1. Find the number of triangles in the given figure.

A. 12 B. 18
C. 22 D. 26
Answer & Explanation
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
The figure may be labelled as shown.

The simplest triangles are AHB, GHI, BJC, GFE, GIE, IJE, CEJ and CDE i.e. 8 in number.
The triangles composed of two components each are HEG, BEC, HBE, JGE and ICE i.e. 5 in
number.
The triangles composed of three components each are FHE, GCE and BED i.e. 3 in number.
There is only one triangle i.e. AGC composed of four components.
There is only one triangle i.e. AFD composed of nine components.
Thus, there are 8 + 5 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 18 triangles in the given figure.

2.
Count the number of squares in the given figure.

A. 32 B. 30
C. 29 D. 28
Answer & Explanation
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
The figure may be labelled as shown.

The simplest squares are ABGF, BCHG, CDIH, DEJI, FGLK, GHML, HINM, IJON, KLQP, LMRQ, MNSR,
NOTS, PQVU, QRWV, RSXW and STYX i.e. 16 in number.
The squares composed of four components each are ACMK, BDNL, CEOM, FHRP, GISQ, HJTR, KMWU,
LNXV and MOYW i.e. 9 in number.
The squares composed of nine components each are ADSP, BETQ, FIXU and GJYV i.e. 4 in number.
There is one square AEYU composed of sixteen components.
There are 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 = 30 squares in the given figure.
3.Question No. 3
In my last post, I had put up two analytical reasoning questions and answer options. If you found any
difficulty solving either of them, then here are a few tips that can help you in deriving the answers. I
am going to illustrate the solution to a similar problem, which will help you in solving the questions in
the other post.
Example: Read the following information and choose the right alternative for the questions that follow:
Four young men, Roger, Shaggy, Tom, and Ben are married to Rachel, Samantha, Tiara and Eve, not
necessarily in that order. The couples live in New York , Durham, Miami and Colorado, again not in
order.
i. The first letter of the names of men, their wives and cities does not match.
ii. Samantha is not Rogers wife.
iii. Shaggy does not live in New York or Colorado and is not Rachels husband.
iv.Ben and Tiara do not live in Durham.
Questions: 1. which pair given below is the right combination of wife and city for Tom?
a) Samantha, Miami
b) Tiara, Durham
c) Eve, New York
d) Rachel, Durham
e) None of these
2. Who among the following is the wife of Ben?
a) Rachel
b) Samantha
c) Tiara
d) Eve
e) Cannot be determined.
Now let us see how to derive the answer. From the information in the question, we can make the
following deductions:
From the first information, it can be concluded that Roger cannot be married to Rachel and does not
live in New York . Shaggy cannot be married to Samantha and does not live in Durham. Tom cannot
be married to Tiara and he does not live in Miami. Ben cannot married to Eve and does not live in
Colorado. On the basis of this information, cross the respective blocks in the table.
Using second information, cross the possibility of matching of Samantha with Roger.
Third information rules out matching of Shaggy with New York , Colorado and Rachel.
Fourth information rules out the matching of Ben with Durham. The part of this information that
denies matching of Tiara and Durham cannot be used in the table now, unless the husband of Tiara is
known. So, keep the information to be used later on.
After using all the information, we see that only city left for Shaggy is Miami, so mark the tick in the
block in front of Shaggy against Miami, crossing other blocks of rows and columns and cities to ensure
one to one matching. As a result, we know that Ben lives in New York .
Using first and fourth information again in the table, we get the final matching of husband, wife and
city as below:
Husband Wives Cities
Rachel Samantha Tiara Eve NYC Durham Miami Colorado
Roger X X Y X X X X Y
Shaggy X X X Y X X Y X
Tom Y X X X X Y X X
Ben x Y X X Y X X X