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Important Reasoning Questions “Work Book” For SO/AAO Exam-2016 With Detailed Explanations

Directions (1-6): Study the following information and answer the questions.

Seven friends namely, M, N, O, P, Q, R and S attend different language classes namely, French, English, Spanish, Sanskrit, Chinese, German and Japanese, not necessarily in the same order, from Monday to Sunday (of the same week).

M attends a class on Friday. Only two people attend classes between M and the one who is learning Sanskrit. R attends a class immediately before P, Neither R nor P is learning Sanskrit. Only one person attends a class between R and the one who is learning Spanish. The one who is learning Spanish does not have a class on Monday. N attends a class immediately before the one who is learning French. M is not learning French. Only one person has a class between R and Q. O is learning German. Only two people have classes between O and the one who is learning Chinese. Q is not learning Japanese.

1). Which of the following represent those who have language classes immediately before and immediately after N?

a) P,M

b) Q,M

c) Q,R

d) Other than those given as options

e) R,P

2). Which of the following language is Q learning? a) Other than those given as options

b) Chinese

c) English

d) Spanish

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3). As per the given arrangement Q is related to Chinese and R is related to Japanese in a certain way. To which of the following is P related to in the same way?

a) Sanskrit

b) Other than those given as options

c) Spanish

d) English

e) French

4). Four of the following five form a group as per the given arrangement. Which of the following that does not belong to that group?

a) Q-Tuesday

b) N-Thursday

c) S-Sunday

d) M-Saturday

e) P-Friday

5). On which of the following days does P have a class? a) Monday

b) Thursday

c) Wednesday

d) Tuesday

e) Sunday

6). Who amongst the following is learning Japanese? a) N

b) M

c) S

d) R

e) Cannot be determined

Directions (7-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments viz. Personnel, Administration and Marketing with not more than three

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choice of sports from football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis not necessarily in same order.

D works in Administration and does not like either football or cricket. F works in Personnel with only A who likes table tennis. E and H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in Marketing. G does not work in Administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in Administration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in Personnel. None of those who work in Administration likes either badminton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.

7). Which of the following groups of employees work in Administration department? a) EGH

b) AF

c) BCD

d) BGD

e) Data inadequate

8). In which department does E work? a) Personnel

b) Marketing

c) Administration

d) Data inadequate

e) None of these

9). What is E’s favorite sport? a) Cricket

b) Badminton

c) Basketball

d) Lawn Tennis

e) None of these

10). Which of the following combination of employee-department –favourite sport is correct?

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b) F-Personnel-Lawn Tennis

c) H-Marketing –lawn Tennis

d) B-Administration-Table Tennis

e) None of these

11). What is G’s favourite sport? a) Cricket

b) Badminton

c) Basketball

d) Lawn Tennis

e) None of these

Directions (12-16): Study the following information carefully to answer these questions. Eight members A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H belonging to three families X, Y, Z go for weekend outing in three different Cars I, II, III. Four out of eight members are females. Members of any one family travel in different cars. Each car has atleast one male and one female members. Each family has atleast two members. A belongs to family Y and he travels in Car III. D is wife of E and they travel in Cars I are II, respectively. H is son of B who is wife of G and they belong to family Z. C is daughter of F who is wife of A. C travels in car II. G does not travel with F.

12). Which of the following group of persons travel in Car I? a) D,F,G

b) D,E,G

c) D,G,H

d) D,F,H

e) None of these

13). Which car has only two members travelling in it? a) I

b) II

c) III

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e) Cannot be determined

14). Which of the following members of families Y and Z travel in different cars? a) F,G

b) C,G

c) F,H

d) C,F

e) None of these

15). Which of the following group of persons is a group of all females? a) B,D,G

b) A,B,C

c) B,E,F

d) D,E,F

e) None of these

16). Which of the following members of families X and Y travel in the same car?

