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1 Logical Reasoning - Arrangements Set 1 Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are seated in a row facing north. There are exactly two persons sitting to the left of B. Three person sit between A and H and neither of A or H is a neighbour of B. C sits to the left of A. Only one person is sitting between D and F and none of them is sitting at a corner seat. G is a neighbour of F. 1. Who is sitting at the extreme right end? (1) A (2) H (3) E (4) F (5) None of these 2. How many persons sit between G and C? (1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) Cannot be determined 3. Which of the following is a neighbour of A? (1) D (2) F (3) C (4) D and C (5) D and F 4. Who is sitting to the immediate left of E? (1) F (2) D (3) A (4) C (5) None of these 5. What is F s position with respect to C? (1) Fourth to the right (2) Fourth to the left (3) Second to the right (4) Second to the left (5) Cannot be determined Set 2 Johnson, Ricky, Cook, Demon, Chris, Root, Peter and Mathew are sitting in a straight line equidistant from each other (but not necessarily in the same order). Some of them are facing south while some are facing north. (Note: Facing the same direction means, if one is facing north then the other also faces north and viceversa. Facing the opposite directions means, if one is facing north then the other faces south and viceversa) Johnson faces north. Only two people sit to the right of Johnson. Ricky sits third to the left of Johnson. Only one person sits between Ricky and Root. Root sits to the immediate right of Chris. Only one person sits between Chris and Mathew. Both the immediate neighbors of Ricky face the same direction. Cook sits third to the left of Root. Ricky faces the opposite direction as Johnson. Peter does not sit at any of the extremes ends of the line. Demon faces the same direction as Chris. Both Peter and Cook face the opposite direction of Mathew. 1. How many persons in the given arrangement are facing north? (1) More than four (2) Four (3) One (4) Three (5) Two 2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way, and so form a group. Which of the following does not belong to the group? (1) Chris, Root (2) Mathew, Peter (3) Ricky, Johnson (4) Ricky, Peter (5) Demon, Cook 3. What is the position of Root with respect to Mathew?

2 (1) Second to the left (2) Third to the right (3) Third to the left (4) Fifth to the right (5) Second to the right 4. Who amongst the following sits exactly between Mathew and Chris? (1) Ricky (2) Peter (3) Root (4) Chris (5) Cook 5. Who is sitting 2nd to the right of Ricky? (1) Mathew (2) Demon (3) Root (4) Chris (5) None of the above Set 3 Sunita, Sonu, Shubham, Shivam, Sneha, Seena, Sristi and Sakshi are seated in a straight line but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing South while some are facing North. Sneha faces south. Only three people sit to the left of Sneha. Only two people sit between Sneha and Sonu. Seena sits third to the right of Sakshi. Sakshi is an immediate neighbour of neither Sneha nor Sonu. Sakshi does not sit at any of the extreme ends of the line. Both the immediate neighbours of Shivam face north. Shivam is not an immediate neighbour of Sakshi. Only one person sits between Shivam and Sunita. Sunita faces the same direction as Sakshi. The immediate neighbours of Sonu face opposite directions (i.e. if one neighbour faces north then the other faces south and vice versa). Persons sitting at extreme ends face opposite directions. Shubham faces a direction opposite that of Shivam. 1. How many persons are seated between Sneha and Sunita? (a) Four (b) More than four (c) One (d) Three (e) Two 2. Which of the following pairs represents the persons seated at the two extreme ends of the line? (a) Shubham, Sneha (b) Sunita, Sristi (c) Sunita, Seena (d) Sonu, Shubham (e) Shubham, Sneha 3. Which of the following is true about Sristi with respect to the given arrangement? (a) Only two people sit between Sristi and Sonu. (b) Only one person sits to the right of Sristi. (c) None of the given options is true (d) Seena is one of the immediate neighbours of Sristi. (e) Shubham sits second to the right of Sristi. 4. Who among the following sits to the immediate left of Shubham? (a) Sneha (b) Sunita (c) Sakshi (d) Sonu (e) Shivam 5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and so form a group. Who is the one that does not belong to that group? (a) Shubham (b) Seena (c) Sunita (d) Sakshi (e) Sneha

