Reasoning Quiz

Directions (1-5): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Ten students are sitting in two parallel rows containing five students each. In row 1, A, B, C, D and E are sitting and all of them are facing south. In row 2, P, Q, R, S and T are sitting and all of them are facing north. In the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. Moreover, each of them is reading and each student reads different types of magazine i.e. Spider, Muse, Child, Cricket, Okido, Zoobooks, Chickadee, Ladybug, Dig and Aquila, but not necessarily in the same order.

Two students sit between the one who reads Spider who sits at an extreme end and E. P, who sits in the middle of the row is not an immediate neighbour of Q who doesn’t read Aquila. T is sitting at an extreme end. E reads Okido and sits on the immediate right of the one who readsMuse. E faces the immediate neighhour of Q. B is not sitting at the extreme left end. P does not read Dig. There is only one student sits between C and D, who reads Spider. S reads Zoobooks and he is immediate neighbour of the onewho reads Aquila. S does not face the person, who readsChild. R, who reads Cricket is an immediate neighbour of the one who reads Dig and the one who reads Dig faces the immediate neighbour of the one who reads Okido. There are two students sit between the one who reads Chickadee and the one who reads Child. B does not read Chickadee. T does not read Ladybug.

Q1. A reads which of the following magazine? 

(a) Ladybug

(b) Chickadee

(c) Child

(d) None of these 

(e) Can't be determined  

Q2. Who reads Ladybug? 

(a) R

(b) B

(c) T

(d) P

(e) Can't be determined 

Q3. ‘Spider’ is related to ' Chickadee ' in a certain way, based on their seating positions. Then Ladybug is related to whom, following the same seating positions? 

(a) Aquila

(b) Dig

(c) Muse

(d) Zoobooks

(e) Cricket

Q4. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their seating positions and so form a group. Which of the following is different from the group? 

(a) Okido

(b) Chickadee

(c) Aquila

(d) Cricket

(e) Zoobooks

Q5. Which of the following statements is/are definitely false? 

(a) B reads Child. 

(b) There are two students sit between the one who reads Zoobooks and the one who reads Dig. 

(c) The one who reads Muse faces the one who reads Ladybug. 

(d) The one who readsDig sits opposite the one who reads Spider. 

(e) All are true

Solutions (1-5):

S1.(b)

Sol.

S2.(d)

Sol.

S3.(d)

Sol.

S4.(c)

Sol.

S5.(d)

Sol. As spider is sitting immediate left of Chickadee. So in the same way Ladybug is sitting on the immediate left of Zoobook.

Directions (6-8): Read the statements carefully and answer the following questions.

Q6. In which of the following expressions will the expression ‘H < J’ be definitely true?

(a) G < H ≥ I = J

(b) H > G ≥ I = J

(c) J = I ≥ G > H

(d) H ≥ G > I < J

(e) None of these

Q7. Which of the following expressions will be true if the expression ‘K ≥ L > M ≥ N’ is definitely true?

(a) N ≤ K

(b) K = M

(c) K < N

(d) L ≥ N

(e) None is true

Q8. Which of the following expressions will be true if the expression ‘M ≥ K < T = Q’ is definitely true?

(a) Q < K

(b) M ≥ T

(c) M < Q

(d) T = M

(e) None is true

Solutions (6-8):

S6. Ans.(c)
Sol.

S7. Ans.(e)
Sol.

S8. Ans.(e)

Sol.

Q9. If blue is called red, red is called green, green is called black and black is called white, what is the colour of grass?

(a) Red

(b) Black

(c) White

(d) Green

(e) None of these

S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. Because colour of grass is green and in the given question green is called black. So our answer is black.

Q10. In a certain code, RAID is written as %#*$, RIPE is written %*@©. How is DEAR written in that code?

(a) @©#%

(b) $@#%

(c) @$#%

(d) $©#%

(e) None of these

S10. Ans.(d)
Sol. DEAR= $©#%

Directions (11-15): Study the following arrangement carefully and answer the questions given below.

E 4 B % R 3 A 6 # F H @ I 2 D 9 © K U $ W 1 M P 5 * Q 8 T

Q11. Which of the following is the fifth to the right of the eighteenth from the right end of the above arrangement?

(a) ©

(b) I

(c) A

(d) M

(e) None of these

Q12. Which of the following is the fourth to the right of the twelfth from the left end of the above arrangement?

(a) 2

(b) D

(c) 9

(d) M

(e) None of these

Q13. How many such numbers are there in the above arrangement, each of which is immediately preceded by a symbol and immediately followed by a letter?

(a) None

(b) One

(c) Two

(d) Three

(e) More than three

Q14. How many such vowels are there in the above arrangement, each of which is immediately followed by a number?

(a) None

(b) One

(c) Two

(d) Three

(e) Four

Q15. If all the numbers are dropped from the above arrangement, which of the following will be the ninth to the left of W?

(a) A

(b) #

(c) R

(d) ©

(e) None of these

Solutions (11-15):
S11. Ans.(a)
Sol. 5th to right of 18th from right= (18-5)= 13th from right end= ©

S12. Ans.(c)
Sol. 4th to right of 12th from left end= (4+12)= 16th from left end= 9

S13. Ans.(a)
Sol.

S14. Ans.(d)
Sol. E4, A6, I2

S15. Ans.(e)
Sol. F