Reasoning Questions for IBPS PO Mains 2017

Directions (1-5): Read the following information and answer the questions that follow:

There is an eight-member committee heading a housing society. There are four sectors – A, B, C and D. Two members represent each sector. The members are – M, N, O, P, R, S, T and U. The names of the members are not necessarily in the same order as the names of the sector. The members are from different professions. Those professions are — Singer, Tailor, Artist, Dentist, Writer, Designer, Businessman, and Physician. During a dinner they all sit around a table facing towards center of the table.

No two representatives of the same sector are sitting adjacent to each other except those of sector B. Representatives of sector A are sitting opposite each other. The Dentist is sitting on the immediate left of the Physician. R is neither the Physician nor the Artist. U, the Designer, represents sector C. U is sitting on the immediate left of N, who represents sector B. N is not the Artist. S is writer and he is neither from sector A nor C nor D. S is sitting opposite T. M is Tailor and sitting between the T who is dentist and the one who is Businessman. Both the representatives of sector D are sitting adjacent to representatives of sector A.

Q1. Who is the Singer?

(a) N

(b) P

(c) O

(d) Data inadequate

(e) None of these

Q2. What is the profession of O?

(a) Physician

(b) Artist 

(c) Singer

(d) Either (a) or (b)

(e) None of these

Q3. Who among the following represent sector A?

(a) O and P

(b) R and U

(c) M and S

(d) Data inadequate

(e) None of these

Q4. Who is sitting opposite to one who is Designer?

(a) Physician 

(b) Dentist

(c) Businessman

(d) Data inadequate

(e) None of these

Q5. Who among the following represent sector D?

(a) O and P

(b) R and U

(c) M and S

(d) T and R

(e) Data inadequate 

Directions (6-10): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule and generates stepwise outputs till the arrangement is complete following that rule.Following is an illustration of input and steps of rearrangement till the last step.

Input: tree cut 92 51 food 17 garden 32

Step I: cut tree 92 51 food 17 garden 32

Step II: cut food tree 92 51 17 garden 32

Step III: cut food 92 tree 51 17 garden 32

Step IV: cut food 92 51 tree 17 garden 32

Step V: cut food 92 51 garden tree 17 32

Step VI: cut food 92 51 garden tree 32 17

And Step VI is the last step of the input.

As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out the answer to each of the questions given below:

Q6. Step IV of an input is: earn more 82 63 12 31 quite new

Which of the following will definitely be Step II of the output?

(a) earn more 12 63 82 31 quite new

(b) earn more new 82 63 12 31 quite

(c) earn more quite new 82 12 63 31 

(d) Cannot be determined

(e) None of these

Q7. Input: bring home 42 73 15 goal 32 type

Which of the following steps will be the last?

(a) V

(b) VI

(c) IV

(d) VII

(e) None of these

Q8. Input: bench 47 63 advance 13 29 again between

Which of the following is the step III of the output?

(a) advance again 63 47 bench 13 29 between

(b) advance again 63 47 bench between 13 29

(c) advance again 63 47 bench between 29 13

(d) Cannot be determined

(e) None of these

Q9. Step II of an input is: desk eagle 12 28 41 69 foreign land

How many more steps will be required to complete the rearrangement?

(a) 4

(b) 6

(c) 5

(d) 3

(e) None of these

Q10. Step III of an input is: again dark 83 sour 19 21 prey 39

Which of the following steps will be the last but one?

(a) V

(b) VI

(c) VIII

(d) VII

(e) None of these

Directions (11-15): Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and give answer.

(a) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

(b) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

(c) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.

(d) if the data even in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.

(e) if the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question. 

Q11. B is F’s brother. K is mother of F. How is F related to B?

I. K has only one son and one daughter?

II. B is the only son of M, who has two children.

Q12. On which month of the year was Divya born?

I. Her mother correctly remembers that Divya was born after June and before September.

II. Her father correctly remembers that she was born after March and before August.

Q13. Among P, Q, R, S, T and V, who is the heaviest?

I. P and S are heavier than Q, T and V. Neither P nor S is the heaviest.

II. P is heavier than S but lighter than R.

Q14. Who scored highest among A, B, C, D and E?

I. B scored more than D, but not as much as C.

II. E scored more than C but not more than A.

Q15. How many boys are there in the class?

I. Neha’s rank among girls is 5th from the top and her rank in the class is 9th from the bottom.

II. No. of boys in the class is twice the number of girls.

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