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Introduction
members of a family. Based on the informa-
These questions remind us of family trees. tion given, you are required to find the con-
Blood relation or blood relative is related to nection between particular family members.
you by birth or through nuptial knots. Blood Check the following nomenclatures for vari-
relation shows different relations among the ous relations.
While solving the blood relation-based (Dadi), paternal uncle (Chacha), paternal
questions, you will frequently come across aunt (Chachi, Bua).
situations where you need to arrange the � Maternal: Relations from the side of the
member from the maternal side or paternal mother are maternal. For example, maternal
side in the family tree. grandfather (Nana), Maternal grandmother
� Paternal: Relations from the side of the (Nani), maternal uncle (Mama), Maternal
father are paternal. For example, paternal aunt (Mami, Masi).
grandfather (Dada), paternal grandmother
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To understand in a better way, consider the following family tree of three generations.
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12. Anita is the mother-in-law of Vinita. belongs to the dialogue/conversation-based
13. Varun and Vinita are married couple/ puzzles.
spouses. Example 1:
14. Sachin is the brother of Varun and the Pointing to a photograph of a person Mr.
brother-in-law of Vinita. Abhishek said, “He is the son of the only son
15. Ashi is the sister of Varun and the Sister- of my mother.” How is Mr. Abhishek related
in-law of Vinita. to that person?
16. Vinita is the sister-in-law of Sachin and (A) Uncle (B) Father
Ashi. (C) Son (D) Brother
17. Vinita and Raghu are sister and brother, Solution: (B)
respectively. Here, ‘my mother’ means Mr. Abhishek’s
18. Raghu is the brother-in-law of Varun and mother.
vice-versa. Now, the statement is, the person in the
19. Suppy is the daughter and Rudra is the photograph is the son of the only son of Mr.
son of Varun and Vinita. Abhishek’s mother.
20. Suppy is the niece of Sachin, Ashi, and
Raghu.
21. Rudra is the nephew of Sachin, Ashi, and
Raghu.
Refer to the following for understanding
various generations as shown in the above
example:
y First generation: Grandfather (paternal/
maternal) and grandmother (paternal/
maternal).
Here, the only son of Mr. Abhishek’s mother
y Second generation: Father, mother, uncle
means Mr. Abhishek is the only son of her
(paternal/maternal), aunt (paternal/
mother.
maternal).
y Third generation: Self, spouse, brother, So, Abhishek is the father of the person in
sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law. the photograph.
y Fourth generation: Son, daughter, nephew, Hence, option (B) is correct.
niece. Example 2:
Types of Questions Based on Blood Pointing to a photograph, a person tells
Relations Rohini, “I am the only son of the lady, and
her daughter is your paternal aunt”. How is
y Dialogue/conversation based
the speaker related to Rohini’s mother?
y Based on puzzles
y Coding-decoding based (A) Son (B) Uncle
(C) Father (D) Husband
Dialogue/conversation based
Solution: (D)
When a question considers a person talking
‘the only son of the lady’ refers to the speak-
about another person who is related to him
er’s mother.
or her through a sequence of relations, it
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Speaker’s mother’s daughter = Speaker’s sis-
ter = Rohini’s aunt. So, the speaker is Rohini’s
father, as shown in the diagram below.
So, the speaker or person is related to
Rohini’s mother as a husband.
Hence, option (D) is correct.
1.
Pointing towards a person, a man 1.
Read the following information and
said to a woman, “His mother is the answer the question given below it:
only daughter of your father”. How is ‘A + B’ means ‘A is the daughter of B’.
the woman related to that person?
‘A × B’ means ‘A is the son of B’.
‘A – B’ means ‘A is the wife of B’.
Example 3: If P × Q – S, which of the following
is true?
Pointing to a photograph, Nishi says to Suppy,
“The girl in the photo is the second daughter (A) S is the wife of Q.
of the wife of the only son of the paternal (B) S is the father of P.
grandmother of my younger sister.” How is
(C) P is the daughter of Q.
the girl in the photograph related to Nishi?
(D) None of these.
(A) Sister (b) Aunt
(c) Mother (d) Sister-in-law
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Based on puzzles Solution: (C)
To solve a puzzle based on blood relations, Here, it is given that O is the husband of R
one and has only two children, one is a boy and
should use the family tree using symbols. the other is a girl. Also, there are only two
Every married couples in the family.
Example 4:
M is P’s uncle and the family has three
In a family, there are three generations of six generations.
members M, N, O, P, Q, and R. There are only
Hence, M is the son of O and R, and P is the
two married couples in the family. O is the
child of N.
husband of R and has only two children, one
girl and one boy. M is P’s uncle. Q is the wife of N.
