LQR DECISION MAKING C.
No davarzi are iguanas
SET-1
1. In a mixed-gender school, all students must study at least two
foreign languages out of French, German or Spanish. No boy
studies all three foreign languages.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. No girl studies only French
B. All of the boys study two foreign languages
C. More girls than boys study foreign languages
D. More girl than boys study three foreign languages
E. At least one boy and at least one girl study the same
pair of foreign languages
2. In a car park there are 50 vehicles, of which 30 are cars and the
rest are vans. Hald of the cars are blue and half are red but
none of the red vehicles are vans.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Some of the van are blue
B. The only red vehicles are cars
C. All of the vans are blue or white
D. There are more blue cars than blue vans
E. There are more red cars than red vans
3. Skinks and iguanas are two different types of lizard.
All davarzi are skins and all lizards are reptiles.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. No lizards are skinks
B. All davarzi are reptiles
D. Some reptiles are skinks
E. All skinks are davarzi
4. All students from High School received a grade ‘A’ in Science
and no student in High School received a grade ‘B’ in History.
Senior School admits students only if the student has a grade
‘A’ in History.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Carol studied at High School before moving to Senior
School so she must have received grade ‘A’ in both
Science and History
B. Senior School does not offer a Science course
C. As Monica attended High School , she did not obtain a
grade ‘B’
D. No High School student can be admitted to Senior
School
E. Sam received a grade ‘B’ in History so he did not
attend High School
5. Not all the people present at the literature festival were poets.
All the poets at the literature festival were authors and some
poets were not storytellers.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. At least one storyteller at the literature festival was an
author
B. At least one author at the literature festival was both a
poet and a story teller
C. All the authors at the literature festival were either
poets or storytellers.
 D. Not all authors at the literature festival who were poets
were storytellers
E. All the storytellers at the literature festival who were
poets were authors
6. In this forest, not all deciduous trees are objects of admiration.
However, all deciduous trees in this forest are 20 feet tall
except for Potentilla and Daphne.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Some of the objects of admiration in this forest are 20
feet tall
B. If maple is a deciduous tree found in this forest, it is 20
feet tall
C. Not all objects of admiration in this forest that are 20
feet tall are deciduous trees
D. If a 20 feet tall deciduous tree in this forest is an object
of admiration, it is neither Potentilla nor Daphne.
E. Potentilla and Daphne are objects of admiration that are
either more than 20 feet tall or less than 20 feet tall
7. All people who live in the house, except for Jim, like tea. More
than one person in the house like coffee.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Jim likes coffee
B. If a person in the house does not like coffee, they must
like tea.
C. If a person in the hose does not like tea, it must be Jim.
D. If only two people in the house like coffee, one must be
Jim
E. Someone in the house likes coffee and tea.
8. All aspects of a business are either manageable or
unmanageable but none of the unmanageable aspects of the
business are related to finance or technology. Employee
satisfaction is mangeable aspect of the business.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Some aspects of the business are manageable
B. Employee satisfaction is the only manageable aspect of
the business
C. All aspects of the business related to finance or
technology are unmanageable
D. All unmanageable aspects of the business are related to
neither finance nor technology
E. Not all manageable aspects of the business are related
to finance and technology.
9. In a university, there are two different types of biologist:
zoologists and botanists.
Viv the viologist is not a botanist.
Some biologist are male
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Viv is a zoologist
B. Viv, who is not a botanist, must be male
C. Some botanists are male
D. At least one of the biologists is female
E. Not all zoologists are female
10. All rice is inedible unless it has been boiled.
Salt is necessary to make rice edible.
 Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. If rice is edible, it must have been boiled.
B. If rice has been boiled, it must be edible.
C. Edible rice must have been boiled and salted.
D. If rice has been salted, it must be edible.
E. If rice has been boiled, it must have been salted.
11. In Frank’s house the spoons are gold or silver or stainless steel.
Frank never puts a silver spoon in his hand, but everyone else
in the house uses a stainless spoon.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Someone in the house uses a silver spoon.
