Blood Relations for CUET General Aptitude

AnswerB · Cousin

1. Kavya's mother and Rohan's father are sister and brother.

2. The children of a brother and a sister are cousins.

3. So Rohan is Kavya's cousin. 'Cousin' is the same word for a boy or a girl, so no gender is needed.

AnswerC · Daughter-in-law

1. Mahesh is the father of Deepa's husband.

2. The wife of a person's son is that person's daughter-in-law.

AnswerD · Maternal uncle

1. Salim is the brother of Ayaan's mother.

2. A mother's brother is a maternal uncle.

AnswerA · Maternal grandfather

1. Dorjee is the father of Tenzin's mother.

2. A mother's father is the maternal grandfather.

AnswerB · Sister-in-law

1. Lakshmi is the wife of Meenakshi's brother.

2. A brother's wife is a sister-in-law.

AnswerB · Brother-in-law

1. Manav is Rakesh's son, so he is Sonal's brother.

2. The brother of one's wife is a brother-in-law.

AnswerC · Husband

1. A father-in-law is the father of one's spouse, so Hema's spouse is a child of Suresh.

2. Suresh has only one child, Dinesh, so Dinesh is Hema's husband.

AnswerC · Grandchild

1. A and B are siblings, so C, who is A's mother, is B's mother too.

2. D is C's father, so D is the grandfather of C's children.

3. B is therefore D's grandchild.

4. Nothing in the question tells us whether B is male or female, so the answer must not assume one.

AnswerC · Nephew

1. Thomas is Maria's brother, so he is Joseph's brother-in-law.

2. Kevin is the son of Joseph's wife's brother.

3. The son of a spouse's brother or sister is a nephew.

AnswerD · Cannot be determined

1. P is a child of M's brother or sister N, so P is M's nephew if P is a boy and M's niece if P is a girl.

2. The statements never say whether P is male or female.

3. Two families fit the facts and give different answers, so the relation cannot be determined.

AnswerA · Paternal aunt

1. Anand's father and Gita are brother and sister, both children of Shakuntala.

2. A father's sister is a paternal aunt.

AnswerD · Paternal grandfather

1. D is C's wife, so C is a man and E's father.

2. B and C are siblings, so A, B's father, is C's father too.

3. A is the father of E's father, that is, E's paternal grandfather.

AnswerA · Grandson

1. C is A's father, and A and B are siblings, so C is B's father too.

2. E is B's daughter and D is E's brother, so D is B's son.

3. D is the son of C's child, so D is C's grandson.

AnswerC · Maternal uncle

1. Y's father is a son of Y's paternal grandfather.

2. X's mother is that grandfather's daughter, so she and Y's father are sister and brother.

3. A mother's brother is a maternal uncle.

AnswerC · 5

1. The two sons have 2 children each: $2 + 2 = 4$.

2. The daughter's child is also their grandchild: $4 + 1 = 5$.

AnswerA · Aunt

1. Asha and Vinay are siblings, so Vinay is Pranav's uncle.

2. Rekha is the wife of Pranav's uncle.

3. The wife of an uncle is an aunt.

AnswerD · Cannot be determined

1. P could be R's father's mother. Then Q, R's father, is P's son.

2. P could equally be R's mother's mother. Then Q is married to P's daughter, so he is P's son-in-law.

3. Both families fit the two facts and give different answers, so the relation cannot be determined.

AnswerB · Great-granddaughter

1. A and B are siblings, so C is A's mother too.

2. D is A's grandfather (her mother's father).

3. E is D's mother, one generation above D, so E is A's great-grandmother.

4. A is a girl, so she is E's great-granddaughter.

AnswerD · Cousin

1. P's father and R are both children of Q, so they are brother and sister.

2. R is P's aunt, and her husband S is P's uncle.

3. T is a child of P's aunt and uncle, so T is P's cousin.

AnswerA · Paternal grandfather

1. Fatima's father's mother is her paternal grandmother.

2. The husband of that grandmother is Fatima's father's father, her paternal grandfather.

AnswerB · Niece

1. Ravi's wife's brother is Ravi's brother-in-law.

2. The daughter of a spouse's brother is a niece.

AnswerB · Brother

1. Rubina is speaking to her son, so she is the boy's mother.

2. A maternal uncle is the mother's brother, so the man is Rubina's brother.

AnswerC · Brother

1. Divya's father's mother has only one son, and Divya's father is one of her sons, so that son is Divya's father.

2. The son of Divya's father is Divya's brother.

AnswerD · Uncle

1. The girl's mother is the sister of Joseph's wife, so the girl's aunt is Joseph's wife.

2. Joseph is the husband of the girl's aunt, and an aunt's husband is an uncle.

AnswerA · His sister

1. Work outwards from the innermost phrase. 'My grandfather' is the man's grandfather.

2. 'The only son of my grandfather' must therefore be the man's own father.

