Reasoning Quiz for SBI Clerk 2018: 3rd April

Dear Aspirants,

Directions (1-5): Read the given information carefully and answer the given questions.

There are seven friends i.e. A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, each gets different salaries. They all are of different ages. Oldest person is of 36 yrs old and youngest person’s age is not less than 10. 

The one who is oldest gets lowest salary. F gets less salary than atleast 3 persons but doesn’t get lowest salary. E is elder than only two persons. B’s age is a perfect square of an odd number. G is older than A but not the oldest. The one who gets highest salary is youngest. A gets less salary than only two persons. Difference between the ages of D and B is equal to the age of C. Youngest person’s age is not an even number. E gets more salary than B but less salary than F. The one who gets 2nd highest salary, is second oldest person. F is older than A but younger than B. B’s salary is 12k.

Q1. Who among the following is the youngest person?

(a) B

(b) F

(c) A

(d) C

(e) None of these

Q2. Who among the following gets the lowest salary?

(a) G

(b) E

(c) D

(d) F

(e) None of these

 Q3. If A’s salary is 22k, then what will be the possible salary E can get?

(a) 23k

(b) 11k

(c) 13k

(d) 24k

(e) None of these

Q4. Who among the following is the second oldest person?

(a) A

(b) G

(c) F

(d) B

(e) None of these

Q5. What will be the possible age of E?

(a) 10yrs

(b) 26yrs

(c) 27yrs

(d) 22yrs

(e) None of these

Directions (6-10): Study the following questions and answering the questions referring to the word sequence given below:

TRUE   BALL    HOLY    LITE   YEAR

Q6. If words are arranged according to the alphabetical series from left to right, then which word is third from the left end?

(a) YEAR             

(b) TRUE

(c) HOLY

(d) LITE

(e) None of these

Q7. If each letter is arranged according to the alphabetical series within each word, then which is the third letter of the word, which is fourth from the left end?

(a) H                                      

(b) E      

(c) I                      

(d) T      

(e) L

Q8. If each vowel of each word is changed to its next letter and each consonant change to the previous letter according to the alphabetical series, then How many words contain vowel?

(a) Two 

(b) None                              

(c) One                 

(d) Three             

(e) None of these

Q9. If each consonant of each word is changed to its previous letter according to the alphabetical series, then How many meaningful words can be formed?

(a) Two 

(b) None                              

(c) One                 

(d) Three             

(e) None of these

Q10. If 1st and 3rd letter of each word are interchange, then How many meaningful words can be formed?

(a) Two 

(b) None                              

(c) One                 

(d) Three             

(e) None of these

Direction (11-15): In each of the questions 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 from 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. 

Q11.  Statements:

All Red are Green. 

Some Green are Yellow. 

Some White are Yellow. 

Conclusions:

I. Some green are red 

II. Some white are not red is a possibility. 

III. Some yellow are red. 

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows 

(c) Only I and II follow 

(d) Only III follows 

(e) None follows 

Q12. Statements:

Some Pigeons are Dogs. 

All Dogs are Rats. 

All Pigeons are Horses. 

Conclusions:

I. Some Horses are Dogs. 

II. No rat is pigeon. 

III. All dogs are horse. 

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II and III follow 

(c) Only I and III follow 

(d) Only I and II follow 

(e) None of these 

Q13. Statements:

All Pepsi are Slice. 

All Slice are soft. 

Some Drinks are soft. 

Conclusions:

I. Some Slice are drink. 

II. Some soft are pepsi. 

III. All Pepsi are soft. 

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows 

(c) All follow 

(d) Only II and III follow 

(e) None of these 

Q14. Statements:

Some Cartoons are channel. 

All channels are cable. 

All wires are cable. 

Conclusions:

I. Some wire are channel. 

II. Some cable are cartoon. 

III. No channel is wire. 

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows 

(c) Only II and either I or III follow 

(d) Only I and II follow 

(e) None of these 

Q15. Statements:

Some Play are Cricket. 

Some Play are not Football. 

Some Badminton are Cricket. 

Conclusions:

I. Some Football are not Badminton.

II. All play can never be football. 

III. Some Football are not cricket. 

(a) Only I and III follow 

(b) Only II follows 

(c) Only II and either I or III follow 

(d) Only III follows 

(e) None of these  

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