a) C,F

b) D,F

c) C,D

d) F,E

e) None of these

Directions (17-20): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

Three ladies and four men are a group of friends, i.e., P, K, R, Q, J, V and X. Each one has a different profession i.e., Lawyer, Travel Agent, Air –hostess, Doctor, Professor, Consultant and Jeweller and each one owns a different car i.e., Alto, Corolla, S antro, Lancer, Ikon, Scorpio and Esteem, not necessarily in that order. None of the ladies is a Consultant or a Lawyer. R is an Air-hostess and She owns an Ikon car. P owns a Scorpio. K is not a Doctor. J is a Jeweller and he owns a Corolla. V is a Lawyer and does not own Alto. X is a Consultant and owns Santro. The Doctor owns Esteem car whereas the Professor owns Scorpio. The Travel Agent owns an Alto. None of the ladies owns a Scorpio.

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17). Who are the three ladies in the group? a) V,R,K

b) R,P,J

c) R,K,Q

d) Data inadequate

e) None of these

18). What car does Q own? a) Esteem

b) Lancer

c) Alto

d) Santro

e) None of the these

19). Who owns the car Lancer? a) V

b) X

c) K

d) Data inadequate

e) None of these

20). What is the profession of K?

a) Doctor

b) Professor

c) Travel Agent

d) Data inadequate

e) None of these

Direction (21-25): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions following it.

In a family of eight persons --- P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W – there are four males and four females. There are three married couples and two persons are unmarried. Each of them

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reads a different magazine, viz India Today (E), India Today (H), Outlook (E), Frontline, The Week, Businessworld and Sportsstar. No couple reads both the versions of the same magazine.

In the family of two generations, each male member except W has two brothers and one sister. V is the mother - in – law of R and who reads India Today (H). Q, who reads Outlook (E), is the daughter- in –law of W. T, who reads Frontline, is the unmarried brother of U, who does not read Businessworld. No female reads Outlook (H) or The Week. S is the brother - in-law of R but he does not read Businessworld, Sportsstar or The Week. P does not read The Week. W has no son-in-law. U is Q’s sister-in-law. 21). Who among the following reads Outlook (H) ?

a) Can’t say

b) S

c) P

d) R

e) None of these

22). R reads which of the following magazines?

a) Can’t say

b) India Today (E)

c) Business world

d) Sportsstar

e) None of these

23). Which of the following pairs of persons does not represent the couples?

I.W and V II. P and R III. S and Q a) Can’t say b) Only I c) Only II d) Only III

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24). How many sons does W have?

a) Two

b) Three

c) One

d) Can’t say

e) None of these

25). How is P related with U? a) Father

b) Brother

c) Husband

d) Can’t say

e) None of these

Direction (26-30): study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven members of a family belonging to three generations. There are two married couples – one each of first and second generations respectively. They travel in three different cars P,Q and R so that no car has more than three members and there is at least one female in each car. C, who is granddaughter, does not travel with her grandfather and grandmother. B travels with his father E in car Q. F travels with her granddaughter D in car P. A travels with her daughter in car R.

26). How many female members are there in the family? a) Three

b) Four

c) Five

d) Data inadequate

e) None of these

27). Which of the following is one of the married couples?

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b) BC

c) EF

d) Data inadequate

e) None of these

28). In which car are three members travelling?

a) P b) Q c) Either P and Q d) R e) None of these 29). How is D related to E? a) Daughter b) Niece c) Granddaughter d) Data inadequate e) None of these 30). How is G related to A? a) Daughter b) Sister c) Mother-in-law d) Data inadequate e) None of these

Directions (31-35): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

There are eight captains, namely P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W, sitting around a circular table, facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them is from a different cricket team, viz Australia, South Africa, Bangladesh, New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan.

