The members of a certain tribe are divided into three castes Abhor, Dravid, and Magar castes.An Abhor woman cannot marry a dravid man.A magar man cannot marry a Dravid woman.A son takes the caste of his father, a daugher takes the caste of her moher.all marriages except those mentioned above are permitted.There are no children born out of wed lock. Questions:1) An abhor woman marries and has the children, all of whom are members of the abhor caste. Which of the folloing must be true?i)   if she were to be married to a Magar man, they have no male children.ii)  if she were to be married to a abhor man, they may have male children.iii) if her fourth child is male, he may be dravid.a) i onlyb) iii onlyc) i and ii onlyd) i, ii and iii 2) It can be infered from the conditions described that a Magar man i)   cannot have a Dravid grandmother.ii)  cannot have a Dravid mother.iii) may have a Abhor mothera) i onlyb) ii onlyc) i and ii onlyd) ii and iii onlye) i, ii,and iii 3) when two dravids are married, it is impossible for them to havei)   any female abhor descendants.ii)  an abhor great grand daughtersiii) an abhor granddaugher.a) i onlyb) iii onlyc) i and ii onlyd) ii and iii onlye) i, ii and iii 4) an abhor womana) can have a dravid grandsonb) cannot have a magar sonmc) cannot have a magar grandsond) can have a magar daughter-in-lawe) cannot have a Hravid granddaughter.

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Rajan

  • May 31st, 2005
 

Answer  
1) a) i only 
2) e) i, ii,and iii 
3) e) i, ii and iii 
4) a) can have a dravid grandson 
 

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Amateur

  • Sep 3rd, 2005
 

1) c) i and ii only 
2) e) i, ii and iii 
3) e) i, ii and iii 
4) d) can have magar daughter-in-law

rakrak_2

  • Nov 9th, 2006
 

hey guys, am sorry to say that as far as 3rd qu is con, u both are wrong.
answs should be b). iii only.
 I can prove this.
i. it is impossible for them to have any abhor femal descendants. (it's false)
proof.

D->dravid
A->abhor
M->Magar
m->men
w->women
right.
 1.                       DM  ----   DW  (two dra marrided) (Let x be this pair name. I just used it for refernce)
 2.                               DW (X's daughter)  (their daughter will be from dravid)

cond given:  An Abhor woman cannot marry a dravid man.
so, an abhor men can marry a dravid women.

 3.                          AM ----  DW  (abhor men and dravid women got married)              (X's daughter got married with an abhor men)
 4.                             AM ( their son is abhor men)  (this is x's grand son)
An abhor men can marry a abhor women.
 5.                              AM----AW(X's grand son geting mar with abhor women)
6..                 AW(abhor women)(X's great grand daugher- an abhor women)
 
hence we can prove that statement  i) and ii) are false.
from this we can conclude that DM and DW pair cannot have a Abhor grand daughter.

hence the statement iii is the correct one. hence the answer is b. iii only

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hi

  • Nov 13th, 2006
 

The answers are

1) c

2) e

3) e

4) e

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