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Directions (1-6) Study the following information and answer the
given questions that follow. You have to take the given statements to be true
even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the
conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows
from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
Give Answer
(1) Only Conclusion I follows
(2) Only Conclusion II follows
(3) If either I or II follows
(4) If neither I nor II follows
(5) Both I & II follow
1. Statements: All rings are circle. All squares are
rings. No ellipse is a circle.
Conclusion: I. Some rings being ellipses is a
possibility.
II. Atleast some circles are squares.
2. Statement: No house is an apartment. Some bungalows
are apartments.
Conclusion: I. No house is a bungalow.
II. All bungalow are houses.
3. Statements: Some gases are liquids. All liquids are
water.
Conclusions: I. All gases being water is a possibility.
II. All such gases which are not water can
never be liquids.
4. Statements: All minutes are seconds. All seconds are
hours. No second is a day.
Conclusions: I. No day is an hour.
II. Atleast some hours are minutes.
For (Qs 5-6) Statements: Some teachers are professors. Some lecturers
are teachers.
5. Conclusions: I. All teachers as well as all professor
being lecturers is a possibility.
II. All those teachers who are lecturers are
also professors.
6. Conclusions: I. No professor is a lecturer.
II. All lecturers being professor is a possibility.
Directions (7-12): Study the following information to answer
the given questions.
In a certain code, “always create new ideas’
is written as ‘ba ri sha gi’
‘ideas and new thoughts’ is written as ‘fa gi
ma ri’
‘create thoughts and insights’ is written as ‘ma
jo ba fa’ and
‘new and better solutions’ is written as ‘ki ri to fa’.
7. What is the code for ‘ideas’?
(1) sha
(2) ba
(3) gi
(4) ma
(5) Cannot be determined
8. What does ‘fa’ stands for?
(1) thoughts
(2) insights
(3) new
(4) and
(5) solutions
9. ‘fa lo ba’ could be a code for which of the
following?
(1) thoughts and action
(2) create and innovate
(3) ideas and thoughts
(4) create new solution
(5) always better ideas
10. What is the code for ‘new’?
(1) ki
(2) ri
(3) to
(4) fa
(5) ba
11. Which of the following may represent ‘insights
always better’?
(1) jo ki to
(2) ki to ri
(3) sha jo ri
(4) to sha jo
(5) sha to ba
12. What is the code for ‘thoughts’?
(1) ma
(2) fa
(3) ba
(4) jo
(5) Either jo or fa
Answers:
1 (2)
2 (4)
3 (5)
4 (2)
5 (1)
6 (2)
7 (3)
8 (4)
9 (2)
10 (2)
11 (4)
12 (1)