Sample Reasoning Puzzle Quiz

Directions (1-5): Study the information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Eight candidate A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are sitting in a row facing towards north direction for the selection test in Career Power Institute but not necessary in the same order. No two successive candidates are sitting together according to alphabetical order. For Example: A does not sit with B; similarly, B does not sit with C and so on. They all have different subjects like GK, History, Hindi, Computer, Reasoning, Geography, English, and Math but not necessary in the same order. Either D or B sits at the extreme end of the row. A’s subject is Math and sits second from the left end of the row. D sits third to left of one whose subject is English. B sits third to left of G whose subject is Geography. G does not sit any of the extreme end of the line. The one whose subject is Reasoning sits second to left of F. E does not sit any of the extreme end of the line. The one whose subject is Computer is immediate neighbor of B. F’s subject is not Computer. The one whose subject is Hindi sits second to right of one whose subject is GK.

Q 1. Which of the following candidate is sitting third to the right of one whose subject is
Computer?
(a) E
(b) G
(c) C
(d) B
(e) F

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Q 2. How many candidate(s) sit between D and E?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) More than three
(e) None of these

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Q 3. Which of the following is D’s subject?
(a) Reasoning
(b) Hindi
(c) GK
(d) Computer
(e) None of these

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Q 4. Who among following sits immediate left of B?
(a) A
(b) The one whose subject is Hindi
(c) H
(d) The one whose subject is Geography.
(e) F

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Q 5. Whose subject is Computer?
(a) D
(b) A
(c) F
(d) B
(e) H

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Directions (6-10): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Eight persons A, B, C, D, P, Q, R and S live in a eight-stoery building in which ground floor is number 1 upto top floor is 8th floor. All of them like different colour viz. Blue, Pink, Violet, Orange, Cream, Green, Red and yellow but not necessarily in the same order. D likes red and he lives on even numbered floor but above the fourth floor. Two people live between D and Q who likes pink. Q lives below the floor number 4. Only one person live between Q and P who likes yellow. There are gap of two floor between the one who likes yellow and the one who likes cream. S likes cream and he does not live immediately above or immediately below the floor on which Q lives. R lives on even number floor. The one who likes orange live immediately below R. The one who likes yellow live immediately above the floor on which the person who likes blue lives. R does not like green. There is gap of one floor between A and P. a lives on the floor above on which P lives. C lives on even number floor.

Q 6. A likes which of the following colour?
(a) cream
(b) red
(c) green
(d) yellow
(e) violet

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Q 7. Who among following likes violet colour?
(a) C
(b) Q
(c) R
(d) B
(e) A

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Q 8. Who among following lives immediately below B?
(a) R
(b) Q
(c) C
(d) P
(e) No one.

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Q 9. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence they form a group. Which one
of the following does not belong to that group?
(a) P
(b) S
(c) D
(d) R
(e) C

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Q 10. R lives on which floor?
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third
(d) Fourth
(e) None of these.

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Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions below:

Seven friends J, K, L, A, B, C and D who got married to their female friends i.e. P, Q, R, S, T, V and W but not necessarily in the same order. They all married in a same week starting from Monday but on different days and not necessarily in the same order. They all belong to different cities i.e. Lucknow, Delhi, Kanpur, Varanasi, Agra, Jaipur and Gurgaon but not necessarily in the same order. L belongs to Lucknow. The one who belongs to Agra city married with V. A married with S but one of the day after Thursday. B get married on Wednesday and he belongs to Kanpur. D get married on Sunday but he does not marry Q or V. There are two day gap between the one who belongs to Lucknow and the one who belongs to Jaipur. K belongs to Delhi and he married with R on a day immediately after J who belongs to Varanasi. C belongs to Agra and get married on the day immediately after L but before the one who belongs to Jaipur. K belongs to Delhi and get married on the day immediately after the one who marry with P. The one who get married on Monday does not belongs to Jaipur or Lucknow. B does not marry with Q or W.

Q 11. Who among the following belongs to Jaipur?
(a) A
(b) K
(c) L
(d) C
(e) D

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Q 12. Who among the following married with T?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) K
(d) C
(e) J

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Q 13. The one who belongs to Varanasi married with?
(a) R
(b) T
(c) P
(d) S
(e) V

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Q 14. The one who belong to Agra married on which day?
(a) Friday
(b) Monday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Thursday
(e) None of these

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Q 15. L get married on which day of the week?
(a) Monday
(b) Friday
(c) Saturday
(d) Thursday
(e) Wednesday

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Directions (16-20): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions below:

There are seven friends i.e. M, N, P, A, B, C and D. All of them are working in a multinational company. They all likes different colour viz. Blue, Green, Red, Black, Yellow, Brown and Pink but not necessarily in the same order. They all have different yearly salary but no two persons have the same salary. The one who got the highest salary likes blue. C likes the brown colour. D likes Pink colour and his salary is half times the salary of M. A Likes Red colour and his salary is half the salary of P, who does not like Blue colour. B likes Green colour and his salary is 1 lac less than the salary of P. The difference between the salary of N and D is 1 lac. N and P does not like Blue colour. P likes yellow colour. The difference between the salary of the one who likes Brown and the one who likes Black colour is 0.5 lac. C earns a yearly income of 1 lac. A’s salary is 0.5 lac more than the salary of the one who likes Black colour. The one who likes green colour earns a yearly salary of 3 lac. C earns the lowest yearly salary.

Q 16. Who among the following earns the highest salary?
(a) A
(b) P
(c) B
(d) M
(e) None of these

Q 17. Who among the following earns 1.5 lac as his yearly salary?
(a) M
(b) N
(c) A
(d) D
(e) None of these

Q 18. Who among the following earns the 2nd lowest salary?
(a) C
(b) N
(c) A
(d) M
(e) D

Q 19. Who among the following earns 4 lac as his yearly salary?
(a) M
(b) N
(c) A
(d) B
(e) P

Q 20. Who likes Black colour?
(a) M
(b) N
(c) A
(d) D
(e) B

 

Solutions (1-5):
S1. Ans. (c)
S2. Ans. (d)
S3. Ans. (a)
S4. Ans. (e)
S5. Ans. (e)

Solution (6-10):
S6. Ans. (c)
S7. Ans. (c)
S8. Ans. (e)
S9. Ans.(a)
S10. Ans.(b)

Solutions (11-15):
S11.Ans.(e)
S12.Ans.(b)
S13.Ans.(c)
S14.Ans.(a)
S15.Ans.(d)

Solutions (16-20):
S16.Ans.(d)
S17.Ans.(b)
S18.Ans.(b)
S19.Ans.(e)
S20.Ans.(b)

 

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