Practice Question and answers set 5 - verbal reasoning Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

Q-1)   Statements:
All roads are buses.
Some buses are cars.
Some cars are days.
All days are nights.
Conclusion:
I. Some nights are buses.
II. Some nights are cars.
III. Some days are buses.

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Directions:

In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read both of the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q-2)   Statements:
All rings are fingers.
Some ears are fingers.
All ears are necklaces.
Conclusion:
I. Some necklaces are fingers.
II. Some necklaces are rings.

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Explanation:

syllogism-verbal-reasoning

Conclusion:

I. True

II. Not True


Directions:

In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read both of the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q-3)   Statements:
All dials are mirrors.
All mirrors are spoons.
Some spoons are decks.
Some decks are chairs.
Conclusion:
I. Some decks are mirrors.
II. Some spoons are dials.
III. Some decks are dials.
IV. Some chairs are spoons.

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Explanation:

syllogism-verbal-reasoning

Conclusion:

I. Not True

II. True

III. Not True

IV. Not True


Directions:

In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read both of the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q-4)   Statements:
Some houses are forests.
All forests are trees.
Some trees are hills.
All hills are buses.
Conclusion:
I. Some buses are trees.
II. Some trees are houses.
III. Some hills are houses.
IV. Some buses are forests.

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Explanation:

syllogism-verbal-reasoning

Conclusion:

I. True

II. True

III. Not True

IV. Not True


Q-5)   Statements:
Some films are clouds.
All rats are clouds.
Some clouds are chairs.
Conclusion:
I. No film is chair.
II. Some rats are films.
III. Some clouds are rats.
IV. Some chairs are rats.

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(b)

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Directions:

In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read both of the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q-6)   Statements:
All desks are chairs.
All chairs are tables.
All tables are boxes.
All boxes are trunks.
Conclusion:
I. Some trunks are tables.
II. All chairs are boxes.
III. Some boxes are desks.
IV. All desks are trunks

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Explanation:

syllogism-verbal-reasoning

Conclusion:

I. True

II. True

III. True

IV. True


Q-7)   Statements:
No house is an apartment.
Some bungalows are apartments.
Conclusion:
I. No house is a bungalow:
II. All bungalows are houses.

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Q-8)   Statements:
Some gardens are parks.
Some parks are areas.
Conclusion:
I. Atleast some areas are parks.
II. No garden is an area.

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Q-9)   Statements:
All benches are cots.
No cot is lamp.
Some lamps are candles.
Conclusion:
I. Some cots are benches.
II. Some candles are cots.

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Q-10)   Statements:
Some-rivers are mountains.
All mountains are plateaus.
No plateau is a sea.
Some seas are rivers.
Conclusion:
I. Some rivers which are plateaus are not seas.
II. Some plateaus are not rivers.

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