Reasoning Quiz - High level

Directions (Q1-Q5): Read the given information carefully and answer the following questions:

A, B, C, D, E, F and G are sitting around a circular table. B is not the neighbor of G. A is sitting second to the right of C, who is facing outside the center. Two people are sitting between C and F. F is not the neighbor of either G or B, who is sitting third to the right of A. D is the immediate neighbor of A. E sits to the immediate right of F. Both D and E faces in the same direction as F and G. Just one person is looking in opposite direction as compared to the rest i.e. if all other people faces inside that one person must face outside and vice versa.

Q1. Find the odd one out?

1. a) A
2. b) D
3. c) F
4. d) B
5. e) None of these

Q2. What is the position of F with respect to G?

1. a) Third to the right
2. b) Fourth to the left
3. c) Fourth to the right
4. d) Either a or b
5. e) None of these

Q3. Who is sitting exactly between D and C, when counted clock-wise from D?

1. a) F
2. b) E
3. c) B
4. d) G
5. e) None of these

Q4. Who is sitting to immediate right of Ritesh?

1. a) G
2. b) F
3. c) B
4. d) E
5. e) Can’t be determined

Q5. What is the position of G with respect to C?

1. a) Immediate left
2. b) Second to the right
3. c) Immediate right
4. d) Second to the left
5. e) None of these 

Directions (Q6-10): Read the given information carefully and answer the following questions: 

P, Q, R, S, T, U and V live in a seven storey building. Each one of them own TV of different Company; i.e. either of Samsung, Sony or a LG. There are two Sony, two LG and three Samsung in the building. The floors are numbered 1 to 7 from bottom to top.

• Q lives on floor number 5 and he doesn’t have Sony.
• The person living on the lower most floor doesn’t have a Sony.
• V doesn’t live below P.
• T neither owns a Samsung TV nor lives adjacent to the floors on which people have Samsung TV.
• The person living on the topmost floor has a LG.
• Both persons who have Sony live immediately below the floors on which people having Samsung TV lives.
• V has a Sony and P has a Samsung.
• R has a Samsung and he doesn’t live adjacent to the floor on which a person having Sony lives.
• S doesn’t have a Sony.

Q6. Who lives on floor number 6?

1. a) P
2. b) Q
3. c) R
4. d) S
5. e) T

Q7. Who lives between the floors on which Q and P are living?

1. a) U
2. b) V
3. c) R
4. d) S
5. e) T

Q8. Which of the following pair of persons own LG?

1. a) SU
2. b) SV
3. c) TR
4. d) ST
5. e) TU

Q9. Who lives on floor number 2?

1. a) U
2. b) V
3. c) R
4. d) S
5. e) T

Q10. How many person(s) live between the floors on which U and R live?

1. a) One
2. b) Two
3. c) Three
4. d) Four
5. e) Can’t be determined

Solutions:

Solution 1-5:

A is sitting second to the right of C and there are two people sitting between F and C means F sits either third or fourth to the left of C. B sits third to the right of A means B must sit second to the left of C if A faces outside the center or B must sit to the immediate left of C if A faces towards the center. Both D and E faces in the same direction as F and G means all four of them face in the same direction i.e. either towards the center or away from the center. F must face outside the center so D, E and G too face outside the center. F is not the neighbor of either G or B and B is not the neighbor of G means only correct order of arrangement when checked in clock-wise direction from C is C, G, A, D, F, E and B. Finally, since A must be facing towards the center and F, E, G and D face outside the center, also B must be facing outside the center.

Sol 1: D, F and B face outside.

Sol 2: F is third to the right or fourth to the left of G.

Sol 3: E is sitting exactly between D and C, when counted clockwise from D.

Sol 4: G is sitting to the immediate right of A.

Sol 5: G is immediate right of C.

Q6-Q10:

From the data given, we have:

Floor	Person	TV
7
6
5	Q	X(Sony)
4
3
2
1		X(Sony)

Given that both persons who own Sony TV live immediately below the floors on which people who have Samsung TV lives, floor 5, 4, 3, 2 have Samsung, Sony, Samsung, Sony respectively.

R has Samsung TV and he doesn’t live adjacent to a floor on which person having Sony TV lives. T neither owns Samsung nor lives to the floors on which Samsung TV owners’ lives. Hence, we have:

Floor	Person	TV
7		LG
6	R	Samsung
5	Q	Samsung
4		Sony
3		Samsung
2		Sony
1	T	LG

V owns Sony TV and P own Samsung. V doesn’t live below P. Hence V and P must be living on the floor 4 and 3 respectively. S doesn’t have Sony TV. So S must be on the topmost floor and U on floor 2.

Floor	Person	TV
7	S	LG
6	R	Samsung
5	Q	Samsung
4	V	Sony
3	P	Samsung
2	U	Sony
1	T	LG

Sol 6: R lives on floor number 6.

Sol 7: Q and P live on floors 5 and 3 respectively. V lives on floor number 4.

Sol 8: S & T owns LG TV.

Sol 9: U lives on floor number 2.

Sol 10: U and R live on floors 2 and 6 respectively. Hence, 3 person live between them.