Reasoning Quiz – March, 2015 – Set 11 – Input-Output

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

A word and number
arrangement machine when given an input word and numbers, rearranges them following a particular rule. The following
is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: penalty
wind attire 29 extrovert tired 14 software gymnast shooter 17 vibrant

Step I: wind
penalty attire 29 extrovert tired 14 software gymnast shooter 17 vibrant

Step II: vibrant
wind penalty attire 29 extrovert tired 14 software gymnast shooter 17

Step III:
software vibrant wind penalty attire 29 extrovert tired 14 gymnast shooter 17

Step IV: penalty
software vibrant wind attire 29 extrovert tired 14 gymnast shooter 17

Step V: gymnast
penalty software vibrant wind attire 29 extrovert tired 14 shooter 17

Step VI:
extrovert gymnast penalty software vibrant wind attire 29 tired 14 shooter 17

Step VII:
extrovert gymnast penalty software vibrant wind attire 29 shooter 17 tired 14

Step VII is the last
step of the rearrangement. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find
out in each of the following
questions the appropriate step for the following input.

Input:
“document 10 heat 20 garlands conclusion tabular unique info 41 normal
quite.”

1. Which of the
following would be the final arrangement?

(a) conclusion garlands normal quite tabular unique info 41
heat 20 document 10.

(b) conclusion garlands quite normal tabular unique info 41
heat 20 document 10.

(c) conclusion document garlands normal tabular unique info
41 heat 20 quite 10.

(d) conclusion document garlands info normal tabular unique
41 heat 20 quite 10.

(e) None of these

2. Which step number
will be the following output?

‘normal quite tabular unique document 10 heat 20 garlands
conclusion info 41.’

(a) IV

(b) III

(c) VI

(d) V

(e) None of these

3. In Step IV which
of the following words/numbers would be at fourth position from right?

(a) 20

(b) tabular

(c) 10

(d) garlands

(e) None of these

4. Which of the
following steps will be the last step of this rearrangement?

(a) VI

(b) VIII

(c) VII

(d) V

(e) None of these

5. If in Step V,
‘garlands’ is related to ‘41’ and ‘quite’ is related to ‘conclusion’ in a certain
way, which of the following would ‘tabular’ be related to in the same way?

(a) 10

(b) unique

(c) 20

(d) 41

(e) None of these

Solution:

The machine rearranges words in descending order of alphabetical
series from left after completing it, arranges those words which are followed
by any number in descending order.

Input: document
10 heat 20 garlands conclusion tabular unique info 41 normal quite

Step I: unique
document 10 heat 20 garlands conclusion tabular info 41 normal quite.

Step II: tabular
unique document 10 heat 20 garlands conclusion info 41 normal quite.

Step III: quite
tabular unique document 10 heat 20 garlands conclusion info 41 normal.

Step IV: normal
quite tabular unique document 10 heat 20 garlands conclusion info 41.

Step V: garlands
normal quite tabular unique document 10 heat 20 conclusion info 41.

Step VI:
conclusion garlands normal quite tabular unique document 10 heat 20 info 41.

Step VII:
conclusion garlands normal quite tabular unique info 41 document 10 heat 20.

Step VIII:
conclusion garlands normal quite tabular unique info 41 heat 20 document 10