{"id":8361,"date":"2017-09-28T16:07:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:40:19","slug":"puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasoning Questions (Puzzles) for IBPS Clerk Mains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Directions (Q. 1\u20135): Read the following information and answer the questions given below it :<\/span>
\nA, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J are ten persons who travel to office <\/span>everyday by a particular train which stops at six stations \u2160, \u2161, \u2162, \u2163, \u2164 and \u2165 respectively after it leaves <\/span>base station.<\/span>
\n1. D gets in with <\/span>only \u2160 at the same station on which G gets down with H. But H travels between only two stations.<\/span>
\n2. C gets down before G. A and E get in alone.<\/span>
\n3. B and F get in before D. Also, both B and F get down at the next station after D.<\/span>
\n4. G gets in at station \u2160 only with one person. J gets down after one station but he gets in with three others.<\/span>
\n5. None of them gets in at station \u2162. Whereas none of them gets down at station \u2164.<\/span><\/p>\n

1). How many persons get down at station \u2165?<\/span>
\na) Two<\/span>
\nb) Three<\/span>
\nc) Four<\/span>
\nd) Data inadequate<\/span>
\ne) None of these<\/span><\/p>\n

2).How many persons get in at base station?<\/span>
\na) Two<\/span>
\nb) Three<\/span>
\nc) Four<\/span>
\nd) Data inadequate<\/span>
\ne) None of these<\/span><\/p>\n

3).At which station does D get in?<\/span>
\na) Station \u2160<\/span>
\nb) Station \u2161<\/span>
\nc) Station \u2163<\/span>
\nd) Station \u2164<\/span>
\ne) None of these<\/span><\/p>\n

4).How many persons get down before station \u2163?<\/span>
\na) One<\/span>
\nb) Four<\/span>
\nc) Five or Six<\/span>
\nd) Data inadequate<\/span>
\ne) None of these<\/span><\/p>\n

5).In how many stations the number of passengers (consider only A to J ) who get in is equal to that of those who get down at the same station?<\/span>
\na) One<\/span>
\nb) <\/span>Two
\nc) Three<\/span>
\nd) Data inadequate<\/span>
\ne) None of these<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Answers<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

1). d) 2). c) 3). b) 4). c) 5).d<\/span><\/p>\n

Explanations:<\/span><\/h2>\n

Let us make a table as shown below and put the information obtained from the clues 4 and 5 in the table. It looks as follow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Station<\/td>\nGet in<\/td>\nGet down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Base Station<\/td>\n<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2160<\/td>\nG, \u2013<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2161<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2162<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2163<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2164<\/td>\n<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2165<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Now from clue 1, we get that D and I get in at the same station where G and H get down. Obviously D and I did not get in at base station or station \u2160 or \u2162 or \u2164. Thus, D and I must have got in either at station \u2161 or at station \u2163. But it is given that H travels between only two stations, hence we can conclude that G and H did not get down at station \u2163 also. Hence, D and I get in at station \u2161 and G and H get down at station \u2161. Also, we get that H gets in at station \u2160.<\/p>\n

Now, from clue 2, we get that C gets down before G. This implies that C gets down at station \u2160. Again, from clue 3, we get that B and F get in before D. This implies that B and F get in at base station, Again from clue 3, we get that B and F get down at next station after D. This implies that, B and F did not get down at station \u2165 (because no person gets down at station \u2164). And since D gets in at station \u2161, this implies that B and F must have got down after at least station \u2162.<\/p>\n

Thus, we can conclude that B and F get down at station \u2163 and D gets down at station \u2162. Again from clue 2, we get that C gets down at station \u2160 before G. This implies that C must have got in at the base station. Also, we get that A and E must have got in either at station \u2163 or at station \u2164. Hence, we can conclude that J gets in at base station ( see clue 4 ) and get down at station \u2160.<\/p>\n

Hence, by elimination, we get that A and E get down at station \u2165<\/p>\n

But still we do not where I gets down among the stations \u2162, \u2163 and \u2165.<\/p>\n

Thus the whole information obtained can be summarized as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Station<\/td>\nGet in<\/td>\nGet down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Base Station<\/td>\nB, C, F and J<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2160<\/td>\nG and H<\/td>\nC and J<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2161<\/td>\nD and I<\/td>\nG and H<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2162<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\nD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2163<\/td>\nOnly A or E<\/td>\nB and F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2164<\/td>\nOnly E or A<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2165<\/td>\nx x x<\/td>\nA and E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

1).<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Answer: d)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

2).<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Answer: c)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

3).<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Answer: b)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

4).<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Answer: c)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

5).<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Answer: d)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Directions (Q. 1\u20135): Read the following information and answer the questions given below it : A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J are ten persons who travel to office everyday by a particular train which stops at six stations \u2160, \u2161, \u2162, \u2163, \u2164 and \u2165 respectively after it leaves base […]<\/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-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","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=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8363,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}