Reasoning Ability Quiz For LIC AAO Mains 2023-28th February

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Seven persons are sitting in a row facing south. There are three females in the group. Only males sit at the extreme ends of the row. All females sit adjacent to each other. All persons are like three different colours and at least two persons like the same colour. There are three persons between E and G. C is the immediate left of F and immediate right of G. E is the immediate neighbour of A and B. There is only one person between E and F. G likes White with only one person who is not a female. There are two persons between B and G. A likes blue colour only with the person who is at one of the extreme end. D is at the left end of the row. No female is neighbour of A and D. The one who is in the middle of the row has neighbours who like Yellow colour.

Q1. Who among the following person likes blue colour?
(a) D
(b) E
(c) B
(d) F
(e) None of these

Q2. Which of the following is the group of the female member?
(a) C, B, D
(b) E, C, F
(c) F, A, D
(d) B, F, C
(e) None of these

Q3. Four of the following are alike in a certain way so form a group, who among the following does not belong to that group?
(a) D
(b) A
(c) F
(d) E
(e) G

Q4. How many persons sit between D and B?
(a) One
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Three
(e) None

Q5. What is the position of C with respect to E?
(a) second to the left
(b) third to the left
(c) immediate right
(d) third to the right
(e) None of these

Directions (6-10): Each of the question below consists of a question and three statements numbered I, II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
(a) If statements I is sufficient to answer the question, but statement II by itself is not sufficient to answer the question.
(b)If statement II by itself is sufficient to answer the question, but statement I alone is not sufficient to answer the question.
(c) If statement either I or II is sufficient to answer the question.
(d) If both the statements I and II taken together are not sufficient to answer the question.
(e) If both the statements I and II taken together are sufficient to answer the question.

Q6. Who is tallest among five friends P, Q, R, S and T?
I. S is taller than R but just shorter than T.
II. T is shorter than P and Q is shorter than T.

Q7. How is K related to M?
I. M is Q’s father’s only sister.
II. N is mother of K who is the daughter of O.

Q8. Seven boxes are arranged one above another. Which of the following box is placed at top of the stack?
I. More than two boxes are placed between A and D. Three boxes are placed between E and D, which is placed below box E.
II. Only one box is placed between E and F. Two boxes between G and E. F is not just above Box G.

Q9. How is ‘career’ written in a code language?
I. ‘career manage founder’ is written as ‘xm nu zx’ and ‘manage wonder fight’ is written as ‘zx zy iz’ in that code language.
II. ‘career iconic founder’ is written as ‘xm nu zm’ in that code language.

Q10. Point P is towards which direction from point Q?
I. Z is in south of Q and west of S, which is in north of M.
II. M is south of S and west of P.

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.
Eight persons are sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing towards the centre and four of them are facing away from the centre. Each of them like a different colour. The one who likes pink is not the immediate neighbour of F and faces away from the centre. A sits second to the left of C and likes neither black nor green. The one who likes black is an immediate neighbour of H and F. B faces away from the centre and does not like pink and magenta. E faces towards the centre and likes purple. Both the immediate neighbours of E face away from the centre and like blue and magenta colour. D faces away from the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of D face towards the centre. E sits third to the right of F who likes yellow. C sits third to the left of F. The one who likes blue sits opposite to F. G does not like white colour. D isn’t immediate neighbor of E. D does not like green colour.

Q11. G likes which of the following colour?
(a) Purple
(b) Magenta
(c) Blue
(d) Black
(e) None of these

Q12. Who among the following likes Green colour?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) G
(d) E
(e) None of these

Q13. Who among the following sits third to the left of G?
(a) H
(b) The one who likes pink colour
(c) The one who likes blue colour
(d) F
(e) None of these

Q14. How many persons are sitting between D and the one who likes magenta colour?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Four
(d) Three
(e) None

Q15. What is the position of H with respect to F?
(a) Second to the right
(b) Immediate left
(c) Third to the right
(d) Fourth to the left
(e) None of these

Solutions