AILET entrance exam Question Bank Solutions for Logical Reasoning

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On an island ‘Neverland’ the inhabitants always answer any question with two sentences – one of which is always true and the other always false.   
Perhaps due to this peculiar habit, there’s been a high rate of suicides on the island. As a doctor, you have to identify potentially suicidal people and counsel them. You know that all people who are suicidal feel that life is futile. On questioning three  inhabitants, these are the answers you get:   
Anuj: Himanshu is suicidal. I am not suicidal   
Himanshu: I do not want to die. Akshay does not want to die   
Akshay: Life is futile. I am suicidal.

Who among the three is suicidal?

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On an island ‘Neverland’ the inhabitants always answer any question with two sentences – one of which is always true and the other always false.   
Perhaps due to this peculiar habit, there’s been a high rate of suicides on the island. As a doctor, you have to identify potentially suicidal people and counsel them. You know that all people who are suicidal feel that life is futile. On questioning three  inhabitants, these are the answers you get:   
Anuj: Himanshu is suicidal. I am not suicidal   
Himanshu: I do not want to die. Akshay does not want to die   
Akshay: Life is futile. I am suicidal.

Which one of them is lying about another person’s tendencies? 

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Going around the village, you come across three people. One of them is a dentist, one is a barrister and one is professor. You want to know who is who. 

Peter: I am not a professor. Shina is not a professor.

Matt: Peter is not a barrister. Shina is a professor.

Shina: Peter is not a dentist. I am not a professor.

Which of the following is true? 

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Further, you come across three women, one of whom is an excellent singer, you start questioning them when you notice that Minaxi is wearing a flower in her hair.   
Madhuri: I am not a singer. The singer wears a flower in her hair.   
Minaxi: I am a singer. The singer is amongst us.   
Jaya: Madhuri is the singer. Minaxi is not the singer.   

Who is the singer? 

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You want to expand your horizons and decide to go to the village of “Where is Who” which is deep inside the island.  You come to the border of “Kya Kya” and see a road sign.  One leads to left and the other right. there are no other roads. You ask the inhabitants.   
Maroof: I do not speak to strangers. I am new to these  parts  
Nafish: Take road to the right. I am married to Ayesha.   
Ayesha: I am not Nafish’s wife. Maroof is not new to these parts.   

Which one of the following is true?

In the following question, two statements I and II are provided. These may have a cause and effect relationship or may have independent causes.

Statement I: The price of Bronze has gone up from  30,000 per kg to 60,000 per kg in almost a year’s time.   
Statement II: Indian sculptors are receiving a lot of demand for bronze statues from English and Russian art collectors. 

In the following question, two statements I and II are provided. These may have a cause and effect relationship or may have independent causes.

Statement I: Hallmark of gold jewellry has been made  compulsory,
Statement II: Many persons do not prefer to buy hallmarked jewellery.

Given below is a passage followed by several inferences, You have to examine the inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity. 

In a proposal to Government of Xovia, Association of Xovian Industry (AXI) has suggested a series of short and long-term initiatives to help the states to cope up with the specter of drought in the country, particularly in the North. It has come out with a paper on ‘How to tackle drought’ and recommended the cultivation of selected crops such as short-duration paddy and irrigated dry crops in the focus areas besides subsidization of their seeds by 50%. Other short-term measures include a food-for-work program with the investment of relevant departments and rural bodies, the setting up of a task force headed by top government officials to monitor the drought relief program, the scrapping of schemes that facilitates subsidized power supply to irrigation pump set connection in water-scarce blocks to ensure power supply for drinking water schemes and ban on export of fodder. In fact, fodder should be mobilized from all sources and cattle sheds should be opened wherever needed, Employment affirmation program should be launched with central assistance. If possible, interest on loans taken by farmers should be waived besides converting the short-term loans into long-term ones, It is necessary to work out a way to take over the loans taken from primitive money lenders or reschedule them. Coming to long-term steps, the AXI paper says new water resources be explored besides building water supply projects and creating rainwater storage facilities. Dryland cultivation ought to be promoted apart from popularizing water-saving irrigation technologies.

To cope up with the specter of drought, we should devise both short-term and long-term policies.

Given below is a passage followed by several inferences, You have to examine the inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity. 

In a proposal to Government of Xovia, Association of Xovian Industry (AXI) has suggested a series of short and long-term initiatives to help the states to cope up with the specter of drought in the country, particularly in the North. It has come out with a paper on ‘How to tackle drought’ and recommended the cultivation of selected crops such as short-duration paddy and irrigated dry crops in the focus areas besides subsidization of their seeds by 50%. Other short-term measures include a food-for-work program with the investment of relevant departments and rural bodies, the setting up of a task force headed by top government officials to monitor the drought relief program, the scrapping of schemes that facilitates subsidized power supply to irrigation pump set the connection in water-scarce blocks to ensure power supply for drinking water schemes and ban on the export of fodder. In fact, fodder should be mobilized from all sources and cattle sheds should be opened wherever needed, Employment affirmation program should be launched with central assistance. If possible, interest on loans taken by farmers should be waived besides converting the short-term loans into long-term ones, It is necessary to work out a way to take over the loans taken from primitive money lenders or reschedule them. Coming to long-term steps, the AXI paper says new water resources be explored besides building water supply projects and creating rainwater storage facilities. Dryland cultivation ought to be promoted apart from popularizing water-saving irrigation technologies.

During the drought, a bailout package should be given to the farmers.

Given below is a passage followed by several inferences, You have to examine the inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity. 

