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LOGICAL REASONING

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1. When the minute hand covers the distance of 2 hour and 10 minutes then what is the angular
distance covered by it?

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(a) 720
(e) none of these
(b) 780 (c) 70 (d) 840

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(a) 26 (b) 143 (c) 156

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3. What is the angle traced by hour hand from 2:17 to 4:17.?

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(a) 60 (b) 70

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A clock is started at noon. By 20 minutes past 8, the hour hand has turned through.?
(a) 240 (b) 130 (c) 210 (d) 250
(d) can’t be determined

5. A clock is started at noon. 9 minutes past 3, the minute hand has turned through.?
(a) 40.5 (b) 94.5 (c) 1080 (d) 1134

6. when the hour hand covers the distance of 4 hour and 47 minutes then what is the angular distance
covered by it.?
(a) 123.5 (b) 133.5 (c) 143.5 (d) 153.5
(e) none of these

7. A clock is started at 12 noon. By 600 seconds past 5 p.m, the hour hand has turned through how many
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(b) 150º (c) 155º (d) 160º

8. Find the angle traced by the hour hand from 3:00 PM to 7:15 PM?
(a) 37.5 (b) 127.5 (c) 137.5 (d) 27.5

9. Find the angle traced by the minute hand from 5:12 PM to 8:38 PM?
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10. A clock is showing 4 O’ clock. What will be the time if the hour hand will rotate at 90.
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 (a) 8 O’ clock (b) 7 O’ clock (c) 6 O’ clock (d) None of give above

11. Find the angle traced by the minute hand from 4:12 AM to 4:38 AM?
(a) 13 (b) 106 (c) 169 (d) 156

12. What is the angle between both hands of a clock in 1 minute ?

(a) 6 (b) 1/2 (c) 5.5 (d) 25
(e) none of these

13. What is the angle made by hands of a clock at 3:35?

(a) 107.5 (b) 210 (c) 102.5 (d) none of these

14. What is the angle made by hands of a clock at 4:15 O’ clock?

(a) 38.5 (b) 36.5 (c) 37.5

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15. What is the angle made by hands of clock at 11 O’ clock.
(a) 15 (b)40 (c) 30

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(d) 36

16. What will be the angle made by hour hand and minute hand of a clock at 10:35.
(a) 117 ½ (b) 107 1/2 (c) 109 1/2 (d) 90 ½

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17. What will be the angle made by hour and minute hand of a clock at 6:20.?
(d) 70

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18. What is the angle made by hands of clock at 3:45 PM/AM.
(a) 112.5 (b) 157.5

(b) 75
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19. What will be the angel between minute hand and hour hand of a clock at 8:30 PM.?
(a) 90 (c) 60 (d) 85
(d) 58.5

20. The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock when the time is 4.42, is:
(a) 111 (b) 121 (c) 141 (d) 131

21. At what angle the hands of a clock are inclined at 15 minutes past 7?
(a) 217.5 (b) 131.5 (c) 137.5 (d) 127.5

22. What is the angle made by the hour hand and the minute hand, if the clock shows 9:15 pm ?
(a) 172.5 (b) 127.5 (c) 137.5 (d) 162.5

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(a) 145 (b) 170 (c) 175 (d) 165

24. What is the angle made by hands of a clock at 00:36 O’ clock?

(a) 126 (b) 216 (c) 18 (d) 162

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26. What is the angle made by the hour hand and the minute hand, if the clock shows 05:12 pm ?
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 (a) 94 (b) 84 (c) 156 (d) 150

27. What is the angle made by hands of a clock at 2:50 O’ clock?

(a) 160 (b) 135 (c) 145 (d) 155

28. At what angle the hands of a clock are inclined at 45 minutes past 12?
(a) 112.5 (b) 111.5 (c) 22.5 (d) 121.5

29. What will be the angel between minute hand and hour hand of a clock at 11:35 PM.?
(a) 127.5 (b) 137.5 (c) 147.5 (d) 117.5

30. What is the angle made by hands of a clock at 4:15 O’ clock?

(a) 47.5 (b) 37.5 (c) 175

31. What is the angle made by hands of a clock at 7:41 O’ clock? m

(d) 165

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(a) 14.5 (b) 15.5 (c) 17.5

32. The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock when the time is 4.42, is:

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(d) 16.5

(a) 111 (b) 121 (c) 141

33. The reflex angle between the hands of a clock at 10.25 is:
(d) 131

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34. At what time between 7 and 8 o'clock will the hands of a clock be in 2O
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(d) 197.5

