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Six students waiting for their school bus at the bus stop facing north. Their names are Dibya, Rohan, Bipasha, Prabhu, Madhav and Rupali. They are sitting at the bus stop facing north. The name sequence mentioned need not be the exact that they are seated. Dibya is third to the right of Madhav. There is only one person in between Rohan and Rupali. Rupali is not at extreme. Bipasha is to the immediate right of Dibya.
Q 1 - Who is present in between of Rupali and Dibya?
Answer : D
Explanation
If we analyse the data given in the question, then we can get that the sequence is: Rohan Madhav Rupali Prabhu Dibya Bipasha.
Prabhu is seated in between Rupali and Dibya. Hence, option D is correct.
There are seven friends whose name are Jugal, Ram, Raj, Kris, Sila, Jon and Jenny. They live in different cities in India and all work in a leading public sector bank. They live in Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Kanpur, Shimla, Agartala and Kolkata not necessarily in the same order. They like different colours and the colours are blue, red, green, yellow, pink, black and brown.
- Kris stays in Bhubaneswar and likes yellow colour.
- The one who stays Kanpur likes pink colour.
- The one who stays in Shimla likes black colour.
- Sila does not like black or pink.
- Jon does not like green or red.
- Jenny likes green colour.
- Jugal likes to stay in Mumbai.
- Ram likes blue colour.
- Sila likes brown colour.
- Raj does not like black colour.
- Ram does not stay in Agartala or Kolkata.
- Sila does not stay in Agartala.
Q 2 - Which of the following statements is correct regarding Raj?
Answer : C
Explanation
If we look at the question and analyse the data, then we can find that −
| Name | City | Colour |
|---|---|---|
| Ram | Jaipur | Blue |
| Raj | Kanpur | Pink |
| Kris | Bhubaneshwar | Yellow |
| Sila | Kolkata | Brown |
| Jon | Shimla | Black |
| Jenny | Agartala | Green |
| Jugal | Mumbai | Red |
Raj stays in Kanpur.
Six friends are sitting in a row and all of them are facing north. Name of all the friends are Mridul, Ram, Ragini, Rupa, Pankaj and Swarup not necessarily in the same order they are sitting. Ram is at one of the extreme ends. There are two persons sitting between Mridul and Swarup. Between Pankaj and Ragini, there is only one person. Rupa is second to the left of Mridul. Mridul is right of Ragini.
Q 3 - If Pankaj and Ragini interchange their places then who will be third to the right of Pankaj?
Answer : B
Explanation
After analysing the given data, we can conclude that the sitting arrangement is like this −
Swarup-Rupa-Ragini-Mridul-Pankaj-Ram
Ram will be the third to the right of Pankaj. Hence, option B is correct.
There are five friends out of whom two are females. They are Sita, Roshan, Manish, Reema, and Govind. They like to study different language news papers as Bengali, Marathi, English, Hindi and Urdu. Also they like to eat various fruits such as mango, grapes, apple, pine-apple and banana. All like to wear different colour shirts of red, blue, green, black and orange colour. Consider following statement and answer the question.
Manish neither likes red colour nor blue and reads Marathi newspaper.
Govind likes green colour and his favourite fruit is pine-apple.
Reema does not like red colour and nether reads Bengali nor Urdu newspaper.
Sita likes black colour and mango fruit but do not like to study Urdu paper.
Roshan likes to eat grapes and neither likes blue colour nor Bengali news paper.
English paper is read by the person who likes green colour and no female likes to eat banana.
Q 4 - Who like to eat banana?
Answer : C
Explanation
According the given statements various favourite things of all persons can be tabulated as follows.
| Name | Colour | Newspaper | Fruits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manish | Orange | Marathi | Banana |
| Govind | Green | English | Pineapple |
| Reema | Blue | Hindi | Apple |
| Sita | Black | Bengali | Mango |
| Roshan | Red | Urdu | Grapes |
It is clear that Manish likes to eat banana.
There are seven friends whose names are Ahmed, Gopal, Rajeev, Sreejesh, Namita, Jack and Elizabeth. They all live in Bangalore and all work in different leading multi-national companies. They work in IBM, TCS, HCL, Infosys, Accenture, Dell and HP not necessarily in the same order. They like different cars and the cars are Wagon R, Etios, Audi, Mercedes, Sumo, Travera and Celerio. Sreejesh works in TCS and likes Mercedes car. The one who works in Infosys likes Sumo car. And the one who works in Accenture likes Travera car. Namita does not like Travera or Sumo. Jack does not like Audi or Etios. Elizabeth likes Audi car. Ahmed likes to work in IBM. Gopal likes Wagon R car. Namita likes Celerio car. Rajeev does not like Travera car. Gopal does not work in Dell or HP. Namita does not work in Dell.
