Linear Puzzle Questions for SBI PO/Clerk Mains:15th July 2018

Direction (1-5): Read the information given below and answer the questions that follow: 

There are seven members A, B, C, D, E, F and G  in a family, who are seated in a row for Dinner. There are four males, three females, two married couples and three unmarried persons in the family.  They like different coffees viz. Affogato, Americano, Bicerin, Breve, Bombon, Corretto and Crema but not necessarily in the same order. There height is different, tallest person marked as 1 and least height person marked as 7.

B is not married and another person who likes Breve is the tallest. The person who likes Affogato is married to the person who likes Americano, who has the least height in the family. D likes Corretto and he is sitting on the leftmost corner. The person who likes Crema is sitting on the rightmost corner.The person who likes Bicerin is married to C who likes Bombon. C is the second tallest person in the family followed by her husband in both arrangement. The person having least height in the family is sitting on the immediate left of E, followed by tallest . There are as many taller persons than the person who likes Affogato as there are less height person. On the row, followed by D there are three females sitting in succession. The person who likes Breve is female. The person who likes Crema has taller than the person who likes Corretto, who is taller than only one person, F. Neither A nor G is a female.

Q1. Who is sitting on the immediate right of D?

(a) F

(b) E

(c) C

(d) Can’t be determined

(e) none of these

Q2. Which among the following coffee is liked by A?

(a) Affogato

(b) Bicerin

(c) Americano

(d) Can’t be determined

(e) none of these

Q3. Who among the following members are sitting together?

(a) D and E

(b) A and E                       

(c) The members who like Americano and Bombon

(d) The members who like Affogato and Bicerin

(e) Can’t be determined

Q4. The person who likes Affogato is not taller than.

(a) The person who likes Crema

(b) The person who likes Corretto

(c) The person who likes Americano

(d) The person who likes Bombon

(e) Can’t be determined

Q5. Who among the following is the shortest?

(a) A

(b) C

(c) F

(d) D

(e) None of these.

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Ten Celebrities are attending a conference in a news channel on the occasion of IIFA awards pre workout and they are sitting in twelve seats in two parallel rows containing five people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In Row 1: Kareena, Katrina, Kajol, Deepika, and Priyanka are seated and all of them are facing south, and in Row 2: Salman, Arjun, Ranbir, Akshay and Shahid are sitting and all of them are facing north. One seat is vacant in each row. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each seat in a row is opposite to another seat of the other row. All of them like different singers i.e. Arijit Singh, Atif Aslam, Shreya Ghoshal, Palak, Shan, Sunidhi, Himesh, Sonu Nigam, Mohit Chauhan and Mika.

Akshay sits third to the right of Ranbir and likes Palak. Only two people sit between Arjun and Vacant seat. Arjun sits at one of the extreme ends. Ranbir does not like Arjit Singh and Sonu Nigam. Arjun does not like Shan and Shreya Ghoshal. Priyanka is not an immediate neighbour of Kajol. Katrina likes Mika. The one who likes Shreya Ghoshal faces the one who likes Sonu Nigam. Vacant seat of row-1 does not face Akshay also he does not sit at any of the extreme ends.The one who likes Shreya Ghoshal sits opposite to the one, who sits third right of the one, who sits opposite to Akshay . Kajol is not an immediate neighbour of Deepika. Shahid, who likes neither Shan nor Sunidhi, does not face vacant seat.Neither Akshay nor Ranbir sits at any extreme ends. Deepika faces Ranbir. Vacant seats are not opposite to each other. Two seats are there between Kajol and Katrina, who sits third right of the one, who likes Himesh.The one who likes Mohit Chauhan faces the one, who likes Palak.The person who likes Arijit Singh and Sonu Nigam are adjacent to each other.Vacant seat of row-1 is not an immediate neighbour of Deepika.

Q6. Who among the following sits second to the right of the person who faces the vacant seat?

(a) One who likes Atif Aslam

(b) One who likes Sunidhi

(c) Kareena

(d) Kajol

(e) One who likes Himesh

Q7. Which of the following is true regarding Kareena?

(a) Katrina and Kajol are immediate neighbours of Kareena

(b) Only two people sit between Kareena and Kajol

(c) Kareena is an immediate neighbour of the person who faces Ranbir

(d) Kareena sits second to left of Katrina

(e) None of the given options is true

Q8. Which of the following groups of people represents the people sitting at extreme ends of both the rows?

(a) Katrina, Kajol, Kareena, Ranbir

(b) Priyanka, Shahid, Arjun, Kajol

(c) Priyanka, Kajol, Kareena, Ranbir

(d) Katrina, Kajol, Kareena, Shahid

(e) Arjun, Kajol, Kareena, Ranbir

Q9. Who amongst the following faces vacant seat of first row?

(a) Katrina

(b) Kajol

(c) Salman

(d) Kareena

(e) Ranbir

Q10. Which of the following is true with respect to the given information?

(a) Salman sits exactly between Shahid and Ranbir

(b) Deepika faces immediate neighbour of Shahid

(c) Arjun is an immediate neighbour of Salman

(d) Kajol faces Vacant seat

(e) None of the given options is true

Direction (11–15): Read the following information and answer the questions given below:

Eight persons A, B,C,D,E,F,G & H are sitting in a row. Some are facing north and some are facing south. They all live on different floor of a building with ground floor being the first floor while the topmost floor being the eighth floor. Each one of them was born on different months of an year December, April, August, May, March, February, November and January but not necessarily in the same order. There is only one person sitting between the one who was born in the month of April and the one who lives on third floor. G sits third to the right of F and does not sit on any of the ends. C was born in February and B was born in April month. G is not an immediate neighbor of A. The one who was born in the month of March sits at one of the corners. Those persons who were born in the month of December and August face the same direction. E sits fifth to the right of G. A & D are sitting at the extreme ends and no one sitting at the extreme ends lives on fifth floor or sixth floor. E doesn’t live on fourth floor, fifth floor and first floor, and faces the direction opposite to that of H. B faces south.  And none of the person who sit at the extreme ends face south. The one who lives on seventh floor is an immediate neighbor of two north facing persons. There are four persons between A & C. The one who was born in November sits third to the left of the one who was born in the month of May. None of the person who face north lives on seventh floor, or fourth floor or eighth floor. There are as many person between E & H as there is/are to the right of C. The one who was born in May sits to the left of the one who lives on third floor. H lives on third floor. The one who lives on seventh floor sits fifth to the left of the one who lives on eighth floor. The one who lives on third floor sits second to the right of the one who was born in August. H faces north.

Q11. How many persons live above the one who was born in December?

(a) Six

(b) Three

(c) Two

(d) One

(e) None of these

Q12. Who is sitting third to the left of the one who was born in January?

(a) G

(b) B

(c) The one who lives on first floor

(d) The one who lives on third floor

(e) The one who lives on eighth floor

Q13. Who was born in December month?

(a) A

(b) E

(c) C

(d) G

(e) A or D

Q14. D lives on which of the following floor?

(a) First

(b) Second

(c) Third

(d) Cannot be determined

(e) None of these

Q15. The one who was born in November lives on which of the following floors?

(a) Seventh floor

(b) Second floor

(c) Sixth floor

(d) Fifth floor

(e) Cannot be determined

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