Instructions

Read the following information and choose the right alternative in the questions that follow.

During the cultural week of an institute six competitions were conducted. The cultural week was inaugurated in the morning of 19th October, Wednesday and continued till 26th October. In the span of 8 days six competitions namely debate, folk dance, fash-p, street play, rock band, and group song, were organized along with various other cultural programs. The information available from the institute is:
i. Only one competition was held in a day
ii. Rock band competition was not conducted on the closing day.
iii. Fash-p was conducted on the day prior to debate competition
iv. Group song competition was conducted neither on Wednesday nor on Saturday
v. None of the competition was conducted on Thursday and Sunday
vi. Street Play competition was held on Monday
vii. There was gap of two days between debate competition and group song competition

Question 34

Which competition exactly precedes the street play competition?

Solution

Let us draw a table consisting the day and competition. 

In statement 5, it is given that none of the competition was conducted on Thursday and Sunday. Also, Street Play competition was held on Monday. 

It is given that Group Song competition was conducted neither on Wednesday nor on Saturday. Hence, the Group Song competition can take place on either Tuesday or Friday. We are also given that there was gap of two days between Debate competition and Group Song competition. 

If the Group Song competition is on Friday, then Debate competition should take place in 24th Oct, Monday but that slot is already filled. Hence, this case is not possible. Therefore, we can say that Group Song competition was on Tuesday. Consecutively, we can say that the Debate competition was on Saturday. 

Rock band competition was not conducted on the closing day. Hence, we can say that Rock Band competition took place on either 19th Oct or 21st Oct.

It is also given that Fash-p was conducted on the day prior to debate competition. Hence, we can say that Fash-P was conducted on 21st Oct Friday. Consequently, we can say that Rock Band competition took place on 19th Oct Wednesday. 

Also, we can say that folk dance competition held on 26th Oct. 

From the table, we can see that Debate competition precedes the street play competition. Hence, option C is the correct answer.

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