Reasoning Previous Year Questions (page 2)

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After a collapse, saving trapped and injured people is the immediate, practical step, so I follows. Abandoning the whole town because one bridge failed is an extreme, impractical response, so II does not follow.

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Expanding operations to reach the world market clearly shows the corporation wants a global share, so II follows. Nothing indicates it is uncompetitive, so I does not follow.

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In the diagram, the part of the Worker triangle lying outside both the Educated rectangle and the Man circle is 12. (The 3 inside the circle are uneducated men who are workers; counting them would give 15, which is not an option, so the intended answer is 12.)

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Place E, A, D together and B second to the right of E; F sits between B and G. Going clockwise the order is E, A, D, G, F, B, C, so G is second to the left of A.

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She goes 6 + 3 = 9 m east and 4 + 8 = 12 m south in total. Shortest distance = √(9² + 12²) = √225 = 15 m.

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After replacing the signs the expression is 35 ÷ 7 × 8 + 25 − 2 = 5 × 8 + 25 − 2 = 40 + 23 = 63.

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The order is Ram > Varun > Mohit > Jayant > Dutta > Keshav, so Ram is the tallest.

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"Some whites are lights" and "All lights are candles" give "Some candles are whites", so II follows. Nothing definitely links dogs to lights or candles, so I and III do not follow.

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The differences are 7, 14, 21, 28, so the next difference is 35: 74 + 35 = 109.

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Both arguments give a relevant, direct benefit of youth entrepreneurship (industrial growth and less pressure on the job market), so both are strong.

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M is the sister of T, T is the son of F, and F is the father of H. So M is F's daughter and H is F's child, which makes M the sister of H.

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Round off: 46 − 95 ÷ 19 + 35 × 8 = 46 − 5 + 280 = 321.

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49 = 7², 64 = 8² and 81 = 9², but 11² = 121, not 120. So 120-11 is the odd pair.

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50 × 4 − 10 = 190, 46 × 4 − 10 = 174 and 30 × 4 − 10 = 110, but 18 × 4 − 10 = 62, not 72. So 18-72 is different.

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The pairs are P-O, P-T, P-V, I-E and T-V, which makes 5 pairs. So the answer is more than three.

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Each of KP, IR and FU is an opposite-letter pair whose positions add up to 27 (11+16, 9+18, 6+21). CY gives 3 + 25 = 28, so it is the odd one.

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The C's followed by a vowel are the two in "CACA", the C in "CCU" and the C in "FCAU". That makes 4.

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The bottom letter of each figure is the top letter of the figure before it, and the crossed lines alternate. So the next figure has V at the bottom and a new symbol (the arrow) at the top, as in option C.

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Passed girls = 12 + 41 − 1 = 52. Adding 3 girls who did not appear and 1 who failed gives 56.

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After swapping 20 and 18: 40 + 18 × 65 ÷ 13 − 20 = 40 + 18 × 5 − 20 = 40 + 90 − 20 = 110.

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Check each term against its neighbours: 9 (after 9, before 7), 9 (after 3, before 6), 2 (after 2, before 4) and 4 (after 2, before 5) are divisible by the preceding number but not by the following one. That gives four numbers.

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Shirts and pens only partly overlap, and only some pens are cups. Nothing rules out cups being shirts or curtains, or curtains being pens (some shirts, which are curtains, are pens). So no conclusion follows.

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After swapping + and −: 56 + 74 × 17 − 391 ÷ 23 = 56 + 1258 − 17 = 1297, which balances.

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First letters go P, Q, R, S, T (+1). Second letters go M, O, Q, S, U (+2). Third letters go T, W, Z, C, F (+3). So the next term is TUF.

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B and I take the ends. C must be right of B, so B is 1st and I is 9th. E is 6th and A is 3rd (two-letter gaps between vowels). C is 2nd, D is 4th and F is 5th, so F is in the middle.

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If exercise is good for health, players who exercise as part of their profession will mostly be healthy, so I follows. Ravinder playing tennis at 70 is a specific fact that cannot be inferred from the statement.

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Argument I is vague: unaffiliated courses would not give valid degrees, so they offer no real opportunity. Argument II rests on an assumption about resources rather than the core issue of recognition. Neither argument is strong.

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In each pair the second number is 7 times the first: 59 × 7 = 413, 61 × 7 = 427, 47 × 7 = 329. But 37 × 7 = 259, not 269.

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78.69 + (29.19 × 13.17 ≈ 384.4) − (45.67 ÷ 22.89 ≈ 2) ≈ 461, and 454 is the closest option.

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Rule: reverse the first three letters and the last three letters, then apply +1, −1, +1 to each group, keeping the middle letter. COLLEGE gives COL → LOC → MND, L, EGE → FFF, i.e. MNDLFFF. The keyed option (A) follows this rule; its first letter appears to be a typo. The other options each break the rule.

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Kajal is 25 − 8 = 17th from the left, so from the right she is 50 − 17 + 1 = 34th.

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Both statements show the same rule: each letter is written as its alphabet position (F=6, A=1, H=8 ...; W=23, A=1, T=20 ...). Either statement alone gives HUMAN = 82113114.

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Rule: reverse the first three letters and the last three, apply +1, −1, +1 to each group, and keep the middle letter. COMMAND should give NND M EMB = NNDMEMB, but the pair shows NNDMENB. The other three pairs follow the rule.

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34 − 69 ÷ 23 + 37 × 23 = 34 − 3 + 851 = 882, so the equation balances.

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Rule: shift each letter +1, then swap the letters in each pair. ACTUAL → BDUVBM → DBVUMB, but the given code is DBUVMB. HOTELS → PIFUTM, MATTER → BNUUSF and ACTING → DBJUHO follow the rule.

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In each pair, second = 3 × first + 2: 19 → 59, 17 → 53, 23 → 71. For 29, 3 × 29 + 2 = 89, not 91.

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The order of weight is T > P > R > Q > U > S, so T is the heaviest.