PUZZLING PUZZLES; CWLR-2101
Set-1: Directions for questions 1 to 5: Answer these
questions on the basis of information given below. There are
five cars parked in a row from left to right each of which was
manufactured in a different nation and is of a different colour, a
different brand, a different type and a distinct engine capacity (CC ).
1. The Red car is manufactured in UK.
2. The 1700 CC car was manufactured in USA.
3. BMW (BRAND) is manufactured in Netherlands.
4. The Green Car is to the immediate left of the White car.
5. The Green car is a Porcha (BRAND).
6. The Sports car (TYPE) is of 1300 CC.
7. The Yellow is a Hatchback (TYPE).
8.The car parked in the centre is a Lexus (BRAND).
9. The car manufactured in China is parked to left of four cars.
10. Sedan (TYPE) is parked next to the 1500 CC car.
11. The 1400 CC car is parked next to the Hatchback (TYPE).
12. F1 Street (TYPE) belongs to Ferrari (BRAND).
13. The No top (TYPE) car was manufactured in Germany.
14. The car manufactured in China is parked next to the Blue Car.
15. The Sedan (TYPE) is parked next to the Aston Martin (BRAND).
16. There was one car of 1600 CC.
Q1. In which of the following countries was Ferrari manufactured in?
a) China b) USA c) UK d) Germany
Q2. What is the colour of the 1600 CC car?
a) Green b)Red c)Blue d) White
Q3. What is the Engine CC of Lexux?
a) 1500 b) 1400 c) 1300 d) 1600
Q4. Which of the following countries, was the car parked second
from the left end manufactured in?
a) UK b) China c) USA d) Netherlands
Q5. What is the colour of the car manufactured in the USA?
a) Yellow b) Blue c) Green d) White
Set-2: Directions for questions 6 to 9: Answer these
questions on the basis of information given below.
Five men – Vamsi, Krishan, Mohan, Varma and Chakram sit in a row
– I facing south and five woman – Divya, Vasudha, Srivalli, Srujana
and Jyothi sit in a row – II facing north such that distance between
any two persons in a row is the same. A person who is sitting in a
row faces one person in the other row. Each of them belongs to
exactly one of the professions among – engineer, lawyer, teacher,
doctor and director. No two persons of the same profession sit in the
same row and no two persons of the same profession sit opposite
each other. The following information is known about their seating
arrangement.
Varma sits adjacent to neither Mohan nor Krishna and he is neither
doctor nor director. Two people sit between Vasudha and Srujana.
Srivalli is neither lawyer nor engineer but engineer and lawyer sit
opposite each other. Either Jyothi or Divya sits at the right end of the
row. Neither Mohan nor Chakram is a director in row -I, who is
second from the left end. Chakram sits third to the left of Engineer.
Divya sits opposite teacher but she is not a director. Srujana is not
an engineer.
Q6. What is the profession of Mohan?
a) Doctor b) Lawyer
c) Engineer d) Doctor or Engineer
Q7. Who among the following is a Director?
a) Vasudha b) Srivalli c) Vamsi d) Jyothi
Q8. If Vamsi and Krishna interchange their positions, then who
among the following sits opposite Krishna?
a) Divya b) Srujana c) Vasudha d) Jyothi
Q9. Which of the given statements is definitely true?
a) Vamsi and Jyothi sit opposite each other.
b) Mohan is a Teacher.
c) Srivalli and Krishna sit opposite each other.
d) Jyothi is a doctor.
Set-3: Directions for questions 10 to 13: Answer these
questions on the basis of information given below.
Eight persons – Ajay, Chand, Dev, Giri, Hari, Kiran, Lalit and Manan
– were sitting in eight equally spaced chairs around the circular table
in a restaurant. Each of the eight persons ordered and paid for
exactly one dish among Poutine, Marzipan, Ankimo, Arepas and
Rendang such that each dish was ordered by at least one person.
The five dishes were priced ₹250, ₹450, ₹650, ₹750 and ₹850, not
necessarily in the same order. Further, it is known that
(i) no two persons who ordered the same dish were sitting
next to each other and the prices of the dishes ordered by any
two persons sitting adjacent to each other differed by not more
than ₹200.
(ii) Hari, who ordered Ankimo, was sitting two places to the
left of person who paid ₹250, while Dev, who ordered
Marzipan, paid ₹100 more than what Chand paid.
(iii) the total amount paid by Lalit, Giri and Hari was ₹100 more
than the total amount paid by all the persons who ordered
Arepas and Marzipan.
(iv) Kiran, who paid more than ₹650, was the only person who
ordered Poutine , while Giri was sitting two places to the left of
Ajay.
(v) Rendang is priced ₹450 but it was not ordered by either
Giri or Manan.
Q10. Who among the following ordered Marzipan?
a) Giri b) Chand c) Ajay d) Manan
Q11. What did the person sitting to the right of Giri order?
a) Poutine b) Ankimo
c) Arepas d) Can’t be determined
Q12. Who among the following is sitting opposite a person who
ordered Arepas?
a) Giri b) Dev c) Chand d) Kiran
Q13. What is the total amount paid by all the eight persons
combined?
