Reasoning Quiz

Direction (Q1-Q5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments, viz. Personnel, Administration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any department. Each of them has a different choice of sports viz, football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis not necessarily in the same order. 
D works in Administration and does not like either football or cricket. F works in Personnel with only A who likes table tennis. E and H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in Marketing. G does not work in Administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in Administration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in Personnel. None of those who work in Administration likes either badminton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.

Q1. Which of the following groups of employees work in Administration Department?
a. EGH
b. AF
c. BCD
d. BGD
e. Data Inadequate

Q2. In which department does E work?
a. Personnel
b. Marketing
c. Administration
d. Either Administration or Personnel
e. Data inadequate

Q3. Which of the following combination of employees-department-favourite sport is correct?
a. E – Administration – Cricket
b. F – Personnel – Lawn Tennis
c. H – Marketing – Lawn Tennis
d. B – Administration – Table Tennis
e. None of these

Q4. What is E’s favourite Sport?
a. Cricket
b. Badminton
c. Basketball
d. Lawn Tennis
e. None of these

Q5. What is G’s favourite Sport?
a. Cricket
b. Badminton
c. Basketball
d. Lawn Tennis
e. None of these

Direction (Q6-Q10): In the following questions, the symbols @, $, *, # and & are used with the following meaning as illustrated below:

“P $ Q” means “P is not smaller than Q”
“P @ Q” means “P is neither smaller than nor equal to Q”
“P # Q” means “P is neither greater than nor equal to Q”
“P & Q” means “P is neither greater than nor smaller than Q”
“P * Q” means “P is not greater than Q”

Now each of the following questions assuming the given statements to be true, find which of the four conclusions I, II, III and IV given below them is/are definitely true and give your answers accordingly.

Q6. Statement:
H @ T, T # F, F & E, E * V
Conclusions:
I. V $ F
II. E @ T
III. H @ V
IV. T # V

a. Only I, II and III are true
b. Only I, II and IV are true
c. Only II, III and IV are true
d. Only I, III, IV are true
e. All I, II, III and IV are true

Q7. Statements:
D # R, R * K, K @ F, F $ J
Conclusions:
I. J # R
II. J # K
III. R # F
IV. K @ D

a. Only I, II and III are true 
b. Only II, III and IV are true
c. Only I, III and IV are true
d. All I, II, III and IV are true 
e. None of these

Q8. Statements:
N & B, B $ W, W # H, H * M
Conclusions:
I. M @ W
II. H @ N
III. W & N
IV. W # N

a. Only I is true
b. Only III is true 
c. Only IV is true
d. Only either III or IV is true
e. Only either III or IV and I are true

Q9. Statements:
R * D, D $ J, J # M, M @ K
Conclusions:
I. K # J
II. D @ M
III. R # M
IV. D @ K

a. None is true
b. Only I is true
c. Only II is true
d. Only III is true
e. Only IV is true

Q10. Statements:
M $ K, K @ N, N * R, R # W
Conclusions:
I. W @ K
II. M $ R
III. K @ W
IV. M @ N

a. Only I and II are true
b. Only I, II and III are true
c. Only III and IV are true
d. Only II, III and IV are true
e. None of these

Answers:

Q1 – Q5:

Q1 – c
Q2 – b
Q3 – e
Q4 – a
Q5 – d
Q6 – b
Q7 – e
Q8 – e
Q9 – a
Q10 – e