Q 5 - Which car does Rajeev like?
Answer : D
Explanation
If we look at the question and analyse the data then we can find that −
| Name | Company | Cars |
|---|---|---|
| Gopal | HCL | Wagon R |
| Rajeev | Infosys | Sumo |
| Sreejesh | TCS | Mercedes |
| Namita | HP | Celerio |
| Jack | Accenture | Travera |
| Eizabeth | Dell | Audi |
| Ahmed | IBM | Etios |
So, Rajeev like sumo car, hence, option D is correct.
Mohapatra family lives in Jagatsinghpur and runs a family business. There are ten persons in Mohapatra family and among them four are ladies and six are gents. The name of family members are: Lalita, Soumya, Rakesh, Sukant, Satyadeep, Rachita, Amrita, Abhinash, Suresh and Sanju. The family ranges from grandparents to grandchildren means there are three generations of people living in the family.
Suresh Mohapatra is the head of the family and is grandpa of Satyadeep. Amrita is paternal-aunt of Satyadeep. Sukant and Lalita are brothers and sisters of Satyadeep. Abhinash is son of Rachita and Soumya is Abhinashs sibling. Rakesh is married to Amrita and Lalita is daughter of Rakesh.
Q 6 - How is Sanju related to Soumya?
Answer : D
Explanation
After analysing the data we can get the family tree as like −
In the tree, we can get that Suresh and Rachita are head of the family and are husband and wife. They have three children and they are Abhinash, Soumya and Amrita. Abhinash married to Sanju and Amrita married to Rakesh. Satyadeep and Sukant are sons of Abhinash and Lalita is the daughter of Amrita.
Sanju is wife of Abhinash hence sister-in-law of Soumya.
Six persons P,Q,R,S,T and U are sitting in a row, but not necessarily in the same order. All members of the row are facing north.
Q sits third to the left of U.
P is not the neighbour of S and U.
S sits on the immediate right of Q.
T sits second to the left of Q.
Q 7 - Which of the following pairs of persons is sitting on the two ends of the row?
Answer : D
Explanation
T and U are sitting on the two ends of the row. We can observe it from arrangement as follows −
TP Q S R U
Read the information and answer the questions following them.
Kamalakant, Nandini, Akruti, Sekhar, Sushil and Sneha are six members of a family.
Sushil is the father of Sekhar.
Kamalakant is the grandson of Nandini.
There are two married couples among them. The total number of female members in the family is three.
Akruti is the mother of Kamalakant and Sneha.
Based on the given information, answer the following question −
Q 8 - How is Nandini related to Sneha?
Answer : B
Explanation
| Male | Female | |
| Grand Parents | Sushil | Nandini |
| Parents | Sekhar | Akruti |
| Children | Kamalakant | Sneha |
Nandini is grandmother of Sneha.
Study the following information carefully to answer the given question.
Five friends A, B, C, D, and E have their favourite subjects- Hindi, Maths, Sanskrit, Science and Computer Science, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them studies in a different standard- V, VI, VII, VIII and IX but not necessarily in the same order.
Cs favourite subject is Hindi and he studies neither in Std VI nor in Std IX. B likes Sanskrit and studies in std VII. The one who likes Science studies in Std VI.D likes Computer Science and studies in Std VIII.E do not like Science.
Q 9 - Who studies in std IX?
Answer : B
Explanation
A Science VI
B Sanskrit VII
C Hindi V
D Computer Science VIII
E Math IX
E studies in standard IX.
A family consists of six members Payal, Sajan, Rohan, Sita, Tutu and Balram. There are two married couples. Sajan is an IAS and the father of Tutu. Balram is grandfather of Rohan and is a businessman. Sita is grandmother of Tutu and is a housewife. There is one IAS, one businessman, one air hostess, one housewife and two students in the family.
Based on the data provided, answer the following question.
Q 10 - Who is the husband of Sita?
Answer : B
Explanation
The family tree is like this −
| Persons | Professions |
|---|---|
| Payal | Air Hostess |
| Sajan | IAS |
| Rohan | Student |
| Sita | Housewife |
| Tutu | Student |
| Bairam | Business man |
Husband of Sita is Balram.