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Direction (1-5): Study following information carefully and answer the questions given below.
Eight Persons namely, Sam, Suresh, Kumar, Dhoni, Ziva, Rathi, Sahina and Baby are working in a company. They are living on eight different floors of a building. The lowermost floor of building is numbered one and the floor above it is numbered two and so on and the topmost floor is numbered eight. There are different numbers of employee such as 12, 14, 26, 28, 30, 37, 50 and 54, who works under them, but not necessarily in the same order.
Ziva lives on the even numbered floor below the floor numbered six. Only two persons live between Ziva and the one who has 30 employees. The number of persons live above Ziva is same as the no. of persons below Sam. The one who has 28 employees lives on a floor immediately above Sam. Only one person lives between the one who has 28 and 26 employees. Only two persons live between Sahina and the one who has 37 employees. Neither Sam nor Ziva has 37 employees. Only one person lives between the one who has 37 employees and the one who has 12 employees. Dhoni lives on one of the floors below the one who has 37 employees. Baby has 12 employees and lives in odd numbered floor. Difference between the employees of Rathi and Kumar is 23. Rathi lives at one of the floors above Kumar. Sam doesn’t have highest number of employees.
1). What is the difference between the number of employees who works under Suresh and the one who lives immediately above the one who has the 37 employees?
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- None of these
2). Who among the following has the highest number of employees?
- Suresh
- Dhoni
- Kumar
- Sahina
- None of these
3). How many person lives between the one who has 28 employees and the one who has 50 employees?
- One
- Two
- Three
- No one
- More than Three
4). What is the sum of the employees who lives on floor numbered seven and the one who lives immediately above the one who lives floor numbered two?
- 80
- 58
- 84
- 67
- None of these
5). Who among the following has 26 employees?
- The one who lives immediately above the one who has 50 employees
- The one who lives in the floor number two.
- The one who lives immediately below the one who has 37 employees.
- The one who lives immediately above Dhoni
- None of these
Direction (6-10): Study following information carefully and answer the questions given below.
Seven persons namely, Sania, Vibin, Berkin, Esai, Bipin, Anu and Arun works in different designations such as Manager, CEO, CFO, CTO, Engineer, CA and Auditor. They like different Car brands viz., Ford, BMW, Audi, Alto, WagonR, Suzuki and Honda, but not necessarily in the same order. Their hobbies are Gardening, Reading, Painting, Dancing, Singing, Photography and Riding but not necessarily in the same order. Each prefers either Coffee or tea.
Bipin did not prefer Tea but likes BMW. Vibin’s hobby is Reading. Berkin likes Audi. The person whose hobby is dancing prefers Tea. Arun is a CTO and likes WagonR. Esai prefers Tea. Auditor neither likes Alto nor Suzuki. The two persons who prefer Tea were the one who like WagonR and the one whose hobby is Riding. Vibin likes Ford and does not prefer Tea. The one whose hobby is Reading is the Manager. The person, who is the CEO, likes Gardening. Bipin is not an Auditor. The one whose hobby is riding likes Alto and he is neither an Engineer nor CFO. Sania doesn’t have a hobby of Riding. Esai is an Engineer and his hobby is neither Painting nor Singing. The one who is the CEO prefers Coffee. Bipin’s hobby is Photography. The person who likes Honda has the hobby of Painting. Three of them prefer Tea and rest prefers Coffee.
6). Who among the following is an Auditor?
- The one who likes BMW
- The one who likes Honda
- The one whose hobby is Photography
- The one whose hobby is Dance
- None of these
7). Which of the following combinations is correct?
- Alto-CA
- Audi-CFO
- Honda-CA
- BMW-CEO
- None of these
8). Who among the following likes Suzuki?
- The one whose hobby is Singing
- The one whose hobby is Painting
- The one whose hobby is Dancing
- The one who prefers Coffee
- None of these
9). Who among the following prefers Tea?
