Reasoning Quiz Based on IBPS PO Prelims |

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

In a party eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a rectangular table and facing the center. Among them, A, C, D and E are females and one male and one female is host in the group. Three persons are sitting on each of the longer sides of the table and the hosts are on the remaining sides of the table. D is third to the right of G, who is a host and sitting second to the left of C. H and C are sitting opposite each other. A sits third to the left of G and F sits third to the left of E.

Q1. What is the position of C in the given arrangement?
(a) Third to the left of E
(b) Third to the right of B
(c) Immediate left of F
(d) Second to the left of G
(e) None of the above

Q2. Who among the following is second to the left to D?
(a) C
(b) A
(c) F
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of the above

Q3. Who among the following is female host in the group?
(a) E
(b) A
(c) F
(d) C
(e) None of the above

Q4. Which of the following statements is/are true?
(a) H is third to the right of C.
(b) D and F are immediate neighbours.
(c) B is second to the right of G.
(d) F and B sit opposite each other.
(e) None is true

Q5. How many pairs of persons are sitting opposite persons of the same sex?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) None
(e) None of the above

Directions (6-10): In each question below are given three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. Given answer
(a) If only conclusion I follows.
(b) If only conclusion II follows.
(c) If either conclusion I or Ii follows.
(d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows.
(e) If both conclusion I and II follow.

Q6. Statements: Some numbers are digits.
  No digit is a letter.
  All letter are vowel.
Conclusions: I. No number is a letter.
  II. At least some numbers are letters.

Q7. Statements: No paper is a pen.
  All pen are cover.
  All cover is pillow.

Conclusions: I. At least some cover are pen.
  II. No cover is a paper.

Q8. Statements: All fans are ACs.
  No AC is a cooler.
Some cooler are Freeze.
Conclusions: I. No fan is a cooler.
  II. At least some ACs is fans.

Q9. Statements: Some words are vowels.
  Some consonants are vowels.
  Some vowel is pen.
Conclusions: I. All words are consonants.
II. At least some vowels are not consonants.

Q10. Statements: Some keys are locks.
  All doors are keys.
  No keys are drum.
Conclusions: I. All doors being locks is a possibility.
  II. All keys being doors is a possibility.

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Eight friends D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K are sitting in a straight line facing north, but not necessarily in the same order. F sits second to the right of G, who is not an immediate neighbor of H. E is an immediate neighbor of both H and K. There are only three persons between H and I. I sit at one end of the line. D is not an immediate neighbor of I or F.

Q11. Who among the following is on the immediate left of J?
(a) D
(b) G
(c) I
(d) K
(e) None of the above

Q12. What is the position of H with respect to the one who is on the immediate right of I?
(a) Third to the left
(b) Second to the right
(c) Third to the right
(d) Fourth to the left
(e) None of the above

Q13. How many person are sitting between E and I?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) None of the above

Q14. Who among the following sits second to the left of H?
(a) J
(b) G
(c) D
(d) K
(e) None of the above

Q15. Who among the following sit at the extreme ends of the line?
(a) G, I
(b) I, D
(c) D, G
(d) J, I
(e) None of the above