Reasoning Ability Quiz For ECGC PO 2021- 24th February

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Directions (1-5): Study the information given below and answer the given questions.
There are seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G live on seven floors building, but not necessarily in the same order. Only one person lives on each floor. All of them like different colors i.e. red, orange, purple, black, white, silver and grey, but not necessarily in the same order. D lives on an odd number floor above the floor number 3. There are two floors between the floor on which D lives and the floor of the one who like Silver color. E lives on an even number floor and lives immediately below F. The person who lives on topmost floor likes black color and he is not F. D does not like Orange and white color. There are two floors between the floor of the one who like Orange and the one who like grey color and neither of them lives on bottom most floor. G likes red color and lives below B who live on an even number floor below the floor number 6. F lives on an odd number floor below 5th floor. There is one floor gap between the floors on which D and C live. Neither C nor D likes orange and grey color. E does not like white and purple. A does not like Grey color.

Q1. Which colour is liked by the person who live on the 7th floor?
(a) Red
(b) White
(c) Orange
(d) Silver
(e) Black

Q2. How many persons live between the one who likes orange color and the one who lives on 4th floor?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
(e) More than three

Q3. Who lives on the 2nd floor?
(a) The one who has white color
(b) B
(c) A
(d) The one who like silver color
(e) C

Q4. 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) Red
(b) Black
(c) Purple
(d) Silver
(e) Grey

Q5. Which of the following color does F like?
(a) White
(b) Red
(c) Purple
(d) Grey
(e) Black

Q6. How many meaningful words of four letters can be formed using first two and the last two letters of the word ‘LONGEST using each letter only once’?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) None

Q7. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘CLEANEST’, each of which has as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions) as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) More than three
(e) None

Q8. In a certain code language, ‘FASTER’ is coded as ‘ZUGHIV’ and ‘SUMMER’ is coded as ‘FHNNIV’, then ‘LAVISH’ will be coded as ‘—‘.
(a) ORSHEZ
(b) MTKPOV
(c) KPTMVO
(d) ZORESH
(e) None of these

Directions (9): Study the given information carefully and answer the given questions.
Twenty persons are standing in a straight line, facing north. There are only three students between J and K. L is standing exactly between K and J. There are more than four students between J and M. M is standing sixth to the right of L. N is standing fourth from the right end of the line. J is standing sixth from the left end.

Q9. How many people are standing between N and M?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) None
(e) More than three

Q10. Which of the following will come in place of the question mark (?) in the following series based on the English alphabetical series?
BDA FHE JLI ?
(a) OPM
(b) NPM
(c) PMN
(d) PMO
(e) None of these

Q11. In a class in which all are facing north A’s position is 21st from the right and B’s position is 21st from the left but C who is two places to the left of A is sitting on the immediate right of B, then how many students are there in the class?
(a) 45
(b) 39
(c) 42
(d) 44
(e) 46

Q12. A person starts from point A, walks 10 m in south direction. Then he takes two consecutive left turns and walked 8m and 16m respectively. Then takes two consecutive right turns and walks 4 m and10 m respectively. What is the shortest distance from point A to the final point?
(a) 20 m
(b) 3√10 m
(c) 4√10 m
(d) 4√5 m
(e) 10 m

Q13.A walks for 2m then turns to his right. He then walks for 4m and takes a left turn. He walks for 6m and took a right turn. He walks for 8m then turns right again. After walking for 8m he finally stops facing East. In which direction did A start walking initially?
(a) North
(b) West
(c) East
(d) South
(e) Cannot be determined

Q14.If 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th letter of the word “VEGETARIAN” is used to form a meaningful word, then which among the following will be the 4th letter from the left of the so formed word. If no such word is formed then mark answer as X, if more than one word is formed then mark your answer as Z.
(a) X
(b) E
(c) Z
(d) T
(e) R

Q15. How many letter/s will remain at the same position in the word ‘LAYOUT’ when they are arranged in the alphabetical order from left to right?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
(e) None of these

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