Reasoning Quiz

Directions (1-5): In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by three conclusions numbered, I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly knows facts:

1. Statements : 

All paints are colour.

Some colour are chains.

All chains are white.

Conclusions:

I. There is a possibility that some paints are white.

II. Atleast some white are colour.

III. No paint is white.

(1) Only I follows

(2) I and II follow

(3) Only III follows

(4) Either I or III and II follow

(5) None of the above

2. Statements :

Some notes are papers.

Some papers are file.

Some files are folders.

Conclusions :

I. All files are notes is a possibility.

II. Some papers are folders.

III. At least some notes are folders.

(1) None follow

(2) Only I follows

(3) Only II follows

(4) Only III follows

(5) I and II follows

3. Statements : 

Some waters are buckets.

All buckets are tubs.

All tubs are taps.

Conclusions: 

I. There is a possibility that some taps are waters.

II. All tubs are buckets.

III. Atleast some taps are buckets.

(1) I and II follow

(2) I and III follow

(3) II and III follow

(4) All follow

(5) None of the above

4. Statements : 

All pins are bags.

All chalks are bags.

All needles are bags.

Conclusions: 

I. There is a possibility that some needles are pins.

II. At least some chalks are needles.

III. No needle is pin.

(1) Only I follows

(2) Only III follows

(3) Either I and III follows

(4) Either I or III and II follow

(5) None of the above

5. Statements: 

Some trains are trucks.

Some trucks are trums.

No trum is jeep.

Conclusions:

I. There is possibility that some jeeps are trains.

II. Atleast some trums are trains.

III. Some jeeps are trucks.

(1) None follows

(2) Only I follows

(3) Only II follows

(4) Only III follows

(5) II and III follow

Directions (6-10) : Study the following information and answer the questions that follow:

In a certain code language, ‘hope to see you’ is coded as ‘re so na di’ ‘Please come to see the party’ is coded as ‘fi ge na di ke zo’ ‘hope to come’ is coded as ‘di so ge’ and ‘see you the party’ is coded as ‘re fi zo na’.

6. How is ‘party’ coded in the given code language?

(1) di

(2) ke

(3) fi

(4) na

(5) None of these

7. What does the code ‘so’ stand for in the given code language?

(1) hope

(2) come

(3) see

(4) to

(5) None of these

8. How is ‘party’ coded in the given code language?

(1) Either ‘re’ or ‘fi’

(2) Either ‘zo’ or ‘na’

(3) Either ‘zo’ or ‘fi’

(4) Either  ‘zo’ or ‘ge’

(5) Either ‘ke’ or ‘fi’

9. How will ‘please see you’ be coded in the given code language?

(1) re na ke

(2)  so re na

(3) zo re na

(4) na di ke

(5) ke re ge

10. Which one of the following will be coded as ‘so di re’ in the given code language?

(1) you see hope

(2) hope you please

(3) hope you come

(4) the hope to

(5) you hope to

Answers 

1.  2
2.  2
3.  5
4.  1
5.  2
6.  5
7.  1
8.  3
9.  1
10. 5