ANALYTICAL REASOING

Answer the questions based on the following information.

In a target shooting competition, a person is allowed to shoot at four targets successively, then
followed by the next competitor. When all have finished one such round, the process is
repeated. If a target is hit, the shooter is answered two points. If he misses the target, the
others are awarded one point each. The first person who gets 60 points wins the award. In a
contest between A, B and C, the final score cared is A = 60, B = 53, C = 43. Out of a total of
78 shots fired, 43 hit the target.

1. Who was the first to shoot?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) Cannot be determined

2. Who was the second to shoot?

(a) A (b) B (C) C (d) Cannot be determined

3. How many targets did A hit?

(a) 42 (b) 34 (c) 17 (d) Cannot be determined

4. How many targets did B miss?

(a) 6 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) Cannot be determined

5. There are 3 envelopes in which certain amount of money is kept. The product of
amounts in all 3 envelopes is Rs. 225. If I tell you the sum of money in 3 the envelopes,
still you cannot tell amount of money in each envelope. The pink envelope has least
amount of money. Then the maximum money that any envelope can have is

(a) Rs. 225 (b) Rs. 45 (c) Rs. 15 (d) Re. 1

A, B, C and D each own a radio, paper, TV and a CD player, not necessarily in that order.
Each one is asked the following three questions.

(1) Do you own a paper?

(2) Do you own either a TV or a CD player?
(3) Do you own either a CD player or a radio?

Everyone of them answers at least two questions correctly. The answers are as follows.

A: No, Yes, No
B : Yes, Yes, No
C : Yes, No, Yes
D : Yes, Yes, Yes
(In the answer options, T refers to True and F refers to False.)

6. As answer sequence was

(a) T, T, T (b) T, T, F (c) T, F, T (d) F, T, T

7. Bs answer sequence was

(a) T, T, T (b) T, T, F (c) T, F, T (d) F, T, T

8. Cs answer sequence was

(a) T, T, T (b) T, T, F (c) T, F, T (d) F, T, T

9. Ds answer sequence was

(a) T, T, T (b) T, T, F (c) T, F, T (d) F, T, T

Answer the questions based on the following information.

Six players A, B, C, D, E and F are to be staged, one on each day starting from Monday to
Saturday. The schedule of plays is to be in accordance with the following.

I. A must be staged a day before E.

II. C must be staged on Saturday.
III. B must be staged on the day following the day on which F is staged.
IV. D must be staged on Friday only and should not be immediately preceded by B.

10. Which of the following plays immediately follows B?

(a) A (b) C (c) D (d) E

11. Which of the following plays immediately follows D?

(a) E (b) F (c) C (d) B

12. Play D is between which of the following pairs of plays?

(a) A and E (b) E and F (c) A and B (d) C and E

13. Which of the following is the schedule of plays, with the order of their staging from
Monday to Saturday?

(a) E, A, B, F, D, C (b) F, B, A, E, D, C
(c) F, A, B, E, D, C (d) None of these

14. Play D can be staged on any day of the week and all other conditions remain the same,
then which of the following is true?
 (a) D has to be staged before A (b) F has to be staged before A
(c) A has to be staged before B (d) No unique schedule is possible

Lakhan, Rama and Kishan are residing in housing society. Their professions are doctor,
teacher and engineer (not that order). They are married to Radha, Sita and Gita, (not in that
order). Each of the wives is working. Each and every person has only one occupation.

I. One day, Ram and Lakhan saw film Sita aur Gita, Sita and Gita saw the film Ram Lakhan.
II. Kishans wife is an artist and regularly holds exhibitions at Venkatappa Art Gallary,
Bangalore.
III. Ram and ita are having a love affair secretly.
IV. Teachers wife teaches in St. Josephs Convent.
V. Radha is married to an engieer.
VI. Sita is a good cook and one can find her recipes in every issue of Womens Era.
VII. Ram is married to a cook.
VIII. Artist is married to an engineer.
IX. Doctor is not married to either artist or teacher.

