Logical Reasoning Quiz for MBA entrance exams

 

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Directions for Questions 1 to 6: Study the
10 statements given below and answer the questions.

1. Six businessmen from six different
nations are staying in different rooms in succession in the same row in a
hotel.

2. Each of them owns a different number of
cars and has donated to different number of institutions during the last year.

3. The businessman in room no. 102 owns
twice as many as the number of cars owned by the businessmen who has donated to
8 institutions in the last year.

4. The businessman from Uruguay and the
businessman in Room no. 106 together own 40 cars in total.

5. The businessman from Argentina owns 8
cars less than the businessman from England but donated to 10 more institutions
in the last year.

6. Four times the number of cars owned by
the businessman in Room no. 104 is lesser than the number of institutions to
which he has donated in the last year.

7. The businessman in Room No. 103 owns 12
cars and donated to 8 institutions in the last year.

8. The businessman who owns 16 cars donated
to 24 institutions in the last year.

9. The businessman in Room no. 105 owns 8
cars and donated to 2 institutions less than those donated to by the
businessman from Canada in the last year.

10. The Brazilian businessman is staying
two rooms ahead of the English businessman who is staying two rooms ahead of
the Canadian businessman.

1. In which room is the Brazilian
businessman staying?

A. Room no. 102         B. Room no. 103         C.
Room no. 104         D. Room no. 105

2. What is the number of institutions to
which the Argentinean businessman donated in the last year?

A. 8      B.
3      C. 18    D. 24

3. The businessman of which country is
staying in Room no. 106?

A. Argentina                B. Canada                    C.
Uruguay                  D. Germany

4. The businessman of which country has
donated to 24 institutions in the last year?

A. Argentina                B. Uruguay                  C.
Canada                    D. Germany

5. The businessman of which country owns
the highest number of cars?

A. Argentina                B. Uruguay                  C.
Germany                 D. Brazil

6. How many cars are owned by the English
businessman?

A. 8                  B.
12                C. 4                  D. 20

Directions for questions 7 to 10: Read each
of the five problems given below and choose the best answer from among the four
given choices.

7. Persons X, Y, Z and Q live in red,
green, yellow or blue-coloured houses placed in a sequence on a street. Z lives
in a yellow house. The green house is adjacent to the blue house. X does not
live adjacent to Z. The yellow house is in between the green and red houses.
The colour of the house, X lives in is

a. blue                         b.
green           c. red               d. Not possible to determine

8. My bag can carry not more than ten
books. I must carry at least one book each of management, mathematics, physics
and fiction. Also, for every management book I carry I must carry two or more
fiction books, and for every mathematics book I carry I must carry two or more
physics books. I earn 4, 3, 2 and 1 points for each management, mathematics,
physics and fiction book, respectively, I carry in my bag. I want to maximise
the points I can earn by carrying the most appropriate combination of books in
my bag. The maximum points that I can earn is

a. 20                b.
21                c. 22                d. 23

9. Five persons with names P, M, U, T and X
live separately in any one of the following: a palace, a hut, a fort, a house
or a hotel. Each one likes two different colours from among the following:
blue, black, red, yellow and green. U likes red and blue. T likes black. The
person living in a palace does not like black or blue. P likes blue and red. M
likes yellow. X lives in a hotel. M lives in a

a. hut               b.
palace         c. fort              d. house

10. Eighty kilogram of store material is to
be transported to a location 10 km away. Any number of couriers can be used to
transport the material. The material can be packed in any number of units of
10, 20, or 40 kg. Courier charges are Rs. 10 per hour. Couriers travel at the
speed of 10 km/hr if they are not carrying any load, at 5 km/hr if carrying 10
kg, at 2 km/hr if carrying 20 kg and at 1 km/hr if carrying 40 kg. A courier
cannot carry more than 40 kg of load. The minimum cost at which 80 kg of store
material can be transported to its destination will be

a. Rs.180         b.
Rs.160         c. Rs.140          d. Rs.120

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Answers

1(d)    2(c) 
   3(d)    4(d)    
5(b)     6(b)   7(a)   
8(c)     9(b)    10(b)   

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