UPPSC PCS - 2013

A Cube Has Six Faces Each of A Different Colour. The Red Face Is Apposite To Black. The Greenface Is In Between Red and Black. The Blue Face Is Adjacent To While And Brown Face Is Adjacent To Blue. The Four Colours Adjacent to Green Are

Year Asked: 2013

A
Red, Black, Brown, and White
B
Red, Black, Brown, and Blue
C
Red, Black, Blue and White
D
Red, Brown Blue and White

Correct Answer

A. Red, Black, Brown, and White

Detailed Explanation

The key is to fix the opposite pairs first. Red and Black are opposite. Blue must be adjacent to White and to Brown, so Blue cannot be opposite either of them. That leaves Green as Blue's opposite face. The remaining pair is therefore White and Brown, which are opposite each other.

So the opposite pairs are Red-Black, Blue-Green and White-Brown. Check: Blue touches White and Brown, as the question requires.

Green's four adjacent faces are every colour except its opposite (Blue): Red, Black, White and Brown. That matches option A.

Why the others fail: B and D include Blue, which is opposite Green and so never adjacent. C leaves out Brown, which is adjacent to Green, and includes Blue.

Core concept: cube adjacency and opposite-face logic, solved by elimination from the strongest constraints. This sharpens the spatial reasoning that also helps in Mains-style analytical and reasoning questions.

Trap: reading "Green is in between Red and Black" as a physical position between opposite faces. Green is simply adjacent to both, and the answer follows from the opposite pairs.

This question appeared in UPPCS 2013 GS Paper 2.

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