3 Set 4 Eight members A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H belonging to three families X, Y, Z go for weekend outing in three different cars I, II, III. Four out of the eight members are females. Members of any one family travel in different cars. Each car has at least one male and one female member. Each family has at least two members. A belongs to family Y and he travels in car III. D is wife of E and they travel in cars I and II respectively. H is son of B, who is wife of G, and they belong to family Z. C is daughter of F, who is wife of A. C travels in car II. G does not travel with F. 1. Which of the following groups of persons travels in car I? (a) D, F, G (b) D, E, G (c) D, G, H (d) D, F, H (e) None of these 2. Which car has only two members traveling in it? (a) I (b) II (c) III (d) II or III (e) Cannot be determined 3. Which of the following members of families Y and Z travel in different cars? (a) F,G (b) C,G (c) F,H (d) C,F (e) None of these 4. Which of the following groups of persons is a group of all females? (a) B,D,G (b) A,B,C (c) B,E,F (d) D,E,F (e) None of these 5. Which of the following members of families X and Y travel in the same car? (a) C,F (b) D,F (c) C,D (d) F,E (e) None of these Set 5 I. Five boys Abdul, Durgesh, Eshwar, Chand and Bhaskar and five girls Pallavi, Kavitha, Radhika, Savithri and Vasantha sit in two rows facing towards each other. All the boys are in one row and all the girls in the other row. II. Eshwar who is immediate right of Bhaskar and opposite to pallavi is not at any end, Radhika, who is immediate to the right of Kavitha and opposite to Chand, is at one of the ends III. Abdul is opposite to Kavitha who is the third to the right ofsavithri. Durgesh and Vasantha are not opposite each other. 1. Who is in the middle of the row of boys? (a) Abdul (b) Bhaskar (c) Durgesh (d) Data inadequate (e) None of these 2. Who is immediately to the right of Pallavi? (a) Vasantha (b) Kavitha (c) Savithri (d) Data inadequate (e) None of these 3. Who is opposite to Durgesh? (a) Vasantha (b) Radhika (c) Pallavi (d) Data inadequate (e) None of these 4. How many boys are there between Abdul and Bhaskar? (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) Data inadequate (e) None of these

4 Set 6 A, B, C, X, Y, Z are seated in a straight line facing North. C is third to the right of Z and B sits second to the right of C. X sits to the immediate right of A. 1. Which of the following represents the pairs of persons sitting exactly in the middle of the line? (a) XB (b) ZB (c) BX (d) XC (e) XY 2. What is X s position with respect to Z? (a) Immediate right of Z (b) Second to the left (c) Third to the right (d) Second to the right (e) None of these 3. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their seating positions in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to the group? (a) ZA (b) XC (c) CY (d) YB (e) XA 4. How many persons are seated between A and C? (a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four (e) None of these Set 7 Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G are sitting in a straight line (not necessarily in the same order) facing north. (a) Only two persons sit between F and G and G sits second to the left of B. (b) D sits third to the left of C. (c) E sits exactly between G and B and B sits at the extreme right end of the row. 1. Who amongst the following sits at the extreme left of the line? (a) F (b) D (c) C (d) E (e) G 2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their seating positions in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group? (a) AG (b) CE (c) DA (d) AF (e) GB 3. How many persons sit between F and E? (a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four (e) Five 4. Who amongst the following sits exactly in the middle of the line? (a) A (b) C (c) E (d) G (e) F 5. What is the position of E with respect to A? (a) Third to the right (b) Second to the right (c) Second to the left (d) Fourth to the right (e) Immediate left

