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Answer the question based on the following information.
Ten coins are distributed among four people P, Q, R and S such that one of them gets one coin, another gets two coins, the third gets three coins and the fourth gets four coins. It is known that Q gets more coins than P, and S gets fewer coins than R.

If the number of coins distributed to Q is twice the number distributed to P, then which one of the following is necessarily true?

  1. R gets an even number of coins.
  2. R gets an odd number of coins.
  3. S gets an even number of coins.
  4. S gets an odd number of coins.

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Here,
$\text{S} = 1$ coin
$\text{P} = 2$ coin
$\text{R} = 3$ coin
$\text{Q} = 4$ coin

Answer$: \text{(B) and (D)}$
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