Reasoning - 1

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Greetings. I have today posted a few reasoning questions culled from different sources. Hope you like them.

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Reasoning – Set 1

1.       Steel Express runs between Tatanagar and Howrah and have five stoppages in between. Find the number of different kinds of one way second class ticket that the Railways will have to print to cater to all types of passengers who may travel by Steel Express?

(a)    49                   (b)          42           (c)           21           (d)          7

2.       There are 6561 balls out of which one is heavy. Find the minimum number of times the balls have to weighed to identify the heavy ball? (Question asked in Infosys paper)

(a)    12                   (b)          9              (c)           8              (d)          15

3.       Rita, an accomplished pastry chef who is well known for her artistic and exquisite wedding cakes, opened a bakery a year ago and was surprised that the business has been very slow. She hired a consultant who after a market survey, reported that the local population doesn’t consider her shop as one that they would visit on a daily basis except on special occasions celebrated at their place. Which of the following strategies, Rita should implement to increase the daily sales at her bakery?

(a)    Making coupons available that would entail the holder a 25% discount on wedding anniversary or birthday cakes.

(b)   Exhibiting at the next Bridal Expo pieces of her famous wedding cake for visitors to taste.

(c)    Placing a series of advertisements in the local newspapers displaying the wide array of breads, muffins and other cookies offered at her shop.

(d)   Moving the bakery to the other side of the town.

4.       Find the values of X and Y.

S	8	W	16	A	5	C	X	A	4
20	J	25	T	4	K	7	L	Y	N

(a)    X -16, Y – 7       (b)    X – 5, Y – 15             (c)      X – 4, Y – 6              (d)       X -16,  Y –23

5.       Four persons  X, Y, Z and Q live in four coloured houses in a row. Red, Green, Yellow and Blue are the colours of the houses. Z lives in a yellow house. The green house is adjacent to the blue house. X does not live adjacent to Z. The yellow house is in between the green and red houses. What is the colour of the house X lives in?

(a)    Green           (b)  Blue               (c)  Red                (d)   Cannot be determined.

Answers:

1.       (b)                  2.  (c)                     3.  (c)                     4.   (c)                    5.  (b)