R and T are immediate neighbour of each other. Neither R nor T is an immediate neighbour of either Q or the captain of Sri Lanka. The captain of India sits

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second to right of S, who is the captain Neither of Sri Lanka nor of West Indies. U sits second to the right of the captain of Sri Lanka. The captain of West Indies is an immediate neighbour of the captain of Sri Lanka. Two people sit between the captain of West Indies and Q. V and the captain of New Zealand are immediate neighbours of each other. Q is not the captain of New Zealand. Only one person sits between R and the captain of Australia. W sits third to the left of the captain of Bangladesh. The captain of South Africa sits second to the left of the captain of Pakistan.

31). Who among the following sit exactly between Q and the captain of West Indies? a) P and the captain of India

b) R and T

c) W and

d) R and the captain of New Zealand

e) V and U

32). Who among the following is the captain of Australia?

a) R

b) S

c) T

d) U

e) V

33). Four of the following five alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus from a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

a) W – Captain of Sri Lanka

b) Q – Captain of Pakistan

c) R – captain of Bangladesh

d) V – Captain of India

e) S – Captain of Australia

34). Who among the following sits second to the left of the captain of India?

a) S

b) Captain of Australia

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d) Both a) and b)

e) Captain of Bangladesh

35). Which of these statement is / are correct? a) T is the captain of South Africa.

b) R is the captain of Bangladesh.

c) V is the captain of West Indies

d) All a), b) and c)

e) None of these

Directions (36-40): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

A, N, M, R, J, V, S, and D are eight friends sitting around a circular table. Two of them are not facing the centre. All of them like watches of different brands, viz Maxima, Puma, HMT, Titan, Fastrack, Rado, Quartz and Omega, but not necessarily in the same order.

R and M are sitting third and second to the left of A respectively. R and S are neighbour of N, who likes Fastrack. The one who likes Titan sits on the immediate right of N. S is sitting third to the right of A and likes Maxima. D is third to the right of J and likes Quartz. A and D are not neighbour of that person who likes Rado. V does not like HMT and Titan. The person who likes Omega is sitting opposite J.

36). The person who is sitting second to the left of A likes which of the following watches? a) Maxima b) Puma c) Rado d) Omega e) None of these

37). Who among the following likes Rado? a) N

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c) R

d) D

e) None of these

38). What is the position of V with respect to A? a) Immediate left of A

b) Second to the right of A

c) Immediate right of A

d) Can’t be determined

e) None of these

39). If S is on the immediate right of N then by the same logic who among the following sits third to the right of N?

a) M

b) J

c) D

d) V

e) None of these

40). How many persons sit between who like Maxima and the one who likes HMT (count in clockwise direction starting from HMT)?

a) Two

b) None

c) One

d) Three

e) None of these

Directions (41– 45): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow.

I. Seven members of a family J, K, L, M, N, O and P are to be seated in a row from left to right. (The one standing at the left end will be called the 1st_{; the one standing at the}

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II. Their professions are Lawyer, Accountant, Social worker, IAS, Housewife, Commissioner and Student, though not necessarily in that order.

III. The third person is the Housewife.

IV. M, who is not the Commissioner, will stand after the person who immediately follows N.

V. J is the Social Worker. VI. The Lawyer stands sixth.

VII. The Accountant stands to the immediate left of the Commissioner. VIII. P stands to the immediate right of O and to the immediate left of K. IX. N, the Student, stands fifth.

41). The person standing first from left is. a) O, the Accountant

b) The Social worker

c) P

d) The Commissioner

e) L, The lawyer

42). The person standing to the immediate left of M is

a) The Housewife

b) J

c) The lawyer

d) K

e) The Commissioner

43). Which of the following correctly matches a person with his/her profession? a) O-IAS

b) K-Housewife

c) L-Commissioner

d) P-Lawyer

e) M-Accountant

44). Suppose, P has to go on account of an emergency and the family brings in the servant Q, who stands to the immediate right of L. The sixth person from the left is now

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45). If the Housewife and her husband the IAS, agree to interchange places, which of the following will be true?

a) M will stand after O but before J

b) K will be the only person to the right of L

c) There will be an equal number of persons to the left and to the right of J

d) There will be only one person to the right of N and to the left of K

e) The first and last person will be the same as before

Directions (46- 53): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Eight persons from different banks viz. UCO Bank, Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, PNB, Dena Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Indian Bank and Bank of Maharashtra are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A, B, C and D are seated and all of them are facing south. In row 2, P, Q, R and S are seated and all of them are facing north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.)

