Logical Reasoning Questions with Answers

Answer questions 1 to 5 on the basis of the information given below.
K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, U and W are the only ten members in a department. There is a proposal to form a team from within the members of the department, subject to the following conditions:

• A team must include exactly one among P, R, and S.
• A team must include either M or Q, but not both.
• If a team includes K, then it must also include L, and vice versa.
• If a team includes one among S, U, and W, then it must also include the other two.CAT 2006
• L and N cannot be members of the same team.
• L and U cannot be members of the same team.
• The size of a team is defined as the number of members in the team.

1. What could be the size of a team that includes K?
a. 2 or 3
b. 2 or 4
c. 3 or 4
d. Only 2
e. Only 4
Ans. e. As K is included, L is included. So, N and U cannot be included. As U is not included, S and W are not included. One out of M and Q and one out of P and R will be included.
Thus, the team will include: K, L, (M or Q) and (P or R).
Hence, option e.

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Logical Questions

Directions for next 3 Questions: A cricket tournament was to be organized in Mumbai in which six teams were to participate. The six teams are A, B, C, D, E and F. Each team had to play each of the other teams once. The tournament is scheduled to be held between 25^th to August to 4^th September 1998. Following information are given:

(i) There has to be a gap of at least 1 day between the matches played by a particular team.
(ii) There cannot be more than two matches on any given day.
(iii) Team C has to play the 1^st match of the tournament on 25^th August and the last match is to be held on 4^th September.
(iv) A plays C on 3^rd September and D on 31^st August.
(v) D plays C on 25^th August, F on 27^th August, E on 29^th August and play their last match on 4^th September.
(vi) No matches are to be held on 26^th August and 2^nd September. Only 1 match is to be held on 4^th September.

1. Which of the following matches cannot be held on 25^th August?
a. C vs B
b. B vs A
c. B vs F
d. None of these

2. E vs F match cannot be scheduled on
a. 30^th August
b. 31^st August
c. 1^st September
d. 3^rd September

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Reasoning ability questions

Directions for next 4 questions: Answers the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Coach John sat with the score cards of Indian players from the 3 games in a one-day cricket tournament where the same set of players played for India and all the major batsmen got out. John summarized the batting performance through three diagrams, one for each game. In each diagram, the three outer triangles communicate the number of runs scored by the three top scorers from India, where K, R, S, V, and Y represent Kaif, Rahul, Saurav, Virender, and Yuvraj respectively. The middle triangle in each diagram denotes the percentage of total score that was scored by the top three Indian scorers in that game. No two players score the same number of runs in the same game. John also calculated two batting indices for each player based on his scores in the tournament; the R-index of a batsman is the difference between his highest and lowest scores in the 3 games while the M-index is the middle number, if his scores are arranged in a non-increasing order.

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1. How many players among those listed definitely scored less than Yuvraj in the tournament?
a.0
b.1
c.2
d. More than 2
e. none

2. Which of the players had the best M-index from the tournament?
a.Rahu1
b.Saurav
c.Virender
d. Yuvraj
e. Cannot be determined.

3. For how many Indian players is it possible to calculate the exact M-index?
a.0
b.1
c. 2
d. More than 2
e. Cannot be determined

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Logical Questions With Solutions

Directions for next 3 Questions: Answer the Questions based on the following information.

Mr. Mehra has 3 children – A, B and C. C is married to the eldest daughter of Mrs. And Mr. Kapoor. Kapoors married their youngest daughter to the eldest son of Mrs. And Mr. Gupta and the couple had two children E and F. J and K are sons of C and D. L is daughter of E. (Assume children inherit the assume of the father)

1. What is the surname of L?
a. Mehra
b. Kapoor
c. Gupta
d. Cannot be determined

2. How is J related to the father of D?
a. Grandfather
b. Grandson
c. Maternal uncle
d. None of these

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Logical Reasoning Questions

Directions for next 3 logical reasoning questions: Answer the logical reasoning questions on the basis of the information given below. A study was conducted to ascertain the relative importance that employees in five different countries assigned to five different traits in their Chief Executive Officers. The traits were compassion (C), decisiveness (D), negotiation skills (N), public visibility (P), and vision (V). The level of dissimilarity between two countries is the maximum difference in the ranks allotted by the two countries to any of the five traits. The following table indicates the rank order of the five traits for each country.

