Reasoning Questions for IBPS PO Mains 2017

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

Seven persons P, Q, R, S, T, U and V live on seven different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one; the one above it is number two and so on till the topmost floor is number seven. Each of them have different car viz. Ford, Audi, Mercedes, Toyota, Renault, Jaguar, Honda City but not necessarily in the same order and the colour of all car also different viz. Red, Pink, Blue, White, Yellow, Orange and Violet but not necessarily in the same order.

Only one person lives between the one who have Renault and the one who have Jaguar car. S does not have Renault. V does not have Ford. The one who have Orange colour car live immediate above the one who have Renault. T lives on one of the floors below Q, but does not live on the lowermost floor. The one who lives on 7th floor is immediate above the one, who lives immediate below the one who have Violet colour car. There are three persons between Q and T. The one who have Toyota car lives on the odd-numbered floors below U. P lives immediately above U and does not have Mercedes car. U does not have White and Pink colour car. The one who have Blue colour car lives, immediate above the one, who have Yellow colour car. Jaguar car is of Pink colour. Only one person lives between Q and the one who have Mercedes car. The one who have Yellow colour car lives below the one who have Red colour car. Only two persons live between V and the one who have Mercedes car. The one who have Audi car live on even-numbered floors and above the one who have Mercedes car. The one who have Honda City car lives immediately above V who does not have Jaguar car. S lives on one of the floors above R. V does not live on first and top floor.

Q1. Who among following have White colour car?

(a)R 

(b) The one who have Audi 

(c) The one who have Mercedes

(d) The one who have Ford 

(e) Q

Q2.Who lives on immediate above the one who have Pink colour car?

(a)The one who have Mercedes 

(b) Both (a) and (e) 

(c) S

(d) Q 

(e) The one who have Red colour car

Q3.Who among following have Honda City car?

(a)Q 

(b) P 

(c) V 

(d) T 

(e) None of these

Q4.How money persons live between the one who have Toyota and the one who have Pink colour car?

(a) None

(b) Three

(c) Two

(d) One

(e) None of these

Q5.Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence they form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to that group? 

(a) The one who have Toyota car

(b) The one who have Orange colour car

(c) The one who lives on 5th floor 

(d) The one who lives on 6th floor

(e) The one who have Ford

Directions (6-10): Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and give answer

(a) 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.

(b) 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.

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

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

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

Q6. Is Z brother in law of D?

I.M and Z are brothers of B and E is wife of Z .

II.D is mother of U and is wife of B’s brother .

Q7. Who has secured the maximum marks among six friends A, B, C, D, E and F?

I. B secured less marks than A and F but not less than C, D and E.

II. F secured more marks than B but not as much as A.

Q8. Sanchit’s flat is on which Floor of the five-floor apartment?

I. His flat is exactly above Ganesh’s flat whose flat is exactly above Nitin’s first-floor flat.

II. Jeevan’s flat, which is adjacent to Sanchit’s flat, who is exactly below Ahmed’s flat, who is on fourth floor.

Q9. What is the code of ‘there’ in the code language?

I. In the code language ‘there is she’ is written as ‘ka ma te’ and ‘she is good’ is written as ‘te ka ro’.

II. In the code language ‘there are you going’ is written as ‘la ma pa je’ and ‘there is the girl’ is written as ‘cha fa ma te’.

Q10. In a row of boys facing South who is immediate left to Rinku?

I. Suresh is immediate right to Chandrakant, who is fourth to the right of Rinku.

II. Suresh is third to the right to Rinku, and Naresh is second to the right of Suresh.

Directions (11-15): Study the given information and answer the questions:

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

Input: 19 eyes 24 are 18 now 25 on 32 meet 9 between

Step I: 10 19 eyes 24 18 now 25 on 32 meet between are

Step II: between 10 eyes 24 18 now 25 on 32 meet are 20

Step III: 26 between 10 24 18 now on 32 meet are 20 eyes

Step IV: meet 26 between 10 24 now on 32 are 20 eyes 17

Step V: 23 meet 26 between 10 on 32 are 20 eyes 17 now

Step VI: on 23 meet 26 between 10 are 20 eyes 17 now 31

And Step VI is the last step of the rearrangement of the above input.

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

Input: 17 as 32 of 12 now 29 to 7 push 4 for

Q11. In which step the elements ‘32 to as’ found in the same order?

(a) Step I

(b) Step II

(c) Step III

(d) Step V

(e)Step VI

Q12. In step V, which of the following element would be at 3rd to the left of 5th from the right end?

(a) 8

(b) to 

(c) push 

(d) 4 

(e) as 

Q13. Which of the following is last but one step?

(a) III

(b) IV

(c) VI

(d) VII

(e) V

Q14. Which of the following would be the step III after arrangement?

(a) for 30 8 32 of 12 to push 4 as 18 now

(b) 30 for 8 32 of 12 to push 4 as now18

(c) 30 for 8 32 of to12 push 4 as 18 now

(d) 30 for 8 32 of 12 to push 4 as 18 now

(e) None of these

Q15. In step VI, ‘to’ is related to ‘of’ and ‘now’ is related to ‘push’. In the same way ‘for’ is related to?

(a) to

(b) 11

(c) of

(d) as

(e) None of these

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