EXERCISE

Directions for Questions 1 to 5: Six friends A, B, C, D, E, and F work in different companies namely—Pentasoft, Quark, Raymond’s, Sunmet, Trump & Gates and Udupi, and each wears different coloured, company-sponsored shirts, viz., blue, green, pink, yellow, purple and red though not necessarily in the same order.

i. The one wearing the blue shirt works in Sunmet and the one wearing a green shirt works in Pentasoft.

ii. F does not work in Raymond’s or Trump and Gates.

iii. A wears pink shirt and works in Quark.

iv. D does not work in Trump & Gates and purple coloured shirt is not sponsored by Raymond’s.

V. E works in Udupi and neither D nor B works in Sunmet.

vi. Trump & Gates does not sponsor purple or yellow coloured shirts and C works in Pentasoft.

1. Which colour shirt is sponsored by Raymond’s?

(a) Yellow (b) Blue

2. Which pair is correctly matched?

(a) Red-Raymond ’ s-A

(b) Red-Trump & Gates-B

(d) None of these

3. Which of the following is true?

(a) Udupi sponsors green shirts.

(b) D is working in Trump & Gates.

(d) Red shirt is sponsored by Trump & Gates.

4. What is the sequence of companies representing A, B, C, D, E and F?

(a) Quark, Pentasoft, Trump & Gates, Raymond’s, Udupi, Sunmet

(b) Quark, Trump & Gates, Pentasoft, Raymond’s, Udupi, Sunmet

(d) None of these

5. IfRaymond⁵S and Sunmet decide to interchange the colours of sponsored shirts, then which two persons will have to interchange their shirts?

(a) D and F (b) A and C

Directions for Questions 6 to 8:

(i) Five friends Amar, Kapil, Sarvesh, Rohan, and Nagesh wear trousers of different colours—red, yellow, blue, white and green (not necessarily in this order).

(ii) Each one of them has different likings, viz., reading, playing, travelling, singing and writing.

(iii) Kapil, who has a liking for singing does not wear yellow trousers. Sarvesh wears red trousers and does not like reading or writing. Nagesh likes to play and does not wear blue or yellow trousers. Amar has liking for writing and Rohan does not wear yellow or green trousers.

6. What is the colour of Kapil’s trousers?

(a) White (b) Blue

7. What is the liking of Sarvesh?

(a) Writing (b) Travelling

8. Which of the following combinations of person-colour-liking is correct?

(a) Rohan-Blue-Reading

(b) Nagesh-White-Playing

(d) None of these

Directions for Question 9 to 11:

i. Five students—Sujit, Randhir, Neena, Mihir, and Vinay have total five books on subjects—Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology and English written by authors Gupta, Khanna, Harish, Sharma and Edwin. Each student has only one book on one of the five subjects.

ii. Gupta is the author of the Physics book which is not owned by Vinay or Sujit. Mihir owns the book written by Edwin.

iii. Neena owns the Maths book. Vinay has the English book which is not written by Khanna. The Biology book is written by Sharma.

9. Which of the following is the correct combination of subject-student and author?

(a) Maths-Neena-Harish

(b) Physics-Mihir-Gupta

(d) Biology-Sujit-Sharma

10. The Chemistry book has been penned by whom?

(a) Gupta (b) Edwin

11. Who is the owner of the book written by Harish?

(a) Randhir (b) Vinay

Directions for Questions 12 to 15:

i. Seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G are in Patna to attend a seminar at Mindworkzz. Five of them have to go back to five different places—Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Bangalore, and Kolkata.

ii. Five of them are executives, each specialising in Administration, Human Resource Management (HRM), Marketing, Systems and Finance.

iii. E, an executive is going to Chennai, is neither from Finance nor Marketing. G is a system specialist and is leaving for Delhi. F is an executive but is not going to one of the five places.

iv. B is an executive from HRM but has come at the airport to see off his friends. A is an executive but not from Marketing and is flying to one of the destinations but not to Bangalore or Kolkata.

12. The one who is going to fly to Chennai is:

(a) Not an executive (b) From Administration

13. Who among the following specialises in Marketing?

(a) D (b) A

14. C has specialised in which field?

(a) Finance

(b) Marketing

(d) None

15. Who is flying to Bangalore?

(a) A (b) C

Direction for Questions 16 to 20: P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V are seven persons who travel to office everyday in a particular train which stops at five stations—Andheri, Bandra, Vile-Parle, Elphinston and Chinchpokli res-pectively— after it leaves the base station.

i. Three among them get in the train at the base station.

ii. S gets down at the station next to the station at which U gets down.

iii. Q does not get down either with P or T.

iv. V alone gets in at Vile-Parle and gets down with R after having passed one station.

