Directions: In the following question, a given question is followed by information in three statements. You have to decide the data in which statement(s) is sufficient to answer the question and mark your answer accordingly.
There are 40 students in a class. The rank of Ram is 13th from the top. Palak, a girl is 7th from the top. There are 4 girls below the rank of Ram. There are 12 boys between Ram and another boy Shyam. Ram is a boy. How many girls are there in the class room?
Statement I: Shyam is 14th from the bottom among the students.
Statement II: There are 3 girls between Palak and Ram. Shyam is 21st from the top among the boys.
Statement III: Palak is 8th from the bottom among the girls.1
the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, and the data in statement I or III is not required to answer the question.
2
the data in either statement I, II or III are sufficient to answer the question.
3
the data in statement II and III is sufficient to answer the question, and the data in statement I is not required to answer the question.
4
the data in all three statements together is needed to answer the question.
5
the data in all the statements, even together are not sufficient to answer the question.