Reasoning Ability Quiz For SBI, IBPS Prelims 2021- 29th March

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): Answer these questions based on the following information.
In a certain code:
“Kannada Marathi Punjabi” is coded as – “12 22 25”
“Hindi Malyalam Dogri” is coded as – “17 26 13”
“Gujrati Sindhi Telugu” is coded as – “16 28 41”

Q6. What will be the code for “Kashmiri”?
(a) 21
(b) 20
(c) 19
(d) can’t be determined
(e) 22

Q7. What will be the code for “English Tamil”?
(a) 13 31
(b) 14 32
(c) 13 32
(d) 14 31
(e) None of these

Q8. “11” may be the code for?
(a) Konkani
(b) Bengali
(c) Nepali
(d) Odia
(e) Marathi

Q9. “39 6” may be the code for?
(a) Odia Konkani
(b) Maithili Assamese
(c) Assamese Punjabi
(d) Sanskrit Assamese
(e) Apple Punjab

Q10. What will be the code for “Bhojpuri”?
(a) 11
(b) 12
(c) 10
(d) 13
(e) none of these

Q11. Binni points towards a person and says, “That person is the wife of only son-in-law of my father’s only son’s wife ”. How is Binni related to that person?
(a) Aunt
(b) Mother
(c) Grandmother
(d) Wife
(e) None of the above

Q12. Pointing to a girl, a lady said “She is the only daughter of my grandfather’s only son-in-law”. How is the girl related to lady?

(a)Daughter
(b) Sister
(c) Cousin Sister
(d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these

Directions (13-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:

A, B, C, D, Q, R, S, T and W are nine persons living in the same house. There are three married couple in the house. A is the only daughter of D, who is the paternal grandfather of T. R is the son of Q. T is the daughter of S. B is the mother of S. B is not married to D. C is the maternal grandfather of T. R is the father of T. T is sister of W.

Q13. How is A related to S?
(a) Mother in-law
(b) Sister in-law
(c) Father in-law
(d) Sister
(e) Can’t be determined

Q14. How is W related to R?
(a) Son
(b) Father
(c) Daughter
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of these

Q15. Which of the following is the pair of “husband-wife”?
(a) D, B
(b) C, D
(c) A, S
(d) Q, B
(e) R, S

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Solutions

Solutions (1-5):
Sol.  
X faces the centre and sits third to the right of R. Both the immediate neighbours of X are facing outside the centre. X uses Toshiba laptop. R uses Acer laptop. Only W sits between the one who uses Dell laptop and the one who uses Toshiba laptop. From these conditions we have four possible cases-

S and the one who uses Samsung laptop face eachother.. W sits immediate left of S. By these conditions case- 2 and case- 3 are cancelled. So new arrangement will be-

Z is an immediate neighbour of the ones who uses Lenovo and Sony laptop. By this condition case- 1 is cancelled. Y sits third to the right of Q, who uses Apple laptop. P uses Lenovo laptop. The ones who use HP and Lenovo laptop face same direction. So final arrangement will be-

S1. Ans(c)
S2. Ans(b)
S3. Ans(d)
S4. Ans(a)
S5. Ans(c)