B. Frank uses a gold spoon.
C. A peson using a silver spoon cannot be Frank.
D. Someone in the house does not use a silver spoon.
E. At least one person in the house uses a gold spoon and a
stainless steel spoon.
12. There are males and females in my family.
Some of the females like golf but the other members of my
family are having a meal.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. None of the females are having a meal.
B. If a family member likes golf, they must be female.
C. Some of my family having a meal like gold
D. If a female is having a meal, they must not like golf.
E. If a family member is at the meal, they must be female
or not like golf.
13. There is a drawing on the wall of every room in Sol’s house,
except one.
There are photographs in several of the rooms, and all the
drawings and photographs are of landscapes.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Some of the rooms have photographs and drawings in
them.
B. There is a drawing or a photograph in every room.
C. There is at least one room that has no photographs in it.
D. There is at least one room that has a drawing and a
photograph in it.
E. There is at least one room with more than one
landscape.
14. Many students come late to the class.
Not all students who come late to the class are disinterested in
the curriculum.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. No students come late to the class.
B. At least one student does not come late to the class.
C. At least one student is disinterested in the curriculum.
D. All the students who are disinterested in the curriculum
come late to the class.
E. At least one student who comes late to the class is
interested in the curriculum.
15. Among all the hospitals in the region, few follow the
biomedical waste management protocol.
All the licensed hospitals in the region follow the biomedical
waste management protocol.

Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Some hospitals in the region are not licensed.
B. Some hospitals outside the region are licensed
C. The hospitals in the region either follow the biomedical
waste management protocol or are licensed.
D. If a hospital in the region is licensed, it must be
following the biomedical waste management protocol.
E. If a hospital in the region follows the biomedical waste
management protocol, it must be licensed.
16. Courage is the greatest virtue of all.
Absence of fear is not the greatest virtue, having the conviction
to act despite fear is.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Being fearless is one of the virtues.
B. Being fearless is the greatest virtue
C. Courage is the conviction to act despite fear
D. Courage is having the conviction to act fearlessly
E. There is no virtue greater than the conviction to act
despite fear
17. None who embrace the downtrodden are guilty of following
dogmas. Few who are guilty of following dogmas are truly
spiritual.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Few who are truly spiritual embrace the downtrodden.
B. None who are truly spiritual embrace the downtrodden
C. Some who are guilty of following dogmas are not truly
spiritual.
D. If she is guilty of following dogmas, she does not
embrace the downtrodden.
E. Anyone who is truly spiritual and is guilty of following
dogmas would embrace the downtrodden.
18. A few questions in the test were based on extended thinking
only.
The rest of the question in the test were based solely on
understanding or solely on application
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. None of the questions in the test were based on
recalling facts
B. Not all questions in the test were based on
understanding of application.
C. At least one question that was based on extended
thinking was not based on understanding.
D. All the questions in the test were based on extended
thinking or understanding or application.
E. A few questions based on application were also based
on extended thinking and application.
19. The entire cost of this project, apart from the land acquisition,
was borne by federal authorities.
Federal authorities bear costs for large infrastructure projects
only.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. This was a large infrastructure project.
B. Any development costs were borne by the federal
authorities.
 C. Federal authorities bear all costs of large infrastructure
projects.
D. The land acquisition cos was borne by public private
partnership.
E. Not all costs of large infrastructure projects are borne
by federal authorities.
20. Mooms, pluders, nizens and kopens are type of fish.
All mooms are pluders.
No pluder is a nizen.
Both pluders and nizens are kopens.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. If a fish is a moom, it is a kopen.
B. No nizen is a moom.
C. If an animal is a pluder, it is not a moom.
D. No kopens are mooms
E. If a fish is a pluder but not a moom, it is a kopen.
21. All of the animals on the green wallpaper were white except
for five of the teddy bears, which were brown.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Any pictures of horses on the wallpaper were coloured
white.
B. Some of the cows on the wallpaper were coloured
green.
C. All of the white animals shown on the wallpaper were
farm animals.
D. There was at least one teddy bear on the wallpaper that
was white.
E. All animals shown on the wallpaper that were not white
were brown.
22. Beach games used only beach balls, or rounders balls most of
which were brown.
