A tea taster was assigned to rate teas from six different locations — Munnar, Wayanad, Ooty, Darjeeling, Assam and Himachal: These teas were placed in six cups, numbered 1 to 6, not necessarily in the same order. The tea taster was asked to rate these teas on the strength of their flavour on a scale of 1 to 10. He gave a unique integer rating to each tea. Some other information is given below:
a: Cup 6 contained tea from Himachal.
2. Tea from Ooty got the highest rating, but it was not in Cup 3.
3. The rating of tea in Cup 3 was double the rating of the tea in Cup 5.
4. Only two cups got ratings in even numbers.
5. Cup 2 got the minimum rating and this rating was an even number.
6. Tea in Cup 3 got a higher rating than that in Cup 1.
7. The rating of tea from Wayanad was more than the rating of tea from Munnar, but less than that from Assam.
If cups containing teas from Wayanad and Ooty had consecutive numbers, which of the following statements may be true?
Now we are given that the lowest rating is an even number and only 2 cups got an even number rating.
Let's take cases:-
1. The lowest rating is 4
If the lowest rating in 4 then the other ratings will be in the range 5-10.
From this we need 4 odd and 1 even numbers.
This is not possible as there are only 3 odd numbers from 5-10.
Thus, the lowest rating is not 4.
2. The lowest rating is 2.
If the lowest rating in 4 then the other ratings will be in the range 5-10.
From this we need 4 odd and 1 even numbers.
This is possible when the odd ratings are 3,5,7 and 9.
We are given that the highest rating is not even. Thus, 10 rating is not possible.
We are also given that the rating of tea in Cup 3 was double the rating of the tea in Cup 5.
Thus, the rating of the tea in cup 3 is an even number.
Thus, the rating of the tea in cup 5 must be an odd number.
Only 1 such pair is possible of 3 and 6.
Thus, the tea in cup 2 got the rating of 2.
The tea in cup 3 got a rating of 6 and the tea in cup 5 got a rating of 3.
We are given that:-
Tea in Cup 3 got a higher rating than that in Cup 1.
Thus, the tea in cup 1 got a rating of 5.
Cup 6 contained tea from Himachal and the Tea from Ooty got the highest rating.
Thus, cup 6 got a rating of 7 and cup 4 got a rating of 9.
The table is as shown below:-
It is given that the rating of Assam>Wayanad>Munnar
Hence, since Wayanad and Ooty are in consecutive cups, Wayanad can be either in cup number 3 or 5.
So Wayanad can only be in cup number 5, then Munnar will be in cup number 2. So Darjeeling and Assam can be in cup 1 and 3 in any order.
Hence B is a possibility.
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