Reasoning Ability Quiz For SBI PO/Clerk Mains 2022- 31st December

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Twelve People A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L living in a building which have nine floors in it. The ground floor is numbered as one and the top floor numbered as nine. Not more than 2 people live in a floor. There are five females out of twelve people and rests are man. They all like different subjects such as Economics, English, Hindi, and Math not more than three people like the same subject, each subject is like by at least one female person.
The female who likes English lives on sixth number floor with J. There is two people live between the male person who likes economics and the one who likes math and the person who likes economics live below the one who likes the math. There are two empty odd floors. Either the top floor or the bottom most floor is empty. A who likes English lives above to the K who is a female and likes the math. There are six floors between the one like English and K. There are five floors between E and L and E lives one of the floors above L, who is a female and likes economics. E does not live on floor number eight. L lives alone. G shares the floor with person who likes Hindi. There are two floors on which a single man and a single woman are living on floors who are living between two floors which are occupied by two persons each. The two man who like English, live on the same floor. Any Two females do not share the same floor. H lives just below the floor on which J lives who like Hindi. G likes math. There are two floors between the one who like the Hindi and the empty floor and the one who like Hindi lives below to the empty floor. C is a female who likes economics and share her floor with I, who like math. F is a male person, lives immediate above the empty floor and like the Hindi subject.

Q1. Who amongst the following lives on floor number five?
(a) B
(b) D
(c) C
(d) H
(e) G

Q2. find out Correct combination of subject-gender-floor for G in the following given options?
(a) Math-female-4
(b) Hindi- Female-4
(c) Math-Male-4
(d) cannot be determined
(e) None of these

Q3. Who lives immediately above the empty floor?
(a) K
(b) B
(c) D
(d) I
(e) both (a) and (d)

Q4. Who amongst the following lives immediately below the floor on which D lives?
(a) H
(b) C
(c) F
(d) L
(e) Can’t be determined

Q5. Who among the following lives on the topmost floor?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) D
(d) I
(e) F

Direction (6-10): Study all the information carefully and answers the following questions given below:
In a certain language-
“America Weapon Towards” is coded as “I2M R39O P37E”
“Franchisee Dragon Successful” is coded as “F31U S11R G18R”
“Urban Center Government” is coded as “T21E B35R E27O”

Q6. What can be coded for “Towards Urban”?
(a) R39O B35R
(b) P33E B35R
(c) B35R E27O
(d) I2M R39O
(e) None of these

Q7. What can be coded for “Hall”?
(a) H20A
(b) A20A
(c) A20H
(d) 20HA
(e) None of these

Q8. What can be coded for “Powerful Company”?
(a) U28O A28O
(b) F280 A29O
(c) F29A A28O
(d) A28O F23O
(e) None of these

Q9. What can be code for “Current Governor”?
(a) E27O N25O
(b) E25P N20O
(c) E23U N25O
(d) E25O N23U
(e) None of these

Q10. “R20N” is coded which of the following word?
(a) German
(b) Harvard
(c) Fisher
(d) Honey
(e) Can’t be determined

Direction (11-12): Pollution control can no longer be viewed as a national problem to be addressed by individual countries on the basis of national sovereignty. As the international effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident make clear, pollutants do not respect political boundaries; thus, every nation has a legitimate stake in the environmental practices and policies of its neighbors.

Q11. Which of the following would be the most logical continuation of the argument above?
(a)So, growth of the nuclear power industry should be halted until more rigorous safety procedures have been developed.
(b)Hence, attempts made by one nation to impose its environmental policies on another should be resisted-if necessary, by force.
(c)Consequently, issues of pollution should be handled by an international commission with the authority to set policies for all nations.
(d)Thus, every nation should pledge itself to environmental policies that will minimize the danger to its neighbours.
(e)As a result, only the ultimate emergence of a sovereign world government will resolve today’s most pressing environmental dilemmas.

Q12.Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the view expressed in the passage?
(a)Acid rain from factories in the midwestern United States pollutes lakes in Canada.
(b)Soviet leaders refused western reporters access to safety records after the Chernobyl accident.
(c)Neighbouring states within the United States are often unable to agree on joint pollution control efforts.
(b)Existing international bodies have no authority to impose pollution control regulations on member-nations.
(e)Fishers form Japanese fleets have increasingly depleted fish supplies in United States’ territorial waters.

Direction (13-15): Study all the information carefully and answers the following questions given below:
Six persons A, E, I, O, U and S are sitting in a row facing north. All of them are sitting according to their weights in decreasing order from left to right. S’s weight is 25kg. At least two people heavier than O. I’s weight is 8/7 of U’s weight, whom weight is 7/5 of S’s weight. E is not heavier than A. O is heavier than S. I is heavier than O and less than A. O is heavier than U. S is heavier than E.

Q13. Which of the following given weight of E is definitely correct?
(a) 42kg
(b) 38kg
(c) 39kg
(d) 41kg
(e) Can’t be determined

Q14. Who amongst the following is 2nd lightest in that group?
(a) A
(b) E
(c) I
(d) U
(e) None of these

Q15. If the weight of A is 72 kg, then find the difference between total weight of A and U to the total weight of I and S?
(a) 32kg
(b) 52kg
(c) 42kg
(d) 43kg
(e) 45kg

Solutions

Solutions (1-5):
Sol.

S1. Ans. (d)
S2. Ans. (c)
S3. Ans. (e)
S4. Ans. (e)
S5. Ans. (a)

Solutions (6-10):
Sol.

S6. Ans. (a)
S7. Ans. (b)
S8. Ans. (e)
S9. Ans. (c)
S10. Ans. (e)

S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. The argument is leading up to call for some sort of international agency to control pollution, which, as the author claims, is an international problem. Thus (c) is the best response.

S12. Ans. (a)
Sol. The author cite one example of international pollution, so another example would help strengthen his claim. (a) provides such an example.

Solutions (13-15):
Sol.

S13. Ans. (e)
S14. Ans. (e)
S15. Ans. (c)