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(a) 5 min past 7 (b) 5 2/11 min past 7
(c) 5 3/11 min past 7

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35. How many times are the hands of a clock at right angle in a day?
(a) 22 (b) 24 (c) 44 (d) 48

36. How many times in a day, are the hands of a clock in straight line but opposite in direction?
(a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 24 (d) 48

37. At what time between 4 and 5 o'clock will the hands of a clock point in opposite directions?
(a) 45 min past 4 (b) 40 min past 4
(c) 50 4/11 min past 4 (d) 54 6/11 min past 4

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(c) 49 1/11 min past 9 (d) 48 2/11 min past 9

39. At what time, between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock, both the needles will coincide each other?
(a) 5 1/11 min past 3 (b) 12 4/11 min past 3
(c) 13 4/11 min past 3 (d) 16 4/11 min past 3
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40. How many times do the hands of a clock coincide in a day?

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 (a) 20 (b) 21 (c) 22 (d) 24

41. Find out that between 1 ‘O’ clock and 2 ‘O’ clock the hour hand and minute hand of the clock meet
together.
(a) 30 min past 1 (b) 10 8/11 min past 1
(c) 35 min past 1 (d) 5 5/11 min past 1

42. In 12 hours, how many times the hands of clock will be at straight line in opposite directions.
(a) 11 (b) 22 (c) 12 (d) 10

43. In 12 hours, how many times the hands of the clock are in right angle.
(a) 11 (b) 22 (c) 23 (d) 24

44. Find at what time between 10 and 11 o'clock will the hands of a clock be in the same straight
line but not together ?

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(a) 20 min past 10
(c) 21 9/11 min past 10
(b) 24 8/11 min past 10
(d) 15 min past 10

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(a) 40 min past 2
(c) 43 7/11 min past 2
(b) 44 5/11 min past 2
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45. At what time between 2 and 3 o'clock will the hands of a clock be in the same straight line but, not together?

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(c) 5min. & 40 min past 4 (d) 4 5/11 min & 32 9/11 min. past 4

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(a) 43 5/11 min past 5
(c) 40 7/11 min past 6
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At what time between 5.30 and 6 will the hands of a clock be at right angles?
(b) 43 7/11 min past 6
(d) 43 7/11 min past 5

48. What time between 11 and 12 o'clock will the hands of a clock be at right angle?
(a) 10 min & 40 min. past 11 (b) 10 10/11 min & 43 7/11 min. past 11
(c) 10 1/11 min. & 43 6/11 min past 11 (d) 15 3/11 min & 35 8/11 min. past 11

49. What time between 1 and 2 o'clock will the hands of a clock be at right angle?
(a) 25 min & 50 min. past 1 (b) 20 9/11 min & 45 6/11 min. past 1
(c) 24 min. & 52 6/11 min past 1 (d) 21 9/11 min & 54 6/11 min. past 1

50. What time between 8 and 9 o'clock will the hands of a clock be at right angle?
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(c) 20 min past 8 (d) 22 min past 8

51. A clock becomes 12 s fast in every 3 h. If it is made correct at 3 O' clock in the afternoon of Sunday,
then what time will it show at 10 O' clock Tuesday morning?
(a) 2 min 52 s past 10 (b)2 min 54 s past 10
(c) 23Bmin 50 s
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52. Imagine that your watch was correct at noon, but then it began to lose 30 minutes each hour. It now
shows 4 p.m. but it stopped 5 hours ago. What is the correct time now?
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 (a) 9:30 pm (b) 11 pm (c) 1 am (d) 1:30 pm

53. A watch goes fast by 15 minutes compared to the right time everyday. If it is corrected and set to the
standard time at 12 0' clock at noon, which of the following will be the time shown by it at 4:00 a.m.
in the morning?
(a) 3:45 am (b) 4:10 am (c) 4:15 am (d) 4:30 am

54. Two clocks are set correctly at 10 am on Sunday. One clock loses 3 min in an hour while the other
gains 2 min in an hour. By how many minutes do the two clocks differ at 4 pm on the same day ?
(a) 25 min (b) 20 min (c) 35 min (d) 30 min

55. A watch which gains 5 seconds in 3 minutes was set right at 7 a.m. In the afternoon of the same day, when
the watch indicated quarter past 4 o'clock, the true time is:
(a) 59 7/12min past 3
(c) 58 7/11 min past 3
(b) 4pm
(d) 2 3/11 min past 4

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56. What fraction of 2 hours is 12 seconds?
(a) 1/200 (b) 1/300 (c) 1/400

