ibps-so 2016 · Question 141 of 394

The four letters A, E, L and P were printed upon a slip handed to a candidate at an interview. How many meaningful words of the English language, each of four letters, can be formed with these four letters, every one of the four being used once and once only in each such word?

1. ATwo
2. BThree
3. CFourCorrect
4. DOne
5. EMore than four Directions (Q143–Q147) : The rural development cell of a bank is manned by eight o cers, no two of whom entered the service of the bank in one and the same year, and the establishment section has circulated a note setting out the year in which each of them joined together with the scheme of rural credit of which each holds charge. Read the particulars set out below with attention and then deal with each of the questions that rest upon them. Eight o cers – Debashree, Girivardhan, Nikunj, Padmanabhan, Rukmavati, Shubhada, Thangaraj and Vasundhara – joined the service of the bank in eight di erent years, namely 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015, but not necessarily in the order in which the names and the years have been set down here. Each of the eight holds charge of a di erent one of the following eight schemes of rural nance, poultry unit nance, sericulture nance, solar pump nance and tractor nance. credit, namely dairy unit nance, shermen credit, horticulture plantation nance, minor irrigation Wherever a question speaks of one o cer joining earlier than another, the reference is to the earlier of the two calendar years, and wherever a question speaks of o cers joining between two given o cers, the o cers so counted are those whose years of joining fall between the years of joining of the two given o cers. (i) Only two of the o cers joined in the years that fall between the year of joining of Girivardhan and the year of joining of Nikunj. (ii) Padmanabhan joined in the year immediately following the year in which Debashree joined, that is to say, no o cer joined in any year lying between the two. (iii) Vasundhara joined in the year 2006. (iv) Only one of the o cers joined earlier than Debashree. (v) Shubhada joined immediately after Thangaraj, no o cer having joined in any year lying between the two. (vi) Exactly two of the o cers joined later than Thangaraj. (vii) Nikunj joined at some time after Padmanabhan. (viii) The o cer who holds charge of tractor nance joined immediately before the o cer who holds charge of minor irrigation nance. (ix) Vasundhara holds charge of dairy unit nance. (x) The o cer who holds charge of sericulture nance is the earliest of the eight to have joined the service of the bank. (xi) Only two of the o cers joined in the years that fall between the year of joining of the o cer who holds charge of solar pump nance and the year of joining of the o cer who holds charge of dairy unit nance. (xii) Shubhada does not hold charge of poultry unit nance. (xiii) The o cer who holds charge of horticulture plantation nance joined immediately after Vasundhara. (xiv) The o cer who holds charge of tractor nance joined in the year 2000. (xv) The o cer who holds charge of solar pump nance joined earlier than Vasundhara.