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Hence, the family tree is: Tashi whose daughter is Bimla. Arjun, the
husband of Reet, is the paternal grandfather
of Bimla. Bhanu is the father of Silk and the
brother of Harpreet. Arjun has only two chil-
dren, both of opposite gender.
Who among the following is the son of Tashi?
(A) Bhanu
(B) Swapnil
(C) Arjun
(D) Cannot be determined
Hence, Q is the sister of M. Solution: (D)
Hence, option (C) is correct. From the line, ‘Kamal is the father of Swapnil
and Reet is the mother of Kamal’, we can
Previous Years’ Question draw the following diagram.
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Considering the line, ‘Bhanu is the father of Here, the gender of Swapnil cannot be
Silk and brother of Harpreet’, the diagram determined.
will be: Hence, option (D) is correct.
3. Nalini, her brother, her daughter, and 4. There was a party organised and the
her son are tennis players and are following members attended the
playing a game of doubles. Their po- party: Sheela, Amruta, Rohit, Rahul,
sitions on the court are as follows: Ajay, Ranveer, and Gauri.
Nalini’s brother is directly across Sheela is the mother-in-law of
the net from her daughter. Her son Amruta, who is the sister-in-law of
is diagonally across the net from the Rohit. Rahul is the father of Ajay. Ajay
best player’s sibling. The best play- is the brother of Rohit. Ranveer is
er and the worst player are on the the only brother of Rahul, who is the
same side of the net. Who is the best father- in-law of Gauri. Gauri was
player? married to Rohit. How is Sheela re-
(A) Nalini lated to Ranveer?
(B) Nalini’s brother (A) Cousin
(C) Nalini’s daughter (B) Mother
(D) None of these (C) Sister
(D) None of the above
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Example 6: Example 7:
Read the following information carefully and There are nine members: Romil, Ananya,
answer the given question. Kim, Tokyo, Berlin, Ryan, Lauren, Moscow,
y P $ Q means P is the father of Q. and Merryl in a family. The number of males
is one more than the females. Tokyo is the
y P # Q means P is the Husband of Q.
daughter-in-law of Berlin. Ananya’s brother
y P @ Q means P is the sister of Q. Ryan has only one sister. Lauren is the moth-
y P £ Q means P is the brother of Q. er-in-law of Ryan. Kim is the wife of Ryan’s
y P * Q means P is the mother of Q. father. Ananya is the only daughter of Berlin.
What should come in place of the question Merryl and Romil are children of Tokyo.
mark to make the expression ‘M is aunt of If Moscow is the son-in-law of Berlin. Then
L’ true? how is Ryan related to Moscow?
A$C#M?P*L (A) Father-in-law
(A) # (B) Brother-in-law
(C) Nephew
(B) @
(D) Cannot be determined
(C) * Solution: (B)
(D) £ As discussed earlier, we use the following
Solution: (B) symbols for various relations and genders.
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From points (iv), (ii), and (v), we can From points (i) and (iii),
draw the following information given in
a diagram:
From (vi), in a family there are four fe- of males is one more than the number of
males because it is given that the number females. So,
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Previous Years’ Question
5.
Read the following information to
answer these questions.
There is a group of six persons A, B,
C, D, E, and F from a family. They are
psychologist, manager, lawyer, jew-
eller, doctor, and engineer.
The doctor is the grandfather of F
I.
who is a psychologist.
II. Manager D is married to A.
III. C, the jeweller is married to the
lawyer.
IV. B is the mother of F and E.
There are two married couples in
V.
the family.
What is the profession of E?
(A) Doctor
(B) Lawyer
(C) Engineer
(D) Cannot be determined
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Practice Exercise
Level of Difficulty – 1
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8. A says to B, your mother’s brother-in- iv) I is not the only child.
law’s daughter’s paternal grandfather is v) B is the mother-in-law of F, who doesn’t
my father, what A possibly can’t be for B? have any child.
(A) Father
vi) D’s brother-in-law and sister-in-law are
(B) Mother
both doctors.
(C) Aunt
(D) Uncle
11. Who is the definitely a doctor from
9. Mr Rakesh is the father of Vidya who is following?
the only sister-in-law of the husband of (A) C
Mr. Amit’s maternal aunt. What relation (B) G
is Amit for Rakesh? (C) G and F both
(A) Nephew (D) F
(B) Brother
12. What is E for C?
(C) Grandson
(A) Brother-in-law
(D) Uncle
(B) Sister-in-law
10. Andy says to Sandy, “Your father’s moth- (C) Daughter
er’s son-in-law’s sister’s only sister-in- (D) Cannot be determined
law’s only brother is my mother’s only
13. Who is the wife of A?
uncle”. How is Andy’s mother related to
(A) G
Sandy?
