Verbal Reasoning - Logical Deduction Questions

Statement: There is a substantial increase in the number of accidents causing deaths and severe injuries due to malfunctioning of the traffic signals.
Course of action:
a. The traffic police should immediately post traffic personnel at the junctions.
b. The signal system should immediately be repaired or replaced.

Statement: There was a spurt in criminal activities in the city during the recent festival season.
Courses of action:
a. The police should immediately investigate into the causes of this increase.
b. In future the police should take adequate precaution to avoid recurrence of such situation during festival.
c. The known criminals should be arrested before any such season.

It is necessary to adopt suitable measures to prevent repetition of bad debts by learning from the past experiences of mounting non-performing assets of banks.

Courses of Action:

I. Before granting loan to customers their eligibility for loan should be evaluated strictly.

II.To ensure the payment of instalments of loan, the work, for which loan was granted, should be supervised minutely on regular basis.

In an objective competitive exam, a correct answer score 4 marks and on a wrong answer 2 marks are negatively added. A student scores 420 marks from 150 question. How many answers were correct ?

A group of six cousins are sitting around a hexagonal table, each one at one corner of the hexagon. (facing the centre inside) Raju is sitting opposite to Rohan. Sweety is sitting next to Navya. Aadya is sitting opposite to Navya, but not next to Kalyan. Karthik has a person sitting between Rohan and himself. If Sweety sits to the right of Karthik, then who is sitting to the left of Karthik ?

The number of dropouts in govt schools has significantly increased in the urban areas over the past few years. 

Courses of action:

I. The govt should immediately close down all such schools in the urban areas where the dropout goes beyond 20 per cent

II. The parents of all the students who dropped out of the govt schools in urban areas should be punished.

Statement: There has been a significant drop in the water level of all the lakes supplying water to the city.
Courses of action:
I. The water supply authority should impose a partial cut in supply to tackle the situation.
II. The government should appeal to all the residents though mass media for minimal use of water.

In the following questions are to be based on the details given below.

A salesman visits 274 houses in a town to find out the views about three products X, Y and Z. He found that 157 use X, 98 use only X, 22 use all the three, 14 use X and Z but not Y, 39 use Y and Z, 48 use only Y.

How many use product Z only?