IBPS PO Prelims Reasoning Ability Mini Mock 38- Puzzle & Coding-Decoding |

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Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below-
Eight persons i.e. U, V, W, X, Y, Z, A, and B are seated around a circular tables among them only 3 are facing opposite to the centre and rest are facing to the centre, they all like different subjects Hindi, English, Maths, Physics, Arts, Chemistry, History and Biology (not necessarily in the same order).
Y likes Hindi and sits 2nd to the right of U, who likes maths. Z sits opposite to Y. U and Y face opposite direction of each other. W likes arts and sits immediate left of Y. B doesn’t sit just near to U and opposite to U. X is not an immediate neighbour of U. V sits 2nd to left of W. W and Z face same direction with each other. Z likes History. The one who likes physics sits 3rd to the right of Z. The one who likes English is not just near to Z. B and V face the same direction as Z faces. A doesn’t like chemistry.

Q1. Who among the following sits second to the right of X?
(a) Z
(b) V
(c) Y
(d) B
(e) None of these

Q2. Who among the following sit opposite to the one who likes Chemistry?
(a) The one who likes History
(b) The one who likes physics
(c) Y
(d) The one who likes Maths
(e) None of these

Q3. Who among the following person like Biology?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) Z
(d) U
(e) Y

Q4. How many persons sits between U and W when counted in clockwise direction with respect to W?
(a) One
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d)Two
(e) No one

Q5. Which of the following pair face outside the center?
(a) X, Y, A
(b) Z, V, W
(c) V, B, Z
(d) X, Y, Z
(e) None of these

Direction (6-8): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.
Eight Persons P, Q, R, S, T, U, W and X in a family. There are three married couple. T is sister P. R is grandfather of X. W is father of U. Q is daughter in law of S who is not married to W. X is unmarried male and T is married to U.

Q6. Who among the following is nephew of T?
(a) R
(b) X
(c) S
(d) Q
(e) U

Q7. Who among the following is son in law of S?
(a) P
(b) X
(c) R
(d) U
(e) None of these

Q8. What is the relation of Q with X?
(a) Mother
(b) Aunt
(c) Grand-Mother
(d) Sister
(e) Wife

Q9. A person started walking from point A towards South direction. After walking 10 m he took a right turn and walked 5m. He then took a left turn and walked 5m. He again took a right turn and walked 3m meters and stopped at point B. Now how far and in which direction was he from starting point?
(a) 10 m South
(b) 15m North-east
(c) 17m South-west
(d) 13m South
(e) 18m West

Q10. Tower D is towards East to Tower F. Tower B is towards North of Tower D. Tower H is towards South of Tower B but north of D. Towards which direction is Tower H from Tower F?
(a) East
(b) South-East
(c) North-East
(d) North
(e) Can’t be determine

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.
In a certain code language,
‘sky moon mars garden’ is coded as ‘ts ie mn as’
‘tax no moon mars’ is coded as ‘mn bn st ie’
‘tax word mars garden’ is coded as ‘cd as mn bn’
‘sky garden image relax’ is coded as ‘ts as yj yx’

Q11. Which of the following is the code for ‘no’?
(a) st
(b) bn
(c) ie
(d) mn
(e) None of these

Q12. Which of the following word is coded as ‘bn’?
(a) word
(b) garden
(c) no
(d) Tax
(e) None of these

Q13. What may be the code of ‘word orange’?
(a) st ie
(b) cd mn
(c) ie bn
(d) mn ie
(e) cd qw

Q14. Which of the following code is coded for ‘Moon’?
(a) mn
(b) ie
(c) bn
(d) cd
(e) None of these

Q15. What will be the code of ‘relax?
(a) yj
(b) as
(c) yx
(d) Either (a) or (c)
(e) None of these

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