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Pointing to a man, Sunita said, 'His mother is the only daughter of my mother.' How is Sunita related to the man?
Mother
Aunt
Sister
Daughter
Mother
Whenever you see 'only daughter of my mother', replace it with 'myself' (if the speaker is female).
Whenever you see 'only daughter of my mother', replace it with 'myself' (if the speaker is female).
Analyze the phrase: only daughter of my mother
If Sunita is the speaker, the only daughter of Sunita's mother is Sunita herself.
Substitute and solve
Replace 'only daughter of my mother' with 'Sunita'. The statement becomes: 'His (the man's) mother is Sunita'.
Determine the relationship
If Sunita is the mother of the man, then the relationship of Sunita to the man is Mother.
B: Aunt is wrong because Sunita is the direct parent, not a sibling of the parent. C: Sister is wrong as the man is her son, not her brother. D: Daughter is wrong because the man is the child of Sunita, not the other way around.
A is correct because Sunita is the only daughter of her mother, making her the mother of the man in the photograph.
In pointing-type blood relation questions, always identify the speaker first and break the sentence into two parts at the verb 'is' to avoid confusion.