- Sania, Arun and Anu
- Anu, Arun and Bipin
- Esai, Sania and Anu
- Esai, Anu and Arun
- None of these
10). Who among the following person’s hobby is Dancing?
- The one who likes WagonR
- The one who is the CTO
- The one who is an Engineer
- The one who prefers Coffee
- None of these
Answers:
Direction (1-5):
- Ziva lives on the even numbered floor below the floor numbered six.
- The number of persons live above Ziva is same as the no. of persons below Sam.
- The one who has 28 employees lives on a floor immediately above Sam.
- Only two persons live between Ziva and one who has 30 employees.
- From the condition 2 cases are derived from case 1.
- Only two persons live between Sahina and the one who has 37 employees.
- Neither Sam nor Ziva has 37 employees.
- Only one person lives between the one who has 37 employees and the one who has 12 employees.
- Baby has 12 employees and lives in odd numbered floor.
- From the above conditions Case 1(a) was dropped.
- Dhoni lives on one of the floors below the one who has 37 employees.
- From this condition Case 2 was dropped.
- Difference between the employees of Rathi and Kumar is 23.
- From the statement Rathi and Kumar has either 37 or 14 employees.
- Rathi lives at one of the floors above Kumar. Hence, Rathi lives in topmost floor.
- Rathi has 14 employees.
- Only one person lives between the one who has 28 and 26 employees.
- Sam doesn’t have highest number of employees
- Hence Sam has 50 employees.
- Dhoni has highest number of employees.
- So the final arrangement is.
1. Answers: c
2. Answers: b
3. Answers: d
4. Answers: d
5. Answers: e
Direction (6-10):
- Vibin likes Ford and does not prefer Tea.
- Vibin’s hobby is Reading.
- The one whose hobby is Reading is the Manager, hence Vibin is the Manager.
- Berkin likes Audi.
- Esai is an Engineer.
- Esai prefers Tea.
- Arun is a CTO and likes WagonR.
- The person who prefers Tea likes WagonR.
- Bipin’s hobby is Photography.
- Bipin did not prefer Tea but likes BMW, hence he likes Coffee.
- The one whose hobby is riding likes Alto and he is neither an Engineer nor CFO.
- The person who likes Honda has the hobby of Painting but he is not Esai.
- From this condition Esai like Suzuki.
- Sania doesn’t have a hobby of Riding. Hence, Sania likes Honda.
- So, Anu likes Alto and his hobby is Riding.
- The person, who is the CEO, likes Gardening, hence Berkin is the CEO.
- The one who is CEO prefers Coffee.
- The one whose hobby is Riding prefers Tea.
- Three of them prefer Tea and rest prefers Coffee.
- So, Sania prefers Coffee.
- Auditor neither likes Alto nor Suzuki.
- Bipin is not an Auditor, hence Sania is an Auditor.
- The one whose hobby is riding likes Alto and he is neither an Engineer nor CFO.
- Hence Anu is CA and Bipin is CFO.
- Esai is an Engineer and his hobby is neither Painting nor Singing.
- Hence Esai’s Hobby is Dancing and Arun like Signing.
- So the final arrangement is,
6. Answers: b
7. Answers: a
8. Answers: c
9. Answers: d
10. Answers: c
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| Topic | Daily Publishing Time |
| Daily News Papers & Editorials | 8.00 AM |
| Current Affairs Quiz | 9.00 AM |
| Quantitative Aptitude “20-20” | 11.00 AM |
| Vocabulary (Based on The Hindu) | 12.00 PM |
| General Awareness “20-20” | 1.00 PM |
| English Language “20-20” | 2.00 PM |
| Reasoning Puzzles & Seating | 4.00 PM |
| Daily Current Affairs Updates | 5.00 PM |
| Data Interpretation / Application Sums (Topic Wise) | 6.00 PM |
| Reasoning Ability “20-20” | 7.00 PM |
| English Language (New Pattern Questions) | 8.00 PM |
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