3. 'The daughter of' his father is his sister.

AnswerD · Nephew

1. Meera is a woman, so her mother's only son is not Meera herself: he is Meera's brother.

2. The boy's father is Meera's brother, so the boy is Meera's nephew.

AnswerA · Niece

1. Arjun is a man ('his friends'), so his mother's only daughter is his sister.

2. The woman's mother is Arjun's sister, so the woman is Arjun's niece.

AnswerB · Sister

1. Tenzin is a boy, so his sister's brother is Tenzin himself (or another brother of theirs); either way, his father is Tenzin's father.

2. The only daughter of Tenzin's father is Tenzin's sister.

AnswerC · Son

1. Shalini's husband is a child of his own father. If that father has only one child, the only child is Shalini's husband.

2. The son of Shalini's husband is Shalini's son.

AnswerA · Brother-in-law

1. Gurpreet is the girl's mother, so the girl's father is Gurpreet's husband.

2. The man is the brother of Gurpreet's husband.

3. A husband's brother is a brother-in-law.

AnswerB · Father

1. Swati has no sister, so her brother's only sister is Swati herself.

2. The man is the father of Swati, so he is her father.

AnswerC · Mother

1. Sanjay's father's only son is Sanjay himself (or, if Sanjay were a woman, her only brother).

2. The mother-in-law of that son's wife is that son's mother.

3. Either way, she is the mother of Sanjay's father's children, so she is Sanjay's mother.

AnswerD · Mother

1. Naveen's mother is a daughter of her own father.

2. If that father has only one daughter, she must be Naveen's mother, so Revathi is Naveen's mother.

AnswerD · Cannot be determined

1. The man's father is Lalremsiami's paternal grandfather, so the man is a son of that grandfather.

2. Lalremsiami's own father is one such son; if the grandfather has another son, he is her paternal uncle.

3. Nothing says whether the grandfather has one son or more, so the man may be her father or her paternal uncle: it cannot be determined.

