PUZZLES & ARRANGEMENTS

Selection

Directions for questions 1 to 3:

For breakfast, four fruits are to be selected from seven fruits – Apple, Banana, Mango, Guava, Orange,
Musambi and Grapes – kept at the breakfast table, subject to the following conditions:
a. Orange and Musambi cannot be selected
selec together.
b. At least 2 of Apple, Banana and Mango must be selected.
c. Either guava or grapes must be selected.

1. In how
ow many ways can a person select four fruits under the given conditions?
(1) 20 (2) 35
(3) 25 (4) 14

2. If Apple, Banana and Mango are selected as the three fruits then which of the following fruits will
not find a place in the breakfast table?
(1) Grapes
(2) Orange
(3) Musambi
(4) More than one of the above

3. Which of the following cannot be the possible combination at the

he breakfast table?
(1) Apple, Banana, Mango, Grapes.
(2) Apple, Banana, Grapes, Guava.
(3) Apple, Banana, Guava, Orange.
(4) Banana, Mango, Guava, Musambi.

4. I purchased 81 marbles of which one is defective. All the other marbles weigh the same except
the defectivee one which weighs less than the rest. If a common balance is given, what is the least
number of weighings needed to identify the defective marble?
(1) 7 (2) 4
(3) 6 (4) 5

5. Three crates are packed with apples alone, oranges alone, and apples and oranges. Unfortunately
each crate is labeled wrongly. If you are allowed to open only one crate to correctly identify the
contents of each crate, which one will you open?
(1) Orange
(2) Apple
(3) Orange/Apple
(4) There is no
o need to open any crate
Networks

Directions for questions 6 to 9:

Thimpu is a mountainous kingdom and there are eight cities,
cities namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. Two
Two-way
transport is available between the following cities: A and E, B and C, B and D, B and F, and G and H.
One way transport is available on the following routes:: A to H, B to A, B to E, D to A, E to C, E to G, F
to C, G to A and H to D.

6. What is the minimum number of cities one has to cross while traveling from City G to City D
(exclude these cities from the count)?
count
(1) 2 (2) 1
(3) 4 (4) 5

7. In how many ways can a person travel from City F to City H?

(1) 5 (2) 6
(3) 7 (4) None of the above

8. If connectivity is defined as the sum of the number of cities from which a city may be reached
and the number of cities that may be reached from it, which
which city has the maximum connectivity
with other cities?
(1) D (2) C
(3) A (4) G

9. If the two-way link B-FF is cut-off

cut off then what is the minimum number of places to be visited for a
person transiting from F to D?
(1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 4 (4) 3

10. Ashwin and Arvind

vind teach different subjects in a class. Ashwin teaches in the morning and noon
classes on alternate dayss starting from Monday. Arvind
Arvind teaches in the morning classes on
Tuesdays and Thursdays and the noon classes on Saturdays and Sundays. If a particular month of
30 days starts on a Wednesday,
Wednesday on how many days in that month would Ashwin and Arvind meet
each other?
(1) 7 (2) 4
(3) 6 (4) 10
 Binary Logic

Directions for Questions 11 to 14:14 Village “Gudva”

udva” is a strange place where every villager is a truth-
teller, a liar or an alternator. Truth-tellers
Truth always make true statements. Liars always make false
statements. Alternators oscillate between true and false statements.
statement Vishal met three persons
persons, of whom
only one was an alternator, on his way to Chennai.
Chen The following
ollowing are the statements made by the three
persons.

(A) I am an MBA
I am not from Gudva
I am a liar

(B) C is a liar
A is an MBA
I am not from Gudva

(C) A is not from Gudva

I am an MBA
B is a liar

11. Who is the truth teller?

(1) A (2) B
(3) C (4) Cannot be determined

12. Who is definitely from “Gudva”?

(1) A (2) B
(3) C (4) Cannot be determined

13. How many among the three are MBA’s?

(1) 0 (2) 1
(3) 2 (4) 3

14. A, B, C and D are 4 Zoos in Timbuktoo.

Timbukto . Zoo A has four Giraffes, Zoo B has four Tigers, Zoo C
has four lions and Zoo D has four elephants. Each of the zoos
zoo wants to have one animal of each
kind.. The zoos can exchange equal number of animals among themselves.
themselves. Each exchange is
known as a transaction.. What is the minimum number of transactions needed such that each zoo
ends up with one animal of each variety?
(1) 3 (2) 4
(3) 5 (4) 6
15. In the given 4x3 grid, four cells are filled with numbers.
numbers. In the remaining 8 cells
cells, numbers should
be filled from the given nine numbers – 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13 adhering to the following
condition. The arithmetic average of the numbers in rows and columns should be the same.
Which of the given nine
ne numbers must be left out while filling the grid?

1 15
9
14

(1) 7 (2) 10
(3) 5 (4) None of these