Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Reasoning Quiz

Directions (1-5): Study the following information’s carefully and answers the given questions:
A word and number arrangement machine, when given an input line of words and numbers, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is illustration of the input and the steps of arrangement:


Input business 25 17 element 32 desk problem 80
Step-I Problem business 25 17 element 32 desk 80
Step-II Problem 17 business 25 element 32 desk 80
Step-III Problem 17 element business 25 32 desk 80
Step-IV Problem 17 element 25 business 32 desk 80
Step-V Problem 17 element 25 desk business 32 80
Step-VI Problem 17 element 25 desk 32 business 80.
and step VI is the last step for this input:
As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.
1. Input: ‘ornament timber 62 84 35 volume makes 28’ which of the following will be the step IV?
(1) Volume 2 8 ornament 3 5 makes 62 timber 84
(2) Volume 28 ornament 35 timber 62 84 makes
(3) Volume 28 ornament 35 makes timber 62 84
(4) Volume 28 ornament timber 62 84 35 makes
(5) None of these

2. Step IV of an input is : terminal 12 service 14 90 71 and can.
How many more steps are required to complete the rearrangement?
(1) 1
(2) 2
(3) 3
(4) 4
(5) None of these

3. Input: ‘Quality best 12 91 75 assured dam 32’; which of the following will be the last step?
(1) Step IV
(2) Step V
(3) Step VI
(4) Step VII
(5) None of these

4. Input: ‘because depends 80 72 test withdraw 25 52’; which of the following will be the penultimate step?
(1) Step III
(2) Step IV
(3) Step V
(4) Step VI
(5) None of these

5. Step III of an input is
‘Xpress 20 yalk spoon members 31 72 43’; which of the following is definitely step I of that input?
(1) Xpress spoon yalk, 20 members 31 72 43.
(2) Xpress yalk spoon 20 members 31 72 43
(3) Xpress spoon 20 yalk members 31 72 43
(4) Can’t be determined
(5) None of these

6. Ever since the communications - entertainment firms have taken over publishing concerns, the management’s new methods have increased the financial profits of commercial publishing. This is done at the price of narrowing the range of available books to the public and by catering to the vulgar tastes of the new buyers of books. Their business has boomed; but in the process the losers are the majority of authors or aspiring writers, and all discerning readers.

In case the above statement is true, which among the following will hold true?

(1)Profitable business ventures are relatively new in the publishing world.
(2)The readership which commercial publishing caters to today is different from the readership served in the past.
(3)The profits resulting from the methods introduced by communication-entertainment management will encourage writers to work against all the odds.
(4)The limited range of books available to the public is directed toward a more discerning audience.
(5) None of these

7. A pesticide producing company states that his unused pesticide that is dumped does not pose a threat to the aquatic life in the surrounding area. If this is correct, then why have local fish been dying in this region? Due to the fact that the pesticide company is not located in a highly fish populated area, they implicitly admit that the pesticides they produce are relatively dangerous to the nearby aquatic life.
Of the following statements listed below, which one would be most likely to weaken the argument of the author if it were true?

(1)The possibility of pesticides filtering into the local water region was underestimated in the past.
(2)Funds for environmental company clean up, which concern waste dumps that are poorly run, are reserved for rural regions only.
(3)It would be pointless to locate chemical dumps where they would be most harmful, unless they can be 100% proven safe.
(4)Dumps that are located in areas without large fish populations have fewer government interventions and are also less expensive.
(5) None of these

8. We are well aware that there are warning signs concerning massive climate changes; these climate changes are reducing plant life. Many hopeful crop growers believe that there will not be an overall negative effect on the plant growth due to the fact that rainfall should not be altered because of the climate changes. However, for the average plant, it is because of the climate change that agricultural technology has an overall effect on in annual fluctuation.

On which of the following assumptions are these hopeful claims based?

(1)There is no accurate way to predict a climate change.
(2)If the pattern of rainfall began to shadow the climate changes there would be supplementary damaging effects.
(3)Improved yields growth is highly unlikely, if technology is significantly influential in spite of climate change.
(4)Rainfall patterns are not as predictable as patterns of temperature.
(5) None of these



Solutions (1-5)

1. (5)

Input: ‘Ornament timber 62 84 35 volume makes 28’
Step I: volume ornament timber 62 84 35 makes 28’
Step II: volume 28 ornament timber 62 84 35 makes
Step III: volume 28 timber ornament 62 84 35 makes
Step IV: volume 28 timber 35 ornament 62 84 makes
Step V: volume 28 timber 35 ornament 62 makes 84

2. (3)
Step IV: terminal 12 service 14 90 71 and can
Step V: terminal 12 service 14 can 90 71 and
Step VI: terminal 12 service 14 can 71 90 and
Step VII: terminal 12 service 14 can 71 and 90 

Step VII is the last step.

3. (2)
Input: Quality best 12 91 75 assured dam 32
Step I: Quality 12 best 91 75 assured dam 32
Step II: Quality 12 dam best 91 75 assured 32
Step III: Quality 12 dam  32 best 91 75 assured
Step IV: Quality 12 dam  32 best  75 91assured
Step V: Quality 12 dam  32 best  75 assured 91

Step V is the last step.

4. (3)
Input: ‘because depends 80 72 test withdraw 25 52
Step I: withdraw because depends 80 72 test 25 52
Step II: withdraw 25 because depends 80 72 test 52
Step III: withdraw 25 test because depends 80 72 52
Step IV: withdraw 25 test 52 because depends 80 72
Step V: withdraw 25 test 52 depends because 80 72
Step VI: withdraw 25 test 52 depends 72 because 80

Penultimate step means last but one step.
Step V is penultimate step.

5. (4) Can’t be determined


6. (2) 
7. (4)
8. (2)

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