Reasoning For SBI and IBPS Exams

Directions (Q.1-7): In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II & 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 known facts. 

1. Statements: 
All chairs are keys. 
All keys are balloons. 
Some balloons are mirrors. 
Some mirrors are desks. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some desks are keys. 
II. Some balloons are chairs. 
III.Some mirrors are balloons

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2. Statements: 
Some drums are posters. 
All posters are windows. 
Some windows are tables. 
All tables are books. 
Conclusions:
I. Some windows are drums. 
II. Some books are posters. 
III.Some tablets are drums.

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3. Statements: 
Some boxes are toys. 
Some toys are nails. 
Some nails are stores. 
Some stores are shops. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some shops are toys. 
II. Some nails are boxes. 
III.No shop is toy.

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4. Statements: 
All doors are windows. 
No window is house. 
Some houses are buildings.
All buildings are skies. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some skies are doors. 
II. Some skies are houses. 
III.Some building s are doors.

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5. Statements: 
All rivers are walls. 
All walls are stones. 
All stones are clothes. 
All clothes are trees. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some trees are stones. 
II. Some clothes are rivers 
III.All walls are clothes.

Solution:

6. Statements: 
Some letters are glasses. 
Some glasses are plates. 
All plates are buses. 
All buses are cars. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some cars are letters. 
II. Some cars are glasses. 
III.Some buses are glasses.

Solution:

7. Statements: 
All books are pens. 
Some pens are ropes. 
All ropes are discs. 
 Some discs are bricks. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some bricks are ropes. 
II. Some discs are books. 
III.Some bricks are pens.

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Directions (Q.8-10): In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. 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 known facts. 


8. Statements: 
All arrows are bows. 
All bows are swords. 
Some swords are daggers. 
All daggers are knives. 
Conclusions: 
I. All knives are bows. 
II. Some swords are knives. 
III.All bows are arrows. 
IV. All arrows are swords.

Solution:

9. Statements: 
Some pianos are violins. 
Some violins are drums. 
All drums are guitars. 
No guitar is a flute. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some guitars are pianos. 
II. Some drums are flutes. 
III.Some pianos are drums. 
IV. No flute is a drum.

Solution:

10. Statements: 
Some stones are rocks. 
All rocks are boulders. 
Some boulders are mountains. 
All hills are mountains. 
Conclusions: 
I. Some stones are mountains. 
II. Some hills are boulders. 
III.Some boulders are stones. 
IV. All mountains are hills

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