Reasoning (Pre Mains level)

2021-08-18 05:53:38 PRELIM PUZZLE


There are 10 persons D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M sitting in two rows (5 persons in each row). Half of them are Indians and Half of them are Americans. The two rows are facing each other (North and South). No Indian sits next to or opposite to another Indian.

K sits at the left corner of the north facing row. K is a American. 2 people sit between L and F. G sits at the center in the south facing row. M sits opposite to the neighbor of I. M is facing south. M and I do not sit at the end. H sits opposite to the person who is next to D. H is facing north. H is a Indian. No one is sitting to the right of D. L is American. E is a Indian. M is an American.

JOIN @reasoning_material Open / Comment

2021-08-18 05:53:13 PRELIM PUZZLE


Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live in an eight-story building. Each of them likes different fruits viz- Apple, Mango, Banana, Orange, Cherry, Guava, Papaya, Kiwi, but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor is numbered 1 and the topmost floor is numbered 8.

There is only one floor between the one who likes Banana and the one who likes Kiwi. There are two floors between the one who likes Mango and C. F lives on an even-numbered floor and likes Papaya. Neither A nor B likes Mango or Cherry. The one who likes Orange lives on floor number 1.

There are three floors between the floor on which B lives and the floor on which E lives. F lives above C, who does not live on the first floor but likes Apple. Only one person lives between the one who likes Cherry and the one who likes Mango. The one who likes Banana lives on the topmost floor. H does not like Banana. G lives on the floor number which is between A and F. B live above E and A.

JOIN @reasoning_material Open / Comment

2021-08-18 05:53:12 PRELIM PUZZLE


Rahul, Ketan, Aman, Neeraj, Dheeraj, Deepak, Gaurav and Amit are sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing towards the centre and rest are facing away from the centre. All of them likes a different city, viz, Nagpur, Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Pune, Delhi, Bhopal and Indore but not necessarily in the same order.

Dheeraj faces towards the centre and likes Nagpur. Both the immediate neighbours of Dheeraj face away from the centre and likes Udaipur and Jodhpur. Neeraj faces away from the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of Neeraj do not face away from the centre. Dheeraj sits third to the right of Deepak, who likes Pune and face away from the centre. Aman sits third to the left of Deepak.

The one who likes Udaipur sits opposite to Deepak. The one who likes Jaipur is not the immediate neighbour of Deepak and face away from the centre. Rahul sits second to the left of Aman and does not like Bhopal or Indore. The one who likes Bhopal sits between Amit and Deepak. Ketan faces away from the centre and does not like Jaipur.

JOIN @reasoning_material Open / Comment

2021-08-18 05:53:12 PRELIM PUZZLE


P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and X are sitting around a circular table. Three of them are facing outside and the rest of them are facing inside.

Q sits third to the right of P and faces outside. R sits opposite to Q and faces inside. U sits to the immediate left of R and is facing in the same direction as that of R. V sits third to the right of U. Q and V faces in the same direction. The one sitting between Q and V is facing the direction opposite to them. X sits immediate left of S, who is facing inside. The immediate neighbours of Q are facing in the opposite direction of each other.

JOIN @reasoning_material Open / Comment

2021-08-16 06:10:29 Solution Open / Comment

2021-08-16 06:10:12 CODING DECODING


In a certain Code :

“Demand need provide universe” is coded as - “NED EED DRE SNE”

“Guide person earlier reason” is coded as - “DUE OEN EAR OEN”

“allow conduct local prevent” is coded as - “OLW COT AOL NRT” Open / Comment

2021-08-15 15:09:00 MAINS PUZZLE


Eight persons P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting in a square table in such a way that the persons sitting at corner face towards the center and the persons sitting at middle of side face outside the center. Each of them likes different colour i.e. Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Yellow, Orange, Grey and White but not necessary in same order.

The one who likes pink colour sits second to the right of U. One person sit between R and the one who likes Pink colour. The one who sits immediate right of R sits opposite to the one who likes Green colour. The one who likes white colour sits opposite to the one who likes Orange colour. Immediate neighbors of R do not like white. The one who likes grey colour is immediate neighbor of the one who likes green colour. Q sits second to the right of V, who sits immediate left of T. Q does not like orange. P and W sits immediate left to each other. W is not immediate neighbor of Q. One person sit between P and the one who likes blue colour. W likes yellow colour. Open / Comment

2021-08-15 15:08:14 MAINS PUZZLE


Ten Managers L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T and U are from ten different companies viz, TCS, HCL, Tech Mahindra, Infosys, Oracle, Wipro , Cognizant, L&T Infotech, Mind tree and Amway but not necessarily in the same order. They live on 10 different floors. The ground floor is numbered one and the topmost floor is numbered ten. Also they are sitting in two parallel rows containing five Managers each in such a way that there is an equal distance between the adjacent persons.

Five of them are facing south and five of them are facing north. Therefore in the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row, but not necessarily in the same order. In rows and floors each Manager’s belongs to different different companies. When they sit in the row arrangement, they belong to companies in which they work as a freelancer’s. When they sit in the floor arrangement; they belong to companies in which they work as a full time employee. In both arrangements only one Manager and his company is same.

The Manager of Wipro faces south and is third to the left of T, who faces Q. S sits second to the right of the Manager of L&T InfoTech and opposite to O. Manager of TCS neither lives on even number floor nor lives on floor number seven. The Manager of TCS is second to the right of the Manager of Oracle, who is opposite to one who is near to M. Amway’s Manager in the row is Manager of HCL in the floor and lives immediate above O but not the topmost floor.

