Practice Question and answers set 12 - verbal reasoning Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

Directions:

Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.

Q-1)   A: Apples are not sweets
B: Some apples are sweet
C. All sweets are tasty.
D. Some apples are not tasty.
E. No apple is tasty.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

Option (c) – C E A

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⇒Apples are not sweets is the correct conclusion.


Directions:

Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.

Q-2)   A: No patriot is a criminal.
B: Ramdas is not a criminal
C: Ramdas is a patriot
D: Mohandas is not a patriot
E: Mohandas is a criminal

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

Option (c) – A C B

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⇒Ramdas is not a criminal.


Directions:

Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.

Q-3)   A: All synopses are poets.
B: Some synopses are mentors
C: Some X are not mentors
D: All X are poets
E: All synopses are mentors
F: All synopses are X.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

Option (b) – A C B

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⇒Irrelevant

Option (c) – A E C

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⇒Irrelevant

Option (a) – F E C

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⇒Conclusion may or may not be true

⇒Option (d) – D F A

⇒All synopses are poets. Option (d) is the correct answer.


Directions:

Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.

Q-4)   A: Lizards are birds.
B: Some birds are ants.
C: Lizards are ants.
D: Some lizards are ants.
E: Some lizards are not ants.
F: No lizard is ant.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

Option (c) – A D B

syllogism-verbal-reasoning

⇒Some birds are ants.


Q-5)   Statements:
All bulbs are wires.
No wire is cable.
Some cables are brushes.
All brushes are paints
Conclusion:
I. Some paints are cables.
II. Some wires are bulbs.
III. Some brushes are wires.
IV. Some cables are bulbs.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)


Q-6)   Statements:
All notebooks are pens.
No pen is table.
Some tables are desks.
All desks are tanks.
Conclusion:
I. Some tanks are pens.
II. Some desks are notebooks.
III. Some tanks are tables.
IV. NO tank is pen

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)


Q-7)   Statements:
All books are tents.
Some tents are lakes.
All lakes are ponds.:
Conclusion:
I. Some ponds are books.
II. Some ponds are tents.
III. Some lakes are books.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)


Q-8)   Statements:
Some books are papers.
Some papers are desks.
Some desks are chairs.
Conclusion:
I. Some books are desks..
II. Some papers are chairs.
III. Some books are chairs.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)


Q-9)   Statements:
No rooms is house. No house is building. Some buildings are huts.
Conclusion:
I. Some huts are rooms.
II. Some huts are houses.
III. Some huts are buildings.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)


Q-10)   Statements:
Some Cats are Rats.
Some Rats are Ants.
Some Ants are Flies.
Conclusion:
I. Some Flies are Cats.
II. Some Flies are not Ants.
III. No Rat is Fly.
IV. No Cat is Fly.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)