Thursday, 25 July 2013

The One Where Everything Is "Jumbled"

                  Richa has been challenged by her friend, Naveen to solve the following  “Jumbled Set” of four questions. The rules are simple:
  • (Rule-1): No three of these four questions have same option as their answer.
  • (Rule-2): Q.4 must be answered just after Q.2.
She has promised you a treat, if you could help her.
Give it a try !


Question 1:
Which question’s answer will you get at last?
1) 1        2)4         3)2        4)3


Question 2:

How many questions do have (3) as correct option?
1)2            2)0        3)1        4) None of the above


Question 3:

Which one  is the basic question that you must answer first, to be able to answer the other question(s)?
 1)1          2)3        3)2        4)4


Question 4:

What is your answer to question 2?
1)4        2)3        3)2        4)1


Guidelines: Give complete strategies used to get the answer that would help our team and your fellow contestants to know the way you thought.



--
Regards
Team Techno'13


37 comments:

  1. Question no. 1- 1
    Question no. 2- 3
    Question no. 3- 3
    Question no. 4 - 2

    ReplyDelete
  2. Question 1- 1
    Question 2- 4
    Question 3- 2
    Question 4- 1

    ReplyDelete
  3. Question 1- option 1
    Question 2- option 1
    Question 3- option 3
    Question 4- option 3

    ReplyDelete
  4. Saksham Khandelwal25 July 2013 at 18:22

    Question 1 - 4
    Question 2 - 3
    Question 3 - 2
    Question 4 - 1

    ReplyDelete
  5. question 1-1
    question 2-3
    question 3-2
    question 4-4

    ReplyDelete
  6. Question 1 - 1
    Question 2 - 3
    Question 3 - 2
    Question 4 - 4
    APPROACH :
    1) 1 st you answer Q3 since that is essentially what you have to figure out in the first place.. Your thinking for the entire section starts from that very question.. so ans to Q3 is option 2
    2) now Q1...to ans this Q you have to first ans rest of the Q.. so you ans this Q last.. so ans to Q1 is option1
    3) then you answer Q2 ..
    i) it's not 0 since that would lead to ans to Q4 as option3.. proving your ans to Q2 wrong
    ii) it's not 2 since non of the prev answered Q has 3 as option.. so this to be true you need ans to Q2 and Q4 as option 3.. but you chose option 1 for Q2!!.. so option 1 is not the ans..!!
    iii) it is not option 4 because that does not give an answer to Q4
    iv) so it is option 3!
    4)ans to Q2 gives ans to this Q as option4




    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. umm.. there has been a mistake in this solution..

      Delete
    2. Answer is
      1. 1
      2. 4
      3. 2
      4. 1
      The reason is that-
      - First of all we need to answer Q3. to start the thinking process
      - Then going to Q1. we can say that its answer is 1 or 2
      - Then to Q2. its answer can't be 0 as then answer of Q4. will be 3. Also it can't be 2 as Q3 and Q1 dont have 3 as an answer. Now for answering we will have to tell the questions which are having option 3 as an answer which have been answered before thus if we answer it as 1 then Q2. will also have option 3 as an answer and the answer will become option 1 which is again not possible. Thus as a conclusion we can say that the answer of Q2. is NONE OF THESE.
      - The answer of Q4. is obviously 1 now.
      - To answer Q1. we need to answer all other questions. Thus ans of Q1. is 1

      Delete
  7. Corrected solution :
    Q1 - 1
    Q2 - 3
    Q2 - 2
    Q4 - 2
    APPROACH:
    1) 1st you ans Q3.. since that is from where your thinking for this section starts.. so ans to Q3 is option(opt) 2
    2) ans to Q1.. ambiguity for ans to this Q is between opt 1 & 2.. let this be opt 1..(justified later)
    3) now Q2 ..
    i) it is not 0 since that would give ans to Q4 as opt 3.. proving your ans to Q2 wrong
    ii) it is not 2 since your ans to Q1 or Q3 were not opt 3 so for this ans to be right you need ans to Q2 and Q4 as opt 3.. but you chose ans to Q2 as opt 1!!.. so opt 1 is not the ans!!
    iii) it is definitely not opt 4
    iv) so ans to Q2 is opt 3
    4) ans to Q2 gives ans to Q4 as option 2

    Justification for Q1 ans >> it is not opt 2 because opt 2 has already been an ans to Q3 and Q4 ..

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You have written question 2 two times

      Delete
    2. * Q2 - 3
      Q3 - 2

      Delete
  8. Q1 - 1
    Q2 - 3
    Q3 - 2
    Q4 - 2

    ReplyDelete
  9. Q1-1
    Q2-3
    Q3-2
    Q4-2

    ReplyDelete
  10. Q1-2
    Q2--3
    Q3-2
    Q4-4
    Please read the solution and understand it

    Solution-
    We cant anawer Q1 & Q2 first as we cant predict the last question
    or the no. of options with 3 as correct option and Q4 is after Q2 so we answer Q3 first ehose obvious answer will be 2) 3

    Now as Q4 is after Q2 so next cant be this.
    neither can we say anything about Q2 so the only possible answer to Question1 is 2)4 as 3)2 & 4)3 is clearly not possible as we have anawered Q3 and Q4 is present after Q2 also we are answering Q1 now. so finally we are left with 2)4

    Now we can only answer Q2 before Q4
    Answer to this cant be 4) none of these
    neither it can be 1)2 as after this we will be with only one Question. it cant be 2)0 as question 4 doesnt contain any answer as 0 so only 3)1 is possible

    now ultimately Q4 says ANSWER ( not the option) to question 2 which is 1 so the final answer is 4)1

    Note in the last part question has asked the answer not the option no. so the answer is 1 not 3 which is the option no.

