Night Class: Reasoning Quiz for BOM/IBPS Exam

Directions(1-5) Study the following information carefully and then answer the question given below it.

A word and number arrangement machine, when given an input line of words, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and the steps of rearrangement.

Input:  96 gain 63 forest 38 78 deep house
Step I: deep 96 gain 63 forest 38 78 house
Step II: deep 38 96 gain 63 forest 78 house
Step III: deep 38 forest gain 96 63 78 house
Step IV: deep 38 forest 63 gain 96 78 house
Step V: deep 38 forest 63 gain 78 96 house
Step VI: deep 38 forest 63 gain 78 house 96

Step VI is the last step of the rearrangement of the above input. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.

1. Input: train 59 47 25 over burden 63 sky.
Which of the following steps will be the last one?
(a) VI
(b) V
(c) IV
(d) VII
(e) None of these

2. Input: service 46 58 96 over there desk 15
Which of the following will be step VI?
(a) desk 15 over service 46 58 96 there
(b) desk 15 over 46 service there 58 96
(c) desk 15 over 46 service there 58 96
(d) desk 15 over 46 service 58 96 there
(e) There will be no such step


3. Step II of an input is: below  12 93 house floor 69 57 task
Which of the following will definitely be the input?
(a) 93 house 69 57 below task floor 12
(b) 93 house below 69 57 task floor 12
(c) 93 house floor 69 57 task below 12
(d) Cannot be determined
(e)  None of these

4. Step III of an input is : art 24 day 83 71 54 star power 
Which of the following steps will be the last one?
(a) V
(b) VIII
(c) IX
(d) VII
(e) None of these

5. Step II of an input is : cold 17 wave 69 never desk 52 43
How many more steps will be required to complete the rearrangement?
(a) Six
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d)Three
(e)None of these

6. How many numbers would remain if the numbers which are divisible by 5 and also those having 5 as only one of the digits are dropped from the numbers 35 to 70?
(a)  23
(b) 21
(c) 20
(d) 24
(e) None of these

7. If ‘÷’ means ‘+’, ‘-’ means ‘×’, ‘×’ means ‘÷’ and ‘+’ means ‘-’, then 30-16×12÷24+8= ?
(a) 57
(b) 56
(c) 81/7
(d) 22/3
(e) None of these

Directions(8-13): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.
Six persons—A, B, C, D, E and F—stay on different floors of a six-storey building (ground floor is numbered as floor 1 and top floor is numbered as floor 6). Each of them is in a different profession, viz Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Architect, Journalist and Teacher. D is a lawyer but stays neither on floor 2 nor on floor 5. B is neither an Architect nor a Journalist but stays on floor 6. The Journalist doesn’t stay below the floor of the Architect but stays below the floor of the Engineer. The Teacher stays either on floor 1 or on floor 4. E doesn’t stay on an odd-numbered floor.  A who stays on floor 4, is either a Journalist or an Architect. Either C or F is an Engineer. Doctor stays at the topmost floor.

Q8. If F stays on floor 1, what is the profession of C?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Engineer
(c) Teacher
(d) Architect
(e) Can’t be determined


Q9. Who stays on floor 3?
(a) Engineer
(b) Lawyer
(c) Doctor
(d) Architect
(e) Teacher

Q10. Which of the following combinations is definitely true?
(a) C–Teacher–Floor 1
(b) D–Lawyer–Floor 5
(c) E–Architect–Floor 2
(d) F–Engineer–Floor 5
(e) None of these

Q11. Which of the following combinations is definitely false?
(a) A–Journalist–Floor 2
(b) B–Doctor–Floor 6
(c) E–Architect–Floor 2
(d) D–Lawyer–Floor 3
(e) None of these

Q12. If the Journalist stays on Floor 2, which floor will the Engineer stay on?
(a) 1
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 6
(e) Can’t say exactly


Q13. What is the profession of B?
(a) Engineer
(b) Architect
(c) Journalist
(d) Doctor
(e) Data inadequate

Q14. I am facing South. I turn right and walk 20 m. then I turn right again and walk 10 m. Then I turn left and walk 10 m and then turning right walk 20 m. Then I turn right again and walk 60 m. In which direction I am from the starting point?
(a) North
(b) North-west
(c) East
(d) North-east
(e) None of these

Q15. Ram walks 3 km towards East and takes a left turn and walks for one km before he turns left and walks 2 km to take another left turn to walk for another one km. How many km is he away from his starting point?
(a) 1km
(b) 2kms
(c) 3kms
(d) 4kms
(e) None of these