LIC AAO: Reasoning Quiz

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement. (All other numbers are two-digit numbers.)

Input: 36 always fine 47 below 83 ever shall 56 13 ice 74
Step I: always 36 fine 47 below 83 ever shall 56 ice 74 13
Step II: always ever 36 fine below 83 shall 56 ice 74 13 47
Step III: Always ever ice 36 fine below shall 56 74 13 47 83
Step IV: always ever ice below fine shall 56 74 13 47 83 36
Step V: always ever ice below fine shall 74 13 47 83 36 56
Step VI: always ever ice below fine shall 13 47 83 36 56 74


Step VI is the last step of the above input. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the steps for the input give below.

Input: 98 above 87 plant new 19 78 of 12 grapes attack 55

1. Which of the following will be the last step of the rearrangement?
(1) IV
(2) V
(3) VI
(4) VII
(5) None of these

2. Which of the following elements will be the 7th element from right in Step V?
(1) plant
(2) 19
(3) new
(4) 98
(5) None of these

3. Which step number would be the following output? Above attack of 98 plant new 78 12 grapes 19 55 87
(1) II
(2) III
(3) IV
(4) V
(5) There will be no such step

4. In step V of rearrangement, if ‘attack’ is related to ‘grapes’ in a certain way and ‘98’ is related to ‘19’ in the same way, which of the following would ‘above’ be related to following the same way?
(1) attack
(2) of
(3) grapes
(4) 12
(5) 78

Directions (5 – 10): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow.

There are eight members of a family – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. All of them are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. They belong to three different generations and there are three married couples among them. Also, four of them are males and four of them are of the opposite gender (though not necessarily in the same order.) Further, some more information is also given.


• The son-in-law and grandson of H are immediate neighbours. G cannot be an immediate neighbor of her sister-in-law.


• B, a spinster, is sitting two places to the right of her grandfather E. A and his sibling D can’t sit together.


• There are only three persons sitting between B and her aunt D, C, a married male, cannot be an immediate neighbour of either E or B.


• F and B are not siblings. There is only one person sitting between C and his brother-in-law.

5. What is the relationship of C with E?


(1) Father-in-law
(2) Son
(3) Son-in-law
(4) Brother-in-law
(5) Can’t be determined

6. What is the position of H with respect to her granddaughter?


(1) Second to the left
(2) Third to the left
(3) Fourth to the left
(4) Third to the left
(5) None of these

7. Which of the following is definitely the group of females?

(1) H G F B
(2) G D B A
(3) B H D C
(4) G D B H
(5) G D C H

8. Who among the following is sitting exactly between G’s daughter and C’s son?


(1) A’s father
(2) D’s son
(3) H’s husband
(4) B’s father
(5) None of these

9. How many persons are sitting between G and her brother-in-law ?


(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Three
(4) Four
(5) Can’t be determined


10. If all the eight persons are seated in the English alphabetical order starting with A, the position of how many of them will remain unchanged (excluding A), if counted in anticlockwise direction starting from A?
(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Three
(4) Four
(5) None of these

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