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Reasoning Puzzles asked in IBPS PO Prelims Exam – 16.10.2016

IBPS PO Prelims 2016 1^st day exam has finished, here we have given Memory based Reasoning Puzzles questions. Candidates those who are all going to write the examination can check this pattern and make use it.

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M, N, O, P, Q, R and Sare seven people live on seven different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order. The lower most floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each one of them have different income i.e. 3500, 15000, 7500, 9000,11000, 13500 and 5000. (But not necessarily in the same order.) M lives on an odd numbered floor but not on the floor numbered 3. The one who has income of 11000 lives immediately above M. Only two people live between M and the one who has income of 7500. The one who has income of 15000 lives on one of the odd numbered floors above P. Only three people live between O and the one who has income of 15000. The one who has income of 7500 lives immediately above O. R earns 4000 more than Q. The one who has income of 3500 lives immediately above the one who has income of 5000.Only one person lives between N and Q. N lives on one of the floors above Q. Neither O nor M has income of 9000. Q does not has income of 7500.

1. How much income M has?

(a) 13500 (b) 5000 (c) 7500 (d) 15000 (e) 3500

2. Which of the following combinations is true with respect to the given arrangement?

(a) 13500 – O (b) 15000 – R (c) 5000 – S (d) 11000 – P (e) 9000 – N

3. If all the people are made to sit in alphabetical order from top to bottom, the positions of how many people will remain unchanged?

(a) Four (b) None (c) Two (d) One (e) Three

4. Which of the following statements is true with respect to the given arrangement ?

(a) The one who has income of 5000 lives immediately below M.

(b) Rhas income of 15000.

(d) Only four people live between P and S.

(e) S lives immediately below Q.

5. Who amongst the following lives on the floor numbered 2?

(a) N

(b) The one who has income of 3500

(d) P

(e) R

6. How much income R has?

(a) 13500 (b) 5000 (c) 7500 (d) 15000 (e) 3500

ANSWERS:

1 – D

2 – A

3 – C

4 – C

5 – E

6 – C

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S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z are sitting in a straight line equidistant from each other (but not necessarily in the same order). Some of them are facing south while some are facing north. (Note : Facing the same direction means, if one is facing north then the other also faces north and vice-versa. Facing the opposite directions means, if one is facing north then the other faces south and vice-versa) S faces north. Only two people sit to the right of S. T sits third to the left of S. Only one person sits between T and X. X sits to the immediate right of W. Only one person sits between W and Z. Both the immediate neighbors of T face the same direction. U sits third to the left of X. T faces the opposite direction as S. Y does not sit at any of the extremes ends of the line. V faces the same direction as W. Both Y and U face the opposite direction of Z.

1. How many persons in the given arrangement are facing North?

(a) More than four (b) Four (c) One (d) Three (e) Two

2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way, and so form a group. Which of the following does not belong to the group?

(a) W, X (b) Z, Y (c) T, S (d) T, Y (e) V, U

3. What is the position of X with respect to Z?

(a) Second to the left (b) Third to the right (c) Third to the left (d) Fifth to the right (e) Second to the right

4. Who amongst the following sits exactly between Z and W?

(a) T (b) Y (c) X (d) W (e) U

5. Who is sitting 2nd to the right of T?

(a) Z (b)V (c)X (d)W (e)None of these.

ANSWERS:

1 – B

2 – D

3 – B

4 – A

5 – B

Eight people- A, B, C, D, W, X, Y and Z are sitting in a circle facing the centre. All eight people are from different place i.e. Okhla, Dwarka, Lajpat Nagar, Chanakyapuri, Saket, Mehrauli, Rohini and Karol Bagh but not necessarily in the same order. W is sitting third to the left of Y. The person who is from Dwarka is to the immediate right of W and W is not from Okhla. B is sitting fourth to the right of Z. Z is not the neighbor of Y. Neither B nor Z is an immediate neighbor of W. X is from Chanakyapuriand is sitting third to the right of the person from Dwarka.The person from Mehrauli is sitting second to the left of person from Chanakyapuri. The person from Rohini is sitting second to the left of W. A who is Lajpat Nagar is sitting exactly between X and Z. The person from Saket is sitting second to the right of the person from Lajpat Nagar. C is sitting third to the left of X.

1. Who amongst the following persons belongs to Okhla?

(a) Y (b) D (c) C (d) B (e) None of these

2. What is A’s position with respect to B?

(a) Third to the right (b) Second to the right (c) Third to the left (d) Second to the left (e) Fourth to the right

3. How many people are sitting between Z and C when counted in an anticlockwise direction From C?

(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four (e) None

4. Four of the following five pairs are alike in a certain way based on their positions in the above arrangement and so from a group. Which of the following does not to the group?

(a) B-Rohini (b) Z – Mehrauli (c) D – Okhla (d) Y – Saket (e) X – Dwarka

5. Which of the following statements is false according to the above mentioned arrangement?

(a) C is to the immediate right of the Karol Bagh

(b) The person from Lajpat Nagar is third to the right of the person from Mehrauli.

(d) D is neither from Chanakyapuri nor from Karol Bagh.

(e) There are only three people between A and C.

ANSWERS:

1 – A

2 – A

3 – D

4 – E

5 – C