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Sample Logical Questions

December 7th, 2010 | 7 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Sample Logical Questions: Directions for next 3 Sample Logical Questions: Answer these samplelogical questions on the basis of the information given below.

Each of five friends purchased exactly one fruit basket from among five fruit baskets – P, Q, R, S and T. Each of the five baskets contained four apples or five bananas or six oranges or seven mangoes or eight guavas. No tiw baskets contained the same varity of fruits. Q contained six fruits in it. Each of the five friends then transferred at least one and at most two fruits from her respective basket to each of the other baskets. None of the friends transferred any fruit that they received from another. After all the transfer, it is observed that
(i) R has no guavas in it.
(ii) P has a total of ten fruits, at least three of which are mangoes.
(iii) T has fruits in all, none of which is an apple.

1. How many fruits were there in S initially?
a. 8
b. 6
c. 7
d. 5

2. Which fruit is present in all the baskets after all transfers?
a. Banana
b. Orange
c. Mango
d. Both Orange and Mango

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CAT Reasoning Ability Questions

November 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Reasoning Ability Questions-Direction for next 3 CAT reasoning questions: Answer the reasoning ability questions based on the following information.

Pankaj has six friends, and during a certain vacation he met them at several dinners. He found that he dined with all six friends exactly one day; with every five of them of 2 days; with four of them of 3 days; with every three of them of 4 days; with every two of them of 5 days. Further, every friend was present at 8 dinners and every friend was absent at 8 dinners.

1. How many dinners did Pankaj have during the vacation?
a. 220
b. 173
c. 16
d. 12
e. 8.

2. How many dinners did Pankaj have alone during the vacation?
a. 6
b. 1
c. 7
d. 2
e. 4

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Sample Logical Reasoning CAT Questions

June 12th, 2010 | 21 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Sample Logical Reasoning CAT Questions- Directions for next 3 questions: Answers the logical reasoning questions based on the following information.
The following steps refer to a certain software programme. The steps given in the code (in simple English language) shows the stages of working of the programme.

Step 0: Start of programme.
Step 1: Select X, where X is a natural number.
Step 2: If X is a prime, go to step 5.
Step 3: If X is an even number, convert X to Y. Y is defined is step 6. Go to step 6.
Step 4: If X is an odd number, convert X to Y. Y is defined in step 7. Go to step 7.
Step 5: Display output as square root to X. Go to step 9.
Step 6: Y is defined as equal to two less than the square of X. Go to step 8.
Step 7: Y is defined as equal to 5 more than the square of X. Go to step 8.
Step 8: Display output as Y.
Step 9: End of programme.

1. Find the value of X if the output number displayed is 4.121.
a. 4
b. 7
c. 17
d. 21

2. Find the value of X if the output number displayed is 2406.
a. 33
b. 47
c. 48
d/. 49

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Logical Reasoning Difficult Questions

May 19th, 2010 | 21 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical Reasoning Questions- Direction for next 3 Logical Reasoning Questions: Answer the logical reasoning questions based on the following information.

Each of the four friends Ms A, Mr. B, Ms C and Mr. D vacationed at one of the four places (each person vacationed at only one place) – Japan, Nepal, Egypt and Spain (not necessarily in this order). Each visited the places in one of the following months: January, March, May and November, and everyone went in a different month.

I. C vacationed immediately before A but after the man who went for a vacation to Japan.
II. The person who left in March did not go to Egypt and his friend vacationed in May.
III. The person who went to Nepal vacationed immediately after D did.
IV. A and B visited the friend, who went to Spain, to see his pictures.

1. Where did Ms C spend her vacations?
a. Japan
b. Nepal
c. Egypt
d. Spain
e. Cannot be determined

2. Who vacationed in the month of March?
a. Ms A
b. Mr B
c. Ms C
d. Mr D
e. Both Mr. B and Mr. C

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Logical Reasoning Questions With Answers

May 12th, 2010 | 15 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical Reasoning Questions With Answers- Directions for next 5 logical reasoning questions: Read the following information carefully, and answer the logical reasoning questions that follow.