15. Who among the following is the doctor?

(a) Ram (b) Lakhan (c) Kishan (d) Cannot be determined

16. Who among the following is Rams wife?

(a) Gita (b) Sita (c) Radha (d) Data insufficient

17. Who among the following is the artist?

(a) Gita (b) Sita (c) Radha (d) Cannot be determined

18. Who among the following is Radhas husband?

(a) Ram (b) Lakhan (c) Kishan (d) Cannot be determined

N.I.N.E.T.E.E.N O.N.E

19. N.I.N.E.T.Y.F.I.V.E F.I.V.E

I. Here . (dot) represents multiplication

II. Every letter has unique value from 0-10
III. O<Y, then the value of O is

(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) None of these

R, S, T, U, V and W sat around a circular table playing cards. It was noticed that no two men,
the initial letters of whose names are adjacent in the alphabetical order, sat next to each other,
U was opposite of R. V was not to the immediate right of R.

20. Who sat to the immediate left of R?

(a) S (b) T (c) V (d) W

21. Who sat to the immediate right of R?

(a) S (b) T (c) v (d) W

22. A complex system of 3 valves A, B and C, each of which can either be in OPEN or
CLOSED position, always meet all the following conditions.

I. If C is OPEN, then either both A and B are OPEN or both are CLOSED.
II. If B is CLOSED, then one of A and C is OPEN and other is CLOSED.
III. If A is CLOSED, then either both B and C are OPEN or both are closed.

One of the valves is always OPEN, in all the situations, where the above conditions are
met. Which valve is this one?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) None of these

23. The ages of Mandar, Shivku, Pawan and Chandra are 32, 21, 35 and 29 years, not in
order. Whenever asked they lie of their own age but tell the truth about others.

I. Pawan says, My age is 32 and Mandars age is not 35.

II. Shivku says, My age is not 29 and Pawans age is not 21.
III. Mandar says, My age is 32.

What is Chandras age?

(a) 32 years (b) 35 years (c) 29 years (d) 21 years

24. Mandar went to a marriage bureau, but every time he went there he got different answer
from the marriage bureau officials for the same girl he was looking for. The official
speaks one truth and one lie during one conversation.

First time the official said, The girl is good-looking and rich.
Second time the official said, The girl is not good-looking but she is tall.
Third time the official said, The girl is neither tall nor rich.
Mandar is intelligent and says that the girl can be

(a) good-looking, tall and rich (b) not good-looking, tall and rich
(c) neither good-looking, nor tall and rich (d) not good-looking, not rich

25. In the annual business conference of ?Career Launcher, the regional heads of the
following divisions north, south, west, east and central came. The observations were
as follows:

I. South and west regional heads spoke English, although when east joined, they started
talking Bengali, the only common language among the three.
II. The only language common among north, south and central is Hindi.
III. The only language common between west and central was Marathi.
IV. Three regional heads speak Urdu.
V. The most common language was Bengali.
 VI. One had spoke all the five languages, another one spoke four languages only, one
spoke three languages only, one spoke two languages only and one spoke only one
language.

Which regional head can speak all the languages?

(a) North (b) South (c) Cannot be determined (d) None of them

A, B, C, D, E, F and G are consecutive integers, not necessarily in that order, such that the
lowest of these is greater than 50 and the highest is less than 60.

G
I. E D + 11 = 4
II. B is the highest number and is prime.
III. C D = B A
IV. A is an odd number and C is an even number.

26. The smallest number is

(a) B (b) D (c) E (d) F

27. The number C denotes

(a) 56 (b) 57 (c) 58 (e) None of these

28. E A is equal to

(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 1

Hotel Mariott at Phuket has two wings, the East Wing and the West Wing. Some East Wing
rooms, but not all have an ocean view. All West Wing rooms have a harbour view. The
changes for all rooms are same.
except
There is an extra charge for all harbour view rooms on or above the third floor.
There is an extra charge for all ocean view rooms, except those without balcony.
Some harbour view rooms on the first two floors and some East Wing rooms without ocean
view.

Have kitchen facilites, for which there is an extra charge.

Only the ocean view and harbour view rooms have balconies.

29. A guest can definitely avoid an extra charge by requesting

(a) a West Wing room on one of the first two floors.

