Tricks to Solve Puzzle Questions

1. Read once and find out how many ‘R’ and ‘C’ objects available in question

2. Draw RxC table

3. Read every line carefully and try to fill the table

4. After filling the table as per the information available in question, you’ll see that some are left un-arranged which will have indirect relations. These require your logical reasoning abilities.

Example: In a school, there were five teachers.

P1: A and B were teaching Hindi and English.

P2: C and B were teaching English and Geography.

P3: D and A were teaching Mathematics and Hindi.

P4: E and B were teaching History 

Who among the teachers was teaching minimum number of subjects?

Solution:

R = A, B, C, D, E è 5

C = Hindi, English, Geography, Mathematics è 4

	HINDI	ENGLISH	GEOGRAPHY	MATHEMATICS	HISTORY
A	Yes [P1]	Yes [P1]		Yes [P3]
B	Yes [P1]	Yes [P1]	Yes [P2]		Yes [P4]
C		Yes [P2]	Yes [P2]
D	Yes [P3]			Yes [P3]
E					Yes [P4]

By seeing above table only E teaches minimum no of subjects. i.,e only History.

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