##SBI PO 2017 REASONING PUZZLE TEST##
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Puzzle and Seating and Arrangement.
Directions (1 – 5): Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below:
Ten friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and Jare sitting at a rectangular table and likes a different games i.e. Football, Volleyball, Cricket, Badminton, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Carrom, Ludo, Chess and Rugby but not necessarily in the same order. All of them are sitting at a rectangular tablein such a way that four of them sit at the corners, two each on the longer sides and one each on the smaller sides, but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing the centre while the rest are not facing the centre. Not more than two friends sitting together face the same direction.
E sits on the immediate left of D and is not an immediate neighbour of C. A and E face the same direction. The one who likes Football sits immediate left of the one who likes Table Tennis. D and G sit diagonally and face the opposite directions. Five of them face the same directions. H does not like Table Tennis and Chess. The one who likes Ludo sits immediate right of I, who likes Chess. The one who likes Table Tennis sits second to the left of C.Only two among four sitting on the corners face outward. H and D are sitting on the immediate left and third to the left of J respectively. A sits on one of the smaller sides and third to the right of F. D likes Carrom and sits third to the left of the one who likes Lawn Tennis. J sits immediate right of the one who likes Rugby. E likes Volleyball and sits second to the left of the one who likes Badminton. I is not an immediate neighbour of A, B or F, but sits on the immediate right of C, who is not facing the centre. One of the four friends sitting on the corner is I.
1.Which of the following persons like Cricket?
(a)A
(b) C
(c) H
(d) J
(e) None of these
2.Who sits third to the left of the one who likes Table Tennis?
(a)The one who likes Ludo
(b) The one who likes Chess
(c) B
(d) F
(e) The one who likesVolleyball
3.Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence they form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to that group?
(a)E
(b)The one who likes Rugby
(c) I
(d)The one who likes Carrom
(e)The one who likes Cricket
4.What is the position of D with respect to A?
(a) Immediate right
(b) Second to the right
(c) Fourth to the right
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of these
5.Who among the following sits diagonally opposite H?
(a) The one who likes Chess
(b) The one who likes Ludo
(c) D
(d) The one who likes Football
(e) None of these
Directions (6 – 10): Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below:
Seven Persons P, Q, R, S, T, U and V live on seven different floors of a building, but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one; the one above it is number two and so on till the topmost floor is number seven. Each of them also likes a different drink and fast-food i.e. drinks are- Pepsi, Miranda, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Thumps up, Frooti, Limca and fast-food are- Dosa, Idali, Burger, Bada-pao, Bread chaat, Chicken Baguette and Sandwich but not necessarily in the same order.
Only one person lives between the one who likes Thumps up and the one who likes Frooti. S does not like Thumps up. V does not like Pepsi. The one who likes Chicken Baguette lives immediate above the one who likes Thumps up. T lives on one of the floors below Q, but does not live on the lowermost floor. The one who lives 7th floor is immediate above the one, who lives immediate below the one who likes Sandwich. There are three persons between Q and T. The one who likes Sprite lives on one the odd-numbered floors below U. P lives immediately above U and does not like Coca-Cola. U does not like Bada-pao and Idali. The one who likes Burger lives immediate above the one who likes Bread chaat. The one who likes Frooti is also likes Idali. Only one person lives between Q and the one who likes Coca-Cola. The one who likes Bread chaat lives below the one who likes Dosa. Only two persons live between V and the one who likes Coca-Cola. The one who likes Miranda lives on one of the even-numbered floors above the one who likes Coca-Cola. The one who likes Limca lives immediately above V, who does not like Frooti. S lives on one of the floors above R.
6.Which of the following persons like Bada-pao?
(a)R (b)The one who likes Miranda
(c)The one who likes Coca-Cola
(d)The one who likes Pepsi (e)Q
7.Who lives on immediate above the one who likes Idali?
(a)The one who likes Coca-Cola
(b) Both (a) and (e)
(c) S
(d) Q
(e) The one who likes Dosa
8.Which of the following persons like Limca?
(a)Q
(b) P
(c) V
(d) T
(e) None of these
9.How money persons live between the one who likes Sprite and the one who likes Idali?
(a) None
(b) Three
(c) Two
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of these
10.Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence they form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to that group?
(a) The one who likes Sprite
(b) The one who likes Chicken Baguette
(c) The one who lives on 5th floor
(d) The one who lives on 6th floor
(e) The one who likes Pepsi
Direction (11-15):Study the given information carefully to answer the given questions:
Players belongs to different countries i.e. France, China, India, Italy, Korea, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Australia and Russia are sitting in two parallel rows containing five players each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 Novak Djokovic, Maria Sarapova, Pete Sampras, Rafael Nadal and Caroline Wozniacki are seated (not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing south. In row-2 Andy Roddick, Andy Muray, Jimmy Connors, Martina Hingis and Milos Raonic are seated (not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing north. Therefore in the given seating arrangement each member seated in row faces another member of the other row. All of them have relation with each other.
Only one player sits between Pete Sampras’s sister and Novak Djokovic’s brother. Only two players sit between Pete Sampras’s father and Martina Hingis’s father. Neither Maria Sarapova nor Martina Hingis’s grandfather faces Martina Hingis. Andy Muray belong to Italy and Maria Sarapova is neither belong to France nor Russia. Martina Hingis’s husband, who belongs to Brazil, sits third to the right of Martina Hingis’s uncle. Andy Roddick sits second to the left of Martina Hingis’s husband. Novak Djokovic has two sons and one daughter. The player facing Martina Hingis’s brother, who belongs to India, sits immediate right of Novak Djokovic’s daughter. Caroline Wozniacki is the grandmother of Andy Roddick and Martina Hingis. Rafael Nadal is the brother-in-law of Caroline Wozniacki. Pete Sampras is the father of Andy Roddick and brother of Maria Sarapova. Andy Roddick’s grandfather, who belongs to France, is not an immediate neighbour of Maria Sarapova. Milos Raonic is the husband of Martina Hingis and brother of the one, who belongs to Korea. Martina Hingis belongs to Germany and Caroline Wozniacki belongs to Australia. Pete Sampras neither belongs to Japan nor China. Jimmy Connors belongs to Korea. Rafael Nadal does not belong to China.
11.How is Pete Sampras related to Jimmy Connors’s brother?
(a)Mother-in-law
(b)Father-in-law
(c)Father
(d)Uncle
(e)None of these
12.Maria Sarapova belongs to, which of the following country?
(a)India
(b)Russia
(c)France
(d)China
(e)Japan
13.Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrange and hence form a group. Which of them does not belong to that group?
(a)Caroline Wozniacki
(b)Novak Djokovic
(c)Maria Sarapova
(d)Milos Raonic
(e)Martina Hingis
14.What is the position of Milos Raonic with respect of Milos Raonic’s wife?
(a)Third to the right
(b)second to the right
(c)Immediate left
(d)Immediate right
(e)Second to the left
15.In which of the following pairs sits on the left end of both rows?
(a)Maria Sarapova- Novak Djokovic
(b)Martina Hingis- Novak Djokovic
(c)Rafael Nadal- Martina Hingis
(d)Novak Djokovic- Andy Muray
(e)Andy Muray- Rafael Nadal
Answers – 1.(c) 2.(b) 3.(d) 4.(c) 5.(b) 6.(b) 7.(b) 8.(d) 9.(c) 10.(d)
11.(b) 12.(d) 13.(c) 14.(c) 15.(e)
11.(b) 12.(d) 13.(c) 14.(c) 15.(e)
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