(B) C
(A) Mother
(C) H
(B) Cousin
(D) B
(C) Aunt
(D) Niece 14. If H has a medical shop outside his wife’s
hospital, then what is A for E?
Directions for Questions 11 to 15: Read the
(A) Uncle
following information carefully and answer
(B) Father
accordingly.
(C) Mother
In a family of nine people, A, B, C, D, E, F, (D) Grandfather
G, H, and I, the number of males is half the
number of females. The family consists of 15. How many siblings does H have?
members of three generations. It is also (A) 2
known that: (B) 3
i) A’s daughter is D. I is the niece of D. (C) 1
(D) Either 2 or 1
ii) There are exactly three married couples.
iii) G is the sister-in-law of C, who has a
sister and a brother.
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Level of Difficulty – 2
1. Read the following information carefully 2. Who among them planted organic broc-
and answer the given question. coli seeds?
y P $ Q means P is the father of Q. (A) Jamna
y P # Q means P is the Husband of Q. (B) Jinesh
y P @ Q means P is the sister of Q. (C) Jigar
y P £ Q means P is the brother of Q. (D) Data inadequate
y P * Q means P is the mother of Q.
3. How is Jinesh related to Jigar?
Which of the following statements is true (A) Granddaughter
if the given expression is definitely true: (B) Grandson
Z # Y * X @ W # V? (C) Son
(A) Z is the father of V. (D) Data inadequate
(B) Y is the mother-in-law of W. 4. Who is the husband of Jigna?
(C) X is the sister-in-law of V. (A) Jitesh
(D) Y is the mother of V. (B) Jigar
(C) Jignesh
Directions for Questions 2 to 5: Read the (D) Cannot be determined
information and answer the questions that
5. Who among them planted Gourd?
follow.
(A) Jamna
On the world environment day, June 5, the (B) Jinesh
Patel family decided to grow organic vegeta- (C) Jignesh
bles in their backyard. (D) Data inadequate
i) The family of six—Jigar, Jigna, Jignesh,
Jitesh, Jamna, and Jinesh bought seeds Directions for Questions 6 to 10: Read the
of organic—vegetables: gourd, tomato, following information carefully and answer
cucumber, carrot, broccoli, and spin- accordingly.
ach, though not necessarily in the same There are nine members in a family of Jassy—
order. Mojo, Jojo, Chini, Tinni, Sinyu, XoXo, Lila, and
ii) There are two married couples. Tin-Tin, across three generations. There are
only three married couples. Chini is married to
iii) Jigna, who planted organic tomato
Mojo. Jojo is the only child of Tinni. Mojo is the
seeds, is the daughter-in-law of Jamna.
maternal grandfather of Jassy. Jassy’s moth-
iv) Jigar is the father of Jitesh, the one er has a sibling XoXo. Sinyu is married and
who planted organic cucumber seeds, she has a mother-in-law. Tinni is the paternal
and Jitesh is the father of Jignesh, who grandmother of Jassy. Tin-Tin is the grand-
planted organic spinach. daughter of Lila, who is the father of XoXo’s
v) Jinesh is the brother of Jignesh. brother-in-law. Sinyu has only one daughter.
vi) Gourd is not planted by a female member.
6. How is XoXo related to Jassy?
vii) Jamna’s husband planted carrot seeds. (A) Uncle
(B) Aunt
(C) Nephew
(D) Cannot be determined
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7. If XoXo is a male, then how is XoXo relat- 11. How is S related to V?
ed to Jojo? (A) Father-in-law
(A) Brother (B) Son
(B) Father (C) Daughter-in-law
(C) Brother-in-law (D) Son-in-law
(D) Uncle (E) None of these
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Level of Difficulty – 3
Directions for Questions 1 to 4 5. Raghu and Babu are twins. Babu’s sis-
There are 10 persons F, I, K, M, Q, R, S, T, U, ter is Reema. Reema’s husband is Rajan.
and X from three generations. The following Raghu’s mother is Lakshmi. Lakshmi’s
information is known about them: husband is Rajesh. How is Rajesh related
to Rajan?
i) M is the father-in-law of Q, who is the
(A) Uncle
brother-in-law of K.
