Night Class: Reasoning Quiz

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

Eight persons P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are playing piano. They are sitting around a circular table facing away from centre. Each person reads a different language newspaper Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Hindi and English but not necessarily in the same order. When all of them are sitting in the chairs during the playing piano, the following conditions are fulfilled.

• R is a Hindi newspaper reader and sits third to the left of T.
• The Tamil and the Punjabi newspaper reader are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither the Punjabi nor the Tamil newspaper reader is an immediate neighbour of either T or R.
• The Telugu and the English newspaper reader immediate neighbours of each other.
• Neither T nor S reads English newspaper.
• The one who reads Punjabi newspaper sits to the left to Q, who reads Kannada newspaper.
• P reads Telugu newspaper is not an immediate neighbour of Hindi newspaper reader.
• Only U sits between the Punjabi and the Marathi newspaper reader.
• V sits third to the left of the person who reads English newspaper.

1. Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbours of the Marathi newspaper reader?

1) Punjabi and Bengali 

2) English and Punjabi 

3) Telugu and Bengali

4) Kannada and Tamil 

5) Tamil and Bengali

2. Who among the following reads English newspaper?

1) V 

2) W 

3) U 

4) T 

5) Other than given options

3. How many persons sit between the Hindi newspaper reader and S when counted in clockwise direction from the Hindi newspaper reader?

1) None 

2) One 

3) Two 

4) Three 

5) Four

4. T reads which of the following newspaper?

1) Tamil 

2) Bengali 

3) Punjabi 

4) Marathi 

5) Other than given options

5. Who among the following sits exactly between Q and W?

1) Telugu newspaper reader 

2) Tamil newspaper reader

3) Punjabi newspaper reader 

4) Marathi newspaper reader 

5) Hindi newspaper reader

6. Who among the following reads Marathi newspaper?

1) T 

2) W 

3) R 

4) U 

5) S

7. Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbours of the Punjabi newspaper readers?

1) QR 

2) UQ 

3) US 

4) SQ 

5) RU

Directions: Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statement and give answer.

1) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

2) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

3) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.

4) if the data in both the statement I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.

5) if the data in both the statement I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

8. How Anu j is related to Neha?

I. Anuj is son of Naveen's father's sister. Parth is son of Neha, who is mother of Rahul and grandmother of Naveen.

II. Praveen is father of Nishi and grandfather of Madan, who is the only son of Nisha. Neha is wife of Praveen.

9. What is the code for 'eminent'?

I. In a code language 'eminent school and vague' is written as 'no ro jo vi' and 'vague aim service' is written as 'jo ti di'.

II. In a code language 'provision enforce personal' is written as 'da no pa' and 'eminent and fruit service' is written as 'la ma ro vi'.

10. Who among P, Q, R, S and T is the tallest?

I. R and S are taller than P and T.

II. Q is taller than P but shorter than R.

11. How many toys are there in the row of toys that face south?

I. Aeroplane is fourth from the right end of the row and is fourth to the right of car.

II. Train is seventh from the left end of the row and is fourth to the left of car.

Answers:

1. 5 

2. 2 

3. 4 

4. 2 

5. 5 

6. 5

7. 2

8. 3; From I

Anuj is grandson of Neha.

From II;

Anuj is grandson of Neha.

Hence, the data either in statement I alone or statement II alone are sufficient.

9. 4; 

From statement I

Eminent School and vague  no ro jo vi ...(i)

vague aim service – jo ti di ...... (ii)

From (i) and (ii), we get,

vague - jo

I alone is not sufficient to answer.

From statement II, Provision enforce personal – da na

pa .........(iii)

Eminent and fruit service – la ma ro vi ........ (i)

Thus, statement II alone is not sufficient to answer

from statement I & II together.

Using equations (i) and (iv), we get and/eminent - ro/vi

Thus, statement I and statement II together are not sufficient to answer.

10. 4; From statement I - R, S > P, T not sufficient

From statement II - R > Q > P not sufficient.

Combining statement I & statement II, R > S > Q > P >

T ..... (i)

or, S > R > Q > T > P ........(ii)

R > S > Q > T > P ....... (ii)

S > R > Q > P > T ...... (iv)

And so on,

Hence, either S or R is the tallest.

Therefore, the data in both the statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the given question.

11. 5; From statement I
Aeroplane = 4th from the right and 4th to the right of car

Position of car = 4 + 4 = 8th from the right

From statement II - train = 7th from the left and 4th from the left of car.

Position of car = 7 + 4 = 11th from the left from I and II together, Total number of toys = 8 + 4 – 1= 18.