Question

In a family gathering, there are three pairs of siblings — Ram and Shyam, Sita and Geeta, and Anita and Priya. Ram's father is married to Geeta's mother. Sita's brother is married to Priya. What is the relationship between Ram and Priya?

• A. Cousins
• B. Siblings
• C. Uncle and niece
• D. Brother and sister-in-law

Hint:

First collapse statements that equate parents or grandparents to build the sibling set. Then apply marriages to place in-laws; if one of several siblings is married to X, X is an in-law to the rest.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Step 1 (Link parents to identify one sibling set).
“Ram’s father is married to Geeta’s mother.”
Since Sita and Geeta are sisters (same mother), the couple \{Ram’s father, Geeta’s mother\} are the parents of Sita and Geeta.
Ram (and his sibling Shyam) are therefore children of the same couple as Sita and Geeta.
\(\) The four — Ram, Shyam, Sita, Geeta — are siblings (two brothers, two sisters).
Step 2 (Use the marriage information).
“Sita’s brother is married to Priya.”
Sita’s brothers are \{Ram, Shyam\}. One of them is Priya’s husband.
Step 3 (Deduce Ram–Priya relationship).
If Shyam is the one married to Priya, then Priya is Ram’s sister-in-law.
If Ram himself is the one married to Priya, then Shyam is Priya’s brother-in-law — in either case, Priya is a sister-in-law within Ram’s sibling set}.
Given the options do not include “husband–wife,” the determinate relationship from the data and choices is brother and sister-in-law.
\[ {\text{Brother and sister\mbox{-}in\mbox{-}law (Option (d)}} \]