Verbal Reasoning - Logical Deduction Questions

Consider the given question and decide which of the following statements is sufficient to answer the question.

What is X's rank from the top in a class of 50 students?

Statements :

1. Y's rank is 4 ranks below that of X and 30th from the bottom.

2. Z's rank is 2 ranks above that of X and 32nd from the bottom.

Consider the following question and decide whether any of the statements in the given statement are adequate to answer that question.

What is the total number of students in the class?

Statements :

1. Mr. X's rank was 15th from the top in the class.

2. Mr. X's rank was 26th from the bottom in the class.

Consider the given statements to be true and decide which of the conclusions logically follows from the statements.

Statements :

There is an increase in the price of essential commodities due to a strike by the transporters.

Conclusions :

1. Government should buy their own vehicles to transport the essential goods

2. Government should negotiate with transporters to withdraw the strike

Consider the given statement to be true and decide which of the given conclusions can definitely be drawn from the statement.

Statement :

Many people living in villages relocate to cities for a better future.

Conclusions :

1. Government officers should have compulsory rural posting.

2. Increase more transport facilities between cities and villages.

An assertion (A) and a reason (R) are given below.

Assertion (A) : Mangoes are sweet when they are ripe.

Reason (R) : Mangoes are available mainly in summer in India.

Choose the correct option.

An assertion(A) and a reason(R) are given below.

Assertion (A): Plants convert light energy into chemical energy during the process of photosynthesis.
Reason (R): Sugar produced from photosynthesis by plants is used by human beings as a source of energy.

Choose the correct option.

In the question two statements are given, followed by two conclusions, I and II. You have to consider the statements to be true even if it seems to beat variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follows from the given statements.

Statement I: No steam are vapours

Statement II: All smoke are steam

Conclusion I: Some vapours are smoke

Conclusion II: No smoke are vapours

A word is represented by only one set of numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. The sets of the numbers given in the alternatives are represented by two classes of alphabets as shown in the given two matrices. The column and rows of matrix-I are numbered from 0 to 4 and the matrix-II are numbered from 5 to 9. A letter from these matrices can be represented first by its row and next by its column from these matrices B can be represented by 41, 32 and Y can be represented by 87, 96, etc. Similarly, you have to identify the word 'SLMAT'