AnswerA · Wife

1. Kabir is a man, so he is himself a grandson of his grandfather.

2. If the grandfather has only one grandson, that grandson is Kabir.

3. So Suman is the wife of Kabir: his wife.

AnswerC · Cousin

1. A wife's father-in-law is her husband's father, so the man's father is Pooja's father's only brother.

2. The man's father is Pooja's paternal uncle.

3. The son of Pooja's uncle is Pooja's cousin.

AnswerA · Mother

1. R + S: R is the mother of S.

2. S − T: S is the brother of T, so S and T have the same mother.

3. R is therefore T's mother.

AnswerA · Father

1. P @ Q: P is Q's father.

2. Q # R: Q is R's sister, so they have the same father.

3. P is R's father.

AnswerB · Son

1. K % L: K is L's son.

2. L & M: L is M's wife, so M is the father of L's son.

3. K is M's son.

AnswerC · Sister-in-law

1. D # E: D is E's sister.

2. E & F: E is F's wife.

3. D is the sister of F's wife, so she is F's sister-in-law.

AnswerB · Maternal uncle

1. J ▲ K: J is K's brother.

2. K ■ L: K is L's mother.

3. J is the brother of L's mother, so J is L's maternal uncle.

AnswerD · Husband

1. P ■ Q: P is Q's mother.

2. Q ★ R: Q is R's son, so R is Q's other parent, his father.

3. The father of P's son is P's husband.

AnswerB · Son

1. D − E: D is E's brother.

2. E ÷ F: E is F's daughter, so D is F's son too.

3. F × G: F is G's husband, so G is the mother of F's children.

4. D is G's son.

AnswerB · M + N + Q

1. M + N + Q: M is the mother of N, and N is the mother of Q, so M is Q's grandmother.

2. M + N − Q makes N Q's brother, so M is Q's mother; M + N × Q makes N Q's husband, so M is Q's mother-in-law.

3. M ÷ N + Q makes M and Q both children of N, so M is Q's sister.

AnswerC · Mother-in-law

1. J + K: J is K's mother.

2. K − L: K is L's brother, so J is L's mother as well.

3. L × M: L is M's husband.

4. J is the mother of M's husband, that is, M's mother-in-law.

AnswerD · T % U # V

1. T % U # V: T is U's son, and U is V's sister, so T is V's nephew.

2. T % U @ V makes U the father of both, so T is V's brother; T @ U # V makes T V's father.

3. T # U % V makes T a woman (a sister) and a child of V, so T is V's daughter.

AnswerA · Son-in-law

1. M @ N: M is N's father.

2. N # O: N is O's sister, so M is O's father too.

3. O & P: O is P's wife.

4. P is the husband of M's daughter, that is, M's son-in-law.

AnswerC · Nephew

1. S ★ T: S is T's son.

2. T ● U: T is U's wife, so U is S's father.

3. U ▲ V: U is V's brother, so V is S's uncle or aunt.

4. S is a boy, so S is V's nephew whatever V's gender.

AnswerD · Cannot be determined

1. U × V: U is V's husband.

2. V ÷ W: V is W's daughter, so W is a parent of U's wife.

3. W is U's father-in-law if W is a man and U's mother-in-law if W is a woman.

4. No symbol ever states W's gender, so the relation cannot be determined.

AnswerA · Sister-in-law

1. A ● B: A is B's wife.

2. B ★ C: B is C's son.

3. C ■ D and D ▲ E: D and E are both C's children, so E is B's brother or sister.

4. A is the wife of E's brother, so A is E's sister-in-law.

AnswerB · Maternal uncle

1. Arvind is the child of Harish and Kamala, so Kamala is Arvind's mother.

2. Varun is Kamala's brother, that is, the brother of Arvind's mother: his maternal uncle.

AnswerC · Granddaughter

1. Meghna is Rohan's sister, so she is also Sunitha's child.

2. Sunitha is Arvind's wife (clue 3 and clue 2), so Meghna is Arvind's daughter.

3. Arvind is Kamala's son, so Meghna is Kamala's granddaughter.

AnswerD · Daughter-in-law

1. Harish and Kamala have only one child, Arvind, so Harish's daughter-in-law Sunitha must be Arvind's wife.

2. The wife of Kamala's son is Kamala's daughter-in-law.

AnswerC · Maternal uncle

1. G is a child of E, so E is G's mother.

2. H is E's brother, so H is G's maternal uncle.

AnswerA · L

1. P is Q's grandmother, so P is the elderly woman and N, whose daughter-in-law is O, is the elderly man.

2. M and Q are the grandchildren, and R is the daughter, which leaves L as the son.

3. The son is the father of the two grandchildren, so L is M's father.

AnswerB · Kamala

1. Meghna's father is Arvind (Sunitha's husband).

2. Arvind's mother is Kamala, so Kamala is Meghna's paternal grandmother.

AnswerA · Mother-in-law

1. P is S's father-in-law, so S is married to P's child. P's only child is the son, so P is the grandfather and S is the son's wife.

2. U is married to S, so U is the son.

3. T is a grandmother (of Q), so T is the elderly woman, the son's mother.

4. The mother of S's husband is S's mother-in-law.

AnswerA · P

1. From clues 2 and 3, P is the elderly man and U is his son; S is U's wife.

2. R is Q's brother, and Q is a grandchild (clue 1), so R is also a child of U.

3. The father of R's father U is P.

AnswerD · Paternal aunt

1. F's mother is E, and E's husband C is F's father.

2. D is A and B's daughter, so she is C's sister.

3. The sister of F's father is F's paternal aunt.

AnswerC · Brother-in-law

1. C is married to E.

2. H is E's brother, so H is the brother of C's wife: C's brother-in-law.

AnswerD · Mother-in-law

1. B is A's wife, so she is the mother of A's son C.

2. E is C's wife, so B is the mother of E's husband: E's mother-in-law.

AnswerA · Sister-in-law

1. O is N's daughter-in-law, so O is the son's wife.

2. M is R's niece, and M is a grandchild, so R is M's aunt: the unmarried daughter.

3. R is the sister of O's husband, so R is O's sister-in-law.

AnswerC · Father-in-law

1. O is N's daughter-in-law (clue 1), so O is married to N's son.

2. The father of O's husband is O's father-in-law.

AnswerD · Maternal uncle

1. X is a child of W and T, and T is a woman (W is her husband), so T is X's mother.

2. U is T's brother, so U is the brother of X's mother: X's maternal uncle.

AnswerB · 2

1. The elderly woman T and the son's wife S are female.

2. P, U and R are male (father-in-law, husband, brother).

3. Q is a grandchild, but no clue says whether Q is a boy or a girl, so Q cannot be counted.

4. Definitely female: T and S, that is, 2.

AnswerD · Cannot be determined

1. T is S's daughter, and X is a child of T and W, so X is S's grandchild.

2. No clue says whether X is a boy or a girl.

3. X is S's grandson or granddaughter depending on a fact we do not have, so the relation cannot be determined.

AnswerC · 3

1. V and W are husbands, so they are male.

2. U is T's brother, so he is male.

3. S and T are female, and X's gender is never stated.

4. Definitely male: V, W and U, that is, 3.