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Direction (1-5): Study following information carefully and answer the questions given below.
Seven friends-S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z are living in a seven floor building. The lowermost floor is numbered one and above it numbered two and so on until the topmost floor is numbered seven. Each of them likes different colors, viz. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Black and White, but not necessarily in the same order.
Y likes either Yellow or Orange. The one who lives on the floor number six likes Black. Either V or X lives on the floor number six. Either the one who likes Orange or the one who likes White lives on the floor number four. V does not like Orange. W likes White. Either the one who likes Orange or the one who likes Blue lives on the floor number five. U likes Green. The one who likes Green is lives on neither floor number two nor floor number three. S does not live on the floor number two. Either V or X lives on the floor number four. T likes Blue. Either the one who likes Yellow or the one who likes Blue lives on the floor number one.
1) Which of the following combinations is correct?
a) X-Black
b) S-Orange
c) V-Red
d) Y-Orange
e) None of these
2) Which of the following statement is correct?
a) The one who likes orange lives on the floor number five
b) Only three persons live between U and W
c) W lives on the floor number four.
d) Y likes Orange and lives on the lowermost floor.
e) None of these
3) How many persons live between the one who likes Red and the one who likes Green?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) None of these
4) Four of the following five are alike in certain way and thus form a group as per the given arrangement. Which of the following does not belong to that group?
a) U
b) S
c) Y
d) W
e) T
5) T is related to Orange in a certain way based on the given arrangement. In the same way S is related to White. Which of the following color is X related to following the same pattern?
a) Green
b) Red
c) Blue
d) Black
e) None of these
Direction (6-10): Study following information carefully and answer the questions given below.
Seven friends-A, B, C, D, E, F and G wrote exam on seven different months on the same year, January, February, March, April, August, November and December. Each of them got different ranks in the exam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 but not necessarily in the same order.
B got second rank and wrote exam on March. E wrote exam immediately before F. The one who got first rank wrote exam on November. The one who got seventh rank did not write exam on any of the month before August. The one who got third rank wrote exam immediately before G. F did not get fifth rank. D did not write exam on December. E did not write exam on any of the month after B. D did not get third rank. C did not write exam on any of the months before A. The one who got sixth rank did not write exams example immediately before and after B. The one who wrote exam on August neither got fifth rank nor sixth rank.
6) Which of the following combinations is correct?
a) A-April
b) D-November
c) G-August
d) C-December
e) None of these
7) How many persons wrote exam between the one who got sixth rank and the one who got third rank?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) None of these
8) C is related to 5th rank in a certain way based on the given arrangement. In the same way D is related to 6th rank. Which of the following rank is G related to following the same pattern?
a) 1st
b) 2nd
c) 4th
d) 7th
e) None of these
9) Which of the following statement is correct?
a) D wrote exam on one of the months after A
b) Only one person wrote exam between C and G
c) E got the 5th rank
d) G wrote exam on August
e) None of these
10) Who among the following got the fifth rank?
a) E
b) G
c) D
d) C
e) None of these
Answers:
Direction (1-5):
- The one who lives on the floor number six likes Black.
- Either the one who likes Orange or the one who likes Blue lives on the floor number five.
- Either the one who likes Orange or the one who likes White lives on the floor number four
- W likes White.
- Now we have 2 Cases.
- U likes Green.
- Either the one who likes Yellow or the one who likes Blue lives on the floor number one.
- The one who likes Green lives on neither floor number 2 nor floor number three.
- T likes Blue.
- Now Case 2 derived from two cases.
- Either V or X lives on the floor number six.
- Either V or X lives on the floor number four.
- V does not like Orange.
- From the above condition Case 2(a) and Case 2(b) was dropped.
- Y likes either Yellow or Orange.
- S does not live on the floor number two.
- W likes White.
- So the final arrangement is..
1) Answer: e)
2) Answer: e)
3) Answer: c)
4) Answer: d)
5) Answer: b)
Direction (6-10):
- The one who got seventh rank did not write exam on any of the month before August.
- The one who got first rank wrote exam on November.
- B got second rank and wrote exam on March.
- E wrote exam immediately before F.
- E did not write exam on any of the month after B.
- The one who got third rank wrote exam immediately before G.
- Now we have 2 Cases.
- D did not write exam on December.
- D did not get third rank.
- C did not write exam on any of the months before A.
- F did not get fifth rank.
- The one who got sixth rank did not write exam on immediately before and after B.
- The one who wrote exam on August neither got fifth rank nor sixth rank.
- Case 1 was not satisfied all the condition so it was dropped.
- So the final arrangement is..
6) Answer: d)
7) Answer: c)
8) Answer: b)
9) Answer: e)
10) Answer: c)
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| 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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