A,B,C,D and E when arranged in descending order of their weight from the top, A becomes third, E is between D and A while C and D are not at the top. Who among them is the second ?
Answer: A Clearly, C comes at the second place - in the descending order. 1 B 2 C 3 A 4 E 5 D
Q. No. 8:
Seven man - A,B,C,D,E,F and G are standing in a queue in that order. Each one wearing a cap of different colour - violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. D is able to see in front of him green and blue, but not violet. F can see violet and yellow, but not red. G can see caps of all the colours other than orange. If E is wearing an indigo coloured cap, then the colour of the cap worn by F is :
Answer: C The colours of the caps of all the seven persons are as follow : A - Green or Blue (not explicit) B - Green or Blue (not explicit) C - Yellow D - Violet E - Indigo F - Red G - Orange
Q. No. 9:
In a row of girls, Rita and Monika occupy the 9th place from the right end and tenth place from the left end respectively. If they interchanged their places, then Rita occupy seventeenth place from the left respectively. How many girls are there in the row ?
In a shop, the items were arranged in a shelf consisting of six rows. Biscuits were arranged above the tins of chocolates but below the rows of packets of chips. Cakes were at the bottom and the bottles of peppermints were below the chocolates. The top most row had the display of jam bottles. Where exactly were the bottles of peppermints? Mention the place from the top.
Answer: D 1.Jam bottles 2.Chips packets 3.Biscuits 4.Tins of chocolates 5.Peppermints 6.Cakes
Hence, peppermint is 5th from the top.
Q. No. 11:
In a queue of children, Kashish is the fifth from the left and Mona is sixth from the right. When they interchange their places among themselves, Kashish becomes thirteenth from the left. Then, what will be Mona's position from the right ?
Answer: B Clearly 6th position from the right (Mona)is 13th position from left. That means there are 13 + 5 = 18 children in the row. Hence, 5th position from the left will be 18-5+1 = 14th from right (Mona's new position).
Q. No. 12:
Five men A,B,C,D and E read news paper. The one who reads first gives it to C. The one who reads last had taken it from A. E was not the first or the last to read. There were two readers between B and A. B passed the newspaper to whom ?