Reasoning For SBI/IBPS/UIIC 2016

Directions (Q.1-5): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow: 
Twelve friends are sitting in two squares. One square is inside another. Julia, Putin, Obama, Zuma, Merkel and Robert are in the outer square facing inward. Smith, Cameron, Hillary, John, Botha and Jacob are sitting in the inner square facing outward. They all are sitting in such a way that in each square four persons are sitting in the middle of the sides and two persons are sitting on diagonally opposite corners.
Each friend in the inner square is facing another friend of the outer square. There are exactly two persons sitting between Julia and Merkel. Botha sits second to the left of Smith. Obama is on the immediate left of the one who is facing Smith. Neither Botha nor Smith faces either Merkel or Julia. Zuma is facing Jacob and Putin is not opposite Obama in the outer square. Merkel is not sitting adjacent to Zuma. Cameron is not facing Julia. Between Cameron and John there are as many persons as between Obama and Robert. Julia sits on any of the corner.


1. Who is sitting opposite Cameron?

Solution:

2. Robert is facing which of the following persons?

3. Who is sitting on the immediate left of Obama?

4. Four of the five are alike in a certain manner. Select the one which is not similar to the other four.

5. Who is sitting second to the left of John?

Directions (Q.6-10): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Eight friends Vikrant, Vivian, Ashika, Anisha, Dilip, Divya, Lalit and Kunal are sitting around a circular table for lunch, facing the centre. Each person has a different birthplace viz London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Paris, Corsica, Moscow and Bangkok but not necessarily in the same order.
The person born in New York sits third to the right of Lalit. Ashika is an immediate neighbour of Lalit. The person born in Tokyo sits second to the right of Ashika. Vivian sits third to the right of Kunal. Kunal’s birthplace is neither New York nor Tokyo. Only one person sits between Ashika and the person whose birthplace is Sydney. Vikrant and Divya are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither Vikrant’s nor Divya’s birthplace is New York. The person born in Bangkok sits second to the right of Vikrant. Two persons sit between Anisha and the person born in Paris. Anisha is not from New York. The person born in London is not an immediate neighbour of the person born in New York. The person born in Corsica sits second to the left of Vikrant. 


6. Who among the following is from Moscow?

Solution:

7. What is the position of Divya with respect to the person whose birthplace is New York?

8. Where is the birthplace of Lalit?

9. Where is the birthplace of Dilip?

10. Who sit(s) exactly between the persons whose birth places are Sydney and Paris?