Reasoning-2

Hi friends,

I post here under a few more reasoning questions culled from different sources and hope that you like them.

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Quote for the day:

Turn your face to the sun, and your shadow falls behind you.

                                                                        ---- Jan Goldstein (in Sacred Wounds) ----

Reasoning – 2

1.    What is the next two numbers in the series:

28, 25, 5, 21, 18, 5, 14

(a)  11, 5         (b) 10, 7          (c) 11, 8          (d) 5, 10

2.    The police spotted a thief at a distance of 250 meters and started chasing him  at a speed of 10 km/h. The thief on seeing the police started running at a speed of 8 km/h. The thief had run how far before the police catch him?

(a)  2 km          (b) 1 km          (c) 1.5 km       (d) 0.8 km

Read the following information carefully and then answer the questions that follow:

There are five persons P, Q, R, S and T and their professions are physicist, advocate, horticulturist, industrialist and journalist but not n the same order.

Three of them P, R and the advocate prefer tea over coffee, and two of them Q and the journalist prefer coffee over tea.

S, P and the industrialist are friends but only two of them prefer coffee over tea.

The horticulturist is the brother of R.

3.    Who is a Horticulturist?

(a)  P               (b) Q               (c) R                (d) S

4.     Who is an Industrialist?

(a)  T                (b) R               (c) Q                (d) S

5.    Which of the following groups include a person who likes tea, but is not an advocate?

(a)  PRT          (b) ST             (c) QRT          (d) None of these

Answers:  1 (a),       2 (b),        3 (a),        4 (c),       5 (d)