Word Arrangement – Railway Reasoning (part – 1)

Total Questions: 50

21. Each vowel in the word ‘DESTROY’ is changed to the letter following it in the English alphabetical order and each consonant is changed to the letter preceding it in the English alphabetical order. If each letter, thus formed, is arranged in alphabetical order, which letter will be fifth from the right end ? [Group - D 23/08/2022 (Morning) ]

Correct Answer: (a) P
Solution:

Now arranging the word “CFRSQPX” in alphabetical order we get “CFPQRSX”.
Hence, letter 5th from the right end is P.

22. If each of the letters in the word "ANOTHER' is arranged in alphabetical order, then how many letters will be there in the English alphabetical series between the letter that is fourth from the left end and the one that is second from the right end? [Group - D 23/08/2022 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (a) 3
Solution:

Given word is ANOTHER After arranging it in alphabetical order the word becomes AEHNORT
Then the letter which is fourth from left end is N
And the letter which is second from the right end is R.
So, The total no. of letters between N and R is 3. i.e ( O,P,Q)

23. If all the letters of the word ‘QUALITY’ are arranged in alphabetical order, then the position of how many letters will remain unchanged ? [Group - D 23/08/2022 (Evening)]

Correct Answer: (a) 1
Solution:Given word: ‘QUALITY’
After arranging the letters in alphabetical
order, we get: AILQTUY
Here, we can see that the position of only 1 letter (Y) remains unchanged.

24. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word 'PARTICLE' (in both forward and backward direction) each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabetical order ? [Group - D 24/08/2022 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (c) two
Solution:

Given word : PARTICLE There are only two such letter-pair.

25. Each of the digits in the number 318924765 is arranged in descending order from left to right. The position of how many digits will remain unchanged as compared to that in the original number ? [Group - D 24/08/2022 (Evening)]

Correct Answer: (a) One
Solution:

318924765
On arranging its digits in descending order, we get 987654321.
Therefore, there is only One digit ie., 4 whose position has remained unchanged.

26. The position of how many letters will remain unchanged if each of the letters in the word 'ANOTHER' is arranged in alphabetical order ? [Group - D 25/08/2022 (Morning)]

Correct Answer: (a) 1
Solution:

On arranging the letters of the word ‘ANOTHER’ we get AEHNORT Therefore, the letter only one whose position remain unchanged is ‘A’

27. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word 'ABILITY" (in both forward and backward directions) each of which have as many letters between them in the word as there are in the English alphabetical order ? [Group - D 25/08/2022 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (a) 1
Solution:

28. The position of how many letters will remain unchanged if each of the letters in the word BREAKDOWN is arranged in alphabetical order ? [Group - D 25/08/2022 (Evening)]

Correct Answer: (c) 2
Solution:

29. The position of how many letters will remain unchanged if each of the letters in the word QUALITY is arranged in alphabetical order ? [Group - D 26/08/2022 (Morning)]

Correct Answer: (c) One
Solution:

Position of only 1 letter has remained unchanged.

30. How many such letter-pairs are there in the word HINDUSTAN (in both forward and backward directions) which have as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabetical order ? [Group - D 26/08/2022 ( Evening)]

Correct Answer: (b) 3
Solution:

When the letters of the given word are read from the left, the following pairs are formed.
HI_ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ ST _ _
When the letters of the given word are read from the right, the following pairs are formed.
H _ _ _ _ _ _ A _
Hence, the total number of pairs is 3.