CEX–5351/P1BS/19 Reasoning – 8 P-1(BS)

Data Arrangement-2
Answers and Explanations

1 c 2 b 3 d 4 a 5 d 6 a 7 b 8 d 9 c 10 c
11 c 12 a 13 d 14 c 15 c 16 b 17 c 18 b 19 c 20 d
21 b 22 b 23 c 24 b 25 d 26 c 27 d 28 c 29 b 30 d
31 b 32 c 33 c 34 d 35 b 36 b 37 e 38 c 39 a 40 a
41 b 42 e 43 b 44 c 45 e 46 e 47 b 48 c 49 a 50 d

1. c The two possible cases are: 5. d Since the Journalist is standing behind the Doctor,
possible combinations are:
Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Case I Hockey Ludo Cricket Chess
Case First to Last
Case II Hockey Ludo Chess Cricket
Banker/ Banker/
I Professor Doctor Jorunalist
Hence, Ludo was played on Tuesday. Photographer Photographer
Banker/ Banker/
2. b The only possible case is: II Doctor Jorunalist Professor
Photographer Photographer
Banker/ Banker/
III Doctor Jorunalist Professor
Time Lectures Photographer Photographer

1:00-2:00 L5
2:00-3:00 L4 Now, the Banker and Photographer are not next to
each other, which cancels out case I. According to
3:00-4:00 L3
case III, Doctor will vote first and according to case II
4:00-5:00 L2 either Banker or Photographer will vote first.
5:00-6:00 L1 Hence, the answer cannot be determined.

Hence, L3 was scheduled from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 6. a The given conditions can be shown with the help of
table below.
3. d
MAT CAT ATMA XAT CMAT Ball First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth
Runs
A X X  X X 0 2 6 1 4 3
Scored
B   X X X
Hence, 3 runs were scored on the last ball.
C     
D   X X  7. b The three possible cases are:
E   X  
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Hence, 4 students appeared for CAT.
E A C/D D/C B
4. a The given information can be shown with the help of C E A D B
the table given below.
C D E A B
Friend Gopal Kishan Madhav Vishnu
In all the three cases, C’s birthday cannot be on
Car I - 10 Ritz I - 20 Getz Tuesday.
Green/ Red/
Colour Blue Yellow
Red Green

Hence, option (a) is definitely correct.

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8. d E
E (Fe) B (M) 14. c
B
Daughter C EB
C (Fe/M) F (Fe/M) G (Fe) D (M)

FD FD

A (Fe) A
Note: ‘Fe’ represents female and ‘M’ represents male. Now, A is to the left of D.
E and B represent a couple and G and D represent the
second couple. 15. c Let the ages of Shyam and Ajay be x and y years
Since gender of C is not known, can either be uncle or respectively.
aunt of A. The age of Ram = 4x and the age of Vivek = 2y.
Now, Shyam is older than Ajay i.e. x > y  4x > 2y..
9. c The two possible arrangements are:
Hence, Ram is older than Vivek.
First to last (lef t to right)
Mix 16. b Since Dan is staying with Alan, whose residence is at
Cas e I: Mango Guava Orange Litchi
Fruit a distance which is more than 5 km but less than 7 km
Mix from the airport, the possible distance may be 6 km.
Cas e II: Litchi Orange Guava Mango
Fruit
Hence, Mango juice and Litchi juice are kept at the 17. c The given information can be tabulated as shown
extreme ends. below.
Name Game Day
10. c There are 2 trains in every 9 min. R Snooker Monday
Therefore, in 20 hr 35 min the number of trains
S Chess Tuesday
 20  60  35  T Football Wednesday
 2   274.44
 9  U Cricket Thursday
Hence, the required number of trains = 274. V Lawn Tennis Friday
Hence, Football is played on Wednesday.
11. c The amounts given by Ramesh to his daughter on
consecutive days were in arithmetic progression.
So he gives `16 and `28 on the 6th and 10th days 18. b The order of the people staying from top floor to the
respectively. She buys 20 chocolates with `16. ground floor in shown below.
Hence, the number of chocolates she buy on 10th
E
20
day   28  35 D
16
C
12. a A B A
B
E Hence, E lives on the top floor.

19. c The information for the age can be summarised as

D C shown below:
Hence, B is sitting on the left of E. Dolly < Beena < Chanda < Abha
or
Subbu Dolly < Chanda < Beena < Abha
13. d
Hence, Dolly is the youngest.
Revathi
Pappu 20. d The information can be summarised as shown below:
Black Blue Brown Green White
Nisha From left to right 
Aruna Hence, Brown is in the middle.
Keerthana
Hence, Aruna is to the immediate right of Pappu.

