Puzzle – Railway Reasoning (Part- 3)

Total Questions: 50

31. Five boxes containing different items, namely scales, pens, tapes, erasers and pencils, are kept one above the other, not necessarily in the same order. The box with pens is on the topmost position. The box with erasers is the only box between the boxes with pencils and scales. There is only one box below the box with scales and that is the box with tapes. Which box is immediately below the box containing pencils? [Group - D 11/10/2022 (Evening)]

Correct Answer: (a) Erasers
Solution:

32. There are five boxes K, L, M, N and O arranged one above the other. Box M is placed above box N. Box O is placed below bow K. Box N is placed above K. Box L is placed below O. Which among the following is the bottom most box? [Level 6 (09/05/2022) Shift 1]

Correct Answer: (b) L
Solution:

After arranging the persons as persons as per directions given in question, we get following arrangement :Clearly, we can see that L is the bottom most box.

33. Punit, Qumar, Rohit, Sheetal, Tabir and Umesh live in a multi-storeyed building. Qumar lives immediately below the floor where Umesh lives. Sheetal Lives immediately below the floor where Qumar lives. Tabir lives on one of the floors below the floors where Qumar and Sheetal live but he lives on one of the floors above the floor where Punit lives. Tabir lives immediately below the floor where Rohit lives. Rohit lives immediately below the floor where Sheetal lives. Who lives on the top floor? [Level 4 (10/05/2022) Shift 1]

Correct Answer: (c) Umesh
Solution:

34. There are six girls Mayuri, Kavyanjali, Divya, Poonam, Neha and Vidya. Each girl likes a different colour - red, blue, purple, yellow, green and pink. Divya likes red colour. Poonam does not like green and yellow colour. Neha likes purple colour. Vidya does not like pink and green colour. Mayuri likes blue colour. Which of the following girl and colour combinations is correct? [Level 5 (12/06/2022) Shift 2]

Correct Answer: (c) Vidya - yellow
Solution:

From above figure we get, Neha like purple color.
Mayuri likes blue color. Poonam don’t like Green and yellow colour.
So Poonam like Pink. Vidya doesn't like green and pink and so she will like Yellow.
So, Vidya likes Yellow color.

RedBluePurpleYellowGreenPink
MayuriYes
Kavyanjali
DivyaYes
PoonamNoNo
NehaYes
VidyaNoNo

35. Seven friends M, N O, P, Q, R and S live on seven different floors of the same building. Having floors in such a manner that the ground floor is numbered 1, the floor above it number 2, and so till the topmost floor is numbered 7. M lives on floor number 1. Q lives immediately above M . Only four friends live between the floors of Q and N. Only three friends live between the floors of P and M.R lives immediately below O . Who lives on the sixth floor? [Level 2 (13/06/2022) Shift 1]

Correct Answer: (c) S
Solution:

36. Six boxes , M, N, O, P, Q and R, are kept one above the other but not necessarily in the same order. There is only one box between box N and box R. Box Q is immediately below box N. There are only two boxes between box Q and box M. There is no box above box P. Box R is third from the bottom. Which box is third from the top? [Level 3 (14/06/2022) Shift 1]

Correct Answer: (a) Q
Solution:

37. Five friends Puneet, Jatin, Gautam, Arshil and Tina, like five different subjects namely Maths, English, Science, Computer and Hindi, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of the friends also like one sport, namely Cricket, Hockey, Badminton, Football and Basketball, such that no two has the same favourite sport. [Level 3 (14/06/2022) Shift 2]

Tina likes Science but does not like Hockey. The one who likes Hindi also likes Basketball. Arshil likes Badminton but does not like computer or English. Gautam likes Hockey but does not like  English or Maths. Tina likes Football. Puneet likes Cricket. Who likes Hindi?

Correct Answer: (a) Jatin
Solution:Tina = science (Y) Hockey (No) Football(Y)
Arshil = Badminton(Y) Computer (No) or English (no)
Gautam = Hockey (Y) English (No) or Maths (No)
Puneet = Cricket(Y)
Only one person remains is Jatin who likes Hindi and also likes Basketball.

38. Six students P,Q,R,S,T and U have been instructed to keep their books on six different shelves of a bookshelf having only six shelves one over the other. Books of S are kept on the topmost shelf . Books of P and U are kept on third shelves from the extreme top and extreme bottom, respectively . Only books of R are kept between the shelves containing books of U and Q . Books of student T are kept on which shelf from the extreme top? [Level 5 (15/06/2022) Shift 1]

Correct Answer: (b) 2ⁿᵈ
Solution:

2nd
The sequence of the books is :So, T is on the 2nd shelf from the extreme top.

39. Five students A, B, C, D and E study in different schools K, L, M, N and O but not necessarily in the same order. Each one likes only one subject, viz, Hindi, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and English. C studies in M. B does not like social science. D likes English and studies in N. The students of L likes Math. E likes Hindi but is neither from O nor L. B studies in O. [Level 5 (15/06/2022) Shift 2 ]

Which one of the following students studies in school L and likes Mathematics?

Correct Answer: (b) A
Solution:

So, A studies in school L and likes Mathematics.

40. Six friends A,B,C,D,E and F like to eat one fruit each among Mango, Apple , Orange, Kiwi, Guava and Grapes. D likes Mango. C neither likes Guava nor does he like Kiwi. E likes Orange. F neither likes Grapes nor does he like Guava. A likes Apple. [ Level 5 (15/06/2022) Shift 3]

Who likes Grapes?

Correct Answer: (c) C
Solution:

We can clearly see in the above graph that C likes grapes.