Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Reasoning Quiz

1. Pointing to a picture Rahul said, “she is mother of the brother of father of my sister’s son.” How is that picture related to Rahul?
(1) Mother
(2) Mother-in-law
(3) Sister’s mother-in-law
(4) Grandmother
(5) None of these


2. Sapna starts to move in south direction then moves toward south-east direction then takes 90 degree right side then 45 degree left side. In which direction is sapna going on?
(1) South
(2) East
(3) West
(4) North
(5) None of these

3. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word UNMATCHED each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet?
(1) Four
(2) Five
(3) Three
(4) More than five
(5) None of these

4. If green is white; white is orange; red is blue; and blue is green then what is the color of wood?
(1) White
(2) Blue
(3) Orange
(4) Can’t be determined
(5) None of these

5. Each odd digit in the number 4297536 is substituted by the previous lower digit and each even digit is substituted by the next higher digit and the digits so obtained are rearranged in ascending order. Which of the following will be the fourth digit from the right end after the rearrangement?
(1) 6
(2) 3
(3) 5
(4) 7
(5) None of these

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

Narender, Ravi, Manoj, Sandeep, Akhilesh, Ganesh, Suresh and Rajeev are at faculty of an institute. Two of them are directors of the institute. They are arranging a meeting on a rectangular table where their position of sitting is as follows: 

Three persons will sit on the longer side and both  the directors on the smaller side. Rajeev is seated to the third left of Sandeep and no one of them is on the smaller side. Narender is the director and not near to Sandeep, Rajeev and Manoj. Ganesh is 3rd to the right of Sandeep, who is 2nd to the right of Ravi. Akhilesh is diagonally opposite to Ganesh.

6. Who is sitting between Rajeev and Ganesh?
(1) Suresh
(2) Ravi
(3) Manoj
(4) Sandeep
(5) None of these

7. Who is sitting diagonally opposite to Rajeev?
(1) Suresh
(2) Akhilesh
(3) Ganesh
(4) Narender
(5) None of these

8. Who is the second person, who sits on the smaller side?
(1) Manoj
(2) Ganesh
(3) Akhilesh
(4) Ravi
(5) None of these

9. Who is third right of Akhilesh?
(1) Manoj
(2) Narender
(3) Suresh
(4) Ganesh
(5) None of these

10. Which of the following combinations sits opposite to each other?
(1) Ravi-Suresh
(2) Manoj-Akhilesh
(3) Rajeev-Ganesh
(4) All are seated opposite to each other.
(5) None of these

Directions (Q. 11-15): In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

11. Statements:
Some rice are breads.
All wheat are breads.
All pulses are rice.
Some pulses are not vegetables.

Conclusions:
I. All rice are wheat.
II. Some vegetables are not rice.
III. Some pulses are breads.
IV. Some wheat are vegetables.

(1) Only I and III follow
(2) Only II and IV follow
(3) Only I and IV follow
(4)All of the above
(5) None of these

12. Statements:
Some pens are inks.
Some pencils are sharpeners.
All inks are pencils.
No sharpener is an eraser.

Conclusions:
I. All inks are sharpeners.
II. Some pencils are pens.
III. Some pencils are not erasers.
IV. Some pens are not erasers.

(1) Only I and III follow
(2) Only II and IV follow
(3) Only II and III follows
(4) Only II follows
(5) None of these

13. Statements:
All summers are winters.
All autumns are summers.
Some winters are not springs.
All rains are autumns.

Conclusions:
I. Some summers are rains.
II. Some springs are not summers.
III. All rains are winters.
IV. No autumn is a winter.

(1) Only II and IV follow
(2) Only I and IV follow
(3) Only I and III follow
(4) Only II and III follow
(5) Only I, II & III follow

14. In a certain code language ‘ready to eat’ is written as ‘2 5 7’; ‘are you ready’ is written as ‘4 8 5’ and ‘eat to fruit’ is written as ‘2 3 7’. How is ‘you are to’ written in that code language?
(1) 3 4 8
(2) 2 3 4
(3) 2 4 8
(4) Data inadequate
(5) None of these

15. How many meaningful English words can be made with the letters ICPL using each letter only once in each word?
(1) 1
(2) 2
(3) 3
(4) 0
(5) None of these



ANSWERS
1. 3
2. 1
3. 2
4. 4
5. 3

Solutions (6-10):

6. 3
7. 1
8. 4
9. 2
10. 5; None of the given combinations is opposite to each other.

Solutions (11-15)
11. 5 (None Follows)


12. 3 (only II & III follows)


13. 3

14. 4 Data Inadequate – Code of You can be – either 4 or 8
15. 1   Only one meaningful word can be formed - CLIP

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