RRB NTPC · Question 32
Six animals - horse, cow, pig, dog, donkey and goat are tied to a pole each, in a circle, facing each other, in random order. Consider the following information and answer the questions based on it. 1. Goat is to the immediate right of pig. 2. Cow is not tied next to either donkey or dog. 3. If the animals mark the vertices of a hexagon, then the horse is diagonally opposite to the pig. The cow is tied to the immediate left of
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Answer: (C) Horse
Explanation
Place the six animals round a hexagon. The horse is opposite the pig, and the goat is next to the pig. The cow cannot be next to the donkey or the dog, so its only possible place is between the goat and the horse; the donkey and the dog fill the two places on the other side. So the cow is tied immediately next to the horse, i.e. to the immediate left of the horse.