V. P travels between only two consecutive stations and gets down at Chinchpokli.

vi. None of them gets in at Bandra.

vii. R gets in with U but does not get in with either Q or S.

viii. T gets in with two others and gets down alone after S.

ix. Q and S work in the same office and they get down together at Vile-Parle.

x. None of them gets down at Andheri.

16. At which station does T get down?

(a) Bandra (b) Vile-Parle

17. At which station do R and U get in?

(a) Andheri (b) Bandra

18. At which station do Q and S get in?

(a) Andheri (b) Base station

19.

After how many stations does T get down?

(a) One (b) Two

20. T gets down how many stations after U gets down?

(a) Next station (b) One

Directions for Questions 21 to 24: Five friends went to an exhibition. At a shooting stall there are three things to be shot at— balloons, coins and needles. The number of balloons shot are 1, 4, 5, 6 and 8, while the number of coins shot are O, 1, 2, 4 and 6.

i. The number of coins shot by A is three times the number of coins shot by the person who shot 4 balloons.

ii. Three persons, including the one who shot four coins, did not shoot any needle.

iii. B did not shoot any needle.

iv. The one who shot one balloon did not shoot any needle or coin. Further he was

not (с).

V. D shot balloons and coins but no needle.

vi. C who did not shoot any needle, shot half as many coins as the person who shot twice as many balloons as he did.

vii. E shot two more balloons than A, but A shot two more coins than E.

21. Which of the following is true?

(a) C shot 8 balloons and 4 coins but no needles.

(b) The person who shot 5 balloons and one coin shot some needles.

(d) The person who shot 4 balloons and 2 coins also shot needles.

22. Which of these is correct?

(a) D shot 5 balloons (b) A shot 8 balloons

23. Which of the following is true?

(a) B shot 2 coins (b) C shot 4 coins

24. The person who shot an equal number of coins and balloons is:

(a) A (b) B

Directions for Questions 25 and 26: Thejailor of XYZ jail had 6 fruits—3 oranges, 2 apples and one pineapple. Four prisoners—101, 102, 103 and 104 are lined up one behind the other; the jailor helps them put the fruit on their head so that they cannot see the fruit kept on their head. Prisoner number 101 can see the fruit kept on the heads of 102, 103 and 104.

Prisoner number 102 can see the fruit kept on 103^,s and 104^,s head. 103 can see the fruit kept on 104^,s head. 104 cannot see any of the fruits since he is at the front of the line.

Now, the jailor asks the prisoners to tell the name of the fruit kept on their head. Neither of them could reply.

25. What was the fruit on prisoner number 104^,s head?

26. Which of the following is definitely false?

(a) Prisoner number 101 did not see two apples and one pineapple.

(b) Prisoner number 102 did not see one apple and one pineapple or two apples.

(d) All are true.

Directions for Questions 27 and 31: Four couples decided to play Holi. Each couple used three different colours. No two couples used the same combination of colours.

Asha, Bhavna, Chanchal and Divya are females whereas Pradeep, Qartar, Rajeev and Sanjayare males.

The colours they use are red, green, yellow and black.

i. Chanchal, who is not the wife of Sanjay, used red colour.

ii. Pradeep’s wife used yellow and black colours but Qartar ^,s wife used only one of these colours.

iii. Asha is not the wife of Pradeep or Sanjay.

iv. Bhavna and Sanjay’s wife both used red and yellow colours.

27. Who among the following is Asha’s husband?

(a) Pradeep (b) Qartar

28. Who is Qartar’s wife?

(a) Asha (b) Chanchal

29. Which of the following is not correctly paired?

Person Colours

(a) Qartar Green, Yellow, and Black

(b) Pradeep Red, Yellow and Black

(d) All of the above

30. Which of the following couples are incorrectly matched?

i. Asha & Rajeev

ii. Bhavna & Pradeep

iii. Chanchal & Sanjay

iv. Divya & Qartar

(a) Both (і) & (іі) (b) All (і), (іі) & (ііі)

(с) Both (ііі) & (iv) (d) All (іі), (ііі) & (iv)

31.

Which of the following is correctly matched?

Colours

Person Colours

(a) Asha

(b) Bhavna

(d) Divya

Red, Yellow and Black Green, Yellow and Black

Red, Green and Black Yellow, Red and Black

Directions for Questions 32 to 36: Abhay, Balbir, Chandan, Dinesh and Eklakh are alumni of the IAS academy in Mussoorie. They are in Mussoorie to attend an alumni meet along with their wives Priya, Quindal, Riya, Shailja and Tulsi, (not necessarily in the given order). They stay in the guest room of the academy in rooms numbered from IOl to 105. One interesting thing is that each couple’s wedding anniversary is on the coming Friday.

i. No two married couples were married in the same year.

ii. Balbir whose wife is not Shailja was married three fourths of as many years ago as Dinesh.

iii. Eklakh is staying in room number 103.

iv. Priya was married five years before Abhay and three years before Eklakh.

