Reasoning Quiz For IBPS RRB PO/Clerk Prelims 2023 -19th July 2023

Directions (1-5): Answer the questions based on the information given below.
Eight persons R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y were born (but not necessarily in the same order) in eight different years (1980, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, and 2000).
Note: Consider all persons were born on 31st December in the given years. Ages of these persons are calculated with respect to 31st December 2021.
S was born five years before T. At least one person was born between U and X. V was born two years after T. At most one person was born between V and Y. W was born immediately before R. R was not born in a leap year.

Q1. Who was born in a non-leap year?
(a) W
(b) U
(c) X
(d) V
(e) T

Q2. Who was born four years before Y?
(a) T
(b) U
(c) X
(d) V
(e) Can’t be determined

Q3. If X was born 10 years after V, then what will be the age of U?
(a) 29 years
(b) 25 years
(c) 21 years
(d) 41 years
(e) None of these

Q4. Who among the following person was born in 1981?
(a) W
(b) U
(c) X
(d) R
(e) Y

Q5. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
I. W was born in 1980
II. Two persons were born after U
III. Y was born in 1996
(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Only I and II
(d) Only I and III
(e) Only III

Directions (6-10): Answer the questions based on the information given below.
Seven known and three unknown persons live on different floors of a ten-floor building such that lowermost floor is numbered as floor 1, floor above it is numbered as floor 2 and so on. There is no vacant floor.
S lives four floors above Y. There are three floors between V and Z’s floor. L’s floor is exactly between S’s and V’s floor. There is only one floor between Z and T’s floor. M who lives below Z, lives on a prime numbered floor. L lives on perfect square numbered floor but above 5th floor.

Q6. Who lives on 7th floor?
(a) Z
(b) Y
(c) M
(d) T
(e) None of these

Q7. T lives on which among the following floor?
(a) 2nd
(b) 4th
(c) 7th
(d) 8th
(e) None of these

Q8. How many floors are below M’s floor?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) More than four

Q9. Who among the following person lives on topmost floor?
(a) S
(b) V
(c) T
(d) Z
(e) None of these

Q10. How many persons live between Y and T?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) More than four

Solutions