Reasoning Questions for RBI Assistant 2015
Directions (1-5): Study the following information and answer the given questions. A word and number arrangement machine, when given an input line of words, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and the steps of rearrangement.
Input: 96 gain 63 forest 38 78 deep house
- Step I: deep 96 gain 63 forest 38 78 house
- Step II: deep 38 96 gain 63 forest 78 house
- Step III: deep 38 forest gain 96 63 78 house
- Step IV: deep 38 forest 63 gain 96 78 house
- Step V: deep 38 forest 63 gain 78 96 house
- Step VI: deep 38 forest 63 gain 78 house 96 and Step VI is the last step of the rearrangement of the above input. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.
1.Input: train 59 47 25 over burden 63 sky.
Which of the following steps will be the last one?
- (1) VI
- (2) V
- (3) IV
- (4) VII
- (5) None of these
Ans: (1)
2.Input: service 46 58 96 over there desk 15
Which of the following will be step VI?
- (1) desk 15 over service 46 58 96 there
- (2) desk 15 over 46 service there 58 96
- (3) desk 15 over 46 service there 58 96
- (4) desk 15 over 46 service 58 96 there
- (5) There will be no such step
Ans: (5)
3.Step II of an input is:
below 12 93 house floor 69 57 task
Which of the following will definitely be the input?
- (1) 93 house 69 57 below task floor 12
- (2) 93 house below 69 57 task floor 12
- (3) 93 house floor 69 57 task below 12
- (4) Cannot be determined
- (5) None of these
Ans: (4)
4.Step III of an input is :
art 24 day 83 71 54 star power
Which of the following steps will be the last one?
- (1) V
- (2) VIII
- (3) IX
- (4) VII
- (5) None of these
Ans: (4)
5.Step II of an input is :
cold 17 wave 69 never desk 52 43
How many more steps will be required to complete the rearrangement?
- (1) Six
- (2) Five
- (3) Four
- (4)Three
- (5)None of these
Ans: (3)
Directions (6-9): Each question consists of three statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. Consider the statements to be true even if they are in variance with the commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follow from the given statements using all the “three” statements together.
6.Statements:
a. All letters are words.
b. Some words are cubes.
c. Some cubes are cuboids.
Conclusions:
I. Some cuboids are words.
II. Some cubes are letters.
III All letters are cuboids.
IV. Some letters are not cuboids.
- (1) All follows.
- (2) None follows.
- (3) Only I, II and III follows.
- (4) Only IV follows.
- (5) Only either III or IV follows.
Ans: (5)
7.Statements:
a. No eyes are ears.
b. All ears are drums.
c. All drums are sound.
Conclusions:
I.All eyes are sound.
II.Some drums are not eyes.
III.Some eyes are not sound.
IV.Some drums are sound.
- (1) All follows.
- (2) Only II and IV follows.
- (3) Only II, III and IV follows.
- (4) Only either I or III follows
- (5) Only II, IV and either I or III follow.
Ans: (5)
8.Statements:
a. Some pillows are covers.
b. No covers are sheets.
c. No sheets are beds.
Conclusions:
I. No covers are beds.
II. Some pillows are not sheets.
III Some sheets are not pillows.
IV. Some pillows are not beds.
- (1) Only either II or III follows.
- (2) Only II follows.
- (3) Only I, II and III follows.
- (4) None follows
- (5) None of these
Ans: (2)
9.Statements:
a.No blacks are greens.
b.All yellows are reds.
c.Some reds are not blacks.
Conclusions:
I.Some yellows are not blacks.
II. Some greens are not blacks.
III Some blacks are not yellows.
IV. Some greens are blacks.
- (1) All follows.
- (2) Only II follows.
- (3) Only II and IV follows.
- (4) None follows
- (5) None of these.
Ans: (2)
Directions (10-14): Study the following information carefully to answer the questions below:
Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circle facing the center. ‘D’ is between ‘A’ and ‘E’ only. ‘F’ is second to the left of ‘E’. ‘B’ is between ‘C’ and ‘G’ only. ‘F’ is between ‘G’ and ‘H’ only.
10.Who is fourth to the right of ‘B’?
- (1) H
- (2) D
- (3) A
- (4) F
- (5) None of these
Ans: (5)
11.In which of the following pairs, second person is to the immediate left of the first person?
- (1) ‘H,E’
- (2) ‘D,A’
- (3) ‘B,G’
- (4) ‘B,C’
- (5) None of these
Ans: (4)
12.Which of the following is definitely true?
- (1) D is second to the left of H.
- (2) A is second to the right of E.
- (3) C is to the immediate right of B.
- (4) E is to the immediate left of C.
- (5) None of the above.
Ans: (2)
13.Who is the immediate left of ‘A’?
- (1) D
- (2) A
- (3) F
- (4) H
- (5) None of these
Ans: (1)
14.Who is third to the right of ‘G’?
- (1) E
- (2) A
- (3) C
- (4) D
- (5) None of these
Ans: (1)
15.In a certain code language ‘ROAD’ is written as ‘URDG’. How is swan written in that code?
- (1) UXDQ
- (2) VZCQ
- (3) VZCP
- (4) VZDQ
- (5) Cannot be determined.
Ans: (4)