CAT 2001 | Question: 132

Question

Mrs. Ranga has three children and has difficulty remembering their ages and the months of their birth. The clues below may help her remember.

• A. The boy, who was born in June, is $7$ years old.
• B. One of the children is $4$ years old, but it is not Anshuman.
• C. Vaibhav is older than Suprita.
• D. One of the children was born in September, but it was not Vaibhav.
• E. Supriya's birthday is in April.
• F. The youngest child is only $2$ years old.

Based on the above clues, which one of the following statements is true?

• A. Vaibhav is the oldest, followed by Anshuman who was born in September, and the youngest is Supriya who was born in April.
• B. Anshuman is the oldest being born in June, followed by Supriya who is $4$ years old, and the youngest is Vaibhav who is $2$ years old.
• C. Vaibhav is the oldest being $7$ years old, followed by Supriya who was born in April, and the youngest is Anshuman who was born in September.
• D. Supriya is the oldest who was born in April, followed by Vaibhav who was born in June, and Anshuman who was born in September.

Answer 1

Ans Should be 3)

from the given information we can easily conclude it 

from clue E , suprita has birthday in april so other 2 will be in sept or june , and now given in clue D , vaibhav has not birthday in sept so remaining one who is anshuman , will have birthday in sept . and  vaibhav has in june .. 

so suprita in april, anshuman in sept and vaibhav in june ...

Now from clue A , who(vaibhav from above result)  born in June , is 7yr old  , from clue B , 4yr old who is not anshuman so it will be suprita .. and 2yr old will be anshuman ...

for clear picture from given table 

 

Answer 2

Ans(3)