Puzzle/Syllogism New Pattern: Reasoning

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

Eight People – Sharma, Mishra, Akash, Rahaman, Bablu, Kumar, Naveen and Yuvan 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 browsers, namely Opera, Firefox, UC, Safari, Avant, Slim, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer(but not necessarily in the same order).

The number of people living below Kumar is same as the number of people living between Kumar and Yuvan. Kumar lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. The top most floor is vacant. Only one person lives between Mishra and the one who likes Safari. Only three floors between Rahaman and the one who likes Avant. The number of floors between the one who likes Google Chrome and the one who likes Safari is two. The one who likes Slim lives immediately above Naveen. Only three floors between Naveen and Sharma. The one who likes Internet Explorer lives immediately above the one who likes Opera. Akash lives one of the odd numbered floors above the one who likes Avant. The number of floors between Kumar and the one who likes Firefox is only one. Only one person lives between the one who likes Internet Explorer and the vacant floor. Only two people live between Akash and vacant floor. The number of floors between two vacant floors is five. The one who likes Internet Explorer and Firefox not live in the floors numbered 8 and 7 respectively. The one who likes Safari browser lives immediately below the floor in which Akash lives.

1). How many people live between Akash and Bablu?

a)  Four

b)  Three

c)  None

d)  Five

e)  Two

2). Which of the following floors are vacant?

a)  3, 10

b)  5, 10

c)  4, 10

d)  2, 10

e)  1, 10

3). Who amongst the following lives exactly in the middle of the two vacant floors?

a)  Mishra

b)  Naveen

c)  Kumar

d)  Sharma

e)  Akash

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)  Naveen – UC

b)  Akash – Avant

c)  Kumar – Safari

d)  Bablu – Opera

e)  Rahaman – Firefox

5). Which of the following Statements is true with respect to the given information?

a)  Naveen lives immediately above the one who likes Avant

b)  Bablu lives immediately above Akash

c)  Only three people live between Kumar and the one who likes Internet Explorer.

d)  Rahaman likes Safari.

e)  All the given statements are true

Direction (Q 6 – 10): In the following questions, only one Conclusion is given and five statements are given as a), b), c), d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given statement logically follows.

6). Conclusions    :

Some flowers are fruits

Some clips are flowers

Some gates are clips is a possibility

Some flowers are gates

a) Statements     :

No gates are flowers

Some gates are fruits

Some flowers are clips

b) Statements     :

All gates are flowers

No gates are fruits

Some flowers are clips

c) Statements     :

All gates are flowers

Some gates are fruits

Some flowers are clips

d) Statements     :

No gates are flowers

No gates are fruits

Some flowers are clips

e) Statements     :

All gates are flowers

No gates are fruits

No flowers are clips

7). Conclusions     :

Some shoes are not candles

Some tables are bells is a possibility

Some tables are candles is a possibility

Some shoes are tables

a) Statements     :

All candle is bell

Some shoes are bells

All tables are shoes

b) Statements     :

All candles is bell

All shoes are bells

All tables are shoes

c) Statements     :

No candle is bell

No shoes are bells

All tables are shoes

d) Statements     :

No candle is bell

Some shoes are bells

No tables are shoes

e) Statements     :

No candle is bell

Some shoes are bells

All tables are shoes

8). Conclusions     :

Some chairs are rats is a possibility

Some clouds are rats

Some rats are films is a possibility

Some chairs are films

a) Statements     :

Some films are clouds

All rats are clouds

Some clouds are chairs

b) Statements     :

No films are clouds

All rats are clouds

Some clouds are chairs

c) Statements     :

Some films are clouds

Some rats are clouds

Some clouds are chairs

d) Statements     :

No films are clouds

No rats are clouds

Some clouds are chairs

e) Statements     :

All films are clouds

All rats are clouds

All clouds are chairs

9). Conclusions   :

Some apples are lice

Some lice are not cars

Some apples are slates

No slate is a car

a) Statements     :

Some lice are slates

Some slates are apples

No apple is car

b) Statements     :

Some lice are slates

All slates are apples

No apple is car

c) Statements     :

No lice are slates

All slates are apples

No apple is car

d) Statements     :

All lice are slates

All slates are apples

All apples are car

e) Statements     :

No lice are slates

No slates are apples

No apple is car

10). Conclusions     :

Some glasses are papers

Some papers are not stones

Some glasses are metals

Some glasses are stone is a possibility

a) Statements     :

Some stone is a metal

Some metals are papers

No papers are glass

b) Statements:

No stone is a metal

No metals are papers

All papers are glass

c) Statements:

Some stone is a metal

Some metals are papers

Some papers are glass

d) Statements     :

No stone is a metal

Some metals are papers

All papers are glass

e) Statements     :

No stone is a metal

No metals are papers

No papers are glass

Solution:

Directions (Q. 1-5):

1). Answer: e)

2). Answer: c)

3). Answer: e)

4). Answer: c)
5). Answer: a)

Directions (Q. 6-10):

6). Answer: c)

7). Answer: e)

8). Answer: e)

9). Answer: b)

10). Answer: d)