Reasoning Quiz for SBI PO | IBPS – 184

1-5): Study the following information to answer the given questions.

In a certain code language ‘firefighters are armymen’ is written as ‘tee mee kee’, ‘courageous people are armymen’ is written as ‘kee loo nee tee’, ‘courageous being enthusiastic’ is written as ‘loo pee jee’, ‘people are enthusiastic’ is written as ‘kee nee pee’ and ‘positive people are unpleasant’ is written ‘nee kee dee see’.

1) What is the code for ‘being’?
a) loo
b) jee
c) kee
d) pee
d) None of these

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Answer b) jee

2) Which of the following may be the possible code for ‘unpleasant firefighters are positive’?
a) dee see tee mee
b) dee see kee mee
c) see tee mee kee
d) dee see jee lee
e) None of these

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Answer b) dee see kee mee

3) What does ‘pee’ stand for?
a) courageous
b) positive
c) army men
d) enthusiastic
e) None of these

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Answer d) enthusiastic

4) Which of the following is represented by the code ‘see jee tee pee dee kee loo’?
a) unpleasant army men enthusiastic being are positive firefighters
b) unpleasant army men enthusiastic courageous positive are being
c) unpleasant army men being enthusiastic are positive people
d) unpleasant army men being are enthusiastic people.
e) None of these

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Answer b) unpleasant army men enthusiastic courageous positive are being

5) Which of the following is the code for ‘firefighters armymen belongs to positive people’?
a) tee kee cee que loo dee
b) mee cee loo dee kee see
c) mee tee cee loo dee kee
d) mee tee kee cee que dee
e) Can’t be determined

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Answer e) Can’t be determined

6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing away from the centre. Each of them has a different rank in mock test, viz 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th but not necessarily in the same order. A and C, whose rank is 3rd, can never sit together. There are two persons between the persons whose ranks are 7th and 5th. The person whose rank is 5th sits second to the right of F. H does not rank 2nd or 1st and he is also immediate neighbour of the one whose rank is 5th.

The person whose rank is 1st cannot sit with the person whose rank is 4th. There are two persons sitting between C and the person whose rank is 6th. B and E are immediate neighbours of each other. The person whose rank is 1st sits on the immediate left of the person whose rank is 8th. A is second to the right of the person whose rank is 7th. D’s rank is neither 6th nor 7th. E and G are not immediate neighbours. G, who does not rank 5th, sits on the immediate right of H. There is only one person sitting between those two persons whose ranks are 8th and 6th. There is only one person sitting between G and the person whose rank is 6th and the person can never be F.

6) Which of the following pairs of persons and ranks is definitely true?
a) C – 8th
b) D – 1st
c) G – 3rd
d) B – 7th
e) All are false

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Answer d) B – 7th

7) How many persons are sitting between E and B when counted in anticlockwise direction from B?
a) None
b) Two
c) Three
d) Five
e) Six

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Answer e) Six

8) Which of the following is the position of F with respect to the person whose rank is 4th?
a) Second to the left
b) Third to the right
c) Third to the left
d) Fourth to the right
e) Can’t be determined

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Answer c) Third to the left

9) If A interchanges his place with the person whose rank is 2nd, then which of the following is the position of the person whose rank is 3rd with respect to the person whose rank is 6th?
a) Second to the left
b) Second to the right
c) Third to the right
d) Third to the left
e) None of these

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Answer c) Third to the right

10) Which of the following is the rank of H?
a) 3rd
b) 4th
c) 5th
d) 1st
e) Can’t be determined

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Answer b) 4th