Six boxes, coloured green, white, red, black, blue and yellow, are kept one above another (not necessarily in this order). The green box is five places above the yellow box. The black box is three places below the green box. The red box is immediately above the black box. The white box is somewhere above the red box.
Which box is second from the bottom?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Blue
Number the places 1 (top) to 6 (bottom). A gap of five places between two boxes in a stack of six fixes them at the top and the bottom.
Green is five places above yellow, so green is in place 1 and yellow in place 6
Black is three places below green: place 4. Red is immediately above black: place 3
Places 2 and 5 are left for white and blue; white is above red, so white is in place 2 and blue in place 5
From the top: green, white, red, black, blue, yellow. Second from the bottom is blue
