Directions for question:
At the OSL Prestige Motorrad – the BMW car and bike showroom at Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, Kolkata – A, B, C, D and E were the five BMW car models present while P, Q and R were the three BMW motorbike models present.
Model A had the highest top speed among the cars while model R had the lowest top speed among the motorbikes. Model C was costlier than model D and model Q, but less costly than model B. Among the cars, model A was not the costliest. Model D was less costly than model E and there was no car model whose cost lay in between the cost of those two. Model E had a top speed higher than three of the car models and all of the motorbike models. Model Q was costlier than model R but less costly than model P, which had a top speed higher than that of model Q. None of the different car models had the same cost.
Question:
If motorbike model P was more costly than car model E, how many BMW cars present at the OSL Prestige Motorrad were less costly than motorbike model P ?
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Cannot be determined
As per the information provided, we can conclude the following :
I) Top speed :
a) Model A had the highest top speed among cars.
b) Model E had a top speed higher than three of the car models, so Model E had the second highest top speed among cars.
c) Model E had a top speed higher than all three of the motorbike models.
d) Model R had the lowest top speed among the motorbikes.
e) Model P had a top speed higher than that of model Q.
II) Cost :
a) Model B was costlier than model C, and model C was costlier than model D among cars.
b) Model C was costlier than motorbike model Q.
c) Model A was not the costliest among cars.
d) Model E was costlier than model D and there was no car model whose cost lay in between them.
e) Model P was costlier than model Q which was costlier than model R.
Arranging the models in the descending order from left to right, under the following groups, we get :
1) Cars (Top speed) : A, E, __, __, __ (B, C and E will occupy the last three spaces in any order).
2) Motorbikes (Top speed) : P, Q, R.
3) Cars (Cost) : B, C, E, D (Since none of the different car models had the same cost, A could lie anywhere between B and C or C and E, or after D).
4) Motorbikes (Cost) : P, Q, R.
5) Also regarding cost, model C > model Q (point II b). Hence, we can also conclude that regarding cost, B > Q, B > R and C > R.
If motorbike model P was more costly than car model E, apart from concluding that model P was also costlier than car model D, we cannot comment anything about the order of the other models, and hence the relationship in the order of model P with that of the other models.
Hence, cannot be determined.