Analytical Ability 3
Analytical Ability 3
1. An agent of the Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police watching suspects Q, R, S and T and their
movements in and out of a downtown building has made the following observations:
• Every day, each of the suspects enters, and later leaves, the building exactly once.
• No suspect ever enters or leaves the building together with another suspect.
• No suspect ever leaves the building in the same position first, second, third or fourth- in
which he or she entered the building.
• Both in entering the building and in leaving it, R is always earlier than S.
A. Which of the following could be the order, from first to last, in which the suspects leave the
building on a day on which they enter it in the order T, Q, R, S?
1. Q, R, S, T
2. Q, R, T, S
3. R, Q, S, T
4. S, T, Q, R
5. T, R, S, Q
B. On a day on which R enters the building second and T enters it third, which of the following
must be true?
1. Q leaves the building first
2. Q leaves the building third
3. R leaves the building first
4. S leaves the building third
5. T leaves the building second
C. If, on a certain day, Q and T enter the building second and third, respectively and Q also
leaves the building before T does, the order in which the suspects leave the building, from
first to fourth, must be-
1. Q, R, S, T
2. Q, R, T, S
3. Q, T, R, S
4. R, Q, S, T
5. R, S, Q, T
D. On a day on which the two suspects who enter the building could be-
1. Q and R
2. Q and T
3. R and S
4. R and T
5. S and T
2. At stage show, exactly seven singers- Quamrul, Raju, Susmita, Titas, Umana, Vidita and Wahid-
are to sing. In the schedule for the show, there are seven time slots available for singers, and the
time slots are numbered consecutively 1 through 7. Exactly one singer must be assigned to each
time slot according to the following conditions:
• Quamrul must sing immediately before or immediately after Titas sings.
• Titas must sing sometime before Raju sings.
• Susmita must sing in either time slot 1 or time slot 7.
• Vidita must sing sing in time slot 4.
A. If Umana is to sing in time slot 2, there will be a total of how many scheduling possibilities
from which to select the schedule of singers?
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 6
B. If Wahid sings in time slot 7, any of the following pairs of singers could sing in time slots
immediately adjacent to each other EXCEPT
1. Quamrul and Raju
2. Raju and Umana
3. Susmita and Quamrul
4. Susmita and Titas
5. Vidita and Umana
C. If Raju sings immediately before Vidita sings, which of the following could be true?
1. Quamrul sings in time slot 5
2. Susmita sings in time slot 1
3. Titas sings in time slot 3
4. Umana sings in time slot 2
5. Wahid sings in time slot 6
F. If Umana sings sometime before Quamrul sings, which of the following must be true?
1. Susmita sings sometime before Umana sings
2. Titas sings sometime before Vidita sings
3. Umana sings sometime before Wahid sings
4. Vidita sings sometime before Raju sings
5. Wahid sings sometime before Susmita sings