Reasoning Ability Quiz For SBI Clerk Prelims 2022- 28th October

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Eight persons P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y and Z are sitting around a circular table but not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are facing centre and others are facing outside the centre. Each of them uses different company’s laptops viz. Apple, Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba, but not necessarily in the same order.
X faces the centre and sits third to the right of R. S and the one who uses Samsung laptop face eachother. Y sits third to the right of Q who uses Apple laptop. The ones who use HP and Lenovo laptop face same direction. Only W sits between the one who uses Dell laptop and the one who uses Toshiba laptop. W sits immediate left of S. P uses Lenovo laptop. R uses Acer laptop. Both the immediate neighbours of X are facing outside the centre. X uses Toshiba laptop. Z is an immediate neighbour of the ones who uses Lenovo and Sony laptop.

Q1. Who among the following uses Samsung laptop?
(a) Y
(b) W
(c) Z
(d) S
(e) None of these

Q2. Which of the following laptop W uses?
(a) Sony
(b) HP
(c) Samsung
(d) Dell
(e) None of these

Q3. Who among the following sits opposite to the one who uses HP laptop?
(a) Z
(b) W
(c) Y
(d) P
(e) None of these

Q4. What is the position of Z with respect to X?
(a) Second to the left
(b) Third to the left
(c) Second to the right
(d) Fifth to the right
(e) None of these

Q5. Four of the following five belong to a group in a certain way, find which of the one does not belong to that group?
(a) Y
(b) P
(c) Z
(d) R
(e) W

Directions (6-10): Study the information and answer the given questions:
There are ten persons namely P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y. They got appointments on 14th and 19th of different months i.e., January, March, April, June and July but not necessarily in the same order.
V got an appointment in the month which have odd number of days but not in January. Four persons got appointment between V and W. T did not get appointment on an even date. V got appointment before W. X got an appointment in the month which has odd numbers of days. S got an appointment on an even date of the month which has even number of days after T. P got an appointment just before T. Only two persons got an appointment between X and Y. U got an appointment just after R but not in April and January. Only three persons got an appointment between Q and U. T and U got appointment on the same date but different months.

Q6. Who among the following got appointment in the month which has less than 31 days?
(a) T
(b) W
(c) Y
(d) U
(e) Both (b) and (c)

Q7. 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) Q
(b) U
(c) S
(d) T
(e) W

Q8. Who among the following are the persons who got appointment on the first and the last day?
(a) R, X
(b) P, Y
(c) Q, U
(d) P, U
(e) V, P

Q9. How many persons got appointment between T and Y?
(a) No one
(b) More than four
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) Two

Q10. Who among the following got appointment on 19th June?
(a) S
(b) W
(c) T
(d) Y
(e) R

Directions (11-15): In each of the following questions assuming the given statements to be true, find which of the two conclusions I and II given below them is/are definitely true and give your answer accordingly.

Q11.
(a) Only I is true
(b) Only II is true
(c) Either I or II is true
(d) Neither I nor II is true
(e) Both I and II are true