V. Only Shailj a’s room is in-between Abhay’s and Eklakh’s room.

vi. Abhay, who was married before Shailja, was married five years after Chandan got married.

vii. The couple staying in room number 101 got married 10 years before the couple staying in room 104.

viii. Quindal is Stayinginroomnumber 102.

ix. Tulsi was married before Riya and she was married 12 years before Quindal got married.

Based on the above information, answer questions 32 to 36:

32. Who is the husband of Riya?

(a) (b) Abhay

Chandan

Balbir

33. Who is celebrating the Silverjubilee of his marriage anniversary?

(a) (b) Abhay

Chandan

Balbir

34. Who is the wife of Balbir?

(a) Riya (b) Quindal

Shailja

35. If rooms are allotted on the basis of their married years, then which room number does not need shifting of its occupants? (105 is allotted to couples of maximum married years and 101 is allotted to couples of least married years).

(a) 101 (b) 103

36. For how many years has Eklakh enjoyed his married life?

(a) 30 (b) 27

37. Persons X, Y, Z and Q live in red, green, yellow or blue coloured houses which are in a sequence on a street. Z lives in a yellow house. The green house is adjacent to the blue house. X does not live adjacent to Z. The yellow house is in between the green and red house.

The colour of the house X lives in is:

(a) Blue

(b) Green

(d) Not possible to determine

38. Five persons with names P, M, U, T and X live separately in any one of the following: in a palace, a hut, a fort, a house or a hotel. Each one likes two different colours from among the following: blue, black, red, yellow and green. U likes red and blue, T likes black. The person living in a palace does not like black or blue. P likes blue and red M likes yellow. X lives in a hotel. M lives in a:

(a) Hut (b) Palace

39. The Banerjees, the Sharmas, and the Pattabhiramans each have a tradition of eating Sunday lunch as a family. Each family serves a special meal at a certain time of day. Each family has a particular set of chinaware used for this meal. Use the clues below to answer the following questions.

i. The Sharma family eats at noon.

ii. The family that serves fried brinjal uses blue chinaware.

iii. The Banerjee family eats at 2 o’clock.

iv. The family that serves sambar does not use red chinaware.

V. The family that eats at 1 o’clock serves fried brinjal.

vi. The Pattabhiraman family does not use white chinaware.

vii. The family that eats last likes makkai-ki-roti.

Which one of the following statement is true?

(a) The Banerjees eat makkai-ki-roti at 2 o’clock, the Sharmas eat fried brinjal at 12 o’ clock and the Pattabhiramans eat sambar from red chinaware.

(b) The Sharmas eat sambar served in white chinaware, the Pattabhiramans eat fried brinjal at 1 o’clock, and the Banerjees eat makkai-ki-roti served in blue chinaware.

(c) The Sharmas eat sambar at noon, the Pattabhiramans eat fried brinjal served in blue chinaware, and the Banerjees eat makkai-ki-roti served in red chinaware.

(d) The Banerjees eat makkai-ki-roti served in white chinaware, the Sharmas eat fried brinal at 12 o’clock and the Pattabhiramans eat sambar from red chinaware.

Directions for Questions 40 to 41: Read the information and answer the questions. Amitabh, Bhagyashree, Chunky, Dharmendra, Ekta, Farhan and Govinda are students of a class. Each of them has a different favourite subject, viz., Economics, Commerce, Zoology, Sociology, Statistics, Urdu and Computers but not necessarily in the same order. There are two such students whose one sister each is there in the group. There is no other relation among the students. No boy likes Commerce or Urdu. Dharmendra, who does not like Sociology and Statistics, is the brother of that student who likes Computers. The student who likes Sociology is the sister of that boy student who likes Economics. F is a boy student, B is sister of A.

40. Which of the following is a pair of brother-sister other than Amitabh and Bhagyashree?

(a) Dharmendra and Govinda

(b) Dharmendra and Chunky

(d) Data Inadequate

41. Which of the following is true?

(a) Dharmendra likes Commerce.

(b) Chunky, Bhagyashree and Dharmendra are girl students.

(d) None of these

Directions for Question 42 to 43: Answer the questions by studying the information given below.

Five colleagues met at the party. While chatting that night they discovered that each of them has a favourite TV show that airs one night during the week. By coincidence, each of them loves a different show, each of which airs on a different night and channel. Given below are a few clues about the full name of each colleague, the genre their favourite show is in, the night each show airs, and the channel the show airs on (one of the channel is Channel 6).

