Reasoning Ability Quiz For ECGC PO 2021- 14th January

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Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.
Eight persons X, Y, Z, P, Q, R, A and B live on eight different floors of building in such a way that the ground floor is numbered as 1 and the floor just above it is numbered as 2 and so on till top floor which is numbered as 8. Each person likes different cars i.e. Datsun, Toyota, MG, BMW, Suzuki, Tata, Honda and Kia. All information is not necessarily in same order.
P does not live on 8th floor. The one who likes Tata lives below from the one who likes Toyota. The one who lives on 3rd floor likes Toyota. There are two floors between the one who likes the Toyota and B. X does not live on even numbered floor and lives above A, who lives on even numbered floor. There are two floors between A and Y, who likes Tata. There are three floors between the one who likes Honda and the one who likes Datsun but the one who likes Datsun lives below the one who likes Honda. The one who likes Honda live immediately below X. R lives immediately above the floor on which Z lives. A likes BMW. The one who likes Kia lives immediately above the floor on which X lives. P does not like Suzuki. Y lives either on Ground floor or Top floor. Q lives above P.

Q1. Who among the following lives on 3rd floor?
(a) Q
(b) R
(c) Z
(d) Y
(e) X

Q2. How many persons live between the one who likes Honda and Q?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
(e) None of these

Q3. Who among the following lives on 5th floor?
(a) B
(b) Z
(c) R
(d) A
(e) P

Q4. Who among the following person likes Datsun?
(a) Y
(b) P
(c) Z
(d) X
(e) B

Q5. How many persons live below the floor on which A lives?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
(e) None of these

Q6. If ‘A $ B’ means ‘A is the son of B’, ‘A @ B’ means ‘A is the mother of B, ‘A % B’ means ‘A is son-in law of B and ‘A # B’ means ‘A is the daughter of B’ then in ‘P $ R # M % N’ how is N related to R?
(a) Daughter
(b) Grandfather
(c) Grandmother
(d) Can’t determined
(e) None of these

Q7. Pointing towards a girl in a Photograph Riya, who is a female said, “she is the only daughter of the son of my mother’s father’s only sister. How is Riya related to that girl?
(a) Paternal Aunt
(b) Daughter
(c) Cousin
(d) Maternal Aunt
(e) None of these

Directions (8-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:
M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T and W are nine persons living in the same house. There are three married couple in the house. M is the only daughter of P, who is the paternal grandfather of T. R is the son of Q. T is the daughter of S. N is the mother of S. N is not married to P. O is the maternal grandfather of T. R is the father of T. T is sister of W.

Q8. How is M related to S?
(a) Mother in-law
(b) Sister in-law
(c) Father in-law
(d) Sister
(e) Can’t determined

Q9. How is W related to R?
(a) Son
(b) Father
(c) Daughter
(d) Can’t determined
(e) None of these

Q10. Which of the following is the pair of “husband-wife”?
(a) P, N
(b) O, P
(c) M, S
(d) Q, N
(e) R, S

Directions (11-15): In each of the questions given below some statements are followed by some conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q11. Statements:
All Green are tea
All tea is coffee
Some tea are time
Conclusion:
I. Some time is Coffee
II. All Coffee can never be Tea
III. All green is time
(a) Only II is true
(b) Only III is true
(c) Both II and III is true
(d) Only I is true
(e) None of these

Q12. Statements:
Some Distance are speed
No Speed is Glass
All Dust is speed
Conclusion:
I. No distance is Glass
II. All glass can never be distance
III. No dust is glass
(a) Both I and III is true
(b) Both I and II is true
(c) Only III is true
(d) Only II is true
(e) None of these

Q13. Statements:
Some Days are Road
All Road are City
Only a few city are state
Conclusion:
I. All state can be road
II. All Days can be city
III. Some road are state
(a) Both II and III is true
(b) Only III is true
(c) Both I and II is true
(d) Both I and III is true
(e) None of these

Q14. Statements:
Only Food is Tasty
Some food are Sweet
Only a few sweet are sugar
Conclusions:
I. Some food are not sugar
II. Some sugar can be tasty
III. All food are sugar
(a) Only II follows
(b) Only II follows
(c) Only III follows
(d) Either I and III follow
(e) None follows

Q15. Statements:
All Gold is silver
All diamond is silver
Some diamond is iron
Conclusions:
I. Some silver are iron
II. Some gold can be Diamond
III. All silver can be gold
(a) Only I follows
(b) Only II and III follow
(c) Either I and III follow
(d) Only I and III follow
(e) None of these

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