Reasoning Quiz for Bank Exams 2015 – Set 14 – Puzzle and Coding-Decoding

Directions (Q. 1 – 8):
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

There are eight persons A, B, C,
D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing towards the centre,
but not necessarily in the same order. Each one is wearing a different coloured
hat i.e. violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red and black. E is sitting
on the second position towards the right of the person who is wearing an orange
hat. Between the person who is wearing Indigo hat and E, only one person is
sitting. H is sitting on the third place towards the right of the person who is
wearing a blue hat. The person who is wearing blue hat is neither E nor sitting
beside the person who is wearing Indigo colour hat. The person who was wearing
a green hat is not sitting beside E. D is sitting beside the person who is
wearing a green hat. D was wearing neither Indigo hat nor blue hat. E was not
wearing a green hat. There are only two persons sitting between the person who
was wearing green hat and the person who was wearing yellow hat. Only two persons
are sitting between G and the person who was wearing yellow coloured hat. G was
not wearing a green hat. The person who was wearing red hat is sitting at the
right side of C. F was wearing violet hat. A was not wearing blue hat.

1. Who is sitting
exactly in front of C?

(a) D

(b) H

(c) A

(d) Data inadequate

(e) None of these

2. Which colour hat A
is wearing?

(a) green

(b) orange

(c) black

(d) indigo

(e) None of these

3. Which colour hat G
is wearing?

(a) green

(b) orange

(c) black

(d) red

(e) None of these

4. Who is sitting
immediate right of D?

(a) H

(b) A

(c) E

(d) B

(e) None

5. In which of the
following third person is sitting between first and second person?

(a) ADH

(b) AHD

(c) BAD

(d) BAG

(e) None of these

6. In which of the
following is second person is immediate left of first person?

(a) DH

(b) HE

(c) EF

(d) AB

(e) None of these

7. Which of the
following is not correct?

(a) A – green hat

(b) D – orange hat

(c) B – blue hat

(d) G – black hat

(e) None of these

8. If all the people
are made to sit in alphabetical order in anticlockwise direction starting from
A, the position of whom amongst the
following remains the same(excluding A)?

(a) H

(b) G

(c) E

(d) F

(e) None of these

Directions (Q. 9-12):
Study the following statements carefully and answer the questions given below:

In a certain code language ‘reach the goal’ is coded as ‘ra
sa ku’, ‘reach and enjoy’ is coded as ‘nu ku pa’ and ‘enjoy any goal’ is coded
as ‘ta ra nu’.

9. What does ‘sa’
stand for?

(a) read

(b) book

(c) the (d) and

(e) None of these

10. What may be the
code for ‘enjoy the goal’?

(a) pa ta sa

(b) nu ku ta

(c) ku pa ta

(d) ra nu sa

(e) None of these

11. How ‘fix the
goal’ may be coded?

(a) nu pa ra

(b) ra nu ku

(c) zu sa ra

(d) pa ku sa

(e) None of these

12. What is the code
for ‘enjoy’?

(a) sa

(b) nu

(c) pa

(d) ku

(e) ta