Instructions

Directions for the following four questions: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Twenty one participants from four continents (Africa, Americas, Australasia, and Europe) attended a United Nations conference. Each participant was an expert in one of four fields, labour, health, population studies, and refugee relocation. The following five facts about the participants are given.

(a) The number of labour experts in the camp was exactly half the number of experts in each of the three other categories.

(b) Africa did not send any labour expert. Otherwise, every continent, including Africa, sent at least one expert for each category.

(d) If there had been one less Australasian expert, then the Americas would have had twice as many experts as each of the other continents.

(e) Mike and Alfanso are leading experts of population studies who attended the conference. They are from Australasia.

Question 61

If Ramos is the lone American expert in population studies, which of the following is NOT true about the numbers of experts in the conference from the four continents?

Name: If Ramos is the lone American expert in population studies, which of the following is NOT true about the numbers of experts in the conference from the four continents?
Uploaded: Nov. 18, 2021, 12:32 p.m.
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Description: If Ramos is the lone American expert in population studies, which of the following is NOT true about the numbers of experts in the conference from the four continents?

Solution

From the first condition a, assume the number of experts in labour = x, then the number of experts in each of the other three categories =2x
Now, x+2x+2x+2x+2x = 21 => x = 3 and 2x = 6
So the number of experts in labour = 3 and the number of experts in each of the three categories = 6
From condition d, if the number of experts of Astralaisa = y, then the number of experts of Americas = 2(y-1), the number of experts of Europe = y-1, the number of experts of Africa= y-1
Now, y+y-1+y-1+2(y-1)=21 => 5y-4=21 => y=5
Hence the table can be filled as follows:

Using condition b, the number of labour experts of Africa = 0 and the number of labour experts of the rest of the continents will be 1 each.
Consider the column of Europe, since Europe sent at least 1 in each category, each category will have 1 expert. (Since the total sum is 4)
From the condition e, the population studies of Australasia will contain 2 experts. So all the other categories will have to take at 1 expert because the total sum is 5 and no value can be 0. The table can be filled as follows: