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The document provides information about important family relationships and types of relationship problems. It discusses direct and indirect single person blood relations problems that can be solved by breaking sentences at connecting words and resolving from the last point. Mixed blood relations problems involving more than two people can be solved using diagrams with symbols to represent family members and their relationships. Examples are provided to demonstrate solving single person and mixed relations problems step-by-step.

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Bllod Relations

The document provides information about important family relationships and types of relationship problems. It discusses direct and indirect single person blood relations problems that can be solved by breaking sentences at connecting words and resolving from the last point. Mixed blood relations problems involving more than two people can be solved using diagrams with symbols to represent family members and their relationships. Examples are provided to demonstrate solving single person and mixed relations problems step-by-step.

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In your own language you may know all types of relations.

In English also you should know


all types of relation without any doubt. Some important relations are provided below. You should
remember these relations to solve these types of problems.

Important Relations
Mothers (or) fathers son Brother
Mothers (or) Fathers Daughter Sister
Mothers brother Maternal Uncle
Fathers Brother Paternal uncle
Mothers (or) Fathers sister Aunt
Mothers (or) Fathers father Grand father
Mothers (or) Fathers mother Grand mother
Sons wife Daughter in law
Daughters husband Son in law
Husbands (or) Wifes father Father in law
Husbands (or) Wifes mother Mother in law
Husbands (or) Wifes brother Brother in law
Husbands (or) Wifes sister Sister in law
Sisters husband Brother in law
Brothers (or) Sisters son Nephew
Brothers (or) Sisters daughter Niece
Type of Problems

1. Single Person Blood Relations


2. Mixed Blood Relations
3. Coded Blood Relations

1. Single Person Blood Relations (SPBR)


These are Relations between two people only.

DIRECT SPBR :

Break the given sentence at is/was/as and resolve it from last point to is/was/as to get easy
solution for the problem.Carefully observe the given examples.
Ex 1 : Pointing to a lady Ravi said, She is the only daughter of the father of my sisters
brother. How is she related to Ravi?
Solution :
Break the given sentence at is.
From the last, in the view of Ravi,
My sisters brother brother
Father of brother father
Daughter of father sister
So,that becomes she is my sister
So, answer is sister.

Ex-2 : John introduces Mary as the daughter of the only son of my fathers wife. How is Mary
related to john?
Solution :
Break the given sentence at as.
Resolving from the last , In the view of john,
My fathers wife mother
Only son of mother himself i.e. john
Daughter of john daughter.
So, answer is daughter.

NOTE : Sometimes they might ask like how is john related to Mary. In that case answer is
father. So, dont make answers without clear understanding in this type of problems.
INDIRECT SPBR:

Break the given sentence at is/was/as.


Resolve the sentence from last upto is/was/as.
And also resolve the sentence from the first upto is /was/as.
Then you will get easy solution. Observe the below examples.

Ex-3 : Pointing to a man in the photograph, a Woman says, His mothers only daughter is my
mother. How is man related to woman?
Solution :
Break the sentence at is.
From the last, up to is : my mother Womans mother
From the first, up to is : his mothers only daughter his sister
His sister = womans mother.
So, the answer is Mothers brother i.e. Uncle.
If question asks like how is woman related to that man? Then answer is sisters daughter i.e.
niece.

Ex-4 : Introducing Suresh, Kalpana said, His brothers father is the only son of my
grandfather. How is Kalpana related to Suresh?
Solution :
Break the sentence at is.
From the last up to is : The only son of my grandfather father
From the first up to is : his brothers father father
Sureshs father = kalpanas father
So, they are brother & sister.
Answer is sister.

2. Mixed Blood Relations


In this, mutual blood relations depending on more than two persons mentioned. These type of
problems can be solved with the help of diagrams.

Follow these symbols in the diagram to avoid confusion.

+ Male candidate
Female candidate
<=> Couple
- Same generation i.e.brother brother (or) sister-sister (or) sister to brother
_______ Different generations i.e. father-son (or) mother-son (or) father daughter (or)
Mother daughter
The following list of generation might be helpful to you.
First generation : Grand father, Grand mother
Second generation : Father, Mother, Uncle, Aunt.
Third generation : Self, Sister, Brother, Sister in law, Brother in law
Fourth generation : Son, Daughter, Nephew, Niece.
Better to use the same generation in one horizontal row in the diagrams.

EX 5 : A and B are brothers and C and D are sisters. As son is Ds brother. How is B related
to C?
Solution:
By using above notations we can draw the below diagram. A,B are taken + and C ,D
are taken as -. It seems that A,B belongs to one generation and C,D belongs to another
generation.
So, A,B are taken in one horizontal row and C,D are taken in other horizontal line.

It says that A is Cs father. Fathers brother is uncle. So, answer is uncle.

Sometimes they might ask paragraph questions in blood relations type problems.

EX 6 : Read the information carefully and answer the question given below it.
1. A family consists of 6 members P, Q , R, X, Y, Z.
2. Q is the son of R but R is not mother of Q.
3. P and R are married couple.
4. Y is the brother of R, X is the daughter of P.
5. Z is the brother of P.
Questions :
1. Who is the brother in law of R?
2. How many female members are there in the family?
3. How is Q related to X?
4. How is Y related to P?
Solution:
Draw the diagram with given instructions below.
1. Q is son of R. draw this one with thick line in different horizontal rows. Both are male so take
as+.
2. Use <=> between P and R in same row, because they are couple.
3. Add Y to R with dotted line in same row.
4. Add X to P with thick line downwards to different row. Here, X is .
5. Add Z to P and take Z as +.
6. So, Q and X are brother & sister.

Answers :

1. Brother in law means wifes brother i.e. Z


2. Two female members are there with - symbols i.e. P and X.
3. Q is brother of X.
4. Y is husbands brother to P. i.e. brother in law.

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