Reasoning Quiz for IBPS| SBI – 313

Directions (Q.1-5): Study the following information and answer the given questions:
A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: sanction payroll revenue 44 passenger otherwise 80 demonstrating information shipping 60
Step I: payroll sanction revenue 44 passenger otherwise 80 demonstrating information shipping 60
Step II : payroll sanction passenger revenue 44 otherwise 80 demonstrating information shipping 60
Step III: payroll sanction passenger information revenue 44 otherwise 80 demonstrating shipping 60
Step IV: payroll sanction passenger information demonstrating revenue 44 otherwise 80 shipping 60
Step V: payroll sanction passenger information demonstrating otherwise 80 revenue 44 shipping 60

And step V is the last step of the above input, as the desired arrangement is obtained. As per the rules followed in
the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.

Input: indignity quartz 58 premier 42 customer imagination salary dynamic 15 viewer 36

1)If in Step IV ‘salary’ is related to ’36’ and ‘customer’ is related to ‘viewer’, in the same way, ‘indignity’ is related to which of the following?
a) premier
b) 42
c) 15
d) dynamic
e) None of these

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Answer b) 42
The machine rearranges the words that are not followed by number according to the number of alphabets in each
word in ascending order. The words which are followed by numbers are placed thereafter in alphabetical order
along with the numbers.
Input: indignity quartz 58 premier 42 customer imagination salary dynamic 15 viewer 36
Step I. salary indignity quartz 58 premier 42 customer imagination dynamic 15 viewer 36
Step II. salary customer indignity quartz 58 premier 42 imagination dynamic 15 viewer 36
Step III. salary customer indignity imagination quartz 58 premier 42 dynamic 15 viewer 36
Step IV. salary customer indignity imagination dynamic 15 quartz 58 premier 42 viewer 36
Step V. salary customer indignity imagination dynamic 15 premier 42 quartz 58 viewer 36

2)How many steps would be required to get the final output?
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Five
d) Four
e) None of these

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Answer c) Five

3)Which step number is the following output? ―salary customer indignity imagination dynamic 42 premier 15
quartz 58 viewer 36‖
a) Step V
b) Step IV
c) Step VI
d) Step III
e) There is no such step

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Answer e) There is no such step

4)Which of the following represents the position of ‘imagination’ in the third step?
a) 6th from the left
b) 9th from the left
c) 9th from the right
d) 6th from the right
e) None of these

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Answer c) 9th from the right

5) Which word/number would be at the 5th place from the left in Step IV?
a) dynamic
b) 15
c) quartz
d) premier
e) None of these

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Answer a) dynamic

U, V, W, X, Y & Z are members of a family consisting of three generations. The family consists of two pairs of couples. The family consists of only three females. The oldest member in the family is a
female but the youngest one is a male. No two persons are of the same age. One day they visited a restaurant and sat around a table facing towards the centre. X sat opposite the person who occupies the third place when their ages are considered in descending order. U is the grandfather of Z and sat on the immediate right of X,
who is the father of W but not the husband of Y. Persons of the same generation sat opposite each other. V sat on the immediate right of a female. Z is not the youngest.

6) The youngest person sat between which of the following two persons?
a) X and Y
b) V and U
c) X and V
d) Data inadequate

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Answer a) X and Y

7) The only person who sat between Y and Z is not the person who is
a) The mother of Z
b) The daughter – in – Law of U
c) The wife of X
d) The second in position in descending order of age.

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Answer d) The second in position in descending order of age.

8) Which of the following shows the correct order rightward from the position of U?
a) U, Z, V, Y, X, W
b) U, X, Y, W, V, Z
c) U, X, W, Y, V, Z
d) None of these

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Answer c) U, X, W, Y, V, Z

9) The person who are adjacent to Y, are
a) V and Z
b) W and X
c) W and V
d) Data inadequate.

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Answer d) Data inadequate.

10) Which of the following statements is/are not true?
1 – One of the couples is U and Y
2 – X is the son of Y whereas V is the wife of X
3 – W is the brother of Z
4 – Y, V and Z are females.
a) All 1, 2, 3 and 4
b) Only 3
c) Only 3 and 4
d) None

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Answer d) None.

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