5 Set 8 Eight friends, Meenal, Rumia, Shikha, Ali, Peter, Harleen, Ketan and Bharat are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them sit at four corners of the square while four sit in the middle of each of the four sides. The ones who sit at the four corners face the centre while those who sit in the middle of the sides face outside. Bharat sits second to the right of Shikha. Bharat does not sit at any of the corners. Meenal sits third to the right of Peter. Peter is not an immediate neighbour of Shikha. Rumia and Ketan are the immediate neighbours of each other but Rumia does not sit at any of the corners of the table. Harleen is neither an immediate neighbour of Peter nor Shikha. 1. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and form a group. Who is the one that does not belong to that group? (a) Peter (b) Rumia (c) Harleen (d) Shikha (e) Bharat 2. Who sits third to the left of Ali? (a) Bharat (b) Rumia (c) Shikha (d) Peter (e) Cannot be determined 3. What is the position of Peter with respect to Meenal? (a) To immediate left (b) Second to the left (c) Third to the left (d) Third to the right (e) Second to the right 4. Who amongst the following represent the immediate neighbours of Harleen? (a) Meenal, Ketan (b) Bharat, Rumia (c) Bharat, Meenal (d) Ali, Rumia (e) Ali, Ketan 5. Who amongst the following sit/s exactly between Peter and Ali? (a) Only Bharat (b) Ketan and Rumia (c) Only Harleen (d) Harleen and Meenal (e) No one sits between Peter and Ali 6. Who amongst the following is an immediate neighbour of Meenal? (a) Rumia (b) Ali (c) Ketan (d) Harleen (e) Shikha 7. Who amongst the following sits second to the right of Ketan? (a) Shikha (b) Ali (c) Bharat (d) Harleen (e) Meenal Set 9 A, B, C, D, E and F live on different floors in the same building having six floors numbered one to six (the ground floor is numbered 1, the floor above it, number 2 and so on and the topmost floor is numbered 6). A lives on an even numbered floor. There are two floors between the floors on which D and F live. F lives on a floor above D s floor. D does not live on floor number 2. B does not live on an odd numbered floor. C does not live on any of the floors below F s floor. E does not live on a floor immediately above or immediately below the floor on which B lives.

6 1. Who amongst the following live on the floors exactly between D and F? (a) E, B (b) C, B (c) E, C (d) A, E (e) B, A 2. On which of the following floors does B live? (a) 6 th (b) 4 th (c) 2 nd (d) 5 th (e) Cannot be determined 3. Who lives on an even numbered floor? (a) C (b) F (c) E (d) A (e) A and F Set 10 P, Q, R, S, T, V and W are sitting in a straight line facing north. Each one of them lives on a different floor in the same building which is numbered from one to seven. Q sits fourth to the left of the person living on the 6th floor. Either Q or the person living on the 6th floor sits at the extreme ends of the line. Only one person sits between Q and W. W lives on the 3rd floor. The person living on 1st floor sits third to the right of S. S is not an immediate neighbour of W. Only one person lives between T and the person who lives on the 2nd floor. P and R are immediate neighbours of each other. P does not live on the 6th floor. One who lives on 5th floor sits third to the right of the one who lives on the 7th floor. 1. Who amongst the following lives on the 4th floor? (a) P (b) Q (c) R (d) S (e) V 2. On which of the following floors does T live? (a) 1 st (b) 2 nd (c) 5 th (d) 6 th (e) 7 th 3. How many floors are there between the floors on which V and P live? (a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four (e) None 4. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus form a group. Who is the one that does not belong to that group? (a) W (b) T (c) S (d) P (e) Q 5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus form a group. Who is the one that does not belong to that group? (a) T 2nd floor (b) R 7th floor (c) V 3rd floor (d) S 5th floor (e) Q 6th floor 6. Which of the following is true with respect to the given arrangement? (a) The one who lives on the 5th floor is an immediate neighbour of S (b) V lives on the 1st floor (c) T sits second to the left of the person who lives on 2nd floor (d) R and V are immediate neighbours of each other (e) The one who lives on the 4th floor sits at one of the extreme ends of the line

7 7. If all the persons are made to live in alphabetical order from the bottom-most floor to the topmost floor,i.e., P lives on the 1st floor, Q lives on the 2nd floor and finally W lives on the 7th floor) who would still live on the same floor as the original arrangement? (a) R (b) V (c) W (d) T (e) S Special Set Freeman knows five women: Ada, Bea, Cyd, Deb, and Eve. 1. The women are in two age brackets: three women are under 30 and two women are over Two women are teachers and the other three women are secretaries. 3. Ada and Cyd are in the same age bracket. 4. Deb and Eve are in different age brackets. 5. Bea and Eve have the same occupation. 6. Cyd and Deb have different occupations. 7. Of the five women, Freeman will marry the teacher over 30. Whom will Freeman marry?

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