Aptitude and Reasoning Questions

Five people P, Q, R, S and T visit an office on certain days of a week. They work as a plumber, carpenter, cook, electrician and doctor in random order. A person pursues only one profession and visits the office only one day in the week. Consider the following information and answer questions based on it.

1. The plumber visits office every Monday.
2. P is an electrician who comes neither on Tuesday nor Thursday.
3. T is a carpenter and R is not plumber
4. The person who visits the office on Thursday is not a doctor.
5. S works on a Tuesday and T works on the following day.

Who is the plumber?

The bar chart represents sales of four companies C1, C2, C3 and C4 (in millions) for the year 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Consider the bar chart and answer questions based on it.

The ratio of combined sales of C1 and C4 in the year 2013 to that of year 2012 is

E, F, G, H and K visit a hospital on week days. Each one of them is a physician, surgeon, dentist, cardiologist, nephrologist but in the random order. Each visits the hospital only one day in the week and attends to their profession only.

Consider the following information and answer questions based on it.

1. The physician visits office every Monday.
2. E is the cardiologist who comes neither on Tuesday nor Thursday.
3. K is a surgeon and G is not the physician.
4. The person who visits the office on Thursday is not a nephrologist.
5. H works on a Tuesday and K works on the following day.

Who is the nephrologist?

A and B can complete a piece of work in 10 days and 15 days respectively. B starts the work and is joined by A after 5 days. If they earn a total of Rs. 60, what are their individual shares?

An old man starts his daily walking routine. He walks 2 km East, then turns North and walks 1 km, then turns West and walks 2 km, then turns to his right and walks 1.5 kms. Where is he now with respect to the starting position?

The pie chart shows the distribution of wealth between 7 children according to their father's will. Study the diagram and answer the following questions.

If 40% wealth tax has to be paid on the wealth that each child receives then how much wealth tax (in Rs lakhs) does C have to pay?

A piece of cloth costs Rs. 35. If the piece were 4 m longer and each meter were to cost Rs. 1 lesser, then the total cost would remain unchanged. How long is the piece of cloth?

In each of the following question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. Taking the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts, read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusion logically follows the given statements.

Statements:

I. Some pens are pencils.
II. All pencils are erasers.

Conclusions:

I. Some pens are erasers.
II. No pens are erasers.
III. Some erasers are pencils