Reasoning Ability Quiz for IBPS 2020 Mains Exams- 12th December

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Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
A certain number of persons are sitting around a circular table equidistant from each other facing the center. Four persons are sitting between P and R. One person is sitting between R and S. T is sitting immediately left of Q and neither of them sit next to S. Ten persons are sitting between P and V when counting from right of P. Q sits third to the left of R. U who is one of the immediate neighbors of T sits fifth to the right of V.

Q1. How many persons are sitting in the circle?
(a) 25
(b) 29
(c) 27
(d) 26
(e) Cannot be determined

Q2. How many persons are sitting between P and R when counted from left of P?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 6
(e) None of these

Q3. Who sits third to the right of the one who sits fifth to the left of S?
(a) Q
(b) P
(c) V
(d) R
(e) None of these

Q4. If Q and U interchange their positions, then who sits seventh to the left of U?
(a) P
(b) R
(c) V
(d) Either (a) or (b)
(e) None of these

Q5. If number of persons sitting between P and V becomes less than ten then how many minimum numbers of persons are sitting between S and V when counting from the right of S?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 9
(e) 13

Directions (6-10): In each of the questions below. Some statements are given followed by conclusions/group of conclusions. You have to assume all the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from the commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically does not follow from the information given in the statements.

Q6. Statements: All tables are fans. Some fans are chair. No table is desk.
Conclusion: (a) All chairs can be fans
(b) All Fans can be desk
(c) Some fans cannot be desk
(d) Some chair can be desk
(e) Some chair can be table

Q7. Statements: Some English are Hindi. All English are Sanskrit. No Hindi is language.
Conclusions: (a) All English can be Hindi
(b) All Hindi can be Sanskrit
(c) Some Sanskrit is English
(d) Some English can be Language
(e) All Sanskrit can be Language

Q8. Statements: Some toffees are candies. Some candies are cookies. Some cookies are chocolates. No chocolates are toffees.
Conclusion: (a) Some cookies are candies
(b) Some candies can be chocolates
(c) Some candies are not chocolates is a possibility
(d) Some toffees are not chocolates
(e) Some toffees can be cookies

Q9. Statements: Some cricket is football. All tennis is football. All volleyball is cricket.
Conclusions: (a) Some Volleyball can be Tennis
(b) Some Tennis can be cricket
(c) All cricket can be football
(d) Some football can be cricket
(e) Some cricket is volleyball

Q10. Statements: No red is green. All green is yellow. All blue is red.
Conclusion: (a) Some red can be yellow
(b) Some yellow can be blue
(c) All red can be Blue
(d) Some green can be blue
(e) All yellow can be green

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Ten persons A, X, L, M, Q, T, N, K, Z and G lives in a building of five floors such that ground floor is numbered as 1 and floor above it is 2 and so on up to top floor which is numbered as 5. Each of the floors consists of 2 flats as flat-1and flat-2. Flat-1 of floor-2 is immediately above flat-1 of floor-1 and immediately below flat-1 of floor-3 and in the same way flat-2 of floor-2 is immediately above flat-2 of floor-1 and immediately below flat-2 of floor-3 and so on. Flat-2 of each floor is in east of Flat-1. T lives west of N and is immediately above the floor on which L lives and both T and L are living on the same numbered flat. K lives on an odd numbered flat but not with G. There are two floors between Q and G who does not live immediately above or below the floor on which N lives. There are two floors between L and Z. Q lives on an even numbered flat. A who does not live on the topmost floor is north-west of M who does not live on the bottom most floor. K lives on one of the floors below T. G lives at Flat 2.

Q11. Who among the following lives in flat-1 of 5th floor?
(a) Z
(b) A
(c) N
(d) L
(e) None of these

Q12. How many floors are there between T and A?
(a) One
(b) None
(c) Two
(d) Three
(e) Cannot be determined

Q13. On which floor does G lives?
(a) Floor-1
(b) Floor-2
(c) Floor-3
(d) Floor-4
(e) Floor-5

Q14. Who among the following live to the west of M?
(a) T
(b) L
(c) K
(d) Z
(e) A

Q15.Four of the following five belongs to a group. Who does not belong to the group?
(a) N
(b) Q
(c) L
(d) M
(e) X

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