Friday, 11 May 2018

Daily Reasoning Quiz - 12th May 2018


Direction (1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.


Seven persons-T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z were born on seven different days of the same week starting from Monday to Sunday but not necessarily in same order.


Each of them lives on the different floors of the same building viz. 17, 20, 15, 6, 13, 10 and 27 (not necessarily in same order). All the other floors of the building are empty. The floors of the building are numbered in such a way that the bottommost floor is numbered as 1st, the floor above it is numbered as 2nd and so till the topmost i.e 27th floor. W lives below Y. The number of floors between the floors on which the persons who were born in Monday and Friday lives is the same as the floor number on which the oldest person lives. Two persons were born between Y and the person who lives on sixth floor. The person who lives on sixth floor is older than Y. The person who was born on Friday has more than 9 floors below him. The person who lives on 17th floor was born on Wednesday. Only two persons were born between U and Z. One of the person who lives above 17th floor was born immediately after the one who lives on 17th floor. Three persons were born between Y and W. V does not live on the 6th floor. The sum of the floor numbers of the persons born on Wednesday and Saturday is 32. Only the person who lives on 10th floor is younger than U. T was born after Friday. The floor number of the third youngest person is the same as the sum of the floor number of Z and T. There is only one floor between U and Z.

Q1. How many floors are there between the floor on which the youngest and the oldest person lives?
(a) Three
(b) Seven
(c) Ten
(d) Nine
(e) None of these

Q2. Who among the following is the third oldest?
(a) U
(b) Z
(c) X
(d) Y
(e) None of these

Q3. How many persons lives between Y and the youngest person?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) None of these

Q4. Who among the following is/are older than Z?
(a) V
(b) Y
(c) Both V and Y
(d) W
(e) None of these

Q5. Who among the following does not live on an odd numbered floor?
(a) U
(b) Y
(c) Z
(d) V
(e) None of these

Solutions (1-5):
S1. Ans.(e)
S2. Ans.(b)
S3. Ans.(d)
S4. Ans.(d)
S5. Ans. (d)

Directions (6-10): Read the following character sequence carefully and then answer the questions given below it:

Q6. If all the symbols in the above series are removed, then which of the following will be sixth element from the left end?
(a) N
(b) T
(c) K
(d) R
(e) None of these

Q7. How many symbols are there in the above series which are immediately preceded by a symbol?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) None
(e) None of these

Q8. How many meaningful words of five letters can be formed using the second, third, fifth, seventh and twelfth element from the right end of the above series using each letter only once.
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) None
(e) More than three

Q9. Which of the following element will be eight from the right end?
(a) 5
(b) +
(c) V
(d) ¸
(e) None of these

Q10. Which character is in midway between fifth from left and fourth from the right end in the above series?
(a) K
(b) l
(c) R
(d) 5
(e) %

Solutions (6-10):

S6. Ans.(a)
S7. Ans.(b)
S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. Only one word i.e. CHAIR can be formed.
S9. Ans.(c)
S10. Ans.(e)

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