Analytical Reasoning MCQ No. : 47181
Each group of questions is based on a brief premise and a set of rules. In answering the questions, you might find it helpful to draw rough diagrams. For each question, select the best answer from the five lettered choices.
(The only people to attend a conference were four ship captains and the first mates of three of those captains.
The captains were L, M, N and O; the first mates were A, D and G.
Each person in turn delivered a report to the assembly as follows:
Each of the first mates delivered their report exactly after his or her captain. The first captain to speak was M,
and captain N spoke after him.
Among the following statements, which would make M, D, N, G, L, O, A the only possible sequence of speakers?
- D is M's first mate; G is N's first mate; A is O's first mate.
- D is M's first mate; G is N's first mate; A was the second to speak after L.
- The order of the first four speakers was M, D, N, G.
- The order of the last three speakers was L, O, A.
- The order in which the captains spoke was M, N, L, O.