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Reasoning Questions: Puzzles Set 77

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Welcome to Online Reasoning Section in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in Puzzles set, which is common for all the IBPS,SBI exam and other competitive exams. We have included Some questions that are repeatedly asked in bank exams !!!

I. Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Eight People – A, B, C, D, E, F, and G live in ten different floors of a building (but not necessarily in the same order). Two of the floors in the building is vacant. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two, and so on till the topmost floor is numbered ten. Each one of them also likes different laptops, namely Lenovo, Acer, DELL, HP, Samsung, Toshiba, HCL and Sony(but not necessarily in the same order).

The one who likes SONY and ACER not live in the floors numbered 8 and 7 respectively. The one who likes HP app lives immediately below the floor in which C lives. The number of people living below F is same as the number of people living between F and H. Only three floors between D and the one who likes Samsung. The number of floors between the one who likes HCL and the one who likes HP is two. The one who likes Toshiba lives immediately above G. F lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. The top most floor is vacant. Only one person lives between B and the one who likes HP. Only three floors between G and A. The one who likes SONY lives immediately above the one who likes Lenovo. C lives one of the odd numbered floors above the one who likes Samsung. The number of floors between F and the one who likes ACER is only one. Only one person lives between the one who likes SONY and the vacant floor. Only two people live between C and vacant floor. The number of floors between two vacant floors is five.


[table]

Floor NoPersonLaptop
10__
9HHCL
8BDELL
7CToshiba
6GHP
5FSamsung
4__
3EAcer
2ASony
1DLenovo

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  1. Which of the following Statements is true with respect to the given information?
    G lives immediately above the one who likes Samsung
    B. E lives immediately above C
    C. Only three people live between F and the one who likes SONY.
    D. D likes HP.
    E. All the given statements are true
    Answer – A. G lives immediately above the one who likes Samsung

  2. Who amongst the following lives exactly between the two vacant floors?
    A. B
    B. G
    C. F
    D. A
    E. C
    Answer –E. C

  3. Which of the following floor is immediately above the vacant floor?
    A. 5
    B. 7
    C. 4
    D. 3
    E. 6
    Answer -A. 5

  4. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to the group?
    A. G – DELL
    B. C – Samsung
    C. F – HP
    D. E – Lenovo
    E. D – ACER
    Answer – C. F – HP

  5. How many people live between C and A?
    A. Four
    B. Three
    C. None
    D. Five
    E. Two
    Answer – B. Three

II. Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions 

Twelve students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K of twelve different colleges have Seminar in six different months namely viz January, February, June, July, September and October on twelve different days i.e., (all persons have different dates) from 9th to 20th of any month but not necessarily in the same order. Two students must have seminar in the same month. Each student stays in a hostel in different floor. The ground floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 12.
There are five floors between the person who have seminar in June. The persons who have seminar in June does not occupy the floor above the floor numbered 10 and also not occupy the floor below the floor numbered 4. G stayed on the second floor and has a seminar on 19th. The one who stayed on the first floor has a seminar in September. E has a seminar on the date immediately after the date on which K has seminar. There are two persons live between G and H. The floor number and the seminar date is same for the person B. The person who has seminar on 15th lives immediately below E. K has seminar on one of the dates after 12 and before 16. There are four persons live between K and E. K has seminar in the month of June. B and I have seminar in the same month which has 31 days. D who lived in floor numbered 11, has the seminar in the month which has less than 30 days. Only one person live between two persons who have seminar in the month of October. The persons who have seminar in the month of october live two of the floors above the floor numbered 6. There are five floors between B and I. There are six floors between the person J and the person who has seminar in the month of September. The person F stays in a middle between the person E and C. L does not have seminar in the month of June. The person who has seminar on 17th lives immediately above the person who has seminar on 20. H does not have seminar on 20th. L does not have seminar on 16th. There is only one person lives between the persons who have seminar in the month of July. There are four floors between the persons who have seminar on 19th and 10th. The person who has seminar on 17th lives immediately above the person who has seminar on 20. H does not have seminar on 20th. A does not have seminar on 11th. The person who has seminar on 18th lives immediately above the person who has seminar on 11.

FloorPersonMonthDate
12BJanuary12
11DFebruary17
10AJune20
9EOctober14
8FSeptember15
7COctober10
6IJanuary18
5HJuly11
4KJune13
3LJuly9
2GFebruary19
1JSeptember16


  1. F stays in which of the following floor?
    A. 12
    B. 8
    C. 7
    D. 4
    E. None of these.
    B. 8

  2. Who among the following has Seminar in September?
    A. A, B
    B. J, F
    C. B, E
    D. D, G
    E. E, G
    B. J, F

  3. Four among the following form a group in a certain way. Which of the following does not belong to Group?
    A. C – October
    B. J – September
    C. F – September
    D. B – January
    E. E – October
    C. F – September. Except F, others have seminar on even numbered dates.

  4. Which of the following is correctly matched?
    A. 12 – B – June – 17
    B. 12 – F – June – 17
    C. 2 – G – February – 19
    D.2 – G – September – 19
    E. E – Sunday – July
    C. 2 – G – February – 19

  5. Who among the following has Seminar on 16th?
    A. A
    B. C
    C. B
    D. D
    E. J
    E. J