3100+ Mental Ability Reasoning Questions and Answers with Explanation

Q:

Choose the Antonym of the given word from the following options

'Jettison'

A) Salvage	B) Submerge
C) Repent	D) Descend

Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Salvage

Explanation:

'Jettison' means to discard and 'salvage' means to rescue something discarded. Hence, 'salvage' is the word which is farthest in meaning to the given word 'Jettison'.

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Q:

What should come next in the following letter sequence?

A A B A B C A B C D A B C D E A B C D

A) A	B) E
C) C	D) B

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) E

Explanation:

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Q:

Find the missing number in the series?

4, 18, ?, 100, 180, 294, 448

A) 48	B) 50
C) 58	D) 60

Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 48

Explanation:

Take a Look at this series :

$2^{3}$ - $2^{2}$ = 8 - 4 = 4

$3^{3}$ - $3^{2}$ = 27 - 9 = 18

$4^{3}$ - $4^{2}$ = 64 - 16 = 48

$5^{3}$ - $5^{2}$ = 125 - 25 = 100

$6^{3}$ - $6^{2}$ = 216 - 36 = 180

$7^{3}$ - $7^{2}$ = 343 - 49 = 294

$8^{3}$ - $8^{2}$ = 512 - 64 = 448

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Q:

In a certain code language, 'dom put ta' means 'bring hot food';

'put tir sop' means 'food is good' and

'tak da sop' means 'good bright boy'.

Which of the following does mean 'hot' in that language ?

A) dom	B) pul
C) ta	D) Can't be determined

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Can't be determined

Explanation:

Justification:

We can find the code for 'food' form the first and second statements.
Now, to find the code for 'hot',
we need to the code for 'bring' which cannot be determined from the given information.

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Q:

LAP BUT CAR SON HID

If the positions of the first and the third alphabets of each of the words are interchanged, which of the following would form a meaningful word in the new arrangement?

A) HID	B) SON
C) Both LAP and BUT	D) Both CAR and LAP

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Both LAP and BUT

Explanation:

When positions of first and the third alphabets of each of the words are interchanged, we have PAL TUB RAC NOS DIH

Clearly, PAL and TUB are the only meaningful words. These words are obtained from LAP and BUT respectively.

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Q:

In a certain code language,

(A) ‘pit na som’ means ‘bring me water’

(B) ‘na jo tod’ means ‘water is life’

(C) ‘tub od pit’ means 'give me toy’

(D) ‘jo lin kot’ means ‘life and death’

Which of the following represents 'is' in that language ?

A) jo	B) na
C) tod	D) lin

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) tod

Explanation:

Justification:

In statements A and B, the common code word is 'na' and the common word is 'water'.

So, 'na' means 'water'.

In statements B and D, the common code word is 'jo' and the common word is 'life'.
So, 'jo' means 'life'.
Thus, in statements B, 'tod' represents 'is'.

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Q:

A E C B % 7 D $ E B 5 C ? 3 D E 9 @ 2 #

If all the vowels are dropped from the above arrangement which of the following will be the twelth from the left end of the above arrangement?

A) 3	B) @
C) D	D) 9

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) D

Explanation:

After dropping vowels we have the following arrangement:

C B % 7 D $ B 5 C ? 3 D 9 @ 2 #

Hence, D is twelth from the left end of the above arrangement.

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Q:

Coding-Decoding

If Pour is wrtten as 4156
Sware is written as 78269
Clear is written as 3@926

Then what is the code for PEARL= ?

A) 429@6	B) 4962@
C) 4692@	D) 4926@

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 4926@

Explanation:

Pour - 4156 => P = 4, r = 6

Sware - 78269 => a = 2, e = 9

Clear - 3@926 => l = @

=> Pearl = 4926@

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