Five students of twentieth-century literature (Oscar, Peter, Shirley, and two women named Ruth) elected to write their term papers each on a different work of fiction (including William Faulkner's Light in August and Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools). One pair of students are siblings with the same last name, and the other three are unrelated. Can you deduce the full name of each student (at least one is surnamed Zaniewski), and the novel that each chose?
1.Shirley is an only child.
2.The two men are unrelated; exactly one of them chose a Faulkner novel.
3.The student (whose first name isn't Ruth) who chose Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises has a sibling in class.
4.The book chosen by the only student surnamed Yorke didn't have "light" anywhere in its title.
5.Four of the five students are Oscar, Ms. Underwood, the only student surnamed Valdez, and the one who chose Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse; the fifth student shares either a first name, last name, or choice of author with the person who chose William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!
Tom and four others spoke at a recent astrophysics conference, each presenting a paper on a different topic. Can you find the order in which the five talks were given, the full name of each speaker (one was Mr. Jones), his or her topic, and the number of people who attended each presentation?
1.The first talk of the day was on the big bang theory.
2.Laura drew 24 listeners, more than any other speaker.
3. No two men spoke consecutively.
4. As many people attended the talk on pulsars as attended both the third speech and Gray's talk combined.
5.Howe's talk was attended by twice as many people as Ed's.
6.The last two speakers drew (not necessarily respectively) the largest and smallest numbers of attendees.
7.The talk about black holes drew half as many listeners as the second speech.
8.The talk on stellar evolution (which wasn't the one given by Christa Flynn) didn't draw the fewest attendees of the day.
9.The number of people who attended Samuel's talk was as much less than the number who attended the talk on quasars as it was more than the number who attended Ives's talk.
10.A different number of people attended each talk.
In an organisation there are 1700 employees. The organisation has five departments - HR, finance, marketing,administration and manufacturing. Out of the total number of female employees in the organisation, 34% work in HR department, 20% work in marketing department, 18% work in finance department and the remaining 224 employees work in administration department.manufacturing department has no female employees. Out of the total number of employees in the organisation, 12% work inHR department, 35% work in marketing department, 30% work in finance department, 10% work in administration department and the remaining employees.working in manufacturing department.
Eight persons – Ram, Rakesh, Rajesh, Rohan, Rohit, Ronit, Ramesh and Ronny – are sitting around a circular table which had eight equally spaced seats around the table. The following information is known about their seating arrangement:
If Ram and Ronit exchanged places, Ronit would be sitting to the left of Rakesh.
If Ramesh and Rakesh exchanged places, Rakesh would be sitting opposite Rohan.
If Rajesh exchanged places with the person to the left of Rohit, Rajesh would be sitting opposite Ronny.
If the person sitting to the left of Ram and the person sitting to the left of Rajesh exchanged places, Ram would be sitting opposite Ronny
Who is sitting opposite of Rohan?
1. Rakesh
2. Ram
3. Ramesh
4. Rajesh
5. Ronit
Which of the following pair is sitting adjacent to each other?
1. Ram Rajesh
2. Ram Rohit
3. Ramesh Rakesh
4. Ramesh Ronny
5. Rohit Rajesh
In how many ways people can be seated around the table?
1. 4
2. 2
3. 5
4. 6
5. None of these
If Ramesh is sitting adjacent to Ronit then who is third to the right of Rohan?
In a certain code:
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“Seems licks rudely” is coded as - “6MAU 8NCA 6OCU”
“Straits April August Wrong” is coded as - “8USV 6PMI 10VGU 6KPN”
There are nine people namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I sitting around a circular table out of which some are females and some are males. Some are facing towards the centre and some are facing away from the centre. The following information is known about them.
i. E’s neighbours face in same direction as that of C’s sister who is sitting to the immediate right of C.
ii. The female sitting between B and D is not E.
iii. E sits fourth to the right of F.
iv. F’s spouse is B.
v. I sit exactly between G and C and they face in opposite directions.
vi. G is a male sitting with two females and one of them has husband facing towards the centre who is sitting third to the left of B.
vii. The person sitting second to the left of H is the wife of H and they face in the same direction.
viii. A’s immediate neighbours are G and B.
ix. I’s spouse sits second to the right of I.
x. D sits second to the left of B.
xi. The person 4th to the left of H sits faces in a direction opposite to that of H but same as D.
