Reasoning Quiz for SBI PO Prelims 2015 – Set 10



Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here is a set of Reasoning Quiz based on Coding-Decoding and Statements and Conclusion.

Direction (Q. 1–5) :
Study the following information carefully and answer the given question:
In a certain code
language: ‘people will vote’ is written as ‘sa pa ga ‘ , ‘ vote for change ‘ is
written as ‘ ga ra ta’, ‘ change for the nation ‘ is written as ‘ ta pe se ra
‘, and ‘people for educated’ is written as ‘ sa ta re ‘.
1. Which of the following
codes stands for ‘people’ ?
(a) sa
(b) ta
(c) ga
(d) se
(e) pe
2. Which of the
following is the code for ‘the’ ?
(a) pe
(b) se
(c) Either pe or se
(d) ta
(e) re
3. What does the code
‘pa’ stands for ?
(a) for
(b) vote
(c) will
(d) change
(e) people
4. ‘pe se ta ga’ is
the code for which of the following ?
(a) Change for educated nation
(b) Change for vote people
(c) The nation for vote
(d) People for the nation
(e) None of these
5. What will be the
possible code for ‘vote for youth country’ ?
(a) ga ta sa pa
(b) ga ta za na
(c) ga ta pa re
(d) ga ta za re
(e) None of these
Direction (Q. 6-10): In
each questions below are given two or three statements followed by two
conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true
even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide
which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements,
disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer:
(a) If only conclusion I follows.
(b) If only conclusion II follows.
(c) If both conclusion I and conclusion II follow.
(d) If neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows.
(e) If either conclusion I or II follows.
6. Statements:
Some terrorists are Honest.
No Politician is Honest.
All Politicians are corrupt.
Conclusion: I. Some
Terrorists are not Politician.
II. Some corrupt
are not Honest.
(Q. 7 – 8):

Statements: Some
students are MBA.
All students are Graduate.
No Graduate is PHD. All PHD are Master.
7. Conclusion: I. Some MBA are Graduate. 
II.
No student is PHD.
8. Conclusion: I. All students are PHD. 
II.
No PHD is student.
9. Statements:
Every Corrupt are politician.
More politicians are Honest.
Conclusion: I. All
corrupt being honest is a possibility.
II. Some corrupt
are politician.
10. Statements:
More king are Educated.
More kings are slave.
No slave is Honest.
Conclusion: I. Some
Kings are Honest.
II. Some Educated
are slave.

Solutions:

1 –5: People will vote = Sa pa Ga … i)
Vote for Change = Ga Ra Ta … ii)
Change for the Nation = Ta pe se ra … iii)
People for educated = Sa ta re … iv)
From I and II
Vote = Ga ……………………… v)
From ii) , iii) and iv)
For = Ta ………………………. vi)
From iii), ii) and vi)
Change = ra ………………………. vii)
From i) and iv)
people = sa ………………………. viii)
From v) viii) and i)
will = pa
From vi) and viii) and iv)
Education = re ………………………… ix)
From vii) and vi) and iii)
The/Nation = pe/se
6. Some Terrorist are honest (I) + No politician is Honest
(E), Conversion No Honest are politician (I + E) = O, Some Terrorism are not
politician. Hence I follows. No politician is Honest (E) + All politician are
corrupt (A) = (E) + (A) ®
O* (Some corrupt are not Honest). Hence conclusion II follows.
7. Some students are MBA (I) (on conversion) Some MBA are
students (I) + All students are Graduate (A) ®
I + A ® (I) Hence conclusion I
Some MBA are graduate follows. All students are graduate (A) + No Graduate is
PHD (E) = A + E ® ‘E’
8. All students are Graduate (A) + No Graduate are PHD (E) =
A + E – ‘E’ Hence conclusion I does not follow. But both conclusions first and
second are contradictory statement Hence either conclusion I or II follows.
9. Every politician are corrupt (A) + More politician are
Honest (I) = A + I = No conclusion But this exist in possibility. Hence
conclusion I follows. Every corrupt are politician (A) – (on conversion) Some
corrupt are politician. Hence conclusion II follows.

10. More king are slave (I) + No Slave is honest (E) – I + E
= O Hence conclusion I does not follow because there is no negative statement. More
king are educated (I) + More King are slave (I) = I + I ® No Conclusion. So conclusion II
does not follow.



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