1. Which of the following countries is least dissimilar to India?
a. China
b. Japan
c. Malaysia
d. Thailand
e. Both China & Japan

2. Which amongst the following countries is most dissimilar to India?
a. China
b. Japan
c. Malaysia
d. Thailand
e. Either China or Thailand

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Logical Questions with Solutions

Direction for next 6 Logical Questions- In each series, look for the degree and direction of change between the numbers. In other words, do the numbers increase or decrease, and by how much

1. Look at this series: 80, 10, 70, 15, 60, … What number should come next?
a. 20
b. 25
c. 30
d. 50
Answer- a
Explanation-
This is an alternating addition and subtraction series. In the first pattern, 10 is subtracted from each number to arrive at the next. In the second, 5 is added to each number to arrive at the next.

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Logical Questions

Logical Questions- Directions for next 4 Logical Questions: Refer to the data below and answer the logical questions that follow.

6 people A, B, C, D, E and F play 3 games Cricket, Football and Hockey for a period of 4 hours. Within this period 5 of the players may keep changing their game; however C plays only 1 game throughout. 2 men play each game at all times.

(I) B and D never play the same game.
(II) E play either with A or D only.
(III) When B plays Cricket, F plays Hockey.
(IV) When A plays Football, B plays Hockey.
(V) When D plays Cricket, A plays Football.

1. When E plays Hockey, who plays with him?
a. A
b. D
c. Either [a] or [b]
d. Cannot be determined

2. If B plays Cricket, who plays Football?
a. E and A
b. C and D
c. E and D
d. Either [a] or [c]

3. Which game does C play?
a. Cricket
b. Football
c. Hockey
d. Cannot be determined

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Logical Reasoning Questions

Directions for next 3 Logical Reasoning Questions: Answer the logical reasoning questions on the basis of the information given below.

Five friends meet every morning at Sree Sagar restaurant for an idli-vada breakfast. Each consumes a different number of idlis and vadas. The numbers of idlis consumed are 1, 4, 5, 6, and 8, while the numbers of vadas consumed are 0, 1, 2, 4, and 6. Below are some more facts about who eats what and how much.

i. The number of vadas eaten by Ignesh is three times the number of vadas consumed by the person who eats four idlis.
ii. Three persons, including the one who eats four vadas, eat without chutney.
iii. Sandeep does not take any chutney.
iv. The one who eats one idli a day does not eat any vadas or chutney. Further, he is not Mukesh.
v. Daljit eats idli with chutney and also eats vada.
vi. Mukesh, who does not take chutney, eats half as many vadas as the person who eats twice as many idlis as he does.
vii. Bimal eats two more idlis than Ignesh, but Ignesh eats two more vadas than Bimal.

1. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Mukesh eats 8 idlis and 4 vadas but no chutney.
b. The person who eats 5 idlis and 1 vada does not take chutney.
c. The person who eats equal number of vadas and idlis also takes chutney.
d. The person who eats 4 idlis and 2 vadas also takes chutney.
e. All of the above

2. Which one of the following statements is true?
a. Daljit eats 5 idlis.
b. Ignesh eats 8 idlis.
c. Bimal eats 1 idli.
d. Bimal eats 6 idlis.
e. None of them

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Solving more problems by Lateral thinking

Lateral Thinking is a powerful method to use the unused potential of brain. This is originally propounded by Edward De Bono.  In this post various simple methods which can bring about lateral thinking capabilities in a reader are described.

To know more about Lateral Thinking

In this post I am presenting my favorite collection of more than 50 Lateral Thinking puzzles/riddles/questions/statements. Some of them are really tricky. Hope you will like it

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Reasoning Ability Questions

Reasoning Ability Questions- Directions for next 4 Reasoning Ability Questions: Answer the reasoning ability questions on the basis of the information given below.

Farooq, Vivek, Rakesh and Dipti were playing a computer game. The object was to shoot down planes and birds with a missile. Shooting down a plane fetched 50 points and shooting down a bird fetched 10 points. Each one shot at least 4 planes. Farooq, Vivek, Rakesh and Dipti won 700, 600, 550 and 450 points, respectively at the end of their games.

1. If all the four players shot the same number of birds, by how much did the total number of planes shot by Farooq and Vivek exceed those shot by Rakesh and Dipti?
a. 8
b. 6
c. 4
d. Data Insufficient

2. What is the total number of ways in which the four players could have scored their respectively scores?
a. 4752
b. 7920
c. 34
d. 38

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