All of the beach balls were red except for some of the small
ones that were yellow.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. A beach game played with a yellow ball must have used
a small beach ball.
B. A small beach ball that was not yellow must have been
red.
C. A beach game played with a ball that was not brown
must have used a beach ball.
D. A red beach ball was not one of the small ones.
E. All of the brown balls were rounders balls.
23. There were only men and women in the room.
All of the men and some of the women in the room wore
jackets.
All of the women who did not wear jackets and half of the men
wore white shirts, but te rest of the men wore blue shirts.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Any person in the room who did not wear a jacket must
have been a woman.
B. A person wearing a blue shirt must also have worn a
jacket.
C. A greater number of people in the room wore a jacket
than did not wear a jacket.
 D. There were more blue shirts in the room than white
shirts.
E. Any woman wearing a jacket must have worn a blue
shirt.
24. Golfers are required to wear trousers when playing a round of
golf.
However, female members may wear skirts and juniors may
wear shorts throughout their game provided they started to play
in the morning session.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Any golfer wearing a skirt or shorts must have started
to play during the morning session.
B. Any golfer wearing trousers in an afternoon session
must be male.
C. Golfers wearing shorts who start playing during a
morning session are required to change into trousers if
their game lasts into the afternoon.
D. Any person wearing trousers who starts playing during
the morning session must be male.
E. A person who wears shorts or a skirt while playing in
the afternoon session must have started playing duitng
the morning session.
25. Most of the cars in the carpark just had electric engines, but
some of the others were hybrid vehicles while there were a few
patriot engine cars and a smaller number of diesel engine cars.
All of the cars that only had electric engines were red, but most
of the hybrid cars white while these cars that were neither red
nor white were green.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. There were more diesel and petrol cars in the car park
than there were red cars.
B. There were more petrol cars than diesel cars in the
park.
C. There were more green cars than white cars in the car
park.
D. A green car that had an electric engine must have
been a hybrid car.
E. A diesel engine car that was neither white nor green
must have been red.
26. All of the vehicles in the yard had either two or three wheels.
All of the two-wheeled scooters were black, but some of the
two-wheeled cycles that were not black were blue.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Any green scooter in the yard must have had three
wheels.
B. The only black vehicles in the yard were scooters.
C. If a cycle was red, it must have had two wheels.
D. All of the two-wheeled vehicles were either black or
blue.
E. There were at least three different colours of vehicles in
the yard.
27. In public life, their leader is a winner. Anyone who is a winner
in public is either disengaged with family or with their inner
self.
 Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. Their leader is disengaged with family.
B. No one who is disengaged with family is also
disengaged with their inner self.
C. In public life, if their leader is engaged with family,
they are not engaged with their inner self.
D. Any leader who is a winner in public life is either
disengaged with family or their inner self.
E. Someone who is disengaged with their inner self and is
a winner in public life is engaged with family.
28. All the paint came in small or large pots except for blue, which
was only available in small pots.
The only colours besides blue were red and green. Altogether
there were more red than blue pots, but not as many as green.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. There were more small pots of red paint than small pots
of green paint.
B. The only large pots of paint were either red or green.
C. There were more small pots of paint than there were
blue pots.
D. There were more large red pots than small blue pots.
E. There were more green pots than there were red pots.
B. A Frung that is not a Jinx must be a Zoob.
C. All Zoobs are Frungs.
D. Some Jinx are Zoobs.
E. Not all Frungs are Jinx or Zoobs.
30. All of the red flowers were roses except for a few of the
poppies, most of which were yellow.
The only other flowers were white, but most of the white
flowers were neither roses nor poppies.
Identify one or more logically valid answers from the
following options:
A. None of the white flowers were roses or poppies.
B. There were more yellow poppies than red or white
poppies.
C. The only red flowers were roses or poppies.
D. All of the roses were red.
E. There were at least three different types of flower.

29. All Jinx are Frungs, but not all Frungs are Jinx.
Some of the Frungs that are not Jinx are Zoobs, but no Zoob is
a Jinx.

Identify one or more logically valid answers from the

following options:
A. There are more Frungs than Jinx.