Reasoning Questions | RBI GRADE "B" AND NICL AO 2017 | 10.05.2017

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

Eight friends E, F, H, K, L, M, P and Q, specialist in different management fields , i.e. Energy, Oil & Gas, Rural, Production, Industrial, Quality, Hotel and Disaster (but not necessarily in the same order), are sitting around a circular table, facing the centre. K who is a Quality manager sits third to the right of Q. The managers in the field of Oil & Gas and Disaster are immediate neighbours of each other and neither of them is an immediate neighbor of either Q or K. The managers in the field of Hotel and Energy are immediate neighbors of each other. Neither Q nor P is the manager in the field of Energy. The one who is the manager in the field of Oil & Gas sits second to the right of L, who is an Industrial manager. M who is a manager in the field of Hotel is not an immediate neighbor of the Quality manager. Only H sits between those two who are managers in the field of Oil & Gas and Production. E sits third to the right of the one who is the manager in the field of Energy. 

1. Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbours of the Production manager? 

(a) Oil & Gas manager - Rural manager 

(b) Energy manager - Oil & Gas manager 

(c) Hotel manager - Rural manager 

(d) Industrial manager - Disaster manager 

(e) None of these 

2. What is the position of the Rural manager with respect to the Energy manager? 

(a) Third to the left 

(b) Second to the left 

(c) Immediately to the right 

(d) Fourth to the right 

(e) Second to the right 

3. Who sits third to the right of the Oil & Gas manager? 

(a)The Quality manager 

(b) F 

(c)The Hotel manager 

(d) The Industrial manager 

(e) None of these 

4. Which of the following is true regarding H? 

(a) H is a Production manager 

(b) H is an immediate neighbor of the Energy manager 

(c) H sits between F and L 

(d) H is an immediate neighbor of the Oil & Gas manager 

(e) None of these 

5. How many people sit between the Quality manager and ‘P’ when counted in anticlockwise direction from the Quality manager? 

(a) None (b) One (c) Two (d) Three (e) Four

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions. 

Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, E, F, G, H, I and K are seated and all of them are facing South, and in row 2, L, M, N, O, P and R are sitting and all of them are facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. L sits third to right of O. Neither L nor O sits at extreme ends. I faces O. K does not face L and K does not sit at any of the extreme ends. K is not an immediate neighbor of I. M sits at one of the extreme ends. Only two people sit between M and P. P does not face K. Two persons sit between G and F. G is not an immediate neighbor of I. N does not face K. E is not an immediate neighbor of G. 

6. Who amongst the following sit at extreme ends of the rows? 

(a) M, P (b) H, I (c) E, G (d) M, R (e) None of these 

7. How many persons are seated between I and H? 

(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four (e) None 

8. E is related to K in the same way as N is related to R. Which of the following is P related to, following the same pattern? 

(a) M (b) O (c) N (d) L (e) None of these

9. Which of the following is true regarding R? 

(a) R sits second to right of N 

(b) R is not an immediate neighbor of L 

(c) R sits third to left of O 

(d) R sits at one of the extreme ends of the line 

(e) R faces K 

10. Who amongst the following sits exactly between E and F? 

(a) G (b) K (c) H (d) I (e) Cannot be determined

Answer

1. (c)
2. (a)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (c)
6. (c)
7. (b)
8. (a)
9. (e)

10. (d)