Reasoning for NABARD Assistant Manager 2018: 13th April

Dear Aspirants,

Direction (1-5):  Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Seven members of the family namely O, N, M, L, K, J and I live in seven different floors of building. 

One of the floors in the building is vacant. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two, and so on till the topmost floor is numbered eight. 

Each of them went to zoo on different days of the week starting from Monday to Sunday (but not necessarily in the same order). M went to zoo before O. The one who went on Thursday lives immediately below J. K lives on an odd numbered floor above fourth floor.  Only three persons live between I and the vacant floor. There are only three floors between M and the one who went on Saturday. The one who went on Tuesday live on one of the floors below fourth floor. There are only four floors between J and O. The person who went on Sunday lives immediately below the person who went on Monday. The person who lives immediately below the vacant floor went on Tuesday. Only two floors are there between the persons who went on Monday and Saturday. N lives immediately below the vacant floor. The number of floors between K and M is the same as the number of persons living above K. N lives on the floor which is immediately above the one who went on Friday. There is only one floor between K and the one who went on Tuesday. O went to zoo before J. 

Q1. How many persons went to the zoo between the persons who live on the top two floors?

(a) One

(b) None

(c) Two

(d) Five

(e) None of these

Q2. Who among the following person lives immediate below the one, who went on Friday?

(a) K

(b) O

(c) N

(d) M

(e) None of these  

Q3. Which of the following pair represents the persons, who live immediate below and above the vacant floors?

(a) K – L

(b) M – N

(c) J – I

(d) N – K

(e) None of these

Q4. Which of the following combination of day and floor is correct for the person lives below O?

(a) Monday- 3rd floor

(b) Thursday- 6th floor 

(c) Wednesday-1st  floor

(d) Saturday- 7th floor

(e) Thursday- 7th floor

Q5. How many persons live between the persons who went on Monday and Tuesday? 

(a) Four

(b) Three

(c) Two

(d) One

(e) None of these

Directions (6-10): In the following questions, the symbols @, $, *, # and   used with the following meaning as illustrated below:

‘P $ Q’ means ‘P is not smaller than Q’

‘P @ Q’ means ‘P is neither smaller than nor equal to Q’

‘P # Q’ means ‘P is neither greater than nor equal to Q’

Now, in each of the following questions assuming the given statements to be true, find which of the four conclusions I, II, III and IV is/are definitely true and give your answer accordingly.

Directions (11-15): These questions are based on the following six numbers.

312  876  156  285  734  954

Q11. If we add 2 to the second digit of each number and subtract 1 from the first digit of each number, then which of the given will become the lowest number? 

(a) 312

(b) 876

(c) 156

(d) 285

(e) None of these

Q12. If all the digits in each of the numbers are written in increasing order within than number, than which of the given number will become the second highest?

(a) 312

(b) 954

(c) 156

(d) 285

(e) None of these

Q13. If the first two digits of each number are interchanged, then which of the following numbers will become the highest number?

(a) 721

(b) 876

(c) 937

(d) 387

(e) 285

Q14. In each number, if we subtracted 1 in first digit and added 1 in last digit, then which among these number will be 2nd lowest number?

(a) 734

(b) 876

(c) 954

(d) 285

(e) None of these

Q15.If we replace all the odd digits in each number with zero, then which of the following number will become the lowest?

(a) 312   

(b) 876

(c) 156

(d) 285

(e) 734

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