UG-CLAT entrance exam Question Bank Solutions for Logical Reasoning

Six people A, B, C, D, E and F live on a six-story building each on one floor. The following statements describe where they stay.

(i) B lives on floor 6.
(ii) A is equally far from C and E.
(iii) F is an engineer.
(iv) D is two floors above F.
(v) C does not live next to an engineer.

Which of the following is not true?

Six people A, B, C, D, E and F live on a six-story building each on one floor. The following statements describe where they stay.

(i) B lives on floor 6.
(ii) A is equally far from C and E.
(iii) F is an engineer.
(iv) D is two floors above F.
(v) C does not live next to an engineer.

If C does not live next to an engineer is invalid, how many types of arrangements are possible?

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A and B are good in driving bus and car. C and A are good in driving cars and scooter. C, D and E are good at driving scooter and tractor. E and C are good at driving scooter and auto-rickshaw. D and B are good in driving bus and tractor.

Who is good in driving scooter, tractor and auto-rickshaw but not good in driving car?

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Nine players - G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and O – have to be put in three teams. Each team will consist of three players and each player will appear only once in a team. The teams must be arranged according to the following conditions.

i. I and N must be in the same team.

ii. K and L must be in the same team.

iii. O and J cannot be in the same team.

iv. M must be in the second team.

v. Either J or M or both must be in the team with H

Which of the following cannot be true?

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Nine players - G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and O – have to be put in three teams. Each team will consist of three players and each player will appear only once in a team. The teams must be arranged according to the following conditions.

i. I and N must be in the same team.

ii. K and L must be in the same team.

iii. O and J cannot be in the same team.

iv. M must be in the second team.

v. Either J or M or both must be in the team with H

All of the following could be in the same team as K, except

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Nine players - G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and O – have to be put in three teams. Each team will consist of three players and each player will appear only once in a team. The teams must be arranged according to the following conditions.

i. I and N must be in the same team.

ii. K and L must be in the same team.

iii. O and J cannot be in the same team.

iv. M must be in the second team.

v. Either J or M or both must be in the team with H

If J and K are in the 3rd team, which of the following players must be in 2nd?

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Nine players - G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and O – have to be put in three teams. Each team will consist of three players and each player will appear only once in a team. The teams must be arranged according to the following conditions.

i. I and N must be in the same team.

ii. K and L must be in the same team.

iii. O and J cannot be in the same team.

iv. M must be in the second team.

v. Either J or M or both must be in the team with H

Which of the following players could be in a team together?

Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below.

Nine players - G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N and O – have to be put in three teams. Each team will consist of three players and each player will appear only once in a team. The teams must be arranged according to the following conditions.

i. I and N must be in the same team.

ii. K and L must be in the same team.

iii. O and J cannot be in the same team.

iv. M must be in the second team.

v. Either J or M or both must be in the team with H

The 3rd team could consist of the following except

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P and Q are good at driving Motorcycle and Jeep. R and P are good at driving Jeep and Lorry. R, S, and T are good at driving Motor Cycle and Lorry. T and R are good at driving buses and Tempo. S and Q are good at driving Bus and Jeep.

Who is good in driving motor Cycle, Jeep and Lorry but not bus?

Read the following information and choose the most appropriate option:

P and Q are good at driving Motorcycle and Jeep. R and P are good at driving Jeep and Lorry. R, S, and T are good at driving Motor Cycle and Lorry. T and R are good at driving buses and Tempo. S and Q are good at driving Bus and Jeep.

Who is good in driving Tempo, Motor Cycle, Lorry but not Jeep?

Read the following information and choose the most appropriate option:

P and Q are good at driving Motorcycle and Jeep. R and P are good at driving Jeep and Lorry. R, S, and T are good at driving Motor Cycle and Lorry. T and R are good at driving buses and Tempo. S and Q are good at driving Bus and Jeep.

Who is good in driving all the vehicles?

