Reasoning Quiz for SBI PO | IBPS – 185

1-5): Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below.

There is a group of six persons living in a four-storeyed building. The persons are A, B, C, D, E and F. Each storey of the building has two flats. Thus, there are eight flats in all and two of them are vacant.
(i) C is heavier than B, who in turn is heavier than F.
(ii) The heaviest of the group lives on the top floor while the lightest lives on the ground floor.
(iii) E is lighter than D.
(iv) One of the flats on the first floor is vacant while one on the second floor is also vacant.
(v) A is neither the heaviest nor the lightest.
(vi) There are only two people heavier than C. A is not one of them.
(vii) B shares the floor with the heaviest of the group while C shares it with the lightest.

1) Who among the following is the heaviest in the group?
a) A
b) C
c) D
d) Cannot be determined
e) None of these

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Answer c) D

2) On which floor does A live?
a) Ground floor
b) First floor
c) Second floor
d) Top floor
e) Cannot be determined

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Answer e) Cannot be determined

3) Who among the following shares the floor with C?
a) F
b) E
c) A
d) Cannot be determined
e) None of these

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Answer a) F

4) E and A live
a) on two adjacent floors
b) on the same floor
c) with one floor between their floors
d) with two floors between their floors
e) Cannot be determined

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Answer a) on two adjacent floors

5) Starting from the heaviest of the group, what is the rank of A in order of weight?
a) Fourth
b) Fifth
c) Sixth
d) Either fourth or fifth
e) Cannot be determined

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Answer d) Either fourth or fifth

6-10): Study the following arrangement of numbers, letters and symbols carefully and answer the questions given below:

R @ 2 9 T V A Y 5 © # J 1 P 8 Q $ E 3 * H % 6 W 4 I ^ U Z

6) Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their positions in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one That does not belong to that group?
a) J P ©
b) E Q *
c) W I %
d) 9 V @
e) 1 # 5

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Answer e) 1 # 5

7) Which of the following is the fifth to the right of the nineteenth element from the right end?
a) J
b) V
c) W
d) 8
e) None of these

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Answer e) None of these

8) How many such numbers are there in the above arrangement, each of which is immediately preceded by a consonant and immediately followed by a symbol ?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) More than four

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Answer a) One

9) If the positions of the last eighteen elements in the above arrangement are reversed, which of the following will be the seventeenth from the left end ?
a) H
b) P
c) W
d) 6
e) None of these

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Answer c) W

10) How many such vowels are there in the above arrangement, each of which is either immediately followed by a symbol or immediately preceded by a symbol ?
a) None
b) One
c) Two
d) Three
e) Four

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Answer c) Two

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