Reasoning Ability Quiz For RRB PO Mains 2021- 31st August

Directions (1-5): Read the following information carefully and answer the following questions.
Ten persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J are sitting around a rectangular table such that five of them faces inside and five of them face outside the center of the table but not necessarily in the same order. Four persons sits at the corner of the table, three each on the longer side and two each on the shorter side of the table in which four seats are vacant. No two consecutive seas are vacant. The person who faces inside the center likes different animal viz. Cow, Horse, Goat, Dog, and Cat but not necessarily in the same order. The person who faces outside the center likes different food products viz. Tea, Coffee, Biscuits, Toffee, and Pasta but not necessarily in the same order.
The one who likes Biscuits sits opposite to the one who likes Horse. The one who likes Dog sits fifth to the left of the one who likes Biscuits. The one who likes Cat sits second to the right of I. B does not face inside the center. H does sits near to J. F does not like Horse. The one who likes Toffee sits opposite to J. D, who does not like Toffee and I are immediate neighbor of each other and they sit along the smaller side of the table. Neither D nor I sit near to J. The one who likes Cow sits second to the right of G. The one who likes Horse sits second to the left of the one who likes Cow. The one who likes Goat does not sit any of the corners of the table. C sits fourth to the left of the one who likes Goat. C sits opposite to A. J, who likes Pasta sits second to the left of A. The one who likes Goat sits third to the right of the one who likes Coffee. The one who likes Coffee does not sit along shorter side and also does not sit at any corner. G sits 2nd to the right of C, who likes one of the animals. I does not like Goat.

Q1. How many persons are seating between the one who likes Horse and the one who likes Goat, when counted from the right of the one who likes Horse?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) None
(e) Four

Q2. What is the position of the one who likes Coffee with respect to the one who sits opposite to H?
(a) Immediate left
(b) Second to the left
(c) Immediate right
(d) Both (a) and (e)
(e) Third to the right

Q3. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on a group, which among the following does not belong to that group?
(a) G- Toffee
(b) E- Horse
(c) J-Pasta
(d) B-Biscuits
(e) I-Dog

Q4. Who sits immediate left of E?
(a) The seat is Vacant
(b) C
(c) The one who likes Dog
(d) The one who likes Pasta
(e) None of these

Q5. Who sits opposite to the one who likes Cat?
(a) A
(b) The seat is Vacant
(c) I
(d) D
(e) None of these

Directions (6-7): In the following questions, the symbols %, &, @, $ and * are used with the following meaning as illustrated below.
‘A % B’ means ‘A is not smaller than B’.
‘A & B’ means ‘A is neither smaller than nor equal to B’.
‘A @B’ means ‘A is neither greater than nor equal to B’.
‘A $ B’ means ‘A is neither greater than nor smaller than B’.
‘A * B’ means ‘A is not greater than B’.
Now, in each of the following questions assuming the given statements to be true, find which of the four Conclusions I and II given below them is/are definitely true and give your answer accordingly.

Q6. Statements: A&S$O, P*L&O, D$A*F
Conclusions:
I. F%D
II. S&P
(a) Only II is true
(b) Both I and II is true
(c) Only I is true
(d) Either I or II is true
(e) Neither I nor II is true

Q7. Statements: K&F*J$G&L&O%M@R
Conclusions:
I. J&R
II. G%F
(a) Only I is true
(b) Neither I nor II is true
(c) Both I and II is true
(d) Either I or II is true
(e) Only II is true

Directions (8-10): 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 follow from the information given in the statements:

Q8. Statement: All patients are negative. Only a few negative is positive. No positive is medicine.
Conclusions
(a) All negative can be medicine.
(b) Some medicine can be positive.
(c) No patient is medicine.
(d) Some patients can be positive.
(e) None follows.

Q9. Statement: Only a few plant is tree. All tree is leaf. Only a few leaf is branch. All branch is flower.
Conclusions
(a) Some flower is tree.
(b) Some plant is leaf.
(c) Some leaf can be flower.
(d) All branch can never be leaf.
(e) All follows.

Q10. Statement: No Delhi is Pune. Only a few Pune is Mumbai. Only Mumbai is Kolkata. Only a few Mumbai is Chennai.
Conclusions
(a) Some Chennai can be Kolkata.
(b) Some Pune can be Kolkata.
(c) Some Delhi is not Mumbai.
(d) All Mumbai can be Pune.
(e) None follows.

Solutions