Again by giving the choice and providing 4 distinct answers to question 1 the matter is simplified. So let's work on question 1. Choice 1 and 3 are not possible because it clearly says that C does not sit with E or D. She can't sit with B because F is sitting with her. So this only leaves G, thus option 4 is correct.
Now we can see if other conditions fit or not.
As A is sitting with his "friends" so that is the bench where 3 people are sitting.
Now let's count the girls.
A Not girl ('his' friends)
B Girl (F is a boy so G must be a girl)
C Girl (mentioned)
D Girl (A and E both are boys)
E Not girl (mentioned)
F Not girl (mentioned)
G Not sure.
So that means there are 3 or 4 girls thus the answer to question 3 is also correct. But in order to "select" the right answer we did not need to do all these calculations.





A sits on bench I with his best friendS -> bench I has 3 students, leaving us with only the second option to choose.

Fourth option also has bench I

Zahid Hussain - 1 year, 10 months ago

the question said that the boy A sits on bench one and sit his best friends. Because it is said 'best friends' not 'best friend', so bench with three students is Bench One. It is said that F is only sitting with B, and C doesn't sit with A,E and D, so C will sit with G. Usually, boys will sit with boys, and girls will sit with girls, so, A, E and D are boys, so there are probably 3 or 4 Girls.

Annie W.
Feb 22, 2015

1) "C who is a girl student does not sit with A, E, and D."

C-girl, doesn't sit with AED, may sit with BFG

2) "The boy student F sits only with B."

F-boy, sits ONLY with B

B-girl (since there must be at least one girl on every bench), sits ONLY with F

C-sits with G, as that's the only option left.

3) "A sits on bench I with his best friends."

A-boy, sitting with multiple people (AED sitting on Bench I)

C-sits ONLY with G

4) "G sits on bench III."

G and C-sit on bench III

5) "E is the brother of C."

E-boy

Therefore, A (boy), D (girl) and E (boy) sitting on Bench I; B (girl) and F (boy) sitting on Bench II; C (girl) and G (either) sitting on Bench III. So, the answers in order are G, I, 3 or 4.

Maximum Jackson
Jan 4, 2015

a is a boy, b is unknown , c is a girl, d is unknown, e is a boy, f is a boy, g is unknown. For the first question , who sits with c, f and b are out, then a, e and d are out. The only remaining person is g so c sits with g. If you look at the answer choices, there is only one choice with c and g so you don't have to figure out the others. Done.

Maya Vita
Dec 1, 2014

so boys are at least A, E, and F. A sits with multiple people (implied by his best friendS), so bench I has three people. Since C will not sit with A, E, and D, and F and B are together, only G is left to sit with C. Also since there are at least three girls and three boys and G's gender is never mentioned, there are 3 or 4 girls as G could be either gender.

Rifath Rahman
Nov 20, 2014

I Just used the clue A sits with his best 'friends',so answer question 2 was bench I,there was only one option having only bench I,so I got the answer G,bench I and 3 or 4

Very smart

Zahid Hussain - 1 year, 10 months ago
Shravanthi Mohan
Sep 15, 2014

Inputs: A B C D E F G Conditions: C -girl C not with A,E,D F -boy F wtih B E brother of C

Possibilities: I - A,E,D II - F,B III - C,G

1st Bench A--------E------------D 2nd Bench F----------------------B 3rd Bench G----------------------C quest. ans 1st G 2nd 1st benc 3rd 3 girls

Vinod Singh - 6 years, 8 months ago
Shawn Pereira
Sep 10, 2014

C doesn't sit with A, E and D. C can't be her own partner. So only B and G can sit with C. But F can sit only with B. So C sits with G.

Since there is only one option that says "G", I didn't bother solving the rest. :P

Kaushal Agrawal
Sep 5, 2014

"A sits on bench I with his best FRIENDS" meaning that bench I has the triplet. This solves the problem.(the mistake of option setter) ;-)

Matthew Glennon
Aug 22, 2014

https://imgur.com/x0lAkgO

Becky Amor
Aug 21, 2014

Table 1 : A, E, D Table 2: B, F Table 3: C, G

Nitin Tiwari
Sep 19, 2014

easy one ..First out AED then f And B the remaining one is G that will sit with C...and the fourth option you will find the G answer and obviously if A is sitting with his friends then there must be more that 1 frnd..so its No 1 seat whre three person will sit.. now everybody can guess the last answer..:)

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