(B) Son-in-law
ii) There are four married couples. Also, (C) Father-in-law
one of the unmarried persons is in the (D) Cousin
second generation.
iii) F is the granddaughter of S, who is mar- Directions for Questions 6 to 10: Read the
ried to the eldest member of the family. following information carefully and answer
the given question.
iv) X is the mother of I, who is the eldest
child of X. Eight persons P to W, all belonging to the
same family, met at a wedding with lavish
v) U is the son-in-law of X and has a broth-
food and beverage arrangements. P, the
er T.
youngest person in the group loved the ice-
vi) K is the brother of X. creams on offer. R, who was a vegetarian
vii) R is married to I, who is the niece of K. preferred the paneer, while her husband Q
was hooked to the kebabs. V was the father-
1. How is Q related to R? in-law of T, who was having rasgullas by the
(A) Uncle dozen. R and U were the daughters of the
(B) Father-in-law man who loved the fish items. W was the
(C) Nephew wife of V and grandmother of P and S. P was
(D) Son-in-law the cousin of S and the son of the person
whose love for kababs was clearly apparent.
2. Who among the following is the niece of K? There was also a member who preferred the
(A) X mutton dishes, whose mother however had
(B) S a fast on that very day, and could only drink
(C) F Sprite. No member had any common food at
(D) U the wedding.
3. How many male members are there in
6. Who loved the fish items at the wedding?
the family?
(A) W
(A) 4
(B) V
(B) 5
(C) U
(C) 6
(D) Q
(D) 7
7. Who was the wife of T?
4. If I bears a child then what would be Q’s
(A) U
relationship with the baby?
(B) W
(A) Grandfather
(C) P
(B) Maternal grandfather
(D) None of the above
(C) Uncle
(D) Grandchild
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8. Who was the one having a fast on the day 12. If Dakota is married to Candy, then how
of the wedding? is Mayo related to Candy?
(A) Q (A) Mother
(B) V (B) Aunt
(C) P (C) Mother-in-law
(D) W (D) Niece
10. How was the person having endless ras- Directions for Questions 14 and 15
gullas related to P?
There are ten members in a family. Three
(A) Uncle
generations are consisting of three married
(B) Father
couples, each couple having two children.
(C) Grandfather
Alex is the mother-in-law of Dean. Dean is
(D) Son
the father of Nancy. Ramo is the spouse of
Brane and is the son-in-law of Krish. Krish is
Directions for Questions 11 to 13
the maternal grandfather of Joy. Leon is the
Adrain is the paternal aunt of Dakota. Tai is sibling of Joy. Cary is the mother of Mark,
the child of Blair. Kali is the father-in-law of who is the only son of Cary. Leon is the only
Joe. Mayo is the grandmother of Tai. Dakota nephew of Cary.
is the brother-in-law of Joe, who is not the
mother of Tai. Mayo is the sister-in-law of 14. How is Dean related to Brane?
Adrain. Blair is not a sibling of Adrain. Lane (A) Brother
is also a member of the family. Only married (B) Father
couples can have children. (C) Brother-in-law
(D) Nephew
11. If Lane is the only son of Joe, then how is
Tai related to Kali? 15. How many females are there in the
(A) Niece family?
(B) Sister (A) 3
(C) Daughter (B) 4
(D) Granddaughter (C) 5
(D) 6
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Level of Difficulty – 1
1. (D)
Conclusion I: P @ N
P @ N means P is the father of N.
In the above diagram, it is clearly seen
that P is the father of Q and N.
Now, it is clear that, if R is the mother of ∴ Conclusion I follows.
S, then P is the father. Conclusion II: M # S
R is the daughter-in-law of M and M has M # S means M is the sister of S.
only one son and one daughter. As seen in the diagram, M is not the sis-
ter of S.
So, conclusion II does not follow.
Hence, option (A) is correct.
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5. (C)
In these types of questions, Aspirants
have to check each option:
From (A)
P×Q+R
P is the aunt of R.
So, this is not the correct answer.
From (B),
R+P×Q
R is the father of P.
So, this is not the correct answer.
From (C), So, Mohan can be the sibling or cousin of
R×Q+P the person in the photograph.
R is the aunt of P. Hence, option (D) is correct.
So, option (C) is the correct answer.
8. (B)
6. (D) Consider the following family tree,
Consider the following family tree,
7. (D)
Consider the following family tree,
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9. (C)
Consider the following family tree,
10. (B)
Consider the following family tree,
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11. (C)
Considering the statements:
A’s daughter is D, D’s brother-in-law and sister-in-law are both doctors,
G is the sister-in-law of C, who has a sister and a brother, and
B is the mother-in-law of F, who doesn’t have any child,
I is the niece of D.
