Directions (Q. 1-5): Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below:
There are three houses on each side of the road. The houses are A, B, C, D, E and F. The houses are of different colors i.e. Purple, White, Blue, Sea Green, Orange and Cream but not necessarily in that order. Also the houses are of different heights. A, the White colored house, is taller than C, but shorter than B and D. The shortest houses is exactly opposite to the Sea Green colored house. B, the Sea Green colored house is exactly opposite to F. F the Orange color house, is located between A and D. C the Cream colored house, is exactly opposite to A. E the tallest house, is exactly opposite to the Purple colored house.

1. What is the color of the house diagonally opposite to the Cream colored house?
(a) Orange
(b) Purple
(c) Sea Green
(d) Can't be determined
(e) None of these


2. What is the color of the shortest house?
(a) Sea Green
(b) Blue
(c) Cream
(d) Orange
(e) None of these



3. Which of these sequences is correct according to decreasing order of height?
(a) E > D > A > C > F
(b) E > B > A > C > F
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these



4. Which of these statements is correct?
(a) Orange color house is opposite to Sea Green color house
(b) White color house is diagonally opposite of blue color house.
(c) Purple color house is opposite of blue color house.
(d) All of the above
(e) None of these




5. Which of these statements is incorrect?
(a) E is blue colored house.
(b) F is orange colored house.
(c) C is Cream colored house.
(d) A is Sea Green colored house.
(e) None of these





Solutions:

According to height
1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5
E D A C F
Or
E B A C F
According to color there are two possibilities

White
Orange
Purple
A
F
D
C
B
E
Cream
Sea Green
Blue

or

Purple
Orange
White
D
F
A
E
B
C
Blue
Sea Green
Cream





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