My father's brother's son — Aptitude Question
My father's brother's son: How is your father's brother's son related to you? Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Blood Relations
- Section: Logical Reasoning
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time target: 40 seconds
Question
How is your father's brother's son related to you?
Options
- Brother
- Cousin
- Uncle
- Nephew
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: B. Cousin
Worked solution
- Father's brother = paternal uncle.
- His son is your cousin.
- A brother would have to share your own parents, not your uncle's.
Answer: Cousin.
The idea
Walk the chain one link at a time. A cousin is any child of a parent's sibling, on either side of the family.
Shortcut. Any child of a parent's sibling is a cousin, and a father's brother is a parent's sibling, so no further tracing is needed.
Common trap. "Brother" — skipping the middle link and reading 'father's son'; a brother shares your parents, while this boy's father is your uncle.