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A college received fifty applications for a certain course. In the qualifying examination, one-tenth of them secured marks in the 90-95% range. Within remaining segment, three-fifths of them secured marks in 75-90% range. The rest secured below 75%. To get admission, the following restrictions hold good

i. No student who has scored below 75% can seek admission to Physics course.

ii. No student is allowed to opt Physics without opting Mathematics.

iii. No student is allowed to opt Physics and Astrophysics simultaneously.

iv. To opt Mathematics or Astrophysics, a student should have scored at least 70% in the qualifying examination.

Which one of the following alternatives is possible?

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That the human soul is immaterial is an undisputed fact. Significantly, what is not matter is not spatial and consequently, it is not vulnerable to motion. Evidently, no motion no dissolution. What escapes from dissolution is also free from corruptibility. Therefore, the human soul is immortal. In this argument, one premise is missing. Complete the argument by choosing from the following:

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That the human soul is immaterial is an undisputed fact. Significantly, what is not matter is not spatial and consequently, it is not vulnerable to motion. Evidently, no motion no dissolution. What escapes from dissolution is also free from corruptibility. Therefore, the human soul is immortal. In this argument, which one of the following, if true, affects seriously the argument presented above?

Protagonists of human rights vehemently oppose capital punishment. Their opposition stems mainly from three reasons. Firstly, man cannot terminate what he cannot generate. Secondly, the function of punishment is to reform the culprit. Thirdly, a culprit should be given an opportunity to repent. Admittedly, death penalty fails on all three counts. However, the defenders argue that a person is punished because he has to pay for his deeds. Reformation or repentance, according to them, is peripheral. Hence, death penalty is admissible. 

Which one of the following is the focus of this debate?

Since Venus rotates slowly, Fred Whipple thought that like Mercury, Venus keeps one face always towards the Sun. If so, he said that the dark side would be very cold. However, he knew with the help of earlier study carried out by Petit and Nicholson that it was not the case. So, he concluded that the planet must rotate fairly often to keep the darker side warmer.

Which of the following is the original premise?

Before formulating the laws of motion, Galileo distinguished between mathematical study and empirical study. He, first, theoretically derived the relation between distances and times for uniformly accelerating motion by letting the ball roll a quarter, then half, then two thirds and so on of the length of the groove and then measured the times on each occasion, which he repeated hundred times. He calculated, based on this study, that the distance travelled equaled the square of the time on all occasions.

Which one of the following characterizes Galileo's method?

Read carefully a brief summary of one of the investigations of Sherlock Holmes:

"While investigating the murders of Stangerson and Enoch Drebber he got into conversation with fellow detectives which runs as follows: "The last link My case is complete... Could you lay your hands upon those pills"? After he got those pills, Holmes cut one of them, dissolved it in water and placed it in front of the terrier. Contrary to his expectations, the animal survived. Though disappointed a bit, he thought for a while and then cut the other pill, dissolved it, added milk and placed before the animal. The moment it licked, the animal died. Those were the pills present at the scenes of crime.

Which one of the following aptly describes the method which this passage indicates?

There has been much speculation concerning the origin of lunar craters. One hypothesis is that they are the results of the impact of heavy meteors on the surface of the moon while still soft. The most probable explanation is that they were produced by the gases liberated from the rocky matter. 'While solidification was taking place these gases and water vapours steadily escaped through viscous surface, raising giant bubbles. The reader can easily visualize the process that took place by watching frying of pancakes and noticing the formation of bubbles and craters on their surface.

Which one of the following actually helps us to determine the origin of lunar craters?

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"Perhaps the earliest work of Archimedes that we have is that on 'Plane Equilibrium'. In this, some fundamental principles of mechanics are set forth as rigorous geometric propositions. The work opens with famous postulate 'Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium; equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium, but incline toward the weight at the greater distance".

According to this passage, which factor or factors determine equilibrium?