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(d) 1/600

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57. One watch is 1 minute slow at 1 pm on Tuesday and 2 min fast at 1 am on Friday. When did it show
the correct time ?
(a) 5:00 am on Wednesday
(c) 5:00 pm on Wednesday

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(d) 9:00 pm on Wednesday

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58. What time will it be in 45 minutes?
Now, if the time is 4:48 pm.
(a) 6:33 pm

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(b) 5:33 pm (c) 5:13 pm

59. How much does a watch lose per day, if its hands coincide every 64 minutes?
(a) 32 8/11 (c) 90 (d) 96
(d) 5:33 am

60. In every 60 minutes, the minute hand gains -------- minutes on the hour hand?
(a) 53 (b) 54 (c) 55 (d) 56

61. In 16 minutes, the minute hand gains how much degree over the hour hand by –
(a) 16 (b) 80 (c) 88 (d) 94

62. At what time between 5 and 6 o' clock are the hands of a 3 minutes apart ?
(a) 24min (b) 12min (c) 14min (d) 13min
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(a) 1/5 (b) 3/4 (c) 1/7 (d) 3/10

64. In which time both hands of a clock are making angle of 60 between 4 to 5 ?
(a) 4: 10 10/11 (b) 4:21 10/11 (c) 4: 19 10/11 (d) 4:13 10/11
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and 2 is replace by ‘Q’ and so on. So find the character at which hour hand and minute hand will
present at 9.00 O’ clock.
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 (a) X and A (b) X and P (c) X and Y (d) A and X

66. In a clock, in place of numbers, the English alphabet will be placed in such a way that at the place of
‘3’, H is placed, a place of 4, ‘I’ is placed and so on then find the charater which is going be placed at
‘10’?
(a) P (b) R (c) N (d) O

67. In the clock of Surbhi A is written on the place of 12, B at the place of ‘1’, C at the place of 2 and so on
so at 7:22 the minute hand will be between which two character.
(a) Between E and F (b) Between E and D
(c) Between F and G (d) None of give above

68. Bus is available after every 70 minutes from Jaipur to Bharatpur. Gyan reach bus stand at 8:25 AM
and he came to know that next bus will be at 8:50 AM when the last bus has departed before.
(a) 45 minutes (b) 1 hours

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69. A meeting was going to be held in office of reliance, chairman reached at 10:20 AM. Dupty Chairman

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(a) 10AM (b) 10:05 AM (c) 10:15 AM
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(d) None of given above

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70. A clock strikes once at 1 o'clock, twice at 2o'clock , thrice at 3 o'clock and so on. How many times
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(a) 156 (b) 162 (c) 150 (d) 122

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71. A clock is put in front of a mirror and it seems 9:20 in the mirror. What is real time.
(a) 8:15 (c) 2:45 (d) 2:40

72. Looking into a mirror, the clock shows 9 : 30 as the time. The actual time is ________
(a) 2:30 (b) 3:30 (c) 4:30 (d) 6:30

73. When seen through a mirror, a clock shows 8 : 30. The correct time is ________
(a) 2:30 (b) 3:30 (c) 5:30 (d) 8:30

74. When seen through a mirror, a watch shows 12 : 15. The correct time is
(a) 12:30 (b) 1:15 (c) 12:45 (d)11:45

75. Find the water image of a clock when it shows 10:14?

(a) 08:12 (b)8:055M3M0M8N2O7S4T(c) 08:16 (d)08:10
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76. Find the water image of a clock when it shows 04:44?

(a) 05:16 (b)3:36 (c) 07:16 (d)02:46

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78. Find the water image of a clock when it shows 12:15?
(a) 11:45 (b)7:45 (c) 07:15 (d)08:15

Answer key of clock

1. b 2. c 3. a 4. d 5. d 6. c 7. c 8. b 9. a 10. b
11. d 12. c 13. c 14. c 15. c 16. b 17. d 18. b 19. b 20. a
21. d 22. a 23. d 24. d 25. a 26. b 27. c 28. a 29. b 30. b
31. b 32. a 33. d 34. d 35. c 36. b 37. d 38. c 39. d 40. c
41. d 42. a 43. b 44. c 45. c 46. a 47. d 48. b 49. d 50. a
51. a 52. c 53. b 54. d 55. b 56. d 57. b 58. b 59. a 60. c
61. c 62. a 63. d 64. a 65. a 66. d 67. a 68. a 69. c 70. a
71. d 72. a 73. b 74. d 75. c 76. d 77. c 78. c

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