CAT 2003 | Question: 2-106

Question

Answer the question on the basis of following information.
Four families decided to attend the marriage ceremony of one of their colleagues. One family has no kids, while the others have at least one kid each. Each family with kids has at least one kid attending the marriage. Given below is some information about the families, and who reached when to attend the marriage.

• The family with $2$ kids came just before the family with no kids.
• Shanthi who does not have any kids reached just before Sridevi’s family.
• Sunil and his wife reached last with their only kid.
• Anil is not the husband of Joya.
• Anil and Raj are fathers.
• Sridevi’s and Anita’s daughters go to the same school.
• Joya came before Shanthi and met Anita when she reached the venue.
• Raman stays the farthest from the venue.
• Raj said his son could not come because of his exams.

Which woman arrived third?

• A. Shanthi
• B. Sridevi
• C. Anita
• D. Joya

Answer 1

Ans Should be A)

• The family with $2$ kids came just before the family with no kids.
• Shanthi who does not have any kids reached just before Sridevi’s family. 

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  "now from above clue we can conclude  $2$ kid family came before shanthi family who has no kid and sridevi's family came after shanthi's family" . 

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• Joya came before Shanthi and met Anita when she reached the venue.

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  from this clue we can say joya who has come with $2$ kids before shanthi but when she reached met with anita that means anita is already there . so $1^{st}$ anita's family came , $2^{nd}$ joya's family , $3^{rd}$ shanthi's family and last sridevi's family 

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  hence ans is A)