In a proposal to Government of Xovia, Association of Xovian Industry (AXI) has suggested a series of short and long-term initiatives to help the states to cope up with the specter of drought in the country, particularly in the North. It has come out with a paper on ‘How to tackle drought’ and recommended the cultivation of selected crops such as short-duration paddy and irrigated dry crops in the focus areas besides subsidization of their seeds by 50%. Other short-term measures include a food-for-work program with the investment of relevant departments and rural bodies, the setting up of a task force headed by top government officials to monitor the drought relief program, the scrapping of schemes that facilitates subsidized power supply to irrigation pump set the connection in water-scarce blocks to ensure power supply for drinking water schemes and ban on the export of fodder. In fact, fodder should be mobilized from all sources and cattle sheds should be opened wherever needed, Employment affirmation program should be launched with central assistance. If possible, interest on loans taken by farmers should be waived besides converting the short-term loans into long-term ones, It is necessary to work out a way to take over the loans taken from primitive money lenders or reschedule them. Coming to long-term steps, the AXI paper says new water resources be explored besides building water supply projects and creating rainwater storage facilities. Dryland cultivation ought to be promoted apart from popularizing water-saving irrigation technologies.

Droughts are more devastating than floods.

Given below is a passage followed by several inferences, You have to examine the inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity. 

In a proposal to Government of Xovia, Association of Xovian Industry (AXI) has suggested a series of short and long-term initiatives to help the states to cope up with the specter of drought in the country, particularly in the North. It has come out with a paper on ‘How to tackle drought’ and recommended the cultivation of selected crops such as short-duration paddy and irrigated dry crops in the focus areas besides subsidization of their seeds by 50%. Other short-term measures include a food-for-work program with the investment of relevant departments and rural bodies, the setting up of a task force headed by top government officials to monitor the drought relief program, the scrapping of schemes that facilitates subsidized power supply to irrigation pump set the connection in water-scarce blocks to ensure power supply for drinking water schemes and ban on the export of fodder. In fact, fodder should be mobilized from all sources and cattle sheds should be opened wherever needed, Employment affirmation program should be launched with central assistance. If possible, interest on loans taken by farmers should be waived besides converting the short-term loans into long-term ones, It is necessary to work out a way to take over the loans taken from primitive money lenders or reschedule them. Coming to long-term steps, the AXI paper says new water resources be explored besides building water supply projects and creating rainwater storage facilities. Dryland cultivation ought to be promoted apart from popularizing water-saving irrigation technologies.

We should work out a long-term and permanent strategy to tackle frequent drought situations.

Given below is a passage followed by several inferences, You have to examine the inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity. 

In a proposal to Government of Xovia, Association of Xovian Industry (AXI) has suggested a series of short and long-term initiatives to help the states to cope up with the specter of drought in the country, particularly in the North. It has come out with a paper on ‘How to tackle drought’ and recommended the cultivation of selected crops such as short-duration paddy and irrigated dry crops in the focus areas besides subsidization of their seeds by 50%. Other short-term measures include a food-for-work program with the investment of relevant departments and rural bodies, the setting up of a task force headed by top government officials to monitor the drought relief program, the scrapping of schemes that facilitates subsidized power supply to irrigation pump set the connection in water-scarce blocks to ensure power supply for drinking water schemes and ban on the export of fodder. In fact, fodder should be mobilized from all sources and cattle sheds should be opened wherever needed, Employment affirmation program should be launched with central assistance. If possible, interest on loans taken by farmers should be waived besides converting the short-term loans into long-term ones, It is necessary to work out a way to take over the loans taken from primitive money lenders or reschedule them. Coming to long-term steps, the AXI paper says new water resources be explored besides building water supply projects and creating rainwater storage facilities. Dryland cultivation ought to be promoted apart from popularizing water-saving irrigation technologies.

In the case of the drought situation, we should channelize all the waters to the field.

Read the following short passages and choose the best answers to the questions following the passage.

According to the last opinion poll in Bhadristan, most voters believe that the three problems the government needs to address, in order of importance, are crimes; unemployment and capitalistic economy. Yet in an election, candidates from political parties perceived as strongly against capitalism were defeated, while those elected were all from parties with a history of opposing legislation designed to curb anti-competitive practices. These results should not be taken to indicate that the polls were inaccurate, however, since ................

Which one of the following most logically completes the passage?

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Natural Gas Production Units in Hindustan have recently been acquired in substantial. numbers by investors from abroad. Industanian politicians are proposing legislative action to stop such investment, justifying the proposal by arguing that foreign investors, opportunistically exploiting a recent fall in the value of the Industanian currency, were able to buy Industanian assets at less than their true value.

Which one of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the accuracy of the Industanian politicians’ justification for the proposed legislation?

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Proposed new safety rules for Seashore City Port would lengthen considerably the minimum time between departures from the port. In consequence, the port would be able to accommodate 10 percent fewer vessels than currently use the port daily. The city’s operating budget depends heavily on taxes generated by tourist spending, and most of the tourists come by ships. Therefore, the proposed new safety rules, if adopted, will reduce the revenue available for the operating budget.

The argument depends on assuming which of the following?

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The average amount of overtime per month worked by an employee in the design division of the Diva Corporation is 18 hours. Most employees of Diva Corporation work in the design division. Furthermore, the average amount of overtime per month per employee in the company generally does not fluctuate much from month to month. Therefore, each month, most employees of the Diva Corp. almost certainly work at least some overtime.

The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds?

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Supporters of the recently introduced tax on sales of new luxury cars had argued that a tax of this type would be an equitable way to increase government revenues because the admittedly heavy tax burden would fall only on wealthy people and neither they nor anyone else would suffer any economic hardships. In fact, however, 30 percent of the workers employed by manufacturers of luxury cars have lost their jobs as a direct result of this tax.

The information given, if true, most strongly supports which of the following statements?

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RECOMMENDATION

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DEMOCRACY

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