I. Harsh and Sushila are good at dramatics and computer science.
II. Anju and Harsh are good at computer science and physics.
III. Anju, Jyoti and Namrata are good at physics and history.
IV. Namrata and Anju are good at physics and mathematics.
V. Jyoti and Sushila are good at history and dramatics.

1. Who is good at physics, history and mathematics, but not in computer science?
a. Anju
b. Harsh
c. Namrata
d. Jyoti
e. Sushila.

2. Who is good at history, physics, computer science and mathematics?
a. Harsh
b. Namrata
c. Jyoti
d. Anju
e. Sushila

3. Who is good at physics, history and dramatics?
a. Namrata
b. Jyoti
c. Sushila
d. Anju.
e. Harsh

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CAT Questions

April 22nd, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

CAT Questions- Directions for next 4 CAT Questions: Answer the cat 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.


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 Answers

April 17th, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical Questions With Answers- Directions for next 3 Logical Questions: Answer the questions based on the following information.

Pankaj has six friends, and during a certain vacation he met them at several dinners. He found that he dined with all six friends exactly one day; with every five of them of 2 days; with four of them of 3 days; with every three of them of 4 days; with every two of them of 5 days. Further, every friend was present at 8 dinners and every friend was absent at 8 dinners.

1. How many dinners did Pankaj have during the vacation?
a. 220
b. 173
c. 16
d. 12
e. 8.

2. How many dinners did Pankaj have alone during the vacation?
a. 6
b. 1
c. 7
d. 2
e. 4

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Logical Questions With Answers

April 12th, 2010 | 6 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical questions and answers-Directions for next 5 logical questions: Answers the logical questions on the basis of the information given below.

I. Harsh and Sushila are good at dramatics and computer science.
II. Anju and Harsh are good at computer science and physics.
III. Anju, Jyoti and Namrata are good at physics and history.
IV. Namrata and Anju are good at physics and mathematics.
V. Jyoti and Sushila are good at history and dramatics.

1. Who is good at physics, history and mathematics, but not in computer science?
a. Anju
b. Harsh
c. Namrata
d. Jyoti
e. Sushila.

2. Who is good at history, physics, computer science and mathematics?
a. Harsh
b. Namrata
c. Jyoti
d. Anju
e. Sushila

3. Who is good at physics, history and dramatics?
a. Namrata
b. Jyoti
c. Sushila
d. Anju.
e. Harsh

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Difficult Logical Questions

April 1st, 2010 | 8 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Directions for next 5 logical questions: Refer to the data below and answer the logical questions that follow:

A, B, C and D are four football teams taking in the ULFA Cup. Each team is required to play against all the other teams once. The matches will be played on grounds P, Q, R and S. You as the coordinator of the ULFA Cup are required to allot matches to the four grounds. To allot the matches, you must meet the following conditions:
I. Grounds P and Q can host matches only on Sundays and grounds R and S can host matches only on Saturday.
II. Team A can play its matches either on ground P or R and on no other grounds.
III. Team B can play its matches either on ground P or Q and on no other grounds.
IV. Team C can play its matches on all grounds except P.
V. All grounds must host at least one match.

1. On which one of the following grounds will the match between b and C be played?
a. P
b. Q
c. R
d. S

2. Which one of the following set of teams must play the match on a Saturday?
a. C and D
b. A and B
c. A and D
d. A and C

3. Which one of the following set of teams will not play the match on a Saturday?
a. C and D
b. A and B
c. A and D
d. A and C

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Logical questions and answers

March 24th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Sample Logical Questions And Answers: Directions for next 3 logical questions: Answers the logical questions on the basis of the information given below. A, B, C, D, E, and F are a group of friends. There are two housewives, one professor, one engineer, one accountant and one lawyer in the group. There are only two married couples in the group. The lawyer is married to D, who is a housewife. No woman in the group is either an engineer or an accountant. C, the accountant, is married to F, who is a professor. A is married to a housewife. E is not a housewife.

1. Which of the following is one of the married couples?
a. A & B
b. B & E
c. D & E
d. A & D
e. D & B
Ans.d.
A & D

2. What is E’s profession?
a. Engineer
b. Lawyer
c. Professor
d. Accountant
e. Housewife
Ans.a.
Engineer

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