CAT DILR Questions | CAT Analytical Reasoning questions

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There are six people A, B, C, D, E and F. Two of them are housewives, one is an accountant, one is an architect, one is a lawyer and one is a lecturer. A, the lawyer is married to D & E is not the housewife. None of the females is the architect or the accountant. There are two married couples. C is the accounant, Married to the lecturer F.

CAT/1999

Question . 260

How many males are there

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Explanatory Answer

Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Analytical Reasoning question

The information provided in the problem can be tabulated as follows :

E can only be the architect, hence has to be male. D can only be a housewife, which means that A is a male. Consequently, B also has to be a housewife. The males are A, C and E.

(b) There are three males in all.