CTS - Reasoning

CTS _ Reasoning

Reasoning section (20 Questions – 20 mins)

Directions for Questions 1-4: In each questions below are given two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Give answer (A) if only conclusion I follow; (B) if only conclusion II follows; (C) if either I or II follows;

(D) if neither I nor II follows and (E) if both I and II follow.

1. Statements : Some shirts are biscuits

No biscuit is book

Conclusions :      I Some shirts are books

II. Some books are biscuits

Ans: D.

2. Statements : No women can vote

Some women are politicians

Conclusions :      I Male politicians can vote

II. Some politicians can vote

Ans: D

3. Statements : No man is a donkey

Rahul is a man

Conclusions :      I Rahul is not a donkey.

II.All men are not Rahul

Ans: A

4. Statements : All poles are guns

Some boats are not ploes

Conclusions :      I All guns are boats

II. Some boats are not guns

Ans: D

Directions for Questions 5-6: In each questions below are given two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

5. Statements: All rats are cows

No cow is white.

Conclusions:       I No white is rat.

II. No rat is white

III. Some whites are rats

IV All cows are rats

A) None follows               B) Only I and IV follow.                  C) Only II and IV follow. D) Only IV follow

E) None of these

Ans: E

6. Statements: All apples are brinjals

All brinjals are ladyfingers

All ladyfingers are oranges

Conclusions:       I. Some oranges are brinjals        II. All brinjals are apples               

III. some apples are oranges       IV. All ladyfingers are apples

A) None follows               B) All follow        C) Only I and III follow    D) Either I or III follows

E) None of these

Ans: A.

Directions(7-15): In each of the following questions one word is different from the rest. Find out the word which does not belong to the group

7.            (A) Ginger          (B) Tomato        (C) Carrot            (D) Beet               (E) Potato

Ans : B

8.            (A) BFD                                 (B) NRP                (C) HLG                                 (D) QUS                (E) UYW

Ans : (C)

9.            (A) ML                  (B) TS                    (C) FG                   (D) PO                   (E) XW

Ans : (C)

10.          (A) Cheese         (B) Butter            (C) Ghee              (D) Milk                (E) Curd

Ans : (D)

11.          (A) GTSH             (B) BYXC               (C) EUTF              (D) LONM            (E) KPIR

Ans : (E)

12.          (A) PQ                   (B) CD                   (C) MN                                 (D) DF                   (E) RS

Ans : (D)

13.          (A) FLOCK            (B) CROWD         (C) HERD              (D) SWARM        (E) TEAM

Ans : (E)

14.          (A) 64                    (B) 54                    (C) 42                    (D) 31                    (E) 20

Ans: D

15.          A) mania              B) pneumonia   C) Influenza        D) Cholera

Ans: A

16. Five children are sitting in a row. S is sitting next to P but not T. K is sitting next to R who is sitting on the extreme left and T is not sitting next to K. Who are sitting adjacent to S?

A) K and P           B) R and P            C) Only P             D) P and T            E) Insufficient Information.

Ans: D

17. In the Olympic Games, the flags of six nations were flown on the masts in the following way. The flag of America was to the left of Indian tricolor and to the right of the flag of France. The flag of Australia was on the right of the Indian flag but was to the left of the flag of Japan, which was to the left of the flag of China. Find the two flags which are in the center.

A) India and Australia     B) America and India      C) Japan and Australia    D) America and Australia

Ans: A

18. One boy can eat 100 chocolates in half a minute, and another can eat half as many in twice the length of time. How many chocolates can both boys eat in 15 seconds?

Ans: 62.5 chocolates.

19. Potatoes are made up of 99% water and 1% “potato matter.” Jack bought 100 pounds of

potatoes and left them outside in the sun for a while. When he returned, he discovered that the potatoes had dehydrated and were now only made up of 98% water. How much did the potatoes now weigh?

Ans: 50 pounds.

Assuming the percentages are by weight - ie, 99% of the weight of a potato is water. 
Now - initial amount of water = (99%) * 100 lbs = 99 lbs. 
Let the weight evaporated be = x lbs. 
So, new weight = 100 - x lbs, out of which 98% is water. 
So, new amount of water = (98%) * (100 - x lbs) = ( 98 - 0.98x )lbs 

Difference between them is x (since it is the weight evaporated) 

So, 99 - (98 - 0.98x) = x 
=> 1 = 0.02x 
=> x = 1/0.02 
=> x = 50 

So, weight lost = 50lbs 
weight of potatoes now = 100-50 = 50lbs

20. You own a pet store. If you put in one canary per cage, you have one canary too many. If you put in two canaries per cage, you have one cage too many. How many canaries and cages do you have?

Ans: four canaries and three cages.

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