Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow. IV. There are six steps that lead from the first to the second floor. No two people can be on the same step. Mr. A is two steps below Mr. C Mr. B is a step next to Mr. D Only one step is vacant (No one standing on that step) Denote the first step by step 1 and second step by step 2 etc. If Mr. E was on the third step and Mr. B was on a higher step than Mr. E which step must be vacant?

• A.  step 1         
• B.  step 2
• C.  step 4                          
• D.  step 5
• E.  None of these