IBPS RRB PO/Clerk Mains Reasoning Quiz: 12th October 2019

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Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions:
Seven persons M, N, O, P, Q, R, and S live on seven different floors of a building, first floor is numbered as 1 and topmost floor is numbered as 7. They have different shapes of Boxes i.e. Heart, Cuboid, Conical, Cylindrical, Spherical, Oval, and Pyramid (not necessarily in same order). They also like different colours i.e. brown, pink, peach, yellow, green, black, and red (not necessarily in same order).
N, who likes black colour, does not live on odd floor. S does not live on the first floor and doesn’t like red and pink colour. The one who likes yellow colour lives on even numbered floor. The one who lives on 1st floor has Conical shaped box and the one who has Spherical shaped box lives on an odd numbered floor. The one who lives just above N’s floor likes green colour. Two persons live between Q’s floor and M’s floor. R, who has Oval shaped box lives on the floor which is immediately above M, who does not live on an odd-numbered floor. R doesn’t like pink colour. P lives neither on the first floor nor on the fourth floor. The one who lives just below R’s floor has Heart shaped box and the one who has Cuboid shaped box lives below P’s floor. Three persons live between S, who has Pyramid shaped box and R. The one who has heart shaped box likes peach colour.

Q1. Who lives on the floor which is just above the one who has Oval shaped box?
(a)R
(b)The one who has Cuboid shaped box
(c)S
(d)The one who has Spherical shaped box
(e)None of these

Q2. How many persons live between R’s floor and the one who likes brown colour?
(a)None
(b)One
(c)Two
(d)Three
(e)None of these

Q3. M has which of the following shaped box?
(a)Spherical
(b)Oval
(c)Heart
(d)Cylindrical
(e)None of these

Q4. Who among the following lives on the topmost floor?
(a)M
(b)S
(c)Q
(d)R
(e)None of these

Q5. Which of the following combinations is true?
(a)Conical-P-yellow
(b)Cuboid-M-Red
(c)Oval-R-Red
(d)Cylindrical-P-Green
(e)None of these

Solution (1-5):

S1. Ans. (b)
S2. Ans. (d)
S3. Ans. (c)
S4. Ans. (b)
S5. Ans. (c)

Direction (6-8): Read the information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Point O is in south of C. Point S is not in north west of point C. Point A is 8m to the North of point B and to the West of point C. Point M is 13m to the south- east of point C. Point A is north west of point O in such a way that the distance between M and O is 12m. Distance between A and S is same as the distance between C and O. M is in somewhere between O and T. Point B is South of point S.

Q6. If distance between point O and S is half the distance between the point O and M, then what is the shortest distance between point S and C?
(a) 6√2m
(b)√61m
(c) 10√2m
(d) √71m
(e) None of these

Q7. If point X is somewhere in between point C and M, then point X is in which direction with respect to point S?
(a) South
(b) West
(c) Northeast
(d) South-East
(e) None of these

Q8. If the distance between point S and C is 13m, then what is the distance between point S and M?
(a) 12m
(b) 25m
(c) 24m
(d) 16m
(e) None of these

Solution (6-8):

S6. Ans.(b)
S7. Ans.(c)
S8. Ans.(c)

Directions (9-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions. In a certain code language:
“Nature Observe Cricket” is written as ‘@4F $6P @3I’
“Temple Review History” is written as ‘$7K $10L @9R’

Q9. What is the code for ‘Economy’?
(a) $4l
(b) @4L
(c) @6K
(d) $7D
(e) None of these

Q10. What is the code for ‘Water’?
(a) @9H
(b) $5K
(c) @7D
(d) $4G
(e) None of these

Solution (9-10):

S9. Ans.(b)
S10. Ans.(d)

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions:
A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: 45 79 19 23 56 36 62 84
Step I: 8 45 79 23 56 36 62 12
Step II: 1 8 45 56 36 62 12 16
Step III: 3 1 8 45 56 12 16 8
Step IV: 1 3 1 8 12 16 8 11
Step IV is the last step of the rearrangement. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate steps for the given input.

Input: 67 32 51 11 5 48 96 55

Q11. Which of the following is true regarding the position of 15 in step III?
(a) 4th from the right end
(b) 3rd from the left end
(c) 6th from the left end
(d) 5th from the right end
(e) None of these

Q12. What will be the product of the numbers which is second from the left end in step II and 1st from the right end in step II?
(a) 32
(b) 65
(c) 47
(d) 55
(e) None of these

Q13. Which of the following would be the addition of the numbers which is 2nd from right end and 2nd from left end in Step III?
(a) 13
(b) 14
(c) 17
(d) 12
(e) None of these

Q14. Which of the following element will be 2nd to the right of 4th from the right end in step III?
(a) 1
(b) 5
(c) 48
(d) 13
(e) None of these

Q15. Which among the following is the penultimate step?
(a) I
(b) II
(c) III
(d) IV
(e) none of these

Solutions (11-15):
Sol. Two numbers are arranged in each step from both the end such as the lowest number is arranged from left end and the highest number is arranged from the right end in step I. Similarly second lowest number is arranged from left end while the second highest number is arranged from right end and so on…..Also while arranging the number Each of the number which are arranged from the left end is replaced by the number which is difference of the digits of that number and each of the numbers which are arranged from the right end is replaced by the number which is the addition of the digits of that number.
Input: 67 32 51 11 5 48 96 55
Step I: 5 67 32 51 11 48 55 15
Step II: 0 5 32 51 48 55 15 13
Step III: 1 0 5 51 48 15 13 10
Step IV: 4 1 0 5 15 13 10 6

S11. Ans. (c)
S12. Ans. (b)
S13. Ans. (a)
S14. Ans. (d)
S15. Ans (c)