Reasoning Quizzes For IBPS PO Mains 2022- 22nd October

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Adarsh is going to park from Monday to Sunday (Starting from Monday and ending on Sunday) in different time slot. Time slots are 6:00am, 7:00am, 7:15am, 8:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am and 11:45am. Order of the time slot must be different from the one mentioned above. Consecutive time slot as mentioned above will not be necessarily on consecutive days.
Adarsh is going at 9:30am on Tuesday. There is 15min gap between the Thursday and Sunday time slot. There is one-hour gap between the time slot of Saturday and Wednesday. There are three days gap between 6:00am and 11:30am time slots. Monday time slot is after Friday time slot.

Q1. What is the time difference between Monday and Sunday time slot?
(a) 1 hour
(b) 2 hours
(c) 3 hours
(d) 4 hours
(e) 5 hours

Q2. What is the time slot of Thursday?
(a) 7:15 am
(b) 7:00 am
(c) 11:30 am
(d) 8:30 am
(e) 11:45 am

Q3. If the time slots are arranged in descending order from Monday to Sunday, then how many time slots will remain unchanged?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) None
(d) Three
(e) None of these

Q4. What is the time slot is just before 11:30 am according to the arrangement?
(a) 8:30 am
(b) 7:00 am
(c) 6:00 am
(d) 9:30 am
(e) None of these

Q5. If the person is getting 15 min late on Sunday, then what time he reaches to the park?
(a) 6:15 am
(b) 7:15 am
(c) 11:45 am
(d) 8:45 am
(e) None of these

Directions (6-9): 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: cement 14 australia 75 fun 58 governor 22 earlier 55
Step I: australia cement 14 75 fun 58 governor earlier 55 22
Step II: earlier australia cement 75 fun 58 governor 55 22 14
Step III: governor earlier australia cement 75 fun 58 22 14 55
Step IV: cement governor earlier australia fun 58 22 14 55 75
Step V: fun cement governor earlier australia 22 14 55 75 58

Step V is the final step of given input. Answer the following questions based on the following input: –

Input: goa 35 minister 45 grass 86 national 33 eliminating

Q6. Which of the following element is 3rd from right in Step III?
(a) 33
(b) 35
(c) 45
(d) 86
(e) None of these

Q7. How many steps is required to get output?
(a) Two
(b) One
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) Five

Q8. What is the total sum of 3rd element from left in step I and 2nd element from right in step III?
(a) 68
(b) 70
(c) 78
(d) 80
(e) None of these

Q9. In which of the following step ‘goa grass 86’ is found in the same order?
(a) Step III
(b) Step I
(c) Step II
(d) Step IV
(e) None of these

Directions (10-14): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Six persons R, Z, G, L, T, and F are going for a holiday on different days of the week from Monday to Saturday but not necessarily in the same order. They work at different posts i.e., Clerk, PO, SO, Assistant Manager, Manager and Cashier.
Three persons are going for a holiday between the Cashier and Clerk who is not going for holiday on Monday. PO who is not an immediate neighbor of either Cashier or Clerk is going for a holiday immediately before Z. The Manager is not going for a holiday on Monday. No one is going for a holiday between SO and F who is a cashier. T is not going for a holiday after Wednesday. L is neither PO nor Manager. Two persons are going for a holiday between T and Z. R is not the Manager.

Q10. Who is going for a holiday on Thursday?
(a) Manager
(b) PO
(c) R
(d) Both (A) and (B)
(e) Both (B) and (C)

Q11. Who is an Assistant Manager?
(a) L
(b) G
(c) T
(d) Z
(e) None of these

Q12. Which of the following is true regarding G?
(a) G is going for holiday on Friday
(b) G is an Assistant Manager
(c) Two persons are going for holiday after G
(d) G is not going after T
(e) None of these

Q13. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and belongs to a group. Which of the following does not belong to that group?
(a) L-Assistant Manager
(b) G-Manager
(c) T-Clerk
(d) Z-SO
(e) R-Cashier

Q14. Number of persons going for holiday before G is same as the number of persons going for holiday after ___________
(a) Z
(b) T
(c) R
(d) F
(e) None of these

Q15. In the word “INVESTMENT” all the consonants are written as their preceding letter and all the vowels are written as their following letter according to the English alphabetical series. Now all the letters are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right and all the repeated letters are eliminated. Then how many such pairs of letters are there each of which have as many letters between them in the word (both forward and backward) as they have in the English alphabetical series.
(a)Two
(b)Three
(c)One
(d)None
(e)More than Three

Solutions

Direction (1-5):
Sol.

S1. Ans. (c)
S2. Ans. (e)
S3. Ans. (b)
S4. Ans. (b)
S5. Ans. (c)

Direction (6-9):
Sol. Logic: One word and one number is arranged in each step.
Word: In descending order from left according to number of vowels in each word.
Number: In ascending order from right according to total sum of numeral value of all digits of each number.

Input: goa 35 minister 45 grass 86 national 33 eliminating
Step I: eliminating goa 35 minister 45 grass 86 national 33
Step II: national eliminating goa minister 45 grass 86 33 35
Step III: minister national eliminating goa grass 86 33 35 45
Step IV: goa minister national eliminating grass 33 35 45 86
Step V: grass goa minister national eliminating 33 35 45 86

S6. Ans. (a)
S7. Ans. (e)
S8. Ans. (b)
S9. Ans. (a)

Directions (10-14):
Sol.

S10. Ans. (e)
S11. Ans. (a)
S12. Ans. (e)
S13. Ans. (e)
S14. Ans. (c)