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21. b The information given below: 26. c The given information can be shown as:
For weight
Day Subje cts
(I) Rajesh > Rohit > Ram > Rakesh
Monday Humanities , Home Sc ienc e, History
(II) Rajesh > Ram > Rohit Rakesh
(III) Ram > Rajesh > Rohit > Rakesh Tuesday A rts, Home Scienc e, His tory
(IV) Ram > Rohit > Rajesh > Rakesh Wednes day A rts, Home Scienc e, His tory
(V) Ram > Rakesh > Rohit > Rajesh Thursday History , Humanities, Home Science
(VI) Ram > Rohit > Rakesh > Rajesh
Thus, statement (I) and (III) may or may not be true. Friday A rts, Home Scienc e, His tory

Now, for age Hence, History is to be scheduled on 5 days.

Rakesh < Ram = Rajesh < Rohit
27. d The given information can be shown as:
Only statement (II) must be true.
Hence, (b) is the correct option. B1 B2 B3
Pentos Terk Orange, Vanila
22. b The given information can be tabulated as shown
below: Candy Flavor Box
Name Profession Working days Floromint Orange/Vanila B3
G Doctor 7 Lapto Vanila/Ornage B3
H Shopkeeper 4 Pentos Tea/Jasmine B1
I Engineer 5 Terk Jasmine/Tea B2
J Businessman 6 Piclairs Mint B1/B2
K Manager 3
28. c Given information can be shown as:
Hence, engineer has 5 working days in a week.
D
23. c Sequence is like : B
rose – cactus – rose – 2 cactuses – rose – 3 cactuses
and so on. F
Hence, number of cactuses from series 1 + 2 + 3 + A
n  n  1 E
+n= G
2
Now, sum of the sequence must be less than 36 C
For n = 7, sum = 28
In between cactuses, there are 8 rose plants 29. b The given information can be shown as:
Total plants = 28 + 8 = 36
Person Flat Car
 Total number of cactuses = 28.
Aman C115 Tata Safari/Honda City
24. b Let the number of apples received by the doctor be x Beeru C114 Santro
1 × x + 2 × 2x + 3 × 1 = 23 Chaman C112/C113 Alto
x=4
Deepak C111 Honda City/Tata Safari
Hence, each of the two engineer gets 8 apples.
Fatah C113/C112 Indica
25. d The given information can be summarized as follows
Shipra — Jan / Feb / Mar 30. d The given information can be shown as:
Swati — Apr / June / Sep / Nov
T S Q R P
Sukriti — Jan / Feb / Mar /  / Nov (older than Swati)
Shalini — Jan / June / July T S R Q P
Hence, Swati cannot be the oldest among them, in any R T S Q P
possible case. R S T Q P
Alternative M ethod:
T R S Q P
Since Swati is younger than Sukriti, she can not be
the oldest among the four.

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31. b The given information can be shown as below. 36. b Delhi
City T1 T2 T3
37. e Either Lucknow or Raipur.
Pos ition
38. c Amareesh
1 C3 C4 C2
2 C2 C5 C4 39. a January
3 C1 C2 C5
C5 C1 C3 40. a Jaipur
4
5 C4 C3 C1 For questions 41 to 45:
From the given information the following tables can be deduced:
32. c The given information can be shown as:
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Frie nd Spor t Cam p Site Color Of Cap
Vanilla   
A man Polo P Green
Biman Soccer S Red Straw berry × ×   
Chiman Rugby Q Y ellow Mango × × ×
Dhaw an Golf R White
Chocolate    ×

33. c Q and T both are appearing in the string yet R is ap- Butterscotch     × 
pearing only once in it. OR

34. d From (ii) and (iii), Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
q+s=4 ... (v)
Vanilla  ×  
and p + r = 4 ... (vi)
Now, from (i) and (vi), Straw berry ×   
2p + q = 4  p = 1 and q = 2
Mango × × ×
(As p and q are natural numbers)
 r = 3 and s = 2. Chocolate   × 
Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
Butterscotch      ×
35. b The given information can be shown as:
41. b
Position Person
st
1 B 42. e (Ice cream served in the parlor can never be same
nd on any given days)
2 C
rd
3 A
th
43. b 44. c 45. e
4 E
th
5 D For questions 46 to 50:
6
th The family tree is given below.
F
Hence, D is standing at the penultimate position in the (Male) D E (Female)
queue.

For questions 36 to 40: The given information can be shown C/F G A F/C
as: (Male) (Female) (Male) (Female)
Groom Bride Month City
B H
Amar Rani June Mumbai (Female) (Female)
Amareesh Vinita December Delhi
46. e 47. b 48. c
Akabar Uma January Lucknow / Raipur
Amit Anita November Jaipur 49. a 50. d
Ankur Kavita March Raipur / Lucknow

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