Manager of L&T InfoTech lives above the Manager of Tech Mahindra in the floor. L and P sit in the same row. M lives immediate above the Manager of Cognizant. Manager of Amway lives above the floor on which R lives. The Manager of Tech Mahindra is neither U nor P and not near to U but faces south. U faces the Manager of Cognizant, who is second to the right of M and face north but not on the extreme end.

The Manager of Mindtree is second to the right of Q. O and N are immediate neighbours but one of them is near to the Manager of Cognizant, who is facing north. Manager, who is immediate right of Manager of Mindtree in the row, is the Manager of L&T InfoTech in the floor and that Manager is not Q and P. Four Managers live between Manager of TCS and R, who is not the Manager of Infosys, oracle and Mind tree. In floor, Manager of Infosys lives on odd number floor but below floor number five.

In row, HCL’s Manager is the Manager of Mindtree in the floor. In floor, only one Manager lives above the U. In row, Manager, who sits opposite to S, lives on floor number seven and is immediate above the Manager of Tech Mahindra. The Manager of HCL is immediately next (either left or right) to O. In floor, Manager of Cognizant lives on the lowermost floor. In floor, Manager of Oracle lives on immediate below the floor on which P lives. L is Manager of Infosys in the floor. Open / Comment

2021-08-15 10:25:24 STATEMENT & ASSUMPTION


(a) if only assumption I is implicit.

(b) if only assumption II is implicit.

(c) if either assumption I or II is implicit.

(d) if neither assumption I nor II is implicit.

(e) if both assumption I and II are implicit.

Statement : The catastrophic impact of monsoon rainfall on several districts of Kerala has come as a grim reminder that the vigil against unpredictable natural disasters must never be relaxed. More than three dozen people have diedand an estimated ₹8,316 crore worth of economic assets have been lost in the seasonal rain, particularly over the past week.

Assumptions :

I) Crucial support has come from the armed forces as well to normalise the situation.

II) All States naturally look to Kerala, with its record of social development, for evolving best practices to handle such natural disasters.

Statement : India a popular hub of medical tourism, attracting a large number of foreign patients every year.

Assumptions :

I) Medical treatment in India include reduced costs, the availability of latest medical technologies, and a growing compliance on international quality standards, Doctors trained in western countries including US and UK, as well as English speaking personnel, due to which foreigners are less likely to face language barrier in India.

II) India was “one of the lowest cost and highest quality of all medical tourism destinations, it offers wide variety of procedures at about one-tenth the cost of similar procedures in the United States

CAUSE AND EFFECT

(a) If statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect;

(b) If statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect;

(c) If both the statements I and II are independent causes;

(d) If both the statements I and II are effects of independent causes; and

(e) If both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause.

Statement I : RBI, for the purpose ofForeign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), accords special status to students going abroad for studies. They would be treated as NRIs from the day of their departure from India.

Statement II : He/She must intimate banks about the change in her residential status (under FEMA) before her departure. She can also update her KYC details with mutual fund houses and other financial institutions.

Statement I : Noise levels above 80 decibels produce damaging effects to the ear.

Statement II : When ear is exposed to extreme loud noise (above 100 decibels) for a considerable period of time, it can cause irreparable damage and lead to permanent hearing loss.

Statement I : RBI, for the purpose ofForeign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), accords special status to students going abroad for studies. They would be treated as NRIs from the day of their departure from India.

Statement II : He/She must intimate banks about the change in her residential status (under FEMA) before her departure. She can also update her KYC details with mutual fund houses and other financial institutions. Open / Comment

2021-08-15 10:25:24 INPUT OUTPUT


A number arrangement machine, when given a particular input, rearranges it following a particular rule. The following is the illustration of an input and the steps of arrangement.

Input: 39 121 49 19 66 102 10 52 54 98

Step I: 10 39 121 49 19 66 102 52 54 98

Step II: 10 39 49 19 66 102 52 54 98 121

Step III: 10 19 39 49 66 102 52 54 98 121

Step IV: 10 19 39 49 66 52 54 98 102 121

Step V: 10 19 39 49 52 66 54 98 102 121

Step VI: 10 19 39 49 52 54 66 98 102 121

And Step VI is the last step for this input. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the questions the appropriate step for the given input.

1) Given below is the V step of an input. What will be the III step?

Step V: 13 32 43 84 69 93 49 56 97 108

a) 13 32 84 43 69 93 49 56 97 108

b) 13 32 84 69 43 93 49 56 97 108

c) 13 32 84 69 93 43 49 56 97 108

d) 13 32 84 69 43 93 56 49 97 108

e) Cannot be determined

2) What will be the last step for the following input?

Input : 132 53 39 83 79 112 22 66

a) 22 39 53 66 79 83 112 132

b) 22 39 66 53 79 83 112 132

c) 22 39 53 56 83 79 112 13

d) Cannot be determined

e) None of these

3) How many steps will be required for getting the final output for the following input?

Input : 116 85 66 50 73 39 146 25 112 79

a) 5

b) 6

c) 7

d) 8

e) None of the above

4) In the last step which of the following would be at 6th position from the right?

Input : 17 32 43 82 69 93 49 56 99 106

a) 69

b) 93

c) 17

d) 56

e) None of the above Open / Comment