Reasoning Quiz For RBI Grade B Phase 1 2023-23rd June

Directions (1-5): Study the following information and answer the given questions.
Eight persons live on different floors of an eight-storey building such that the bottommost floor is numbered as 1, floor just above it is number as 2 and so on. Only one person lives on one floor. Their names are consecutive alphabets in alphabetical order starting from the bottommost floor. Each of them likes different sports- Cricket, Hockey, Football, Tennis, Kabaddi, Chess, Boxing and Archery but not necessarily in the same order.
Three persons live between the person who likes Hockey and S who likes Tennis. Neither R nor N likes Cricket. The person who likes Kabaddi lives immediately above the person who likes Boxing. The person who likes Cricket lives on an odd number floor. S who lives on an even numbered floor lives immediately below the person who likes Chess. Neither R nor V likes Kabaddi. The number of persons live above the person who likes Archery is the same as the number of persons live below the person who likes Cricket.

Q1. Who among the following lives on the bottommost floor?
(a) The one who likes Football
(b) The one who likes Chess
(c) The one who likes Boxing
(d) The one who likes Archery
(e) The one who likes Cricket

Q2. How many persons live between R and the one who likes Hockey?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) More than three
(e) None of these

Q3. Who among the following person likes Cricket?
(a) W
(b) U
(c) T
(d) Y
(e) V

Q4. T likes _______ and lives immediately below the person who likes _______.
(a) Hockey, Boxing
(b) Tennis, Kabaddi
(c) Chess, Archery
(d) Football, Hockey
(e) Cricket, Tennis

Q5. Four from the following are similar in a certain way and forms a group. Find out the one which does not belong to that group.
(a) R – Tennis
(b) S – Chess
(c) U – Cricket
(d) W – Hockey
(e) X – Kabaddi

Directions (6-10): Study the information carefully answers the questions given below.
! means either hour hand or minute hand is at 1
@ means either hour hand or minute hand is at 5
# means either hour hand or minute hand is at 8
$ means either hour hand or minute hand is at 10
% means either hour hand or minute hand is at 12
& means either hour hand or minute hand is at 4
Note: if two symbols are given then by default first symbol is consider as an hour hand and second one is considered as minute hand.

Q6. If a train leaves at !@,and reaches its destination in 4hours,then at what time does it reaches its destination?
(a) @@
(b) @!
(c) $$
(d)#$
(e) none of these

Q7. It takes 4hrs 05 min for Vanya to reach her home from office. But she got late by 15mins and reached home at #&. At what time did she leave her office?
(a) %%
(b) $%
(c) #@
(d) &%
(e) none of these

Q8. Kriti booked a cab to attend a conference and the cab charged Rs.6/km. If she boarded the cab at !@ and reached conference at &#. What amount of money did she pay for the cab (in Rs.)?
(a) 250
(b) 450
(c) 216
(d) 1000
(e) Can’t be determined

Q9. Arun usually wake up at #%, and reaches his office at $! but today he woke up late by 10 mins and also got stuck in traffic for 5mins. At what time will he reach his office today?
(a) $&
(b) $%
(c) #%
(d) @@
(e) None of these

Q10. If a bus starts from Greater Noida at @# and reaches Delhi at #&, what is the speed of the bus (in km/h) if the distance between the two stops is 56km?
(a) 12
(b) 16
(c) 15
(d) 21
(e) None of these

Solutions

Solutions (6-10):
S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. the train leaves at !@ i.e. 1:25,reaches after 4 hours then the train reaches at 5:25 i.e. @@

S7. Ans. (d)
Sol. #& i.e. 8:20. Usually she arrives 15min before, means at 8:05 or #!. It takes her 4 hrs. 5 min to reach home from office, therefore she left office at &% i.e. 4:00.

S8. Ans. (e)
Sol. To calculate the charge paid, distance is required which will be calculated by time and speed. But here only time is known but speed is not given.

S9. Ans. (a)
Sol. Arun usually reaches office at $! or 10:05 but today got delayed by 15 min. Therefore, he reaches office at 10:20 i.e. $&

S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. Bus starts at @# i.e. 5:40 and reaches delhi at #& i.e. 8:20, so the total time taken is 2hrs. 40 min or 8/3 hrs. Therefore the speed of the bus is 56km /(8/3 hr.)= 21km/ hrs.