Reasoning Quiz on Input Output for Upcoming Exams
Directions (1 – 5): Study the following information carefully and
answer the questions which follow:
A
word and number rearrangement machine when given an input line of words and
numbers rearranges them following a particular rule. Following is an
illustration of input and the rearrangement.
Input : mean
49 girls all 63 71 work 41 bad 58
Step
I : 71 mean 49 girls 63 work 41 bad 58 all
Step
II : 71 63 mean 49 girls work 41 58 bad all
Step
III: 71 63 58 mean 49 work 41 girls bad all
Step
IV: 71 63 58 49 work 41 mean girls bad all
Step
V : 71 63 58 49 41 work mean girls bad all
Step
V is the last step of the arrangement of the above input as the intended
rearrangement is obtained.
As
per the rules followed in the above steps, answer the following questions based
upon the
Input: 31 clean 69 not 77 safe 19 look hands
53
1. Which
of the following would be the second
step after the rearrangement?
(1) 77 69 53 31 19 safe not look hands
clean
(2) 77 69 53 31 not safe 19 look hands
clean
(3) 77 69 31 not safe 19 look 53 hands
clean
(4) 77 31 69 not safe 19 look hands 53
clean
(5) None of these
2. Which
of the following would be the final arrangement ?
(1) 77 69 53 31 19 safe not look hands
clean
(2) 77 69 53 19 31 safe not look hands
clean
(3) 19 31 53 69 77 sale not look hands
clean
(4) 77 69 53 31 19 clean hands look
not safe
(5) safe not look hands clean 77 69 53
31 19
3. Which
of the following will be step VI of the above input ?
(1) 77 31 69 not safe 19 look hands 53
clean
(2) 77 69 31 not safe 19 look 53 hah
clean
(3} 77 69 53 31 not sale 19 look hands
clean
(4) 77 69 53 31 19 safe not look hands
clean
(5) There will be no such step as it
gets arranged before step VI
4. In
step III, which of the following would be the third word/number from the left ?
(1) 69 (2) 53 (3)
Look
(4) 19 (5) Not
5. Which
step would be the following output ?
77 31 69 not safe 19 look hands 53
clean
(1) I (2)
II (3) III
(4) rv (5) VI
Solutions (1-5): After observing the arrangement, we can conclude that in each
steps; the numbers are arranging in decreasing order on the left end and words
are arranging in alphabetic order on the right end. The process continues till
the last steps.
Input : 31 clean 69 not 77 safe 19 look hands 53.
Step
I : 77 31 69 not safe 19 look hands 53
clean.
Step
II : 77 69 31 not safe 19 look 53 hands clean.
Step
III : 77 69 53 31 safe 19 not look hands
clean.
Step
IV : 77 69 53 31 19 safe not look hands
clean.
1.
(3)
2.
(1)
3.
(5)
4.
(2)
5.
(1)