(b) a West Wing room on the fourth floor without balcony
(c) an East Wing room without an ocean view.
(d) an East Wing room without balcony.
30. Which of the following must be true if all the conditions are as stated?

(a) All rooms above the third floor involve an extra charge.
(b) No room without an ocean or harbour view or kitchen facilities involves an extra
charge.
(c) There is no extra charge for any East Wing room without an ocean view.
(d) There is no extra charge for any room without kitchen facilities.

31. Which of the following must be false if all conditions are applied?

(a) Some ocean view rooms do not involve an extra charge.

(b) All rooms with kitchen facilities involve an extra charge.
(c) Some West Wing rooms above the second floor do not involve an extra charge.
(d) Some harbour view rooms do not involve an extra charge.

32. Which of the following cannot be determined on the basis of the information given?

I. Whether there are any rooms without a balcony for which an extra charge is imposed.
II. Whether any room without a kitchen or a view involves an extra charge.
III. Whether two extra charges are imposed for any room.

(a) I only (b) II only (c) I and III only (d) II and III only

A sales representative plans to visit each of six companies A, B, C, D, E and F exactly once
during the course of a day. She is setting up her schedule for the day according to the
following conditions:

She must visit B before D.

She must visit A before B and E.
The third company she visits must be C.

33. Which of the following must be true of the sales representatives schedule?

(a) She visits A before D (b) She visits B before E

(c) She visits C before A (d) She visits C before F

34. Which of the following could be the order in which the sales representative visits the six
companies?

(a) C, E, A, B, D, F (b) C, F, A, E, D, B
(c) A, F, C, B, E, D (d) F, A, C, D, B, E

35. A letter series is given below:

PQABCLMTUVRK
If we interchange the 1st letter with the 7th letter, 2nd letter with the 8th letter and so on,
then which letter will be 5th from the right?
(a) R (b) P (c) U (d) Q
Ellaraputtu is three times older to Tatto. Zadoo is half the age of Sona. Tatto is older to
Zadoo.

36. Which of the following can be inferred?

(a) Tatto is older to Sona (b) Ellaraputtu is older to Sona

(c) Ellaraputtu may be younger to Sona (d) None of these

37. Which of the following information will be sufficient to calculate Ellaraputtus age?

(a) Zadoo is 10 year old

(b) Tatto and Sona both are older to Zadoo by the same number of years.
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these

While Balbir had his back turned, a dog ran into his meat shop and snatched a piece of
meal off the counter and ran out. While balbir came to know about this, he asked
fellow shopkeepers about the dog. The fellow shopkeepers really didnt want to help
Balbir. So, each of them made a statement which contained two characterstics of the
dog one truth and one lie.

1. Shopkeeper 1 The dog had black hair and a long tail.

2. Shopkeeper 2 The dog had a short tall and wore a collar
3. Shopkeeper 3 The dog had white hair and no collar

38. Which of the following could be the correct description of dog?

(a) White hair, short tail, no collar (b) White hair, long tail, and a collar
(c) Black hair, long tail, a collar (d) Black hair, long tail, no collar

39. Shikha and her friends stand in a circle. It turns out that both the neighbors of each
child are of the same gender. If there are five boys in the circle, how many girls are
there?

(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) Cannot be determined

Answer these questions in

a. Yes b. No c. Cannot be determined

40. There are 100 soldiers in a detachment and every evening three of them are on duty.
Can it happen that after a certain period of time each soldier has shared duty with every
other soldier only once?

41. Several football teams enter a tournament in which each team plays every other team
exactly once. Is it possible that at any moment during the tournament there will be two
teams which have played, up to that moment, an identical number of matches.
42. This conversation takes place between two persons A and B. There is an island where
the inhabitants are either Knights who always speak truth or Knaves who always lie. A
says I am a liar. Is A an inhabitant of that island?

43. The integers 1 through 100 are written in a row. Two players Luv and Kush take turns
putting +(plus) and -(minus) signs between any two integers. When all the sings
have been put, result is calculated. If the result is even, then Luv wins and if it is odd
then Kush wins. If Luv starts the game by putting +(puls) between two integers which
we dont know, then can Kush win?