    Please read this carefully .

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. well it does say ANSWER and not option.. but Q3 has ans 0,1,2 & none of these..
      so shouldn't Q4 have same ans in different order??? which is not so!!
      That says.. they meant OPTION and not ANSWER

      Delete
    2. Its not necessary for Q 4 to contain 0,1,2,and none of these in different order as one would have to check this option only due to which 0 & none couldnt be the answer. so we will then think of answer 1 & 2 . But if u r right then paper setters should write the word option not answer due to which many would have done wrong.

      Delete
  11. Answer is
    1. 1
    2. 4
    3. 2
    4. 1
    The reason is that-
    - First of all we need to answer Q3. to start the thinking process
    - Then going to Q1. we can say that its answer is 1 or 2
    - Then to Q2. its answer can't be 0 as then answer of Q4. will be 3. Also it can't be 2 as Q3 and Q1 dont have 3 as an answer. Now for answering we will have to tell the questions which are having option 3 as an answer which have been answered before thus if we answer it as 1 then Q2. will also have option 3 as an answer and the answer will become option 1 which is again not possible. Thus as a conclusion we can say that the answer of Q2. is NONE OF THESE.
    - The answer of Q4. is obviously 1 now.
    - To answer Q1. we need to answer all other questions. Thus ans of Q1. is 1

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. if we answer NONE OF THESE in Q2 that would mean the no of answers as 3 is not 0, 1 or 2 and that would thus mean that no f correct options as 3 is 3 or greater than 3 which is not possible so your Q2's answer is wrong which in turn makes Q4 wrong.

      Delete
    2. Actually here None Of these means that we cant answer this question with the given information. Understand. I have even explained it above

      Delete
    3. if no of these means that information is not enough then i think technothlon guys would hav give "data not sufficient" as an option. THE GUYS WHO MAKE THESE PAPERS ARE NOT FOOLS.

      Delete
    4. They might have given none of these as an option to challenge the students

      Delete
  12. Q1- 1
    Q2- 3
    Q3- 2
    Q4- 2

    Approach:
    1. we cant answer the 1st question without answering the other three because we need to tell the last question we would do..so practically Q1 is the last question therefore its answer is (1.)
    2. The basic question that we need to answer first is Q3 itself as Q1 needs to be done at last, Q2 cant be done at first because it is asking for no of 3's as correct solution, Q 4 need to be done after Q2 so that leaves only Q3 to be done at first.
    3.Now for answering Q2 we can easily cut 1st option and the last option as they are not possible because that we hav already answerd 2 Q's. so wat we need to do is mark option 3 as it says only one 3 appears as solution which appears in that question itself.
    4. now Q4 has a direct answer

    we followed all the rules and condition and got the correct answer (atleast i think that it is correct).

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. How can you cut the last option??

      Delete
    2. if we answer NONE OF THESE in Q2 that would mean the no of answers as 3 is not 0, 1 or 2 and that would thus mean that no f correct options as 3 is 3 or greater than 3 which is not possible so your Q2's answer is wrong which in turn makes Q4 wrong.

      Delete
    3. sorry posted the above comment on wrong post. your answer is correct

      Delete
    4. Read the reply in previous comment

      Delete
    5. thats a beautiful answer
      keep it up

      Delete
    6. Thanks. Now you understood why the answer of Q2. should be 4. Is it correct??

      Delete
    7. I cut the none of these as correct ioption since if we choose no of these than we are presuming that answer is not 0, 1 or 2 and thus it also mean question with 3 as correct option are greater than 2.

      Delete
    8. Actually here None Of these means that we cant answer this question with the given information. Understand. I have even explained it above

      Delete
  13. None of these mrans not anyone from the answer that does not means that we cant answer the question but it means that its might have another options else 0 , 1 , 2

    ReplyDelete
  14. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Question 1- option 1
    Question 2- option 3
    Question 3- option 2
    Question 4- option 4

    ReplyDelete
  16. Question 1- (1)
    Question 2- (3)
    Question 3- (2)
    Question 4- (4)

    ReplyDelete
  17. Question 1 - (1) .If we could answer this question before the last one, then we knew the last question that will be answered. So the last question to be answered is Question 1.

    Question 2 - (3) .As all the 4 questions have different options as their respective answers, hence there is only question that has option (3) as correct.

    Question 3 - (4) .The fourth question is the basic question to be answered first.
    Question 4 - (2) .The answer to question 2 is option 3. So the answer to this question is '3' which is option (2).

    ReplyDelete
  18. Q.1 option(1) as per the rules Q.4 is to attempted after Q.2 and so the last ques. will be (3)
    Q.2 option(3)because it is the only ques. which has a ans. as option (3)
    Q.3 option(2)
    Q.4 option (2)

    ReplyDelete