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Level of Difficulty – 2
1. (C)
2. (A)
In this question, there are three gener-
ations. Jigar is from the first generation
and has a son Jitesh who in turn is the fa-
ther of Jignesh. Jignesh is from the third
generation and has a brother Jinesh. Now
from the third statement, it is clear that
Jamna is from the first generation and is
the wife of Jigar as there are two married
couples. Jigna is the daughter-in-law of
Jamna and Jitesh is the son of Jigar, so
Jigna is the wife of Jitesh.
Jigna planted organic tomato seeds,
Jitesh planted organic cucumber, and Hence, Jamna planted broccoli seeds.
Jignesh planted spinach. Hence, option (A) is correct.
Jigar planted carrot. Now from point
(vi), it can be inferred that as a female 3. (B)
did not plant bottle gourd seed hence it As explained earlier, as Jigar is the father
would have been planted by Jinesh and of Jitesh and Jinesh is the son of Jitesh,
the remaining seed i.e. broccoli will be hence, Jinesh is the grandson of Jigar.
planted by Jamna. Hence, option (B) is correct.
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4. (A)
As explained earlier, the husband of Jigna is Jitesh.
Hence, option (A) is correct.
5. (B).
As explained earlier, Jinesh planted gourd.
Hence, option (B) is correct.
6. (D)
Step 1: Chini is married to Mojo and Mojo is the father of Jassy’s mother and XoXo.
Step 2: Now, Tinni is the paternal grandmother of Jassy and Jojo is the only child of Tinni.
Step 3: Tin-Tin is the granddaughter of Lila who is the father of XoXo’s brother-in-law.
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Step 4: Sinyu is married and she has a mother-in-law and Sinyu has only one daughter.
8. (A)
As explained earlier, Tinni is the mother-
in-law of XoXo’s sister.
Hence, option (A) is correct.
9. (D)
As explained earlier, Jojo is the son-in-
law of Chini.
Hence, option (D) is correct.
10. (C)
As explained earlier, Jassy is the grand- Hence, S is the daughter-in-law of V.
son of Lila. Hence, option (C) is correct.
Hence, option (C) is correct.
12. (D)
11. (C) As explained earlier, the N is the son of T.
There are seven persons in three genera- Hence, option (D) is correct.
tions of the family. There are three mar-
13. (C)
ried couples.
As explained earlier, there are four males
M, has one son and one daughter.
in the family.
Hence, option (C) is correct.
14. (B)
As explained earlier, there are three fe-
males in the family.
Hence, option (B) is correct.
M is the grandfather of N, who is the son
of O. M, has one son and one daughter.
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Level of Difficulty – 3
As F is in the third generation so F has the eldest person then only there can be
to be related to U as I is related to R. X four married couples.
has to be with Q and S has to be with Now, summing up all the above steps, we
get the following diagram:
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4. (B)
If D is the child of I and R then Q would
be the maternal grandfather of D as I are
the daughter of Q and X.
5. (C)
Let’s draw the family tree in a different
way.
Note: Sometimes, in exam, this approach
can be very handy.
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Looking at all the other points we can
draw the diagram as shown below.
9. (D)
From the diagram drawn above, the gen-
der of S is unknown. Hence the relation-
ship with R cannot be determined.
Hence, option (D) is correct.
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In the question, it is given that Lane is
the only son of Joe so Tai must be the
daughter of Joe, i.e., Granddaughter of
Kali, as shown below.
12. (C)
13. (D)
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As explained earlier, the gender of Tai is ii)
Alex is the mother-in-law of Dean,
not known, so cannot be determined. who is the father of Nancy.
Hence, option (D) is correct.
14. (C)
Let’s analyse the given information step
by step manner.
i) Ramo is the spouse of Brane and is
the son-in-law of Krish. Krish is the
maternal grandfather of Joy. Leon is
the sibling of Joy.
iii) Cary is the mother of Mark who is the
only son of Cary.
iv)
Since there are three married cou-
ples and each married couple has
two children by combining hints (i),
(ii), and (iii) following solution can be
deduced.
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Rack Your Brain Previous Years’ Question
Both the cases can happen depending upon the gender of Harpreet. So, Harpreet
could be either the father-in-law or the aunt-in-law of the girl.
So, the relation cannot be determined.
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Previous Years’ Question
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Previous Years’ Question
Both the above cases are possible, depending upon whether the husband of Amruta
is Ajay or not.
But in either case, Sheela is definitely the sister-in-law of Ranveer.
Hence, option (D) is correct.
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Previous Years’ Question
E is the engineer.
Hence, option (C) is correct.
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