Reasoning Questions for IBPS PO Mains 2017

Directions (1-5): Study the following information and answer the given questions:

Nine people – P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X who lives on separate floors of a 9-floor building such that ground floor is numbered 1, first floor is numbered 2 and so on until the topmost floor is numbered 9. Each one of them belongs to different city of India viz. Noida, Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Meerut, Varanasi, Pune, Patna, and Mumbai but not necessarily in the same order.

Only five people lives above the floors on which P lives. Only one person lives between P and the one who belongs to Varanasi. U lives immediately below the one who belongs to Delhi. The one who belongs to Delhi live on an even numbered floor. Only three people lives between the one who belongs to Varanasi and the one who belongs to Agra. T lives immediately above R. T does not belong to Agra. Only two people lives between Q and the one who belongs to Meerut. The one who belongs to Meerut live below the floor on which Q lives. W, who belongs to Patna lives on floor no. 8. The one who belongs to Noida does not live immediately above or immediately below Q. S does not live immediately above or immediately below P. X belongs to Mumbai and lives immediately above W. V does not belong to Kanpur. 

Q1.Who amongst the following lives immediately below the floor on which R lives? 

(a) P 

(b)Q

(c) No one.

(d) V 

(e) T 

Q2.How many persons live between P and the one who belongs to Meerut? 

(a)One

(b) Three

(c) Two

(d) No one 

(e) Four 

Q3.Who lives on the floor immediately above T? 

(a) P 

(b) Q 

(c) S 

(d) V 

(e) U 

Q4.S belongs to which of the following city? 

(a)Delhi 

(b) Varanasi 

(c) Agra 

(d) Meerut 

(e) Kanpur 

Q5.How many people live between the floors on which S and the one who belongs to Mumbai? 

(a) None 

(b) Two 

(c) One 

(d) More than three 

(e) Three

Directions (6-10): In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q6. Statements: 

Some bags are truth.

All truth are shirts.

Some shirts are boys.

All boys are shops.

Conclusions: 

I. Some shops are bags.

II. Some boys are bags.

III. Some shops are shirts.

IV. Some shirts are bags.

(a) Only I and II follow

(b) Only I and III follow

(c) Only III and IV follow

(d) Only II and IV follow

(e) None of these

Q7. Statements: 

All pens are chairs.

All flowers are chairs.

All chairs are trucks.

All trees are trucks.

Conclusions: 

I. Some trucks are pens.

II. Some trucks are chairs.

III. Some trees are pens.

IV. Some trees are chairs.

(a) Only I and III follow

(b) Only I and II follow

(c) Only III and IV follow

(d) Only II and IV follow

(e) None of these

Q8. Statements: 

All desks are pillars.

Some pillars are towns.

All towns are benches.

Some benches are cars.

Conclusions: 

I. Some cars are towns.

II. Some benches are desks.

III. Some benches are pillars.

IV. Some cars are pillars.

(a) None follows

(b) Only I follows

(c) Only II follows

(d) Only III follows

(e) Only IV follows

Q9. Statements: 

All stations are houses.

No house is garden.

Some gardens are rivers.

All rivers are ponds.

Conclusions: 

I. Some ponds are gardens.

II. Some ponds are stations.

III. Some ponds are houses.

IV. No pond is station.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only either II or IV follows

(c) Only I and II follow

(d) Only I and IV follow

(e) None of these

Q10. Statements: 

Some towers are lanes.

Some lanes are roads.

Some roads are rivers.

Some rivers are jungles.

Conclusions: 

I. Some jungles are roads.

II. Some roads are lanes.

III. Some jungles are towers.

IV. No jungle is road.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(c) Only either I or IV follows

(d) Only IV follow

(e) Only either I or IV and II follow

Directions (11-15): Each of the questions below consists of q 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 given 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. Which bag amongst P, Q, R, S and T is the heaviest?

I. Bag Q is heavier than R and S. Bag T is heavier than only bag P.

II. Only three bags are lighter than R. The weight of bag Q is 50 kg, which is 2 kg more than bag R.

Q12. Are all the five friends – A, B, C, D and E – who are seated around a circular table facing the centre?

I. A sits third to the left of B. B faces the centre. D and E are immediate neighbours of each other. C sits second to the right of E.

II. D sits second to right of C. C faces the centre. Both E and A are immediate neighbours of D. B sits second to the right of A.

Q13. In a college, five different subjects, viz Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Mathematics, are taught on five different days of the same week, starting from Monday and ending on Friday. Is Chemistry taught on Wednesday?

I. Two subjects are taught between Zoology and Mathematics. Mathematics is taught before Zoology. Chemistry is taught on the day immediately next to the day when Physics is taught. Botany is not taught on Friday.

II. Three lectures are scheduled between the lectures of Botany and Zoology. Mathematics is taught immediately before Physics.

Q14. Among friends M, N, O, P, Q and R, who is second heaviest?

I. O is heavier than only two friends. P is heavier than O but lighter than N.R is not the heaviest.

II. M is lighter than only two friends. N is heavier than O but lighter than R.P is heavier than only Q.

Q15. If F granddaughter of B?

I. B is the father of M. M is the sister of T. T is the mother of F.

II. S is the son of F. V is the daughter of F. R is the brother of T.

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