C sits second to right of the person from Bank of Maharashtra. R is an immediate neighbor of the person who faces the person from Bank of Maharashtra. Only one person sits between R and the person for PNB. Immediate neighbor of the person from PNB faces the person from Canara Bank.

The person from UCO Bank faces the person from Oriental Bank of Commerce. R is not from Oriental Bank of Commerce. P is not from PNB. P does not face the person from Bank of Maharashtra.

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Q faces the person from Dena Bank. The one who faces S sits to the immediate left of A.

B does not sit at any of the extreme ends of the line. The person from Bank of Maharashtra does not face the person from Syndicate Bank.

46). Which of the following is true regarding A? a) The person from UCO Bank faces A

b) The person from Bank of Maharashtra is an immediate neighbor of A

c) A faces the person who sits second to the right of R

d) A is from Oriental Bank of Commerce

e) A sits at one of the extreme ends of the line

47). Who is seated between R and the person from PNB? a) The person from Oriental Bank of Commerce

b) P

c) Q

d) The person from Syndicate bank

e) S

48). Who amongst the following sit at extreme ends of the rows? a) D and the person from PNB

b) The person from Indian Bank and UCO Bank

c) The person from Dena Bank and P

d) The person from Syndicate Bank and D

e) C, Q

49). Who amongst the following faces the person from Bank of Maharashtra? a) The person from Indian Bank

b) P

c) R

d) The person from Syndicate Bank

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50). P is related to Dena Bank in the same way as B is related to PNB based on the given arrangement. To who amongst the following is D related to, following the same pattern?

a) Syndicate Bank

b) Canara Bank

c) Bank of Maharashtra

d) Indian Bank

e) Oriental Bank of Commerce

51). Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given seating

arrangement and thus form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

a) Canara Bank

b) R

c) Syndicate Bank

d) Q

e) Oriental Bank of Commerce

52). Who amongst the following is from Syndicate Bank? a) C

b) R

c) P

d) D

e) A

53). C is from which of the following banks? a) Dena Bank

b) Oriental Bank of Commerce

c) UCO Bank

d) Syndicate Bank

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Detailed Explanations For the Above Questions Questions (1-6):

By the given information, day of work,friends name and language are arrange in following table

Day Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun

Friend’s Name

Q N R P M S O

Language English Sanskrit French Chinese Spanish Japanese German

From the above table, we get the answer of all questions. 2. Q is learning English language on Monday.

3. As per given arrangement, Q and R attend their language class after two day i.e. Chinese and Japanese according to this new arrangement, P is related to the language German.

5. From the arrangement has a class on Thursday. 6. From the arrangement, S is learning Japanese Questions (7-11):

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8. Marketing 9. Cricket

10. None of the above 11. Lawn Tennisa Questions (12-16):

According to the given information, the final arrangement is as follow Person Family Cars Sex

A Y III Male B Z III Female C Y II Female D X I Female E X II Male F Y I Female G Z II Male H z I Male

12. D,F and H travel in car I. Answer: d)

13. Car III has only two members (A and B) travelling in it. Answer: c)

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14. F and G are travelling in different cars i.e., Cars I and II, respectively. Answer: a)

15. There is none of the group of all females. Answer: e)

16. D and F are travelling in same car i.e., Car I. Answer: b)

Questions (17-20):

According to the given information, the final arrangement is as follow: Person Sex Profession Car

P Male Professor Scorpio K Female Travel Agent Alto R Female Air-hostess Ikon Q Female Doctor Esteem J Male Jeweller Corolla

V Male Lawyer Lancer

X Male Consultant Santro

17. R,K, and Q are the three female in the family . Answer: c)

18. Q owns Esteem car. Answer: a)

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Answer: a)

20. K is a Travel Agent. Answer: c)

Questions (21-25):

The family consists of atleast three brothers and one sister. Among P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W, V (mother-in-law- of R), Q (daughter-in-law of W) and U (Q’s sister-in-law) are females.

