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Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.There are six people i.e. P, Q, R, S, T and U sitting in a circular table with equidistance to each other and some of them are facing towards the centre of the table and the rest are facing outside the table. Not more than two people sit together who face the same direction. There are three married couples.Note: Husband and wife do not sit adjacent to each other. The age of the husband is more than his wife’s age. If the age of the husband is an even number then the age of the wife is an odd number and vice-versa.The one who is 49 years old sits second to the right of S. The one who is 43 years old is the spouse of the one whose age is a perfect square of a number. The husband of T sits to the immediate right of the one who is 43 years old. S sits opposite to U who does not sit adjacent to P. S does not sit to the immediate right of P. The one who is 51 years sits second to the left of S. The one who is 43 years old sits second to the right of P. The wife of S is 5 years younger than S. T is 7 years younger than her husband. The difference between the ages of T and P is 6 years. Q is not the neighbour of T. The one who is 43 years old faces outside the table.
How many people sit between T and the one who is the husband of P when counted from the left of T?

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately.
This Tuesday, analysing the panic buying of toilet paper rolls, a professor started a provocative Twitter thread. He points out that (1) by fear of the spreading pandemic, shoppers have been mobbing stores worldwide. They’re stockpiling canned goods, flour, sugar, bottled water, hand sanitizer—and even toilet paper.
The professor believes desperate buyers aren’t crazy. “The economics of toilet paper (2) is the same as bank runs,” he tweeted. A bank run occurs when depositors of a bank withdraw cash because they believe it might collapse. Until the FDIC started guaranteeing bank deposits in 1933, it made (3) for nervous savers to pull their money out when they saw their neighbors doing the same. Likewise, people are stockpiling toilet paper because others are (4) up too, depleting supplies.
He argues that panic buying can be a bit more rational. There is nothing inherent in markets that can prevent this.
How does this news of an Australian man (5) a knife for toilet paper sound? And that too just to score the last roll on the shelf at a Woolworths Supermarket in Sydney. The incident leaves us with an important question - what should be done to (6) toilet paper shortage-sparked violence?
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Direction: Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences.
A) After supper, Longarm stepped out onto the sidewalk and took a ____________ on his cheroot.B) Anyone living an active lifestyle is bound to ____________ a muscle eventually.

Direction: Study the following information and answer the given questions.In a family of three generations and nine members, there are three married couples. It is known that either both or none of the parents of each member is alive. F is the only sister of D, who is an unmarried male. H is the daughter-in-law of F, who is married to A. E is the brother-in-law of G, who is married to E’s sister. I is the daughter of B, who is the aunt of C .
How many male members are there in the family?

Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the following questions.A certain number of people are sitting in a linear row. All of them are facing towards North direction. The information about some of them is given. B sits fourth to the left of M. L sits adjacent to B . Two people sit between B and A who sits at the extreme end. Four people sit between P and L. Three people sit between P and T. R sits third to the left of P. N sits adjacent to R. Number of people sit to the left of B is half of the number of people sit to the right of T.
How many people sit to the left of N?

Direction: In the given question, a word has been printed in bold. Below the sentence, alternatives to the emboldened word have been given as (A), (B), (C) and (D), which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative out of the given five options. In case the given sentence is correct as it is, your answer will be option (E), i.e., "No replacement required".
After an deliberate period of inactivity, Vesuvius erupted with devastating force in AD 79.