REASONING QUIZ
Q1. In a queue, Arun is 10th from the front while Mukesh is 25th from behind and Maha is just in the middle of the two. If there be 50 persons in the queue, What position does Maha occupy from the front?
- 17th
- 18th
- 19th
- 20th
Q2. In a row of boys, if A who is tenth from the left and B who is ninth from the right interchange their positions. A becomes fifteenth from the left. How many boys are there in the row?
- 21
- 23
- 27
- 28
Q3. In a row of girls, Ramya is fifth from the left and Priya is sixth from the right. When they exchange their positions, then Ramya becomes thirteenth from the left. What will be Priya’s position from the right?
- 7th
- 9th
- 12th
- 14th
Q4. If Ajay finds that he is twelth from the right in a line of boys and fourth from the left, how many boys should be added to the line such that there are 28 boys in the line?
- 13
- 14
- 16
- 20
Q5. In a row of boys, A is fifteenth from the left and B is fourth from the right. There are three boys between A and B, C is just left of A. What is the C’s position from the right?
- 5th
- 9th
- 12th
- 13th
Q6. Ram ranked ninth from the top and thirty–eighth from the bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class?
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
Q7. In a queue, Viji is fourteenth from the front and Jack is seventeenth from the end, while Mary is in between Viji and Jack. If Viji be ahead of Jack and there be 48 persons in the queue, how many persons are there between Viji and Mary?
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
Q8. If Meena and Reena also exchange their positions between themselves, then after the exchange, Meena’s position from the left will be
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
Q9. Mahi ranked ninth from the top and thirty eighth from the bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class?
- 42
- 44
- 46
- 48
Q10.In a row of girls facing North, Reena is 10th to the left of Pallavi, who is 21st from the right end. If Malini, who is 17th from the left end, is fourth to the right of Reena, how many girls are there in the row?
- 37
- 41
- 43
- 49
Q11. I have a few sweets to be distributed. If I keep 2, 3 or 4 in a pack, I am left with one sweet. If I keep 5 in a pack, I am left with none. What is the minimum number of sweets I have to pack and distribute ?
- 25
- 37
- 54
- 65
Q12. A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 48 sums in all, how many did he solve correctly ?
- 12
- 16
- 24
- 18
Q13. In a chess tournament each of six players will play every other player exactly once. How many matches will be played during the tournament ?
- 12
- 15
- 30
- 36
Q14. In a caravan, in addition to 50 hens, there are 45 goats and 8 camels with some keepers. If the total number of feet be 224 more than the number of heads in the caravan, the number of keepers is
- 5
- 8
- 10
- 15
Q15. In a class, there are 18 boys who are over 160 cm tall. If these constitute three-fourths of the boys and the total number of boys is two-thirds of the total number of students in the class, what is the number of girls in the class ?
- 10
- 12
- 14
- 18
Q16. At the end of a business conference the ten people present all shake hands with each other once. How many handshakes will there be altogether ?
- 20
- 45
- 55
- 90
Q17. Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake ?
- 240 gm
- 220 gm
- 225 gm
- 250 gm
Q18. A certain number of horses and an equal number of men are going somewhere. Half of the owners are on their horses’ back while the remaining ones are walking along leading their horses. If the number of legs walking on the ground is 70, how many horses are there ?
- 8
- 10
- 12
- 14
Q19. 8, 10, 14, 18, (…), 34, 50, 66
- 20
- 24
- 26
- 28
Q20. 5, 9, 17, 29, 45 , ?
- 50
- 60
- 65
- 70
-:ANSWERS:-
1ANSWER:B
2ANSWER:B
3ANSWER:D
4ANSWER:A
5ANSWER:B
6ANSWER:C
7ANSWER:D
8ANSWER:B
9ANSWER:C
10ANSWER:C
11 ANSWER.A
12 ANSWER.B
13 ANSWER.B
14 ANSWER.D
15 ANSWER.B
16 ANSWER.B
17 ANSWER.A
18 ANSWER.D
19 ANSWER.C
20 ANSWER.C