Reasoning Quiz - High Level

Directions (Q.1-5): Study the following information to answer the questions:

Eight inmates – Kripa, Latha, Mishti, Neha, Pakhi, Rashmi, Shweta and Trisha – living on different floors – 1st to 8th – of a working women’s hostel are sitting around a circular table, not in any particular order. At least three of them are facing outside.

i. Mishti who lives on the 7th floor faces outside and sits opposite to the one who lives on the 4th floor.
ii. Kripa lives on the 8th floor and sits on the immediate right of the one on the 6th floor as well as the one on the 3rd floor.
iii. Latha sits second to the right of the one who lives on the 3rd floor. 
iv. Shweta and Neha sit next to each other and both are not neighbours of Pakhi. 
v. Trisha who lives on the 1st floor sits on the immediate right of the one who lives on the 5th floor as well as Pakhi. 
vi. The girls living on the 5th and 7th floors are neighbours of Shweta. 
vii. The girls living on the 3rd and 4th floors are sitting on the immediate left of each other. 
viii. Rashmi faces the same direction as Mishti.

Question.1. Who are the neighbours of Kripa?
1) Pakhi and Rashmi
2) Trisha and Shweta
3) Rashmi and Latha
4) Mishti and Latha
5) Neha and Pakhi

Question.2. Who sits opposite to Latha?
1) Mishti
2) Trisha
3) Pakhi
4) Shweta
5) Latha

Question.3. Who sits between Mishti and Neha?
1) Pakhi
2) Shweta
3) Kripa
4) Trisha
5) Rashmi

Question.4. If Pakhi and Mishti are related in a particular way and Rashmi and Shweta are also related in the same way then from the options given below select another pair of girls who are related in the same way.
1) Latha and Mishti
2) Rashmi and Trisha
3) Kripa and Shweta
4) Neha and Pakhi
5) Kripa and Neha

Question.5. If the girls are made to sit in the clockwise direction starting from Kripa, according to the order in which their names are arranged in English alphabet then how many places remain unchanged?
1) One
2) Two
3) Three
4) Four
5) Five

Directions for questions 6 to 10: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement. (All the numbers are two digit numbers).

Input : tall 48 13 rise alt 99 76 32 wise jar high 28 56 barn
Step I : 13 tall 48 rise 99 76 32 wise jar high 28 56 barn alt
Step II : 28 13 tall 48 rise 99 76 32 wise jar high 56 alt barn
Step III : 32 28 13 tall 48 rise 99 76 wise jar 56 alt barn high
Step IV : 48 32 28 13 tall rise 99 76 wise 56 alt barn high jar
Step V : 56 48 32 28 13 tall 99 76 wise alt barn high jar rise
Step VI : 76 56 48 32 28 13 99 wise alt barn high jar rise tall
Step VII : 99 76 56 48 32 28 13 alt barn high jar rise tall wise
and Step VII is the last step of the above input, as the desired arrangement is obtained.
As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.

Input: 84 why sit 14 32 not best ink feet 51 27 vain 68 92
(All the numbers are two digit numbers).

Question.6. Which step number is the following output?
32 27 14 84 why sit not 51 vain 92 68 feet best ink
1) Step V
2) Step VI
3) Step IV
4) Step III
5) There is no such step

Question.7. Which word/number would be at 5th position from the right in Step V?
1) 14
2) 92
3) feet
4) best
5) why

Question.8. How many elements (words or numbers) are there between ‘feet’ and ’32’ as they appear in the last step of the output?
1) One
2) Three
3) Four
4) Five
5) Seven

Question.9. Which of the following represents the position of ‘why’ in the fourth step?
1) Eighth from the left
2) Fifth from the right
3) Sixth from the left
4) Fifth from the left
5) Seventh from the left

Question.10. Which of the following statements is/are not true about the position of word ‘ink’ in sixth step?
I. Fifth from the right
II. Eleventh from the left
III. Exactly between the words ‘vain’ and ‘not’
1) I only
2) II only
3) Both I and II
4) Both I and III
5) All I, II and III

Solutions:

Solutions for Question (1 – 5):

Answer.1. 1
Answer.2. 4
Answer.3. 4
Answer.4. 3
Answer.5. 2

Solutions for Question (6 – 10):

After careful analysis of the given input and various steps of rearrangement it is evident that in each step one number and one word are rearranged. The lowest number is moved to the left end while the word which will come first in alphabetical order is moved to the right end. The procedure is continued till all the numbers and words get rearranged accordingly.

Input : 84 why sit 14 32 not best ink feet 51 27 vain 68 92
Step I : 14 84 why sit 32 not ink feet 51 27 vain 68 92 best
Step II : 27 14 84 why sit 32 not ink 51 vain 68 92 best feet
Step III : 32 27 14 84 why sit not 51 vain 68 92 best feet ink
Step IV : 51 32 27 14 84 why sit vain 68 92 best feet ink not
Step V : 68 51 32 27 14 84 why vain 92 best feet ink not sit
Step VI : 84 68 51 32 27 14 why 92 best feet ink not sit vain
Step VII : 92 84 68 51 32 27 14 best feet ink not sit vain why

Answer.6. 5; Hence, there is no such step.

Answer.7. 4; The word ‘best’ is at the fifth position from the right in Step V.

Answer.8. 2; There are three elements – 27, 14 and best – between ‘feet’ and ’32’ in the last step of the output.

Answer.9. 3; The word ‘why’ is sixth from the left and ninth from the right in the Step IV.

Answer.10. 2