Puzzle Questions - Test 1

SET-1 Directions for questions 1 to 3: Answer the questions based on the passage below.

A group of three or four has to be selected from seven persons. Among the seven are two women: Fiza and Kavita, and five men: Ram, Shyam, David, Peter and Rahim. Ram would not like to be in the group If Shyam is also selected. Shyam and Rahim want to be selected together in the group. Kavita would like to be in the group only if David is also there. David, if selected, would not like Peter in the group. Ram would like to be in the group only if Peter is also there. David insists that Fiza be selected in case he is there in the group.

Q1. Which of the following is a feasible group of three?

Q2. Which of the following is a feasible group in four?

Q.3 Which of the following statements is true?

SET-2. Directions for Questions 4 to 6: Answer the following questions based on the statements given below:

(i) There are three houses on each side of the road.

(ii) These six houses are labelled as P, Q, R, S, T and U.

(iii) The houses are of different colours, namely, Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow and White.

(iv) The houses are of different heights.

(v) T, the tallest house, is exactly opposite to the Red coloured house.

(vi) The shortest house is exactly opposite to the Green coloured house.

(vii) U, the Orange coloured house, is located between P and S.

(viii) R, the Yellow coloured house, is exactly opposite to P.

(ix) Q, the Green coloured house, is exactly opposite to U.

(x) P, the White coloured house, is taller than R, but shorter than S and Q.

Q4. What is the colour of the house diagonally opposite to the Yellow coloured house?

Q5. Which is the second tallest house?

Q6. What is the colour of the tallest house?

SET-3 Directions for questions 7 to 11: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, U and W are the only ten members in a department. There is a proposal to form a team from within the members of the department, subject to the following conditions:

1. A team must include exactly one among P, R, and S.

2. A team must include either M or Q, but not both.

3. If a team includes K, then it must also include L, and vice versa.

4. If a team includes one among S, U, and W, then it must also include the other two.

5. L and N cannot be members of the same team.

6. L and U cannot be members of the same team.

The size of a team is defined as the number of members in the team.

Q7. Who cannot be a member of a team of size 3?

Q8. Who can be a member of a team of size 5?

Q9. What would be the size of the largest possible team?

Q10. What could be the size of a team that includes K?

11. In how many ways a team can be constituted so that the team includes N?

SET-4 Directions for questions 12 to 15: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below:

Twenty-one participants from four continents (Africa, Americas, Australasia, and Europe) attended a United Nations conference. Each participant was an expert in one of four fields, labour, health, population studies, and refugee relocation. The following five facts about the participants are given.

(i) The number of labour experts in the camp was exactly half the number of experts in each of the three other categories.

(ii) Africa did not send any labour expert. Otherwise, every continent, including Africa, sent at least one expert for each category.

(iii) None of the continents sent more than three experts in any category.

(iv) If there had been one less Australasian expert, then the America would have had twice many experts as each of the other continents.

(v) Mike and Alfanso are leading experts of population studies who attended the conference. They are from Australasia.

Q12. Which of the following numbers cannot be determined from the information given?

Q13. Which of the following combinations is NOT possible?

Q14. If Ramos is the lone America expert in population studies, which of the following is NOT true about the numbers of experts in the conference from the four continents?

Q15. Alex, an American expert in refugee relocation, was the first keynote speaker in the conference. What can be inferred about the number of American experts in refugee relocation in the conference, excluding Alex? 

(i) At least one                                        (ii) At most two