Passage Based Questions: Puzzles | Logical Reasoning for CLAT PDF Download

Passage 1

Directions (1-5):Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Eight individuals reside on different floors of an eight-story building, where the ground floor is numbered 1, and the topmost floor is numbered 8. Here are the conditions:

• F resides on an odd-numbered floor.
• G lives on a floor above D.
• E’s floor is immediately above H’s floor.
• G’s floor is directly above I’s floor.
• There is only one floor between G and D.
• J resides on a floor above K.
• Two floors separate K and J.
• K lives on the 5th floor.

Q1:  How many persons live between H and I?
(a)Two
(b)Three
(c)Four
(d)One

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Q2: Who lives immediately above K?
(a)F
(b)D
(c)I
(d)H

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Q3:Which of the following statements is true?
(a)Only one person lives between D and F.
(b)F lives on the first floor.
(c)E lives on the topmost floor.
(d)Only two persons live between G and H.

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Q4: Who among the following lives on the second floor?
(a)H
(b)G
(c)D 
(d)J

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Q5: Who among the following lives between Iand F?
(a)K
(b)E
(c)G
(d)D

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Passage 2

Seven persons namely P, Q, R, S, T, U and V like seven different fruits namely, Apple, Mango, Banana, Orange, Kiwi, Guava and Strawberry. Each of them works in either of the three companies TCS, Wipro and ITC with at least two of them in a company. R works in Wipro with the one who likes Banana. U does not work with R. P works in ITC with only the one who likes Kiwi. U does not like Apple. T works in TCS with the one who likes Apple. T. does not like Strawberry. The one who likes Strawberry works with the one who likes Mango but not with R. S works with the one who likes Guava. S does not like Banana. Q does not like Apple.

Q6:Which of the following combinations represents the persons working in Wipro?
(a)S,R
(b)Q,V,R
(c)U,T,R
(d)R,Q

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Q7:Which of the following fruits does P like?
(a)Banana
(b)Strawberry
(c)Guava
(d)Mango

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Q8:Which combination represents the company in which V works and the fruits he likes?
(a)TCS - Apple
(b)TCS- Banana
(c)Wipro- Guava
(d)ITC- Mango

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Q9:Which of the following combinations is correct?
(a)S- Strawberry
(b)Q- Orange
(c)R- Apple
(d)T- Mango

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Q10:Which of the following statements is true?
(a)R works in the company in which P works
(b)U works with the one who likes Mango
(c)None of the given statements is true
(d)S works in Wipro

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Passage 3

Directions (11-15): Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
There are eight boxes labeled P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, and W arranged in a vertical stack. The box at the top is in the 1st position, and the box at the bottom is in the last position. There are three boxes placed between S and Q. Box V is located directly above box S. There are three boxes between box R and box P. Box R is positioned above box P. The number of boxes between R and W is the same as the number of boxes between W and S. There is one box located between box V and box U. Box U is positioned below box V.

Q11: How many boxes are between P and Q? 
(a)1
(b)2
(c)3 
(d)4 

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Q12: Which of the following box is at the top position? 
(a)R 
(b)P 
(c)T 
(d)V 

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Q13: Which of the following box at the last but one position? 
(a)V 
(b)S 
(c)U 
(d)P 

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Q14: Which of the following box is above box W? 
(a)P 
(b)V 
(c)S 
(d)T 

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Q15: How many boxes are below U? 
(a)None 
(b)1 
(c)2 
(d)3

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Passage 4

There are seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G, they participated in a race and they got different ranks from 1 to 7 but not necessarily in the same order. (Rank 1 being highest and Rank 7 being lowest). Now these seven friends are sitting in a row facing North. The person who secured Rank 2 sits two places to the right of C. There are three persons sitting between A and E. The one who secured Rank 4 is two places to the left of one who secured Rank 7. D and B are sitting adjacent to each other. E sits to the immediate left of the person who secured Rank 2. The one who secured Rank 6 sits exactly between the one who secured Rank 3 and Rank 5. A secured Rank 3. The one who secured Rank 7 is at one end of the row. D is not among the top 5 rankers. G is three places to the right of B.

Q16: What is the rank of G? 
(a)7 
(b)2 
(c)5 
(d)4 

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Q17: What is the position of C with respect to A? 
(a)Three places to the right 
(b)Two places to the left 
(c)Two places to the right 
(d)Immediate neighbour 

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Q18: Who are the neighbours of C? 
(a)D, E 
(b)E, G 
(c)A, B 
(d)B, E 

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Q19: Who secured the first and the last rank respectively among the seven? 
(a)D, C 
(b)E, B 
(c)F, G 
(d)C, F 

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Q20: Who sits at the extreme ends of the rows? 
(a)A, G 
(b)F, G 
(c)A, F 
(d)B, F 

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