Reasoning Quiz for IBPS Clerk Prelims: 24th October 2018

Reasoning Questions for IBPS Clerk 

Direction (1-5): In each question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. 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: 

Q1. Statements: 
All skies are tigers.
All flowers are clouds.
No cloud is sky. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some clouds are flowers. 
II. All clouds are flowers.

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Q2. Statements: 
All rats are trees.
Some dogs are rats.
Some trees are not dogs.
Conclusions: 
I. Some trees are dogs. 
II. Some dogs are not trees.

Solution:

Q3. Statements: 
All rains are clouds.
Some boys are rains.
Some clouds are cars.
Conclusions: 
I. Some clouds are boys.
II. Some clouds are not boys.

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Q4. Statements: 
All bricks are flowers.
Some houses are flowers.
All pens are houses.
Conclusions: 
I. Some houses are bricks. 
II. Some houses are not bricks.

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Q5. Statements: 
All lions are ducks.
No duck is a horse.
All horses are fruits.
Conclusions: 
I. Some fruit are not lion. 
II. Some fruits are horses.

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Directions (6-10): Study the information and answer the following questions: 

K, L, M, N, O, P, Q and R are sitting in a row. Some of them are facing north while some are facing south. Q sits third to the right of N. L sits second to the right of Q. Only one person sit between L and P. R sits third to the left of P. K sits second to the left of O. Both the person sitting at extreme ends face opposite direction to each other. Both the immediate neighbours of M faces same direction. R sits to the left of L and both of them are facing opposite direction to each other. R does not face north direction. N sits fifth to the right of M but none of them sits at an extreme end. Both the neighbors of Q face same direction as N.

Q6. Who among the following sits third to the right of Q?

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Q7. Which among the following pair sit at the end of the row?

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Q8. How many persons sits to the left of K?

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Q9. Who among the following sits second to the right of R?

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Q10. Four of the following are alike in a certain way so form a group, which of the following does not belong to that group?

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Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully answers the given questions: 

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.
Input: nine pure 19 34 12 69 hear call
Step I: call nine pure 19 34 12 69 hear
Step II: call 12 nine pure 19 34 69 hear
Step III: call 12 hear nine pure 19 34 69
Step IV: call 12 hear 19 nine pure 34 69
Step V: call 12 hear 19 nine 34 pure 69
Step V is the last step of the rearrangement of the above input As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.
Input: lemon 62 clean orange 41 37 apple 56

Q11. How many steps will be required to complete the rearrangement?

Q12. Which of the following steps will be the penultimate step?

Q13. Which of the following will be step V?

Q14. In which of the following step the elements ‘62 orange 41 56’ found in the same order?

Q15. In step II, ‘37’ is related to ‘62’ and ‘apple’ is related to ‘lemon’. In the same way ‘orange’ is related to?

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