Set-4: Directions for questions 14 to 17: Answer these
questions on the basis of information given below.
In a school, seven classrooms are present from left to right in a row.
Each classroom is of different class among Class II, Class III, Class
IV, Class V, Class VI, Class VII and Class VIII. The number of
students in each class is different number among 20, 35, 40, 45, 50,
55 and 65.
Further, it is also known that
the classroom of Class II is not adjacent to the classroom of Class
VII.
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(i) the number of students in the class whose classroom is in
the middle is 20 more than the number of students in the class
whose classroom is at the extreme right.
(ii) the number of students in Class III is 45 and the classroom
of this class is present to the immediate left of the classroom of
Class V, which, in turn, is not at the extreme right.
(iii) the number of students in Class VI is 15 more than the
number of students in Class VII.
(iv) the classroom of Class II is two places to the right of
classroom of Class VI, which, in turn, is at the extreme left.
(v) the number of students in Class V is 25 less than the
number of students in Class VIII.
Q14.What is the number of students in Class IV?
Q15.What is the number of students in Class II?
Q16.What is the total number of students in the classes at the
extreme ends?
17.What is the maximum difference between the number of students
in classes whose classrooms are adjacent to each other?
Set-5: Directions for questions 18 to 21: Answer these
questions on the basis of information given below.
Six persons – Shyam, Ram, Raghav, Hari, Gopal and Krishna – sit
around a circular table but not necessarily in that order. Each of
them teaches a different subject among Physics, Maths, History,
Chemistry, Biology and Economics in a school, Ingraham Institute.
Some of them are facing the centre and the remaining are facing
away from the centre. When two or more persons are stated to be
facing the same direction, it means they are all facing the centre or
away from the centre. The following information is known.
(i) Ram sits to the immediate right of the person who teaches Maths.
(ii) Shyam, who does not teaches Economics and the person who
teaches Physics are not adjacent to each other.
(iii) The person, who teaches Economics sits second to the right of
Ram, but he is not Hari.
(iv) The persons who teaches Biology sits to the immediate left of
the person who teaches Physics.
(v) The person who teaches Maths sits adjacent to neither the
person who teaches Biology, nor the person who teaches
Economics.
(vi) Shyam neither teaches Chemistry nor Physics and is not facing
the centre.
(vii) Raghav and Krishna face the same direction as Ram. Raghav
does not teaches Physics.
(viii) The person sitting in opposite positions do not face the same
direction.
Q18. Who teaches History?
a) Ram b) Shyam c) Hari
d) Cannot be determined
Q19. Who sits second to the right of Gopal?
a) The person who teaches Chemistry b) Krishna
c) The person who teaches History d) Hari
Q20. How many persons sit between Krishna and the person who
teaches Chemistry, when counted from the left of Krishna ?
a) Two b) Three c) One d) Four
Q21. Which of the following pairs of persons face different
directions?
(a) Ram , the person who teaches Physics.
(b) Raghav, the person who teaches Chemistry.
(c) Shyam, the person who teaches Maths.
(d) Gopal, the person who teaches History.
Set-6: Directions for questions 22 to 25: Answer these
questions on the basis of information given below.
Eight persons – S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z – belong to a family and
they decided to visit a mall which is an eight- storeyed building. The
ground floor is considered the first floor and the floor above ground
floor is considered the second floor and so on. Each floor consists
of a show room of a different brand viz., Fabindia, Sisley, Wrangler,
Brooks, Nike, Adidas, Celio and Levis but not necessarily in the
same order. Each person in the family shops only in one showroom.
There are three married couples among them and each couple has
at least one child. The following information is known about them.
W shops in Celio which is on an even numbered floor but not the 8 th
floor. The daughter of W shops in the showroom which is on the first
floor but it is not Fabindia. The persons who shops in Celio and levis
are siblings. The person who shops in adidas is the brother-in-law
of Y. There are exactly two floors between the floor on which the
showroom of adidas is and the floor of the showroom in which the
wife of the one who shops in adidas shops. The son-in-law of X
shops in Nike which is immediately below the Levis showroom. The
husband of S shops in Sisley which is immediately above or
immediately below the floor where V shops. The wrangler
showroom is on the second floor. S shops on a floor which is above
the floor on which her grandson shops. T is a female. The person
who shops on the sixth floor is the wife of Z. Z shops neither in
adidas nor on a floor above the floor where V shops.
Q22. Who shops in Brooks?
a) The son of V b) The wife of Z c) The daughter of W
d) The nephew of Y
Q23. Who is the wife of Z?
a) The person who shops in celio
b) The person who shops on the third floor
c) The sister-in-law of V
d) The person who shops in wrangler
Q24. Which of the following is true?
a) V shops in the showroom which is on the sixth floor
b) U is the nephew of W
c) Y is the sister-in-law of V
d) Both (b) & (c)
Q25. Who shops in Adidas?
a) The husband of Y
b) The brother-in-law of W
c) Father of U
d) None of these