Verbal Reasoning - Mental Ability Questions

The relations may be analysed as follows :

Mother's husband ---> father,  father's father-in-law --->grandfather,  grandfather's son ---> uncle; uncle's daughter ---> cousin.

From the above arrangements, P and R are the immediate neighbours of Q.

The series is nnmm/nnmn/nnmm/nnmm.
The pattern 'nnmm' is repeated.

Here if you observe, add and subtract are opposite in nature. Similarly, mutiply and divide are also opposite in nature.

Hence, Add : Multiply :: Subtract : Divide.

'Maelstrom' refers to a violent and confused state. The word closest in meaning would be 'turmoil', which also means a state of great disturbance.

B is the son of C but C is not the mother of B means C is the father of B. A is marned to C means A is the mother of B. F is brother of B means F is son of A and C. D is daughter of A means D is daughter of A and C

A is the mother and hence female. B is the son and hence male. C is the husband and hence male.

D in the daughter and hence female. E is the brother and hence male F is the son and hence male.

So, there are four males.