Reasoning for SBI PO/Clerk 2018: 17 May
Directions (Q.1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Ten people A, B, C, D, E, F, L, M, N and O are living in a building having four floors. Each floor has three flats – Flat 1, Flat 2 and Flat 3 in the same order from left to right. Ground floor is numbered 1 and the topmost floor is numbered 4. Each flat is built in such a way that Flat 1 of Floor 2 is just above Flat 1 of Floor 1 and so on.
The two flats in which no one lives are on odd-numbered floor and are even-numbered flats. L lives on an even-numbered floor and in an odd-numbered flat. The flat between M and N is vacant and M lives on one of the flats above the flat in which N lives. A lives in the flat immediately above D. B and E live on the same floor and no one else lives on that floor. O lives immediately left of the flat in which N lives. B and F live in the flats which are numbered 1. F and D do not live on odd-numbered floor.
1. Which of the following statements is/are true?
1) C lives on an odd-numbered floor and in an even-numbered flat.
2) N lives on floor number 2 but not on the same floor on which D lives.
3) C and O live in the flats which are numbered 1.
4) All are true
5) None is true
2. Who among the following live on the floor numbered 3?
1) C and A 2) N and D 3) A and O 4) F and L 5) E and B
3. Which of the following pairs live in even-numbered flats?
1) L, D 2) O, B 3) N, C 4) M, E 5) M, N
4. Which of the following statements is not true, regarding C?
1) C lives in the flat immediate left of the vacant flat.
2) C lives in the flat immediately below the flat in which F lives.
3) C lives in the flat immediately above the one in which B lives.
4) C lives on the same floor on which A lives.
5) All are true
5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
1) M 2) D 3) L 4) F 5) O
Directions (Q. 6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
In a certain code language some statements are coded as follows:
‘dearth blog theory ping’ is coded as ‘31@y 11#g 14%h 11*g’, ‘deception thin pollution fold’ is coded as ‘18@n 8$d 23%n 23*n’, ‘filter perception tedious birthday’ is coded as ‘33#y 24$r 26@s 24*n’ and ‘college destroy product basic’ is coded as ‘32%y 8#c 12qe 27*t’
6. Which of the following is the code for ‘persistent cough frighten’?
1) 30*t 13qh 24$n 2) 13qh 30*t 22$n 3) 24*n 13qh 32%y
4) 30*t 24$p 13qh 5) 13qh 22$p 31@y
7. The code ‘18@n 24*n’ stands for
4) filter deception 5) deception perception
8. Which of the following will be the code for ‘destroy theory dearth basic’?
1) 32%y 8#c 31@y 26@s 2) 14%h 31@y 8$d 33#y 3) 31@y 8#c 14%h 23*n
4) 14%h 8#c 32%y 31@y 5) None of these
9. Which of the following may be the code for ‘birthday indigenous’?
1) 33#y 29qs 2) 29qs 32#y 3) 29©s 33#y
4) 30#t 25*s 5) Can’t be determined
10. The code ‘11*g 23%n 24$r 12qe’ stands for
1) filter duty corpse ping 2) ping perception filter college 3) college filter ping deception
4) deception ping unix input 5) None of these