following this thread i feel i have improved so much in reasoning. i gave pm mock today and scored 20 in reasoning. earlier i used to score just 10 and today 20... still a long way to go ... but still improved from what i was yesterday :) 😄
Nine actors Bruce, Cruise, Jhony, David, Diesel, Brad, Alfraid, Jackman, Bale who have acted in nine different movies namely Batman Begin , Avatar, Avengers, Logan, The Mummy, Deadpool, Civil war, Iron man and The Dark knight are sitting from left to right. Some of them are facing North and some are facing South. The following information is known about them.i. Diesel who has acted in the Iron man is sitting along with the actor who has acted in Civil war.ii. David has acted in neither Avatar nor Civil war.iii. The actor who has acted in Batman Begin is sitting to the immediate left of Cruise. Cruise is sitting in the middle of the row.iv. Jhony is sitting fourth to the right of the actor who has acted in the Iron man.v. The actor who has acted in The Dark knight is sitting 3rd to the right of David.vi. The actors who have acted in Avengers and Avatar are facing the same direction and sitting together and one of them is sitting at one of the ends.vii. Alfraid is sitting two places away from Bruce and they both face in opposite directions.viii. Jackman has acted in Deadpool and is facing in North direction and is sitting at third position from the right end.ix. The actor who has acted in Logan is sitting 2nd to the right of the actor who has acted in Avatar.x. Bale faces in south direction. The actor who has acted in the Logan is facing the direction opposite to that of Bale. The immediate neighbours of the actor who has acted in the Logan is facing the direction same as that of Bale.xi. The actor who has acted in the Logan is neither sitting with the actor who has acted in Deadpool nor with the actor who has acted in Avengers.xii. Alfraid has not acted in The Dark knight.
Seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G live on eight different floors of a building and one of the floors is vacant, but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered 1 and the topmost floor of the building is numbered 8. Each of them likes different colors viz, Blue, Red, Pink, White, Green, Yellow, and Black but not necessarily in the same order. Neither E nor C lives on the first floor. Only one floor between C and the one who likes Pink. A lives just above F. Only two floor between E and A. The one who likes Red lives on an even-numbered floor but not on the topmost floor. Only one floor between F and the one who likes Green. Only two floor between F and the one who likes Red. The one who likes Green does not live on floor number one, B lives on an even-numbered floor and just above C. The one who likes White lives on an even numbered floor and lives just above the floor who likes Black. C does not like Green or Black. Only two floor between the one who likes Yellow and the one who likes Blue. The one who likes Yellow does not live on an odd-numbered floor. G lives just below the one who likes Black. The floor which is vacant is not an odd number floor.
There are eight members of a family–P, Q, R, S, T, U, W and Z. All of them are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. They belong to three different generations and there are three married couples among them. Four of them are males and four of them are of the opposite gender (though not necessarily in the same order.)They like different movies viz., The Twins, Twelve, Turbo, The Twilight Saga, Typhon, Twin Dragons, The Twelve Chairs and Twentieth Century but not necessarily in the same order. Further, some more information is also given. ∗The son-in-law and grandson of Z are immediate neighbours. W cannot be an immediate neighbour of her sister-in-law. W likes the movie Twelve. ∗ Q, a spinster, is sitting two places to the right of her grandfather T. Neither R nor T likes the movie The Twelve Chairs. P and his sibling S can’t sit together. Typhoon is liked by the brother-in-law of R. ∗There are only three persons sitting between the person who likes Twin Dragons and her aunt S. R, a married male, cannot be an immediate neighbour of either T or Q. R does not like the movie Twentieth Century or The Twins. The Twelve chairs movie is not liked by either S or Z. ∗ U and Q are not siblings. T does not like the movie Turbo or The Twins. There is only one person sitting between R and his brother-in-law. Turbo is not liked by the Son-in-law of Z.
Eight employees Dipika, Nikita, Pranav, Karthik, Ankita, Vinay, Bharti and Ratnesh are seated in a conference hall for a meeting around a circular table not necessarily in the same order. Everybody is seated facing the centre. Abhishek; the CEO, is standing and he assigns everyone a certain number of documents ranging from 1 to 8 in any order such that every employee gets some documents which needs to be verified at the earliest. It is further known that:
• The person who was assigned 7 documents sat 2nd to the right of Bharti.
• Ratnesh sits to the immediate left of the person who is assigned 1 document.
• Dipika sits opposite to Pranav who is a neighbour of Karthik.
• Nikita was assigned 4 documents and sat 3rd to the right of the person who was assigned 5 documents.
• Bharti is 2nd to the right of Ankita.
• Bharti and Ratnesh were assigned even number of documents.
• Pranav was assigned odd number of documents
• Dipika got lesser number of documents than Ankita
• Bharti did not have the maximum number of documents.
There are eight persons-D, E, F, G, H, Q, R and S and out of them 4 are females. They sit in a row facing south direction and have different brands of watches-Sonata, Titan, Rolex, Fastrack and Omega. Only one person has Sonata and not more than two persons have the same watch. The following information is known about them- The two males having Rolex form the only pair who has the same watch and is sitting together (Apart from these two, no other two adjacent people have same watch). Neither G nor F has Fastrack. S sits 4thto the left of Q. F sits adjacent to D and H. D who is the wife of E is sitting at 4thposition from left end according to their own direction. R who is the husband of G has Titan and sits 2ndto the right of Q and none of them sits at extreme end. E sits to the immediate right of Q. The persons who have Omega have two persons in between them. Two females sit adjacent to each other and one of them sit on one of the extremes.