22 days left — Registration closes 2026-10-31.

Logical Reasoning · 6 questions · about 1 min to read

The Eight-Floor Building

Read the passage, answer the questions, then open each answer to check it. The explanation says why the right option is right.

The passage

Read, then answer

Eight people — Anand, Bhavna, Chirag, Deepa, Eshan, Farida, Gaurav and Hina — live on eight different floors of the same building, numbered 1 to 8, where floor 1 is the lowest and floor 8 the highest. Each of them speaks a different first language among Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu, not necessarily in that order.

(i) Chirag lives on floor 6.

(ii) The difference between Anand's floor number and Chirag's floor number is three.

(iii) Deepa lives on a floor below Anand's.

(iv) Bhavna lives exactly three floors above Hina.

(v) Eshan lives either on the lowest floor or on the highest floor.

(vi) Farida lives on a floor above Gaurav's.

(vii) Farida lives either immediately above or immediately below Chirag.

(viii) Gaurav lives on an even-numbered floor.

(ix) Hina lives on an odd-numbered floor.

(x) Chirag speaks Tamil.

(xi) The Odia speaker lives exactly two floors below the Tamil speaker.

(xii) Eshan speaks either Marathi or Punjabi.

(xiii) The Bengali speaker lives on floor 8.

(xiv) The Gujarati speaker lives exactly two floors above the Kannada speaker.

(xv) Anand speaks neither Kannada nor Punjabi.

(xvi) The Telugu speaker lives on an even-numbered floor.

  1. Q1. Who lives on floor 4?

    1. Deepa
    2. Anand
    3. Hina
    4. Gaurav
    Show answer

    Answer: D. Gaurav

    From clue (i) Chirag is on 6; from (ii) Anand is on 3 or 9, so on 3. From (vii) Farida is on 5 or 7 and from (viii) Gaurav is on an even floor below her. From (iv) and (ix) Hina is on an odd floor with Bhavna three above. The only consistent arrangement is Eshan 1, Deepa 2, Anand 3, Gaurav 4, Hina 5, Chirag 6, Farida 7, Bhavna 8. Floor 4 is Gaurav.

  2. Q2. Which language does Hina speak?

    1. Kannada
    2. Telugu
    3. Odia
    4. Gujarati
    Show answer

    Answer: A. Kannada

    On the final arrangement Chirag on 6 speaks Tamil, so from (xi) the Odia speaker is on 4 and from (xiii) Bengali is on 8. From (xvi) Telugu must be on an even floor, leaving only 2. From (xiv) the Gujarati speaker is two floors above the Kannada speaker, and with (xii) and (xv) the only fit is Kannada on 5 and Gujarati on 7. Hina, on floor 5, speaks Kannada.

  3. Q3. How many people live between Deepa and Farida?

    1. Three
    2. Two
    3. Five
    4. Four
    Show answer

    Answer: D. Four

    Deepa is on floor 2 and Farida on floor 7. The residents of floors 3, 4, 5 and 6 — Anand, Gaurav, Hina and Chirag — live between them, so four people.

  4. Q4. Who lives immediately below the Bengali speaker?

    1. Farida
    2. Hina
    3. Chirag
    4. Gaurav
    Show answer

    Answer: A. Farida

    The Bengali speaker is Bhavna on floor 8. Farida occupies floor 7, immediately below.

  5. Q5. Which of the following combinations is correct?

    1. Anand — floor 3 — Marathi
    2. Deepa — floor 2 — Odia
    3. Eshan — floor 8 — Punjabi
    4. Gaurav — floor 4 — Kannada
    Show answer

    Answer: A. Anand — floor 3 — Marathi

    Anand lives on floor 3 and speaks Marathi. Deepa on floor 2 speaks Telugu and not Odia; Eshan is on floor 1 and not floor 8; Gaurav on floor 4 speaks Odia and not Kannada.

  6. Q6. If all eight residents were rearranged so that they occupied floors 1 to 8 in alphabetical order of their names, beginning with floor 1, who would then occupy the floor that Chirag occupies at present?

    1. Chirag himself
    2. Eshan
    3. Gaurav
    4. Farida
    Show answer

    Answer: D. Farida

    In alphabetical order from floor 1 upward the residents would be Anand, Bhavna, Chirag, Deepa, Eshan, Farida, Gaurav, Hina. Chirag presently occupies floor 6, which in the alphabetical arrangement would be occupied by Farida.

Keep going

More Logical Reasoning passages

Next: The Gig Economy in India · All passages · Logical Reasoning practice

Prepare with CLATcoach, free

A free account gives you a full mock, a past paper for every exam, the daily questions, twelve Legal GK headings and a report on where you stand.

Create a free account
Where next

Continue the journey

Free · 30 minutesThe CLAT diagnosticSee where you stand in each section before you plan.Take it →
Free · 30 Nov – 3 DecThe National MockOne paper, all of India, an all-India rank.Register →
Free to readThe Legal GK LibraryTwelve headings of legal GK, open to everyone.Browse →