(a) Manmohan didn’t watch a show on Friday night. Mr. Obama watched his favourite show on Channel 21, the highest numbered channel. The favourite shows airing on Tuesday and Thursday night were on channels one number apart.

(b) The man who watched the western show on Channel 7 didn’t watch TV on Wednesday night. Mark watched a channel one digit lower than the man who watched the sports show.

(d) Barack didn’t watch TV on Monday night. Mr. Twain didn’t watch the action show. ManmohandidnTwatchthe sports show.

(e) Gordon’s favourite show aired on a channel higher than the Tuesday night show but lower than the show that Charles watched.

(f) The five colleagues watched their favourite shows during the week in the following order: Mark, the man who watched Channel 7, the man who watched the mystery, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Babbage.

42. What is the full name of Barack?

(a) Barack Babbage (b) Barack Singh

43. Channel 5 is viewed by whom, on which day and which is his favourite program genre?

(a) Mark Twain, Monday and Western

(b) Charles Singh, Monday and Action

(d) Mark Singh, Monday and Action

Directions for Questions 44 to 45: Read the following information and answer the questions that follow.

Houses numbered IA to 4D situated east to west in that order, are each occupied by College of Commerce professors. They all teach different subjects, possess different makes and different models (years) of bikes:

(i) Anurag Kesarwani does not own a Suzuki (owner of which is professor of Gujrati language).

(ii) Anshul has a Honda bike.

(iii) Mr. Khanduja lives in House No. 3.

(iv) Mr. Singh is the professor of Sanskrit language.

(v) 2001 model of bike owned by the Urdu language professor is not of BMW make.

(vi) Vivek is the professor OfBengali language.

(vii) Mr. Saxena is not the owner of 2004 model bike, owner of which lives next to in a house westward of one owning 2002 model bike.

(viii)Siddhartha’s is House No. 4.

44. Prof. Singh owns which make and model (year) of bike?

(a) Suzuki of 2001

(b) BMW of 2004

(d) BMW of 2003

45. IfUrdu and Sanskrit language professors exchange their bikes, who could be the owner of the latest model?

(a) Anurag only

(b) Siddhartha only

(d) Siddhartha or Vivek only

Directions for Questions 46 to 48: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Five friends Michael, Mark, Lewis, Karan and Jenson are students of five different disciplines—medical, engineering, architecture, arts, management and each plays a different musical instrument—sitar, tabla, sarod, guitar and violin.

Lewis, a medical student, does not play sarod or sitar nor guitar.

Jenson is neither a student OfEngineering nor Management.

Karan, who plays tabla, is an Arts student.

Neither Jenson nor Michael plays sarod.

46. Who among the following plays Sarod?

(a) Michael (b) Mark

47. The guitarist is a student of which of the following disciplines?

(a) Engineering

(b) Either Engineering or Management

(d) Data inadequate

48 Who among the following plays Sitar?

(a) Michael (b) Mark

Directions for Questions 49 to 51: Read the information and answer the questions that follow.

Five friends—Ramesh, Suresh, Tanveer, Umesh, and Vikram—each present one paper to their class on mathematics, history, biology, chemistry, or dermatology—one day a week, Monday through Friday.

(i) Vikram does not do chemistry and does not give his presentation on Tuesday.

(ii) Suresh makes the dermatology presentation, and does not do it on Monday or Friday.

(iii) The mathematics presentation is made on Thursday.

(iv) Tanveer presents his presentation, which is not on Chemistry, on Wednesday.

(v) The biology presentation is on Friday, and not by Umesh.

(vi) Ramesh makes his presentation on Monday.

49. What day is the Chemistry presentation made?

(a) Friday (b) Monday

50. What presentation does Vikram do?

(a) Chemistry (b) Dermatology

51. What day does Umesh make his presentation on?

(a) Monday (b) Tuesday

Answer Key

l.(a)	2. (b)	3.(d)	4. (c)
5. (a)	6. (d)	7. (b)	8. (c)
9. (d)	10. (b)	ll.(b)	12.(b)
13.(c)	14. (d)	15. (d)	16. (c)
17. (d)	18. (d)	19. (c)	20. (c)
21. (c)	22. (a)	23. (c)	24. (a)
25. (a)	26. (d)	27. (c)	28. (b)
29. (a)	30. (c)	31. (c)	32. (b)
33.(b)	34. (b)	35. (d)	36. (b)

37. (a)	38. (b)	39. (c)	40. (d)
41. (c)	42. (c)	43. (d)	44. (c)
45. (d)	46. (b)	47. (d)	48. (d)
49. (b)	50. (d)	51∙(d)

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Source: Arun Sharma. How to prepare for Logical Reasoning for the CAT. McGraw-Hill Education series,2012. — 1111 p.. 2012

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