Reasoning Quiz

1.A man starts from his home, walks 4 km towards North, takes a left turn and walks for 10 km. He then takes a left turn and walks for 15 km before taking a left turn again and walking for 10 km. The man finally takes a left turn and walks 2 km before stopping. How far and towards which direction the man should walk to reach the home again?
(1)6 km toward North (2)14 km towards East (3)12km towards South (4)12 km towards West                   (5)9 km towards North


Directions (2-3): Each of these questions are based on the information given below: 
There are seven people ARUN, VARUN, TARUN, OM, PRATAP, CHETAN and RAJAT running in a race.
i) OM finished immediately before PRATAP.
ii) CHETAN finished after OM and PRATAP.
iii) Three persons finished between VARUN and CHETAN.
iv) ARUN finished the race immediately after VARUN and immediately before TARUN.

2.If the whole arrangement is reversed, who will finish at same position?
(1)Varun (2)Arun (3)Tarun (4)Ratan (5)Pratap

3.Who finished at second last position? 
(1)OM (2)Arun (3)Tarun (4)  Ratan (5)Chetan

Directions (4–5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow—
In a five letter English word (which may or may not be a meaningful English word), there are two letters between R and S. T is not placed immediately next to R. There is only one letter between T and P.  T is towards the right of P. T is not placed immediately next to N.

4.Which of the following is correct with respect to the word thus formed?
(1)R is second right of P.
(2)T is at the middle in the word so formed.
(3)There are three letters between S and T.
(4)N is immediately right to P
(5)None is correct.

5.Which of the following words will be formed based on the given information?
(1)RNPTS (2)RTPNS (3)RNPST (4)NPSTR (5)NPTSR

Directions (6-10) : In each of the following questions two  statements are given and these statements are followed by two conclusions numbered (1) and (2). You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer:
(1)  If only (1) conclusion follows
(2)  If only (2) conclusion follows
(3)  If either (1) or (2) follows
(4)  If neither (1) nor (2) follows and
(5)  If both (1) and (2) follow.

6.Statements : All fans are lamps.  Some lamps are birds.
Conclusions: 1. Some birds are fan.
2. All fan being birds is a possibility.

7.Statements:  Some pens are pencils.   No pencil is sharpener.
Conclusions: 1. Some pens being sharpeners is a possibility
2. Some sharpeners are pencils

8.Statements: Some cats are mouse. Some cows are cat.
Conclusions: 1. Some cows are mouse.
2. All cows being mouse is a possibility. 

9.Statements: All the ties are shirts. Some pants are shirts.
Conclusions: 1. Some ties are pants.
2. No ties is a pants.

10.Statements:  Some dogs are cows.  Some cows are cats.
Conclusions: 1. All dogs being cats is a possibility.
2. Some cats are dogs

ANSWER
QUE	ANS	QUE	ANS
1	5	6	2
2	2	7	1
3	4	8	2
4	5	9	3
5	3	10	1