Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Reasoning Quiz

Directions (1-5): Each question below is followed by two statements I and II. You are to determine whether the data given in the statement is sufficient to answer the question. You should use the data and your knowledge of Mathematics to choose between the possible answers.
Give answer-
(1)If the statement I alone is sufficient to answer the question, but the statement II alone is not sufficient.
(2)If the statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question, but the statement I alone is not sufficient.

(3)If either the statements I or either the statements II are needed to answer the question.
(4)If statement I and statement II are not sufficient to answer the question but more data is needed.
(5) If both statements I and II together are needed to answer the question.

1. Which book is fourth from the top in a pile of six books?
I. Sanskrit book is third from the bottom.
II. History book is third from the top and placed just above Sanskrit.

2. How is Ambu related to the man in the photograph?
I. The person in the photograph is only son of grandfather of Ambu.
II. The man in the photograph has no brothers or sisters and his father is Ambu’s grandfa¬ther.

3. Is Amit a gentle person?
I. All the students who always sit on first, second and third bench are naughty and it has been reported that they enjoys gam¬bling too.
II. Amit sits on fifth bench of the same class about which statement I is referred.

4. How many such small cubes whose at least on face is painted red, are there in a big cube?
I. This big cube is constituted of 216 small cubes of same size.
II. Two faces of big cube are painted green.

5. How many coins does Sachin have? (Standard unit of coins may be Re 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10).
I. Sachin has only two type of coins.
II. Sachin has 14 rupees and number of each type of coins is equal.

Directions (6-10): Study the following arrangement carefully and answer the questions given below.

In a board meeting seven board members are sitting around a rectangle table. The names of these seven members are Rajni, Rajesh, Ragini, Reshav, Ruchita, Rahul and Raj. One person sit on each smaller side and three persons are sitting on one longer side and two persons are sitting on another longer side. Ragini is sitting 3rd left of Rahul, who is sitting on longer side where two persons are sitting. Reshav is on one smaller side and Raj is third right of Reshav. Rajni is immediate right of Reshav. Ruchita is not near Raj.

6. Who is sitting between Raj and Rajni?
(1) Rajesh or Ruchita
(2) Rahul or Ruchita
(3) Ragini or Rajesh
(4) Ragini or Rahul
(5) None of these

7. Which of the following does sit third left of Ragini?
(1) Rahul
(2) Rajesh
(3) Raj
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

8. Who is between Rahul and Reshav?
(1) Raj or Rajni
(2) Ruchita or Raj
(3) Rajni
(4) Ruchita or Rajni
(5) None of these

9. Which of the following pair is sitting on the longer sides where two persons are sitting?
(1) Rahul and Rajesh
(2) Rahul and Ruchita
(3) Rajni and Rahul
(4) Either (2)or (3)
(5) None of these

10. Who may be sitting immediate near to Ruchita?
(1) Ragini and Raj
(2) Rahul and Ragini
(3) Reshav and Raj
(4) Rajesh and Ragini
(5) None of these



ANSWERS

Solutions (1-5)

1. 3; The two statements are independently sufficient to answer the question. From the first statement we conclude that Sanskrit’s book is fourth from the top.
2. 4; From the two statements we cannot find out the sex of Ambu.
3. 4;  We can’t deduce anything about the Amit’s character. Neither I nor II is sufficient to answer.
4. 4
5. 2

Solutions (6-10):

6. 4
7. 4
8. 4
9. 4
10. 4

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