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Logical Questions

August 19th, 2011 | 15 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

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 25th to August to 4th 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 1st match of the tournament on 25th August and the last match is to be held on 4th September.
(iv) A plays C on 3rd September and D on 31st August.
(v) D plays C on 25th August, F on 27th August, E on 29th August and play their last match on 4th September.
(vi) No matches are to be held on 26th August and 2nd September. Only 1 match is to be held on 4th September.

1. Which of the following matches cannot be held on 25th 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. 30th August
b. 31st August
c. 1st September
d. 3rd September

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Logical Questions

April 20th, 2011 | 6 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

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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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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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 for CAT, MAT, XAT & Bank PO Exams

March 22nd, 2010 | 4 Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical Questions: Directions for next 4 logical questions: Read the following information carefully, and answer the logical 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, MAT, XAT and Bank PO Exam Logical Questions

March 17th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical Questions: Direction for next 3 CAT logical questions: Answer the cat logical 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 Interview Questions

January 6th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

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

Four boys and four girls sit around a round to discuss strategies to improve their performance in CAT. Each one of them likes two of the three sections English, Maths and DI and is weak in the third section which they dislike. Also,

1. Namrata is equidistant from Manju and Ritu and likes Maths and DI.
2. Sachin is equidistant from Abhay and Swati but not adjacent and does not like English.
3. Person sitting two places to the right of Amar does not like English.
4. Swapnil likes Maths and sits to the immediate left of Namrata and to the immediate tight of Manju.
5. Person opposite Ritu likes only one of the sections that Ritu likes.
6. Abhay and the person sitting opposite him don’t like Maths.
7. Person to the immediate left of Swati likes DI and English.

1. Which are the two sections that Manju likes?
a. English and Maths
b. English and DI
c. [a] and [c]
d. [b] and [c]

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Logical & Aptitude Interview Questions

January 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical & Aptitude Interview Questions- Directions for next 2 Logical Questions: Answer these logical questions on the basis of the information given below.

Harish and Sachin are playing a game of matchsticks. There are N matchsticks on the table to start with. Each player, in his turn, picks up at least one matchstick and at most eight matchsticks. The two players take turn alternately. The player who clears the table loses. Assume that each player plays intelligently with an objective of winning. The first move is Haris’s. No player is allowed to pass his turn without picking up any matchsticks.

1. If, for some N, it is known that the number of matchsticks up by Harish in his first four moves were 6, 4, 3 and 6 respectively, then how many matchsticks would Sachin have picked up in his third move? Assume that Harish wins the game?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 6
d. insufficient data.

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Logical & Aptitude Interview Questions

January 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Logical Reasoning

Logical & Aptitude Interview Questions- Directions for next 5 Logical & Aptitude Interview Questions: Refer to the data below and answer the logical & aptitude interview questions that follow.

Two families with 14 members, includes 7 males and 7 females. C is the grandfather of M and P and he is an engineer. C has one sister, O who is lawyer. K is an engineer and I is a lawyer, both of them are sons-i-law of E, F, G and H are daughters of E and C and out of them only H is Unmarried and is a teacher. Other sisters of H are housewives. G is not married with an engineer. M and P are sons of K. one of the grandson of C is an engineer. O has one married son D and one unmarried daughter I. L is the aunt of Z and she is working in a bank. F is sister-in-law of L and she is a housewife. Z is a student and his father is an engineer. In the family only P is a doctor.

1. What is the profession of M?
a. Doctor
b. Engineer
c. Lawyer
d. Cannot be determined

2. What is the profession of teacher’s cousin sister?
a. bank employee
b. Engineer
c. Lawyer
d. Doctor

3. How two male engineers from same generation are related to each other?
a. Cousin sisters
b. Cousin brothers
c. Brothers-in-law
d. Sisters-in-law

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Logical Questions

December 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Logical Reasoning

logical-questions. Directions for next 2 Logical Questions: Answer the logical questions on the basis of the information given below.

At the Pizzeria – a fast food centre, pizzas are made only on an automatic pizza-making machine. The machine continuously makes different sorts of pizzas by adding one or more sorts of topping on a common base. The machine makes the pizzas at the rate of 1 pizza per minute. The various toppings are added to the pizzas in the following manner. The 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th … pizzas are topped with pepperoni; the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd ……… pizzas with olive and baby corn; the 1st, 9th, 17th, 25th … pizzas with mushroom; and the rest with cheese and tomatoes.

The machine works for exactly 11 hours per day without any break in between.

1. How many pizzas per day are made with cheese and tomatoes as topping?

a. 262

b. 348

c. 287

d. 330

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