Most Important Reasoning Questions for IBPS PO and Clerk Exam 2017

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

Seven students A, B, C, D, E, F and G goes to computer center on a different day of the week starting from Monday to Sunday but not necessarily in the same order. They all have different company laptops viz. Sony, Dell, Apple, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and Fujitsu but not necessarily in the same order.

Only two students go to Computer center before C. Only one student goes to Computer center between C and the one who has Lenovo laptop. Only one student goes to Computer center between the one who has Lenovo laptop and the D who has Fujitsu laptop. More than two students go to Computer center between D and the one who has Apple laptop. Less than two students go to Computer center between the one who has Apple and the one who has Lenovo laptop. The one who has Sony laptop does not go to Computer center immediately before or after the days on which C goes to Computer center. Three students go to Computer center between F and the one who has Sony laptop. The one who has Acer laptop goes Computer center immediately before F. Two students go to Computer center between B and G. B goes to Computer center before G. The one who has Toshiba laptop goes to Computer center after Thursday. E goes to Computer center before Friday. B does not have Acer laptop.

Q1. Who among following goes to Computer center on Saturday?

(a) G

(b) F

(c) D

(d) A

(e) None of These

Q2. Who among following has Toshiba laptop?

(a) G

(b) F

(c) D

(d) A

(e) B

Q3. E has which of the following laptop?

(a) Dell

(b) Apple

(c) Sony

(d) Acer

(e) Toshiba

Q4. Which of the following combinations of student-laptop and day is correct?

(a) C-Acer-Wednesday

(b)B-Toshiba -Monday

(c)E-Sony -Monday

(d) D-Fujitsu-Sunday

(e) None of These

Q5. A goes to Computer center on which of the following day ?

(a) Thursday

(b) Tuesday 

(c) Saturday

(d) Sunday

(e) None of These

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees who work in an eight-storey building. The ground floor is numbered one and the topmost floor is numbered eight. Each of them earns different salary viz $87, $79, $21, $55, $15, $29, $41 and $59 but not necessarily in the same order. There is gap of only one floor between A and the one who earns $59 lives. The one who earns $59 does not work on floor number one. D works on the floor which is just below the floor on which B works. The one who earns $87 works on an even-numbered floor and just above the floor on which the one who earns $15. The one who earns $29 works on an even-numbered floor but not on the 8th floor. Neither D nor H works on the 1st floor. Only one person works between the one who earns $41 and D. A works on an odd-numbered floor and E works on the floor which is just above the floor on which A works. B works on the fourth floor. Two persons work between the one who earns $29 and A. F works just below the one who earns $15. D earns neither $15 nor $59. The one who earns $21 does not work on an odd-numbered floor. G does not earn $79. There are gap of two floors between the floor on which H and E works. There is a gap of two floors between the one who earns $55 and the one who earns $21.

Q6. Who among the following earns $79?

(a) D

(b) C

(c) F

(d) E

(e) None of these

Q7. How many persons are there between E and B?

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Four

(e) None of these

Q8. Who among the following works on the topmost floor?

(a) The one who earns $87

(b) The one who earns $29

(c) The one who earns $21

(d) The one who earns $79

(e) None of these

Q9. Which of the following combinations is/are true?

(a) Floor no. 2 – D – $55 

(b) Floor no. 5 – F – $59 

(c) Floor no. 1 – C – $79 

(d) Floor no. 8 – E – $87 

(e) None of these

Q10. A earns how much money?

(a) $87

(b) $59

(c) $29

(d) $15

(e) None of these

Directions (11-15): Question consists of Six statements followed by five conclusions. Consider the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions does not logically follow from the given statements using all statements together.

Q11. Statements: Some red are tree. All tree are black. No tree is carbon. All carbon are air. Some carbon are oxygen. No oxygen is ozone.

Conclusions: 

(a) Some red are black.

(b)Some red is not carbon.

(c) All red being ozone is a possibility.

(d) All oxygen being tree is a possibility.

(e) Some black is not carbon 

Q12. Statements: All temple are star. All star are bright. Some bright is dark. Some sea is blue. No blue is kite. All kite is machine.

Conclusions: 

(a) All temple being sea is a possibility.

(b) All temple being blue is a possibility.

(c) Some sea is not kite.

(d) All blue being machine is a possibility.

(e) All sea being kite is a possibility.

Q13. Statements: Some copy is hair. No hair is leg. All text is leg. No text is eye. Some eye is nose. All nose are elbow. 

Conclusions: 

(a)No hair is text.

(b)Some copy is not leg. 

(c) Some nose is not text.

(d)Some eye is elbow.

(e) All copy being leg is a possibility.

Q14. Statements: Some sony are dell. All sony are copy. All dell are pencils. No pencils is paper. Some paper is bag. No bag is box. 

Conclusions: 

(a)Some sony is pencil.

(b)Some paper is box.

(c) Some dell is not paper.

(d) Some bag is not pencil.

(e) Some bag is paper.

Q15. Statements: Some pen is not pink. All pink is black. Some black is not brown. Some brown are red. All red are yellow. No yellow is orange.

Conclusions: 

(a) All pen being black is possibility.

(b) All pink being pen is a possibility.

(c) Some red is not black.

(d) Some yellow is brown.

(e) Some brown is not orange.

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