Abhinav’s Reasoning Challenges for Bank PO Exams 2016 – 9 August, 2016

Directions (1-7):
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input
line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each
step. The following is an illustration of input and various steps of
rearrangement. (All the numbers are two digit numbers)

Input: sweet  46 
nice  36  friend 
26  help  96 
bright  76  kind 
66

Step I: sweet  46 
nice  36  friend 
26  help  bright 
76  kind  66  96

Step II: sweet  nice 
46  36  friend 
26  help  bright 
kind  66  76  96

Step III: sweet  nice 
kind  46  36 
friend  26  help 
bright  66  76  96

Step IV: sweet  nice 
kind  help  36 
friend  26  bright 
46  66  76  96

Step V: sweet  nice 
kind  help  friend 
26  bright  36 
46  66  76  96

Step VI: sweet  nice 
kind  help  friend 
bright  26  36 
46  66  76  96

And Step VI is the last step of the rearrangement as the
desired arrangement is obtained.

As per the rules followed above steps find out in each of
the questions the appropriate step for the given input.

Input: arrow  98 
paint  58  lamb 
38  each  78 
great  18  most 
48  rent  88

1.  Which of the
following number/word would be fifth to the left of the sixth element from the
right in the step five?

1) great  2) arrow 3)lamb
4) 38 5) 48

2. Which of the following represents the position of “58” in
the step “IV”

1) Eighth from left 2) Third from right 3) Ninth from left

4) Eleventh from left 5) Fifth from right

3. How many elements (words/numbers) are there between
“most” and “78” as they appear in the Step VI?   

1)Eight 2) Seven 3) Nine 4) Five 5) Four

4. Which step number is the following output?  

 rent paint most arrow
58 lamb 38 each great 18 48 78 88 98

1) There is no such step 2) Step II 3) Step III

4) Step VI  5)
step-III

5. Which element (words/numbers) would b eat the eleventh
position from the right in the step III?   

1) lamb 2) arrow 3) 58 4) 38 5) each

6. Which element (words/numbers) would b eat the sixth
position from the left in Step VI?    

1) 18 2) arrow 3) great 4)each 5) 38

7. At which of the following position “great” would appear
from the left in the Step V?

1)fifth 2) Sixth 3) Fourth 4) Second   5) Third

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Directions (8-13):
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

A college planned to conduct an
induction fair. The college asked foreign universities to participate in the
education fair so that student could know about the foreign universities. Even
foreign universities can tell which course is good in which university. The
course offered by these universities are, Social Science, Psychology, Medicine,
Commerce, Astronomy, Computer Science and Architecture. The fair will start on
Monday and end will on Sunday of the same week. Social Science stall will be
set up immediately before the Medicine Stall. Medicine stall will not be set up
on Tuesday or Thursday. There will be a gap of one day between the stalls of
Astronomy and Medicine. Architecture stall will be set up immediately after
Astronomy stall. Computer Science stall will be set up on Monday.

8.  Which of the
following stalls will be set up on Thursday?

1) Astronomy   2)
Psychology   3) Medicine 4) Architecture

5) None of these

9. Which of the following stalls will be set immediately
after the Computer Science stall?  

1) Medicine 2) Commerce 3) Psychology 4)

5) None of these 

10. On which of the following days of the week the stall on
Architecture will be set up?

1) Saturday  2)
Tuesday 3) Thursday 4) Friday

5) None of these