SBI PO Reasoning Test Practice set 8

1 .

Direction (1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: 42 demand earning 64 6 element 9 them output 81 summer 8 power 4 jungle

Step I: demand 4 42 earning 64 6 element 9 them output 81 summer 8 power jungle

Step II: demand 4 earning 6 42 64 element 9 them output 81 summer 8 power jungle

Step III: demand 4 earning 6 element 9 42 64 them output 81 summer 8 power jungle

Step IV: demand 4 earning 6 element 9 jungle 8 42 64 them output 81 summer power

Step V: demand 4 earning 6 element 9 jungle 8 output 64 42 them 81 summer power

Step VI: demand 4 earning 6 element 9 jungle 8 output 64 power 42 them 81 summer

Step VII: demand 4 earning 6 element 9 jungle 8 output 64 power 42 summer 81 them

Step VII is the last step of the above input.

Input: ink 17 silent 100 burn 15 49 June 25 queen 64 3 firefox 20 time

$Q.$ How many steps will be required to complete the rearrangement

A. six

B. seven

C. eight

D. five

2 .

Which of the following will be Step IV?

A. burn 25 firefox 3 ink 49 June 15 queen 64 17 silent 100 20 time

B. burn 25,firefox 3 ink49 June 15,17 silent 100 queen 64 20 time

C. burn 25 firefox 3 ink 49 17 silent 10015 June queen 64 20 time

D. burn 25 firefox 3 ink 49 June 15 silent 17 100 queen 64 20time

3 .

Which of the following steps would be the last but one?

A. Step V

B. Step VI

C. Step IV

D. Step VII

4 .

If in Step III ‘burn’ is related to ‘ink -’ and ‘25’ is related to ‘49’ in certain way, following the same way ‘firefox’ is related to which of the following?

A. 17

B. ink

C. silent

D. 15

5 .

What is the position of ‘silent’ in Step IV?

A. sixth from left

B. sixth from right

C. fifth from left

D. fifth from right

6 .

Direction (6-10):Below each questions are given two statements (I) and (II). These statements may be either independent causes or may be effects of independent causes or a common cause. One of these statements may be the effect of the other statements. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choice correctly depicts the relationship between these two statements and give the answer—

(1) I f statement ( I ) i s the cause and statement (II) is its effect.

(2) If statement (II) is the cause and statement (I) is its effect.

(3) If both the statements (I) and (II) are independent causes.

(4) If both the statements (I) and (II) are effects of independent causes.

(5) If both the statements (I) and (II) are effects of some common cause

$Q.$ (I) The prices of petrol and diesel in the domestic market have remained unchanged for the past few months.

(II) The crude oil prices in the International market have gone up substaintially in the last few months

A. If statement (II) is the cause and statement (I) is its effect.

B. If statement (I) i s the cause and statement (II) is its effect.