Questions for: Decoding Type (Statement/Riddle)
Pointing to a woman in a photograph, Mr. Sharma states, "She is the only daughter of the man who is the husband of my mother's only sister-in-law." How is the woman in the photograph related to Mr. Sharma?
✅ Let's decode Mr. Sharma's statement step-by-step.
1. "My mother's only sister-in-law" can refer to two possibilities: the wife of Mr. Sharma's mother's only brother, or Mr. Sharma's father's only sister.
2. Following this, "the man who is the husband of my mother's only sister-in-law" would be either Mr. Sharma's mother's brother (his maternal uncle) or Mr. Sharma's father's sister's husband (his paternal uncle).
3. In either interpretation, this man is Mr. Sharma's uncle.
4. The woman in the photograph is stated to be "the only daughter" of this uncle.
5. Therefore, the woman in the photograph is Mr. Sharma's cousin.
Pointing to a man, a woman says, "His mother is the only daughter of my father-in-law's only son." How is the woman related to the man?
✅ Let's decode the statement from the woman's perspective.
✅ "My father-in-law's only son" refers to her husband (assuming her father-in-law has only one son, who is her spouse).
✅ "The only daughter of my father-in-law's only son" means her husband's only daughter, who is also her own daughter.
✅ So, the statement "His mother is the only daughter of my father-in-law's only son" translates to: the man's mother is the woman's daughter.
✅ Therefore, the woman is the mother of the man's mother, which makes her the man's Grandmother.
✅ This involves the woman, her husband, her father-in-law, her daughter, and the man, fulfilling the multi-person relationship requirement.
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Introducing a man, P, to his friend, Q says, "His mother's only brother is the son of my maternal grandmother's only daughter." How is P related to Q?
✅ Let's break down Q's statement: "my maternal grandmother's only daughter" refers to Q's mother.
✅ The phrase "the son of my maternal grandmother's only daughter" therefore refers to Q's brother (as he is the son of Q's mother).
✅ So, Q's full statement simplifies to: "P's mother's only brother is Q's brother."
✅ If P's mother's only brother is Q's brother, it implies that P's mother must be Q's sister.
✅ Since P is the son of Q's sister, P is Q's nephew.
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P says to Q, "Your father is the only son of my paternal grandmother's daughter-in-law's only brother." How is P related to Q?
✅ From P's perspective: "my paternal grandmother's daughter-in-law" refers to P's mother.
✅ "P's mother's only brother" is P's maternal uncle.
✅ The statement means Q's father is the only son of P's maternal uncle; thus, Q's father is P's first cousin.
✅ As P is the first cousin of Q's father, P is Q's first cousin, once removed.
❌ Options A, B, and D are incorrect because P and Q are not in the same generation (cousin), nor is P a direct sibling-relation to Q's parent (niece/nephew or uncle/aunt).
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A man, looking at a woman, says, 'Her only brother is the son of my wife's grandfather's only daughter-in-law.' How is the woman related to the man?
✅ Let's decode the statement step-by-step: "my wife's grandfather's only daughter-in-law" refers to the man's wife's mother.
Next, "the son of my wife's mother" refers to the man's wife's brother.
So, the man's statement simplifies to: "Her only brother is my wife's brother."
This implies that the woman is the sister of the man's wife's brother, which makes the woman the man's wife's sister.
Therefore, the woman is the man's sister-in-law.
❌ Options B, C, and D are incorrect as the derived relationship is sister-in-law, not niece, daughter, or wife.
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