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Easy Tricks For Family-based Puzzles Type Questions

Family puzzle problems and family puzzles for banking mainly accommodate the data structure of a family, i.e., grandparents, parents, children, etc. Various relations between the family members of two or more generations will be going to be given. The entire family hierarchy has to be constructed by putting the assorted relationships together. In this article, you are provided with tricks that are helpful while solving the questions and can be applied to every question.

Relations at a glance for the family puzzle

Brother-in-law

The brother of one’s spouse. 

The husband of one’s sister.

The husband of the sister of one’s spouse

Sister-in-law

The sister of one’s spouse.

 The wife of one’s brother.

The wife of the brother of one’s spouse.

Mother-in-law

The mother of one’s spouse.

Father-in-law

The father of one’s spouse.

son-in-law

The husband of one’s daughter.

Daughter-in-law

The wife of one’s son,

Grandfather

The father of one’s mother or father.

Sibling

Having the same parents.

Cousin

A child of one’s aunt or uncle, Also called a full cousin.

A relative descended from a common ancestor, like a grandparent, by two or more steps in relative descent down a diverging line.

Second cousin

A child of a primary cousin of one’s parents.

Uncle

The brother of one’s mother or father.

The husband of one’s aunt.

Aunt

The sister of one’s father or mother.

The wite of one’s uncle.

Nephew

Son of one’s brother or sister.

Niece

Daughter of one’s brother or sister.

Maternal

Related through a certain mother

Paternal

Related through one’s father, like a paternal grandmother is the father’s mother.

Now solving the example of a family puzzle: 

Solved Example 1- 

In these forms of questions of the family puzzle, the gender of all the members of the family is given.   

 Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow. A family of Aamir, Basanti, Chander, Deepak, Esha, Farida, Ganesh, Hansika, and Inder, consists of 3 generations. The subsequent information is given about the family. 

  • Aamir is married to Basant and has 2 sons and 1 daughter Esha
  • Ganesh is Basanti’s son-in-law. 
  • Deepak s, Farida’s brother-in-law and Esha’s brother
  • Chander has 2 children- the sole grandchildren

Q1: How is Chander associated with Ganesh?

Q2: Deepak is Aamir’s _________

Q3: Aamir is Inder’s

04: How is Ganesh associated with Hansika?

Solution

The family consists of three generations and 9 children. (We should write all the data provided to us).  

Amir is married to Basanti and has 2 sons and 1 daughter Elsa.

Ganesh is Basanti’s son-in-law.

Deepak is Farida’s brother-in-law and Esha’s brother.

Since it’s a family of three generations, Chander has to get to be married to Farida as he has 2 children, who must be Inder and Hansika.

From this, we get to know all the relationships and may answer all the questions.

A1:Chander is Ganesh’s brother-in-law.

A2: Deepak is Aamir’s son

A3: Aamir is Inder’s grandfather.

A4: Ganesh is Hansika’s uncle.  

To identify the questions and since these are prominent questions in the banking and management aspect. The most basic thing you can take care of can be done in the following steps:

Step 1: Identify the sex of the given data members

Identify if someone is the daughter-in-law of someone, Someone’s grandson, child, husband, etc.

Step II: Try and identify the positions of the members within the kindred. For this, look into the generations of progenies. 

Conclusion

Family trees are often complicated, but really important to unravel the questions. We study family puzzles, tricks, and also examples. The significance of the family tree can be shown in various examinations; it is the most important criterion to judge someone’s critical thinking and remembering power. It is not easy to complete questions of the same if you are not aware of the concept and the simple tricks, but if provided with the time to learn the concept, it’s not at all difficult. Rather may become your first choice while solving the questions.

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Frequently asked questions

Get answers to the most common queries related to the BANK Examination Preparation.

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Do you have annotations of the blood relatives?

Ans. Annotations are there and are pretty evident to seek out.

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