Six books A, B, C, D, E and F are placed side by side. B, C and E have blue cover and the other books have red cover. Only D and F are new books and the rest are old. A, C and D are law reports and others are Gazetteers. What book is a new law report with

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Q: 31 (IAS/2010)
Six books A, B, C, D, E and F are placed side by side. B, C and E have blue cover and the other books have red cover. Only D and F are new books and the rest are old. A, C and D are law reports and others are Gazetteers. What book is a new law report with a red colour ?

question_subject: 

Logic/Reasoning

question_exam: 

IAS

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0,12,11,1,8,2,12

keywords: 

{'new law report': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'new books': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'other books': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'law reports': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'red cover': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'red colour': [1, 0, 4, 4], 'book': [4, 0, 22, 27], 'blue cover': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'gazetteers': [0, 0, 1, 0]}

From the given information, we know that there are 6 books placed side by side, and we can categorize them based on their cover color and type of book. Let`s represent blue cover with B and red cover with R, and law reports with L and Gazetteers with G.

So, we can represent the arrangement of the books as:

BBBLLL - where B represents blue covered books, L represents law reports, and there are three of each

Now, we know that only D and F are new books, so the arrangement becomes:

BBBLLN

where N represents the new books, which are D and F.

We have to find a new book that is a law report with a red color. From the given information, we know that there is only one new law report, which is D. And since D is a new book, it must have a red cover because all the new books have red covers. Therefore, the answer is D.

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