{"id":8249,"date":"2017-09-15T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2017-09-15T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:21:58","slug":"reasoning-ability-expected-ranking-puzzle-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/reasoning-ability-expected-ranking-puzzle-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasoning Ability: Expected Ranking Puzzle Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Read the following to answer these questions.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Seven persons \u00a0J, K, L, M, N, O, and P participate in a series of swimming races in which the following are always true about the results :<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">K finishes ahead of L.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">N finishes directly behind M.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Either J finishes first and O last, or O following first and J last.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There are no ties in any race everyone finishes each race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1. \u00a0If N finishes directly ahead of K, then which of the following is a complete and accurate listing of the positions in which m could have finished?<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(c)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(a) second<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(b) Third<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(c) Second, third<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(d) Second, third, fourth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2. If J finishes first, and if L finishes ahead of N, then in How many different orders is it possible for the other swimmers to finish? \u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (c)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(a) 2<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(b) 3<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(c) 4<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(d) 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3. Which of the following cannot be true? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(b)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(a) K Finishes third<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(b) K finishes sixth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(c) M finishes second<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(d) N finishes fourth<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the following to answer these questions. Seven persons \u00a0J, K, L, M, N, O, and P participate in a series of swimming races in which the following are always true about the results : K finishes ahead of L. N finishes directly behind M. Either J finishes first and O last, or O following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}