Reasoning Ability Quiz For LIC ADO Prelims 2023-26th February

Directions (1-5): Study the information carefully and answer the questions given below.
Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H sit around a circular table. Some of them face inside and some of them face outside. All information is not necessarily in same order.
B faces F. E sits immediate left of A. Two persons sit between B and H. C sits immediate left of H. G sits second to the right of D. D sits third to the left of C. G doesn’t sit opposite to the person who sits immediate right of B. A faces same direction as E and G. F is not immediate neighbor of E. Immediate neighbor of A face opposite direction to each other.

Q1. Who among the following sits second to the right of E?
(a) The one who sits immediate left of D
(b) C
(c) H
(d) The one who sits second to right of C
(e) None of these

Q2. How many persons sit between C and A when counted from left of A?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) More than four
(d) Three
(e) None

Q3. Who among the following sits third to the right of B?
(a) G
(b) E
(c) H
(d) C
(e) None of these

Q4. Which of the following sits third to left of G?
(a) F
(b) A
(c) E
(d) D
(e) None of these

Q5. Four of the following five are alike in certain way based from a group, find the one who does not belong to that group?
(a) H
(b) F
(c) B
(d) E
(e) C

Directions (6-10): In each of the questions below, some statements are given followed by some Conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even, if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
(a) If only conclusion I follows.
(b) If only conclusion II follows.
(c) If either conclusion I or II follows.
(d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows.
(e) If both conclusions I and II follow.

Q6. Statements: Some Apple are Mango
All Mango are Sound
No sound is Travel
Conclusion: I: Some apple are not travel
II: No mango are apple

Q7. Statements: All room are wood
Some core are room
Some Test are Room
Conclusion: I: All Test can be wood
II: Some core are wood

Q8. Statements: Some Left are right
All right are true
All true are wrong
Conclusions: I. All left are wrong
II. Some left are not wrong

Q9. Statements: Some words are magic.
Some magic is Heart.
All Heart are Music.
Conclusions: I. Some words are Music
II. No word is music

Q10. Statements: Some dam are River
Some River are Gold
No River is Silver
Conclusions: I: All Dam can be Gold
II: Some Gold are not Silver

Directions (11-14): Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions.
There are five friends, B, E, H, K and N, each of them got different number of chocolates distributed in a birthday party. K got 7 more chocolates than B. N got more chocolates than three people. E got lowest number of chocolates amongst all. H got less chocolates than N. E got number of chocolates, which is an odd number. K got 65 chocolates. The person who got second lowest number of chocolates got 3 less chocolates than B.

Q11. Who among the following got the third lowest number of chocolates?
(a) B
(b) H
(c) K
(d) N
(e) Can’t determined

Q12. What will be the possible number of chocolates N have?
(a) 66
(b) 57
(c) 58
(d) 62
(e) 71

Q13. Who among the following got more chocolate than N?
(a) K
(b) E
(c) B
(d) E
(e) Can’t determined

Q14. What is the possible number of chocolate E got?
(a) 52
(b) 56
(c) 53
(d) 57
(e) 60

Q15.How many pairs of letters are there in the word ‘ECONOMIST’, each of which have as many letters between them as they have between then in the English alphabet?
(a) Four
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
(e) None

Solutions

Solutions (11-14):

Sol. K (65) > N > B (58) > H (55) > E

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