V is the mother-in-law of R and Q is the daughter-in-law of W, implies that V is the wife of W. Because, other males have two brothers and one sister. Now, since V is the mother-in-law of R, this implies that W is the father-in-law of R. we have been given that W has no son-in-law. Therefore, R is also the daughter-in-law of W. Hence, R is the fourth female. Hence P, S and T are the remaining male members and are the sons of W.

Now, proceed to draw family tree:

Since, Q’s sister-in-law is U. therefore, U is V’s daughter and she is unmarried. And T is the unmarried brother of U.

Now, since S is the brother-in-law of R. This implies R is the wife of P. By elimination, Q is the wife of S. thus we get the following family tree.

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Now, we have been given that V,Q and T read India Today (H), Outlook(E) and

Frontline respectively. No female reads The Week. It implies that R and U do not read The Week. It is given that S and P do not read The Week. By elimination, W reads The Week. Since, no females reads Outlook (H), R and U do not read Outlook (H). Since no couple reads both the versions of the same magazine and it is given that Q reads

Outlook (E), therefore her husband S does not read Outlook (H). by elimination, P reads Outlook (H).

S does not read Businessworld or Sportsstar. This implies S reads India Today (E). Again, we have been given U does not read Businessworld. This implies U reads Sportsstar. By elimination, R reads Businessworld.

Thus the above information can be summarized as below: Magazine

person

IT(E) IT(H) O(E) O(H) F BW SS TW

P(+) × × × √ × × × × Q(-) × × √ × × × × × R(-) × × × × × √ × × S(+) √ × × × × × × × T(+) × × × × √ × × × U(-) × × × × × × √ × V(-) × √ × × × × × × W(+) × × × × × × × √ 21. Answer: c)

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On the basis of the given clues we get the following information: Car persons travelling in car

P F(-), D(-) Q B(+), E(+) R A(-), ?(-)

Besides this, we also came to know C is a female but still we do not know about the sex of G. But it is given that there is at least one female in each car. The above table shows that the car Q needs a female to fulfill the condition described above. Hence the

seventh person is a female, ie G is a female. But still we do not know among the cars Q and R, in which car C and G are. But it is clear that both are not in the same car. Let us proceed to draw a family tree.

Since C does not travel with her grandfather and grandmother, C is not in the car P and in Q. Hence C is in the car R and G is in the car Q. Still we are not aware of G’s position in the family tree.

26. Answer: c) 27. Answer: c) 28. Answer: b) 29. Answer: c)

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40. Answer: a) Directions (41– 45):

According to the given information, the final arrangement is as follows

41). The person standing first from left is O the Accountant. Answer: a)

42). The person standing to the immediate left of M is the Lawyer. Answer: c)

43). K is the Housewife, which is correctly matched. Answer: b)

44).The new order will be as follows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

O K J N L Q M

So, sixth person from the left is Q. Answer: d)

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So, M will stand after O but before J i.e., definitely true. Answer: a)

Directions (46 -53):

According to the given information, the final arrangement is as follows

46). The person from Bank of Maharashtra is an immediate neighbor of A. Answer: b)

47). S sits between R and the person from PNB. Answer: e)

48). The person from Syndicate Bank and D are at the extreme ends of the rows. Answer: d)

49).The person from Indian Bank faces the person from Bank of Maharashtra. Answer: a)

50).D is related to Indian Bank in the same way. Answer: d)

51). Except Q, all are on the ends of rows. Answer: d)

52). P is from Syndicate Bank. Answer: c)

53). C is from Canara Banks Answer: e)