Reasoning questions Practice Question and Answer

Q: The chairman entered in the Assembly Hall at 10 min. before 12.30 hours to conduct the interview. The chairman was 20 min. earlier than the managing director. The chairman was 30 min. late as per the time fixed. What was the time fixed for interview? 14634 1

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    12:50
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    12:10
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    12:40
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    12:00
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Answer : 2. "12:10"

Q: If the 5th date of month comes after 2 days from Tuesday, then which would be the day on the day before 19th of that month? 12342 0

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    Monday
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    Wednesday
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    Thursday
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    Sunday
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Answer : 2. "Wednesday"

Q: Arrange the words given below in a meaningful sequence. 11974 0

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    3, 1, 2, 4, 5
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    1, 2, 4, 3, 5
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    5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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    3, 1, 4, 5, 2
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Answer : 4. "3, 1, 4, 5, 2"

Q: lion: animal : : flower : ___________ 9218 2

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    plant
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    roots
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    grass
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    rose
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Answer : 1. "plant"

Q: Insurance Company X is considering issuing a new policy to cover services required by elderly people who suffer from diseases that afflict the elderly. Premiums for the policy must be low enough to attract customers; therefore, Company X is concerned that the income from the policies would not be sufficient to pay for the claims that would be made. Which of the following strategies would be most likely to minimize Company X's losses on the policies? 9198 0

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    Attracting middle-aged customers unlikely to submit claims for benefits for many years.
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    Insuring only those individuals who did not suffer any serious diseases as children.
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    Including a greater number of services in the policy than are included in other policies of lower cost.
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    Insuring only those individuals who were rejected by other companies for similar policies.
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Answer : 1. "Attracting middle-aged customers unlikely to submit claims for benefits for many years."

Q: Statements: All the actors are girls. All the girls are beautiful. 7612 0

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    Only (1) conclusion follows
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    Only (2) conclusion follows
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    Either (1) or (2) follows
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    Neither (1) nor (2) follows
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    Both (1) and (2) follow
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Answer : 5. "Both (1) and (2) follow"

Q: Left-handed persons suffer more frequently than do right-handed persons from certain immune disorders, such as allergies. Left-handers tend to have an advantage over the right-handed majority, however, on tasks controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain, and mathematical reasoning is strongly under the influence of the right hemisphere in most people. If the information above is true, it best supports which of the following hypotheses? 6587 0

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    Most people who suffer from allergies or other such immune disorders are left-handed rather than right-handed.
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    Most left-handed mathematicians suffer from some kind of allergy.
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    There are proportionally more left-handers among people whose ability to reason mathematically is above average than there are among people with poor mathematical reasoning ability.
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    If a left-handed person suffers from an allergy, that person will probably be good at mathematics.
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    There are proportionally more people who suffer from immune disorders such as allergies than there are people who are left-handed or people whose mathematical reasoning ability is unusually good.
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Answer : 3. "There are proportionally more left-handers among people whose ability to reason mathematically is above average than there are among people with poor mathematical reasoning ability."

Q: Eating beets significantly lowers the risk of cancer, according to an article in a nutritional magazine. The article refers to a study that found that people who consumed one or more beets per day were half as likely to be diagnosed with the disease as people who did not. Which of the following, if true, most weakens the argument in the magazine article? 6110 1

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    Another study found that people who consumed one tablespoon of flax seed oil per day were more than four times less likely to be diagnosed with cancer
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    Participants in the study reported consuming no vegetables other than beets.
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    In another experiment, cancer patients who ate one or more beets per day were no more likely to recover than those who ate no beets.
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    The participants in the study who ate beets were more likely to exercise regularly than those who did not eat beets.
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Answer : 4. "The participants in the study who ate beets were more likely to exercise regularly than those who did not eat beets."

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