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Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the question. There is a group of friends – Ramesh, Suresh, Ritesh, Paresh, Mitesh, Mangesh, Dinesh studying in the same class. Each one of them…

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Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the question.
There is a group of friends – Ramesh, Suresh, Ritesh, Paresh, Mitesh, Mangesh, Dinesh studying in the same class. Each one of them speak a different language- English, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam. Each of them secured different marks in the examination. Ritesh who scored second highest marks speaks neither English nor Gujarati. Mitesh who secured the least marks speaks neither Tamil nor Marathi. Paresh who speaks Hindi, secured more marks than Dinesh and Suresh. Suresh speaks Bengali. Ramesh secured more marks than Paresh. Suresh’s marks are more than Mitesh but less than Dinesh. Ramesh speaks Malayalam and has not scored the highest marks. The one who speaks Gujarati has secured the highest marks. Ritesh does not speak Marathi.

Who speaks Gujarati?
  1. Ritesh
  2. Mitesh
  3. Paresh
  4. Mangesh

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D - Mangesh
The Gujarati speaker scored highest. Ritesh is second; Ramesh is not highest and scored more than Paresh, who scored more than Dinesh and Suresh, who scored more than Mitesh, so the top scorer can only be Mangesh.

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